Grosvenor Prints

Cock Fighting. [pair.]
H. Alken del.t. J. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Pair of aquatints with fine hand colour. Each 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"), with large margins. Faint text offset.
An indoor cock fight, with the kill. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46273] £360.00 view all images for this item

The Cock Lane Ghost.
[n.d., c.1762.]
Etching. Sheet 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"). With three wood engravings and seven 18th century newspaper clippings on the same subject. Trimmed to printed border, laid down and mounted over, laid on album paper.
Rare item. A man enters a room to be confronted by a ghostly woman. 'The Cock Lane Ghost' seemed to haunt William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk who, after his wife Elizabeth had died in childbirth, had taken up with his sister-in-law, Fanny. They moved to London as man and wife, and took lodgings in Cock Lane, in the house of Richard Parsons, a parish clerk. Kent loaned Parsons 12 guineas, to be repaid at a rate of a guinea per month. Then strange noises started to be heard in the house, after which a visitor reported seeing a ghostly white figure ascend the stairs. After a lull Fanny died of smallpox and the knockings resumed. With John Moore, rector of St Bartholomew-the-Great in West Smithfield, Parsons devised a method of communication with the spirit: one knock for yes, two knocks for no. The spirit suggested that the ghost that had scared the vistor was Elizabeth and the latest was Fanny, both of whom had been poisoned by William Kent. Thus Kent fell under public suspicion as a murderer but, protesting his innocence, allowed séances to be held, one attended by Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, 30th January 1762. Eventually a committee (including Samuel Johnson) declared the haunting a hoax, stating the knockings were caused by Parsons' daughter Elizabeth. They were sentenced in 1763.
[Ref: 61758] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Royal Cock Pit. Plate 18.
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. Bluck, Aquat.
London. Pub May 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with very large margins.
An interior scene showing the Royal Cock Pit, as a large frantic crowd has gathered to watch a cockfight. The Cockpit-in-Court (also known as the Royal Cockpit) was an early theatre in London, located in Dartmouth Street, Whitehall, demolished in 1816. 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.
[Ref: 62694] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Life, Death and Burial of Cock Robin. Dulce est desipere in loco.
Fer.d Bawer delt. M.no Bovi Sculp. [c.1810]
Very rare engraving, sheet 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
"Who Killed Cock Robin" is an English nursery rhyme, which is often used as a murder of archetype in world culture. The earliest record is in 'Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book' published c. 1744. Here it is accompanied by images of the animals from each stanza.
[Ref: 38330] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Cockatoo.]
32/36. Jan Sirks [pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, limited edition, signed by the artist. 255 x 175mm (10 x 7"). Paper toned, margins with paper manufacturer's blind stamp.
Jan Sirks (1885-1938) of Rotterdam. Australian interest.
[Ref: 53588] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Psittacus albus cristatus maximus.]
G. Edwards.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"), large margins. Small stain on top centre edge of plate.
A crested cockatoo, from 'Gleanings of Natural History' by George Edwards (1694-1773), who is regarded as 'the father of British ornithology'.
[Ref: 54752] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo] Petit Kakatoes à hupe jaune.
Dessiné et gravé par Martinet.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Small stain on right top. Large margins on 3 sides.
A Sulphur Crested cockatoo, drawn by François-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800)
[Ref: 54753] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo] The Crested Parrot or Cockatoo.
Eleazar Albin del Jul 28, 1735.
[n.d., c.1735.]
Etching with fine hand colour, 18th century watermark, 250 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾"), with large margins. Faded.
A Sulphur Crested cockatoo, from Albin's 'A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life', published 1731-8.
[Ref: 54754] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Leadbeater's cockatoo?]
Orosháza fi Tzetter mettzitte 1792.
Scarce engraving, printed in red and hand finished. 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½").
A pink cockatoo, probably a Leadbeater's, sitting on a low stump. It was engraved by the Hungarian Samuel Czetter in the style of George Edwards. A fine example of early colour printing. Czetter (or Tzetter, 1769-1829) worked in Vienna and Moscow, primarily engraving portraits but also a series of illustrations of the defences of Vienna.
[Ref: 38423] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Crossing the Bridge.- A. Pynakeer.
[Ralph Cockburn c.1816.]
Aquatint with fantastic colour. Sheet: 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to printed image and mounted on card with captions pasted below as issued.
A group of figures and animals cross a bridge in a rural landscape. From a collection of aquatints of popular paintings in the Dulwich Picture Gallery's collection drawn, engraved and published by Ralph Cockburn, keeper of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, between 1816-1820.
Abbey 201.
[Ref: 43557] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable Sir A.E. Cockburn, Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England.
London, Published 7th July 1871, by the Engraver (T.L. Atkinson) 2 Alma Square, St John's Wood. _ Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint on chine collé. 560 x 430mm (22 x 17") with very large margins.
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1802-1880), Lord Chief Justice for 21 years, from 1859 until his death. A notorious womaniser, he was nominated for a peerage in 1864, but Queen Victoria refused, noting that ''this peerage has been more than once previously refused upon the ground of the notoriously bad moral character of the Chief Justice''.
[Ref: 51419] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Archibald Cockburn.
G. Vdr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Fine & rare engraving. 165 x 107mm (6½ x 4¼"). Narrow margins.
Archibald Cockburn (fl. 1722) was a Church of England clergyman and writer. He was rector of the parishes of St Mary Cayon and Christ's, Nicholas Town, on the island of St. Christopher's, and wrote "A Philosophical Essay concerning the intermediate State of the blessed Souls".
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25278] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Catharine Cockburn.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins. Slightly time-stained.
Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679 - 1749), novelist, dramatist, and philosopher.
[Ref: 53542] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Cornelia and her Children.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxt. Charles Wilkin Sculpt.
Published Jan: 2. 1792, by C. Wilkin, No. 12 Ranelagh Street Pimlico.
Stipple and etching, 505 x 390mm. 19¾ x 15¼". A fine impression, with full margins.
Lady Augusta Anne Cockburn (c.1749 - 1837), 2nd wife of Sir James Cockburn, Bart. (MP for Peebles), with her children. A parrot to right, pillar and curtains behind. Eight lines of tribute to left and right of title, in English and French. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.91, II of II.
[Ref: 13244] £360.00

Vice Admiral The R.t Hon.ble Sir George Cockburn G.C.B.
Painted by S.r Will.m Beechey R.A. Portrait Painter to Her Late Majesty. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
London. Published July 2, 1837 for the Proprietor by the Engraver, 9, Mortimer Street, Cavendish Street.
Mezzotint. 720 x 415mm (28¼ x 16¼"). Small margins.
Fine & rare full-length portrait of Sir George Cockburn (1772-1853), Admiral and First Sea Lord. During the 'War of 1812' Cockburn was second in command to Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren. Cockburn cruised the American east coast and Chesapeake Bay, seizing American shipping, disrupting and raiding ports. His most significant action was the capture and burning of Washington on August 24, 1814. He later served as Commander-in-Chief on the North American station (1833-6). In this portrait Cockburn's hand is on a chart showing the Barrow Straits, Cockburn's Island, Melville's Peninsular etc.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 45848] £990.00

Cocken near Durham. The Seat of Ralph Carr Esq.r.
[The name of the artist-engraver burnished out]
[London: John Smith, 1724.]
Engraving with later colour. 425 x 600mm (16¾ x 23½"), with large margins.
A prospect of Cocken Hall, on the River Wear 3 miles from Durham (see here on the left), published in the 'Britannia Illustrata'. For a time in the 19th century it was the home of John Gully (1783-1863), prize fighter, gambler and MP for Pontefract.
[Ref: 51344] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Cocken near Durham. The Seat of Ralph Carr Esq.r.
[The name of the artist-engraver burnished out]
[London: John Smith, 1724.]
Engraving. 425 x 600mm (16¾ x 23½"), with large margins.
A prospect of Cocken Hall, on the River Wear 3 miles from Durham (see here on the left), published in the 'Britannia Illustrata'. For a time in the 19th century it was the home of John Gully (1783-1863), prize fighter, gambler and MP for Pontefract.
[Ref: 51345] £350.00

Huhnerhund u. Waldschnepfe / Cocker and Woodcock.
[after Richard Ansdell]
Berlin P. Sala & Co. Uter den Linden 57.
Lithograph 260 x 320mm, image. Glue stains from verso in sky.
German lithograph of the popular Richard Ansdell picture.
[Ref: 417] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Cocker Spaniel pair watching a duck.]
G.Vernon Stokes.
Coloured drypoint etching, 41 of 75, signed by the artist. 250 x 305mm.
[Ref: 5733] £340.00

[A Cocker Spaniel.]
H.D. Herbert Dickee [pencil signature].
[Frost & Reed, c.1930.]
Rare etching, signed by the artist in pencil, Frost & Reed blindstamp, limited edition 28/200. 325 x 240mm (12¾ x 9½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A black and white Cocker Spaniel head. Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942) was an English painter who specialised in paintings of dogs and animals. He studied at the Slade School of Art and his first painting was exhibited in 1881. His paintings were usually done from life; he kept numerous dogs as pets and frequented London Zoo. His daughter, Dorothy was the executor of his will, which directed her to destroy most of the plates for his etchings.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 54914] £850.00

[Black Cocker Spaniels.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Etching signed by the artist. 245 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾").. Limited edition: 37/200.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 47921] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Black and White Cocker.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"), with very large margins. Limited edition: 236/250. Mint.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 59705] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair of Cocker Spaniels.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"), with very large margins. Limited edition: 65/250. Mint.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 59715] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cocker Spaniel.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching, limited edition (35/150), signed by the artist in pencil. Framed. 225 x 330mm (8¾ x 13"). Spotting, unexamined out of frame.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 61422] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Cocker Spaniels.][Merry Cockers.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Etching signed by the artist. 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Limited edition: 76/150.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 47911] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[October - A Busy Team.]
Maud Earl. [Signed in plate and in pencil.]
Copyright, 1906, Photographische Gesellschaft. Published by the Berlin Photographic Company, Berlin - London W. 133 New Bond Street - New-York 14 East 23rd Street.
Colour photogravure, Limited to 100 signed proofs, image 210 x 355mm. 8¼ x 14". Sheet trimmed and laid to card.
Cocker Spaniels. Maud Alice Earl (1864 - 1943) was an eminent British-American canine painter. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds. Earl was the born in London, the daughter of artist George Earl and his first wife Alice Beaumont Rawlins. Maud's profession was the continuation of a family tradition. George Earl, an avid sportsman and noted sporting painter, was his daughter's first teacher and had his daughter study the anatomy of her subjects, drawing dog, horse and human skeletons to improve her skill. She later said that her father's instruction had given her ability that set her apart from other dog painters. After her father's tutelage Maud went on to study at Royal Female School of Art (later incorporated into the Central School of Art). Earl became famous during the Victorian Era, a time when women were not expected to make their living at painting. Nevertheless, she developed a select clientele, including Royals amongst her patrons such as Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Although evidently extremely successful in England, Earl felt that the world she knew had been destroyed by World War I and she emigrated to New York City in 1916. By this time her work had received wide international recognition and her popular images were published in a number of books and in print form. The Sportsman's Year featured twelve of Earl's works as engravings. Maud Earl died in New York in 1943 and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York. For the 'Sportsman's Year'. Berlin Photographic Company blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 13131] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

[October - A Busy Team.]
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1906. Published by the Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W. 133 New Bond Street.
Colour photogravure. 220 x 350mm.
Cocker Spaniels. Maud Alice Earl (1864-1943) was an eminent British-American canine painter. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds. Earl was the born in London, the daughter of artist George Earl and his first wife Alice Beaumont Rawlins. Maud's profession was the continuation of a family tradition. George Earl, an avid sportsman and noted sporting painter, was his daughter's first teacher and had his daughter study the anatomy of her subjects, drawing dog, horse and human skeletons to improve her skill. She later said that her father's instruction had given her ability that set her apart from other dog painters. After her father's tutelage Maud went on to study at Royal Female School of Art (later incorporated into the Central School of Art). Earl became famous during the Victorian Era, a time when women were not expected to make their living at painting. Nevertheless, she developed a select clientele, including Royals amongst her patrons such as Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Although evidently extremely successful in England, Earl felt that the world she knew had been destroyed by World War I and she emigrated to New York City in 1916. By this time her work had received wide international recognition and her popular images were published in a number of books and in print form. The Sportsman's Year featured twelve of Earl's works as engravings. Maud Earl died in New York in 1943 and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
[Ref: 2240] £380.00

Ingenious Cocker. (Now to Rest thou'rt Gone Noe Art can Show the fully but thine own. They rare Arithmetick alone can Show The vast Sums of Thanks wee for they Laboure owe.)
[n.d. c.1847.]
Engraving. 121 x 78mm.
Edward Cocker (1631-1676) was an English engraver who also taught writing and arithmetic. Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase ("according to Cocker") to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed great skill in his art. Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which passed through over 100 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression being dated 1678. Augustus de Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) argues that the work was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins. Ruth Wallis, in 1997, wrote an article in Annals of Science, claiming DeMorgan's analysis was flawed and Cocker was the real author.
[Ref: 12647] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Behold rare Cocker's Life-resembling Shade: [...].
R. Gaywood. fec[?].
[n.d. 1657]
Rare etching. 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6"). Vertical creasing affecting the title area. Small perforation near lower left corner. ,Foxing.
A decorated portrait of Edward Cocker (1631-1676) and frontispiece to 'Arts glory; or the pen mans treasury'. Edward Cocker was an English engraver as well as a notable teacher of arithmetic, on which he also wrote several books.
[Ref: 54125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ingenious Cocker! (Now to Rest thou'rt Gone Now Art can Show the fully but thine own. The rare Arithmetick alone can Show Th' vast Sums of Thanks wee for thy Laboure owe.
[n.d. c.1660.]
Engraving. 127 x 82mm. 5 x 3¼". Slightly rubbed text, creasing.
Edward Cocker (1631-1676) was an English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic. Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase ("according to Cocker") to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, engraved by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed great skill in his art. Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which passed through over 100 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression being dated 1678. Augustus de Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) argues that the work was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins. Ruth Wallis, in 1997, wrote an article in Annals of Science, claiming DeMorgan's analysis was flawed and Cocker was the real author.
NPG: D29155. See Ref: 12647 and 24625 for different impressions.
[Ref: 24623] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Ingenious Cocker! (Now to Rest thou'rt Gone Now Art can Show the fully but thine own. The rare Arithmetick alone can Show Th' vast Sums of Thanks wee for thy Laboure owe.
[n.d. c.1660.]
Engraving. 120 x 82mm. 4¾ x 3¼". Crease through centre.
Edward Cocker (1631-1676) was an English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic. Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase ("according to Cocker") to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed great skill in his art. Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which passed through over 100 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression being dated 1678. Augustus de Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) argues that the work was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins. Ruth Wallis, in 1997, wrote an article in Annals of Science, claiming DeMorgan's analysis was flawed and Cocker was the real author.
NPG: D29155. See Ref: 12647 and 24623 for different impressions.
[Ref: 24625] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Portraiture of Edward Cocker.
[Anon, 1664]
Engraving, in ink bottom right 2:6; 200 x 300mm (8 x 11¾"). Trimmed inside platemark and glued to backing sheet.
Edward Cocker (1631-1676), calligrapher and mathematician. Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase ("according to Cocker") to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed great skill in his art. Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which passed through over 100 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression being dated 1678. Augustus de Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) argues that the work was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins. Ruth Wallis, in 1997, wrote an article in Annals of Science, claiming DeMorgan's analysis was flawed and Cocker was the real author. Portrait in laurel oval with calligraphic figures presumably of Cocker's own design. Frontispiece to his 'Guide to Penmanship', one of more than two dozen books which he engraved.
O'D 4; Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38877] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Innocent Amusements. Coo'Biddy Coo'Biddy Coo'Biddy! Cock a doodle Doo!!
Ego. Del.t
Hand coloured etching sheet 275 x 185mm (10¾ x 7¼). Cut and tipped into backing sheet. Slightly time stained.
A woman incites a man to crow while holding onto some grapes. The man has bird like features and stands on his tiptoes on a chair, his hands reach behind his back puffing out the tails of his coat to look like plumage and crows like a cockerel for the woman. Ego is the pseudonym of amateur M Egerton (1821 - 1827; fl.) based on a pun of his initialls M.E.
[Ref: 56545] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Cocking the Greeks.
Pub.d May 16th 1796 by S.W.Fores, No 50 the Corner of Sackville Street. NB Folios of caractures lent for the Evening.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate. Taped tear top left in sky.
Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamshire in the pillory, Lady Buckinghamshire standing on her Faro bank box with her breasts bare. Lord Kenyon stands beneath, ringing a bell and declaiming against illegal gambling. Aristocratic women were unable to gamble in public houses so often set up their own private tables, however, following the start of the French Revolution any behaviour by the aristocratic classes which might cause the working and middle to react was stongly clamped down on. Chief Justaice Lord Kenyon, while judging a case about gambling debts, suggested the pillory as punishment for gamblers, 'whatever may be their rank. or station in the country'. The ladies here ran a notorious faro-bank.
BM 8878.
[Ref: 61897] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Cocking. The Ascent of the Royal Nassau Balloon, with the Parachute attached. 24.th July 1837. This Sketch exhibits the Parachute with Mr. Cocking, in the three stages of the descent.
[n.d., c.1837.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 230 x 355mm (9 x 14''). Trimmed and creased in centre.
A portrait of Robert Cocking (1776-1837) flanked by two scene showing events before his death. Robert Cocking devised a parachute which was attached to the balloon operated by Edward Spencer (1799-1849) and his partner Charles Green (1785-1870) and let loose. Unfortunately, the parachute was poorly designed and too heavy so broke and Cocking was killed on impact.
[Ref: 48937] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe. Vednesday was a veek, my Vife & I vent to Vest-Vycombe, vhether it vas the Vind, or vhether it vas the Veather, - or Vat it vas! - ve vhip'd & vhip'd - & vhip'd! - & could not get off a Valk!
[James Gillray]
Published June 10th 1805 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching with aquatint. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1808 W Balston'. Colour slightly faded, stain in top margin.
A smartly dress couple in a gig drawn by a horse so emaciated and decrepit that it attracts carrion crows.
BM Satires 10471
[Ref: 56152] £480.00

''A Cockney'' being John Minsheu's Definition from his Guide into the Tongues as published in London, 1627. 2631. A Cockney, applied only to one borne within the sound of Bow-Bell, i. within the City of London, which terme came first out of this tale:...
Cha. Sigrist '48. [in pencil.]
Engraved in the style of the original by Charles Sigrist in London, 1948,- an edition of 70 copies only for sale; and published by B.F. Stevens & Brown, L.td in the same city;-No. [27].
Etching. Plate: 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7''), with large margins. Surface dirt.
A letterpress definition of a 'cockney', with illustrations of a cockrell crowing, a young boy with a catapult and the belfrey of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside.
[Ref: 50391] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

"A Cockney" being John Minsheu's Definition from his Guide into the Tongues as published in London, 1627 [....]
Engraved in the style of the original by Charles Sigrist in London, 1948- an edition of 70 copies only for sale; and published by B.F. Stevens & Brown Ltd in the same city
Engraving, rare; platemark 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"), very large margins. Signed by the artist with verses to the dedicatee Raymond Smith.
The definition of a cockney: modern engraving of the definition from the lexicographer John Minsheu's magnum opus, the etymological dictionary 'Ductor in linguas: the Guide into Tongues'.
Private Collection.
[Ref: 43364] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cockney Sports on Kennington Common.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 175mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed.
A shooting scene showing a group of men shooting on Kennington Common.
[Ref: 47941] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Cockney Sports No 2. Where can I get a Pull at something old fellow there's devilish few Birds on this Road? Why Zur I dun know, but if you like to take a Pull at theis ere Pig, you be Welcome, vor I be plaguy tired of un.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). A few stains.
A cockney in conversation with a yokel.
[Ref: 58286] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game. Pl.1.
[After James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 225 x 330mm (9 x 13''), on Whatman paper. Trimmed, some damage in top right corner.
A hunting scene showing two London 'cits' out shooting, the figure at the front holds his gun facing backwards and it has gone off causing his companion to fall backwards over a fence. The sign between them points toward Hornsey Wood and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the background. From a series of shooting scenes showing the cockney sportsmen.
BM Satire 9596.
[Ref: 50780] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Plate 1st. Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game. [&] Plate 2.d. Cockney-Sportsmen Shooting Flying. [&] Plate 3.d. Cockney-Sportsmen Re-Charging. [&] Plate 4.th. Cockney-Sportsmen finding a Hare.
I.C. [Issac Cruikshank?] Esq.r del.t. J.s. G.y fec.t. [Etched by Gillray].
London Publish'd November 12th. 1800. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Set of four etchings with very fine hand colour. Sheets: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Trimmed to printed borders.
Four hunting scenes showing two London 'cits' out shooting near Hornsey, showing their incompetence. A fashionably dress young man is accompanied by a poodle; the older and fatter John Bull-type has a bulldog.
BM Satire 9596-9599.
[Ref: 61805] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

The Cockney Sportsmen, or First of September. Three citizens, well arm'd they say [...]
Harrild, Printer, 20 Great East[cheap]. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching with letterpress. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Tear through text taped, surface abrasions affecting end of text. Very damaged.
A satirical verse about incompetent hunters.
[Ref: 61002] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Cockney Sportsmen Finding, Pl 1. Morning.
[Etched by Charles Williams.]
Pubd Decr 8th 1800 by S W Fores Piccadilly, Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening
Coloured etching with grey wash border, 253 x 355mm. Repaired tears into image, two from above and two from below.
Plate 1 of a set of four by the same artist, imitations of a set by James Gillray (see 7773), but with the addition of a third man, who wears fashionable London dress, and has a blunderbuss and a small mongrel. The fat city sportsman has a bulldog with a spiked collar. They find a hare, crouching by a tree. Lettered below image with speech of characters; fat man says 'you may as well let me try', the next man raises his blunderbuss to smite, saying, 'No No I'm sure I can knock him down with the butt end'. The third man (to right) says to the dogs: 'hey at him there.' By Charles Williams (1797 - 1830). He was a prolific etcher of satires of his own or others' designs (especially Woodward). Almost all his plates are anonymous and their identification needs much more work: many of the attributions to him by Dorothy George need to be revisited. 'S.W.F[ores]' blindstamp lower right corner of plate.
See BM Satires: 9596 - 99.
[Ref: 7772] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Cockspur Street.
Publish'd March 18.th 1797 by T. Malton.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 310 x 415mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Some foxing, slight marks outside image. Trimmed to platemark.
A view on Cockspur Street (in the City of Westminster) with the Phoenix Fire Engine Station on the right, a horse-drawn carriage travels down the centre of street and elegantly dressed pedestrians roam the pavements. Plate to 'A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta by Thomas Malton', 1792 - 1801.
Crace 1878 XI.130. Adams 1983 72.20. Abbey Scenery 204.20.
[Ref: 58332] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Co-Co-Pas.
A. Schott del.. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[Washington: Department of the Interior, 1857.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Image 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Three Cocopah, Arizona. Arthur Carl Victor Schott (1814-1875), a Stuttgart-born artist, topographical engineer and cartographer, joined the 'The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey' which was determining the border after the Mexican–American War (1846-8). His sketches, including this one, appeared in William H. Emory's 'Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey'. They were reproduced in the 'Illustrated London News' in 1858.
[Ref: 43342] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d John Codman. D.D. Dorchester. Massachusetts.
Wildman del. Roffe sc.
Pub. Feb.y 1827, by Westley & Davis, Stationers Court.
Stipple. 215 x 120mm (8½ x 4¾").
Rev. John Codman (1782-1848). Dr. Codman graduated at Harvard College in 1802, studied for the ministry under the Rev. Henry Ware, then of Hingham, and in 1805 embarked for Europe, to finish his theological studies there, before returning to the United States.
[Ref: 28556] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Cadamosto Re Dell'Etiopia. Dell' etiope adusto il freno resse [/] Questi signoreggiando a gente fiera [/] Fu di natura generosa altera, E le uie dell'honor con l'armi impresse.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Plate: 255 x 180mm (10 x 7'') very large margins. Marking.
A portrait of Alvise Codomosto (1432-1488) a Venetian slave trader and explorer who was hired by Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal to explore Africa.
[Ref: 49443] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

"Vanity Fair" Supplement Men of the Day No. 1303. "All British" (M.r S F. Cody)
Alick. P.F. Ritchie. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 1 Nov 1911]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins. Crease top right corner.
Full length portrait of Samuel Franklin Cowdery (1867 – 1913), known as Samuel Franklin Cody, USA born Wild West showman, early pioneer of manned flight and inventor of the Cody kite used by the British military. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane built in Britain. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognised as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain. He set various British flight distance and endurance records and won prizes in flight competitions such as the Michelin Cup in 1911.
[Ref: 56968] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Ludovicus Marcellus de Coetlogon Episcopus Briocensis Regi Ab Omnibus Consilis. Offrebat Petrus Canonicus Bonaventura Matais Briocensis.
[Gerard Edelinck.]
[c.1685]
Engraving. Sheet: 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼''). Trimmed. Creased.
A portrait of Louis-Marcel de Coëtlogon (1648-1767).
R.D. 170
[Ref: 49930] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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