Grosvenor Prints

Christofel Colonus.
[Pieter van der Aa.]
[n.d., c.1710.]
Fine engraving. Platemark: 295 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾"). Very large margins.
Portait of Christopher Columbus (1451- 1506), with a sextant in hand and sea charts before him. Within a decorative oval made up of sea monsters on either side, while one of his ships sails in the background Plate 23 from the scarce series of historical portraits, 'Principum et illustrium quorundam virorum. Qui in Europa alibique terrarum, qua fama, qua eruditione celebres fuerunt, verae imagines', published Pieter van der Aa (1659 - 1733) c.1710.
[Ref: 39271] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed to plate at top.
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 55382] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

D. Christoval Colon Entdecker der neuen Welt.
Maella p. Westermayr f.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving and etching with large margins. Plate 127 x 82mm (5 x 3¼").
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) the Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents, and led to the establishment of permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola and the Spanish colonization of the New World. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29560] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Christopher Columbus.]
[Basel, Petrus Perna, 1575-7.]
Woodcut. Sheet 165 x 150mm (6½ x 6"). Trimmed from sheet with text. Laid on sheet.
One of the earliest printed portraits of Columbus (1451-1506), half-length within an ornate border containing female allegorical figures of Europe and America. It was published in a combined volume of 'Elogia Virorum Bellica Virtute Illustrium' and 'Elogia Virorum Literis Illustrium' by Paolo Giovio, Bishop of Nocera, with illustrations of notable figures taken from Giovio's own large collection of portraits housed at his Como residence.
[Ref: 29672] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Cristofano Colombo Promo Scopritore dell'America.
In Venezia, MDCCLXXXIII [1783] Nella Stamperia Gatti A spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia.
Engraving. 160 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼"), with letterpress titlepage. Pasted label on titlepage.
A half-length portrait in oval of Italian explorer Christopher Colombus (1451-1506), the first known European to visit the West Indies. Various seafaring instruments shown. Published as the frontispiece portrait of volume 1 of 'Storia di America', an Italian edition of William Robertson's 'History of America', translated by Antonio Pillori.
[Ref: 67081] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Retrato de Cristóbal Colon.
Antonio Calliano lo dib.ó. Rafael Esteve lo. grabo.
Se hallará en la Calcografia de la Imprenta Real. [n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. 550 x 370mm (21¾ x 14½"). Tears in very large margins.
An imaginary portrait of Columbus, apparently taken from a painting by Van Loo by Antonio Raffaele Calliano (1785 - 1824). Shown as a young man, he stands by a table embellished with the arms of Castille, on which are two globes.
[Ref: 37117] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The first Interview of Christopher Columbus with the Natives of America.
Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography.
[n.d., c.1778.]
Etching and engraving. 295 x 175mm (11½ x 7").
Christopher Columbus' crew interacting with naked islanders. From Charles Theodore Middleton's 'A new and complete system of Geography ... Embellished ... with ... copper plates, etc.', London 1777-78.
[Ref: 67682] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus.
Cipriani pinx.t. J. Godby sculp.
London: William Darton & Son, 58 Holborn Hill.]
Hand-coloured stipple with engraving. Sheet 415 x 270mm (16¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, pinholes in unprinted area of plate.
A full length portrait, standing with one hand on a globe, the other holding a telescope. According to the BM (1880,0110.131) the original Cipriani portrait was of Galileo. The plate was also published by Edward Orme in 1815.
See Ref: 60368.
[Ref: 60531] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Columbus and the Egg.]
Design'd & etched by W.m Hogarth Decem 1. 1753.
[18th century impression.]
Etching. 165 x 195mm (6½ x 7¾")
Christopher Columbus cracking an egg on a table to make it stand, demonstrating that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. This plate was originally published in 1752 as the subscription ticket for the 'Analysis of Beauty', with etched text underneath. For this second state the plate was cut down, leaving two sworls of the letters of the text.
Paulson 194, state ii of ii. BM Satires 3192.
[Ref: 62065] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick [n.d., c.1815].
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼'').
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 54535] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Christophorus Colombus.
Henri Lefort fecit Anno 1891. Printed by A. Samon & Ardail, Paris.
Copyright M Knoedler & Co. 1891. Published by M. Knoedler & Co, 170 Fifth Avenue, New York
Engraving on vellum, 20½ x 16".
[Ref: 3627] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching, printed in sanguine. Plate: 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼''). Trimmed, staining.
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
After BM Satire 3192.
[Ref: 51104] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[General Sir Charles Colville.] CS Colville [facsimile signature].
Painted by Sir Henry Raeburn R.A. Engraved by G.T. Payne.
London, Published Oct.r 15.th 1844, by J.S. Welch, 24, S.t James's Street.
Mezzotint. 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of General Sir Charles Colville (1770-1843) in dress uniform. During the Napoleonic Wars he served in the West Indies (1791-7), the Irish Rebellion (1798), Egypt (1801, Martinique (1809), the Peninsular War (1810-1814) and the Waterloo Campaign of 1815. In 1819 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and sent to Bombay as commander-in-chief until 1825. From 1828 to 1833, Colville was Governor of Mauritius during a semi revolt by the inhabitants.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66238] £320.00

Daniel Colwal Armiger, Musaei Regalis Societatis Fundator.
R. White delin. et Sculp. 1681.
Engraving. Plate: 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼'') very large margins.
A portrait of merchant and philanthropist Daniel Colwal who was a Fellow of the Royal Society and governor to Christ's Hospital.
Wellcome: 653 not in.
[Ref: 48644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Colworth House, Bedfordshire, 1861.
[c. 1861.]
Tinted lithograph, image 215 x 330mm. 8½ x 13". Creases; tatty lower extremity with marginal tear to right. Very rare.
Colworth House was an 18th century on the edge of the village of Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire. It was for a time home to Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett (1898 – 1949), who sold it to Unilever in 1947. The company restored and developed the house into a research laboratory in 1948, with the first staff moving in in 1950. Unilever still uses Colworth House as a research and development site.
[Ref: 9596] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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Com. Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain Sep.r 11.th 1814. Engraved for the Naval Monument.
[Abel Bowen.] M. Corne px. W. Hoogland sc.
[Published by George Clark. 1840.]
Engraving. 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½".
Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough led the successful counter attack on the Royal Navy, and at the mouth of Otter Creek, he constructed a battery which which he repelled the attack and drove the Royal Navy back to Isle Aux Noix in Canadian waters. From Bowen's "Naval Monument".
[Ref: 23809] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Comb Makers.
[London, Printed for the Author Rich Wallis Citizen & Arms painter of London & are to be sold by him at his Shop against ye Royall Exchange 1677.]
Engraving. 200 x 155mm, 8 x 6". Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
The arms of the Comb-Makers of London, with three combs, a lion, and an elephant as a reference to their use of ivory. The Company was incorporated by Charles I in 1636. Various craft guilds were established in London as early as the 12th century, later becoming known as City Livery Companies because they often wore a distinctive livery or uniform (although the Comb-makers' Company had no livery or Hall). The companies decided who could work or trade in their crafts, controlling prices and wages, working conditions and welfare. In return for exercising rigorous quality control they received monopoly powers. In continental Europe, various revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries swept away the guilds, but in England they continued, and several new Companies have appeared in recent years. From "Londons Armory Accuratly delineated in a Graphical display of all the Arms, Crests, Supporters, Mantles and Motto’s of every distinct Company and Corporate Societie in the Honourable City of London".
[Ref: 17849] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

George Comb, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Oxford Street.
G. Phillips pinxt. C.Phillips Sculp.t [c.1820]
Aquatint on india, very rare, sheet 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9").
[Ref: 43435] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Coombank, near Sevenoak in Kent, the Seat of the Hon.ble Lieu.t.Gen.l Campbell.
W.m Woollett delin.
Printed by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Copper engraving. 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10¾". Corner creased.
Combe Bank, near Sevenoaks in Kent. It was built for General John Campbell by the architect Roger Morris, but when he became Duke of Argyll he passed the house to his younger son, Lord Frederick Campbell. He was a patron of the architect Robert Adam, and commissioned him to remodel the building. From "Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c.".
[Ref: 16930] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Hospitality Kicking Avarice out of Doors. Or, New Tenants at a Mansion House.
[John Nixon.]
Sold by all the Printsellers in London, Nov.r. 9, 1799.
Very fine etching. 440 x 295mm (17¼ x 11½"). Trimmed close to plate and some album paper on verso.
A satirical scene depicting the new Lord Mayor of London, Harvey Combe (1752 - 1818) stands center in a hall, surrounded by a group of people who kneel and beg.
[Ref: 66299] £380.00

The Court of Assistants of the New Plantation in Ulster within the Realm of Ireland. This Print of Harvey Christian Combe Esqr. M.P. Governor of the Honble. the Irish Society, London, From the original Picture, in the Irish Chamber, Guildhall London.
Painted by J. Opie Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London, Published June 12.1812, by C. Turner, No.50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, Mr.Lee, St.Martins le Grand & Messrs. Wade & Merle, Aldgate.
Mezzotint. Plate 502 x 350mm.
Harvey Christian Combe (1752-1818), fishmonger and brewer, who went on to become an Alderman by 1790 (through 1817), and Lord Mayor in 1799.
WH: 135.
[Ref: 4475] £320.00

[Harvey Combe] No. XVII. The Amiable Letitia Lutestring. No. XVIII. The Billing Brewer.
London Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street 1 July 1790.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Moustache added in ink. Small margins.
Two portrait busts set in ovals. On the right a portrait of Harvey Combe (1752-1818) who made his fortune in the brewing industry and elected Alderman of London in 1790, on his left is a portrait of an unknown courtesan. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 7703.
[Ref: 38577] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Come la Trovate?
Sicardi inv et del. Copia sculp.
Paris chez Sicardi Rue et Faubourg Poissonier, au coin de la Rue Bergère, No. 158. et 16 de la Section. Et chez Jeaufret M.d. d'Estampes au Palais de l'Egalité à côte du Café de Foy, No 61. [n.d., c.1804.]
Stipple. 455 x 360mm.
Engraved by Copia, after the miniaturist Louis Marie Sicard of Avignon.
[Ref: 7012] £520.00

Come, Maria, do walk faster, for the young mean do stare so! Funny Characters No.3.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 318 x 242mm. 12½ x 9½". Cut. Laid on separate sheet.
A woman with a parasol urges her companion to move along more hastily, for the looks of passing men is all too much for her.
[Ref: 15227] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Come, Maria, do walk faster, for the young mean do stare so! Funny Characters No.3.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Stains in corners.
A woman with a parasol urges her companion to move along more hastily, for the looks of passing men is all too much for her, probably not for their beauty.
[Ref: 54465] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Air _ Johny M.cGill, or the High way to Dublin. Come under my Plaidy. She crept in ayont him, beside the stane wa, Whar Johny was listening, and heard her tell a.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved oval, 110 x 160mm.
'Plaidy' is a plaid garment that was used as a blanket. The lyrics for this song were written by Hector MacNeill (1746-1818), and concern the appeal that worldly goods have for certain women who, upon receiving an offer of marriage, are not unduly worried by the age of a suitor as long as he is wealthy. This is one of several songs by MacNeill that appear in 'The Scots Musical Museum'. The air that these song lyrics are sung to is 'Johnny McGill'.
[Ref: 164] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Comedy To the Baron Obendorff, Minister to His most Serence Highness the Elector Palatine, this Plate is Dedicated by His most humble and obedient Servant H. Sitzenich.
Angelica Kauffman del.t Sintzenich Sculpt.
John Boydell exc.t 1782. publish'd Oct.r 1.st 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple, 280 x 215mm. Fine.
A young woman holding a mask in her left hand.
[Ref: 8419] £330.00

[A comedy.]
Imp. Bertauts, Paris [c.1850].
Lithograph on india laid paper, image 135 x 240mm. 5¼ x 9½". Sheet foxed.
Three comic actors performing on stage dressed as harlequins/clowns. With collector's blindstamp of Adolphe Moreau below dated 1851, and stamped with number 'II' upper left corner of sheet. Moreau's collection of 19th century French paintings compiled in the 1840s was augmented between 1898 and 1906 by Impressionist works bought by his grandson Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, the painter and art historian. The entire collection was given to the French state in 1906 and divided between the Musée du Louvre and Musée d'Orsay.
[Ref: 10416] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Comedy.
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I. Mortimer.
Etching. Plate: 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8"), with large margins.
A allegorical scene showing the figure of Comedy pointing at a folio in which is the portrait of Falstaff, at the base of the plinth sits a satyr and a child looking in a mirror. By John Hamilton Mortimer.
[Ref: 47378] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Q 11. Le Théatre. [&] Q 12. La Comedy.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760].
A pair of rare etchings, pt 18th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½") very large margins. Mint
A pair of rococo designs, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58939] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[John Amos Comenius.] Iohan-Amos Comenivs, Morauvs, A' ÆTAT 50! 1642.
Exsump M:S. G.Glover Sc.
[n.d., c.1650.] Are to be Sould by T.H.and I.C.
Rare engraving. Sheet 120 x 75mm (4¾ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.
[Ref: 67702] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eigentlicher Abriss und Situation des Neuen Sterns, wie derselbe zu Regenspurg, und anderer Orthen im h. Röm. Reich den 14. 15. 16. Decembris deß 1652 Jahres, observirt und gesehen worden.
[Frankfurt, Matthaus Merian, c.1652.]
Etching. 235 x 260mm (9¼ x 10¼"). Vertical fold, tear in edge of right margin.
Four illustrations of a comet seen over Regensburg in mid-December 1652.
[Ref: 56807] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Shooting Star.]
[n.d.]
Engraving. 110 x 140mm (4¼ x 5½"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A scene of townspeople gaze upward in shock at a bright shooting star while an anthropomorphic moon looks down at them. The German Comet of 1619.
[Ref: 57217] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet of 1811.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 110 x 130mm (4¼ x 5''). Creasing in right corner.
A view showing the Great Comet of 1811 which was visible for around 260 days. The comet had an impact on non-astronomers such as John Linnell and William Blake and was seen as a portent to Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the War of 1812. Because 1811 was such a good year for wine, merchants marketed 'comet wine' for years afterwards.
[Ref: 49581] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Folie du Jour. Venus ou la pretendue Comete.
Depose a la Bibliotheque nationale, a Paris chez Berthet, Graveur [n.d., c.1800].
Hand coloured etching and engraving, sheet 120 x 175mm. 4¾ x 7". Two vertical creases from folds, as issued. Trimmed within plate and glued to scrap sheet.
A group of people observe a comet in the sky upper right. Engraved by Louis Berthet (1775 - 1808; fl.) in Paris. Numbered 'No.I' upper right.
[Ref: 9532] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet. Grand Meteoric Phenomenon. - The Comet.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Wood engraving with letterpress. Sheet 160 x 165mm (6¼ x 6½"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
The Great Meteor Procession of 1860, with a meteor leaving a long trail caused by debris. According to the text, Sir John Herschel published a detailed notice of the event.
[Ref: 56862] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet A Return of the Comet which appeared in 1761² is expected this Year and - to be within our horizon from the Month of Oct. 1788 to Aug.t 1789 but is expected to be most visible (if it forces itself upon our notice) in the Winter months Febr.y & March...
18.th Feby 1789 Pub by Tho.s Cornell. Braton Street.
Etching with aquatint. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"), with wide margins. Slight creasing & staining.
A comet traverses the design diagonally downwards. At its head the Prince Wales is a star. Following in its tail are Fox and Portland. After them comes the wig in back view of Lord Loughborough. Then comes Stormont and North. They are followed by the Duke of Queensberry holding up a quizzing-glass and Powys. Behind them are Lord Lothian, Burkeand the Duke of Norfolk. Between Norfolk and Queensberry is the 'profil perdu' of Derby. They are followed by Lord Sandwich, Bishop Watson of Llandaff, and Sir Grey Cooper. Next are Wilson, Bishop of Bristol, and Warren, Bishop of Bangor, while in the upper left corner Sawbridge.
BM 6796
[Ref: 54530] £650.00

The Comet of 1811, As seen at Day Break the 15th Oct.r from Otterbourne Hill, near Winchester.
Engraved by H,R, Cook from a drawing by Pether for the Gallery of Nature & Art.
[London: R. Wilkes, 1815.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed close to image, backed with archival paper.
The Great Comet of 1811 (designated C/1811 F1) with an estimated an orbital period of nearly 3,000 years.
[Ref: 56825] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Comet and Zodiacal Light, as seen from the Terrace of the Maison Guiglia at Nice, on the evening of the 17th March 1843.
London, Published June 9th 1843 by William Spooner, 377 Strand.
Scarce lithograph. Printed area 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Tears in inscription area taped, edges chipped.
An illustration of the Great Comet of 1843 (designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I), one of the Kreutz Sungrazers, noted for its long tail. Its orbital period is believed to be between 600 and 800 years. Also shown is the zodical light, a false dawn caused by sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust.
[Ref: 56813] £490.00

The Great Comet of 1861 as seen from a Newtonian Equatorial of 13 inches aperture. July 2 10,h 10.m G.M.T. July 3 12.h 40.m G.M.T.
Waren de la Rue del. J. Basire sc.
[c.1861.]
Scarce mezzotint. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"). Tear in top margin.
Two illustrations of the coma of the Great Comet of 1861 (designated C/1861 J1 and 1861 II). It is believed to have an orbital period of 400 years.
[Ref: 56812] £380.00

A New Cometarium Improved by B.M.
[Benjamin Martin.]
[London 1755.]
Engraving with hand colour, in mount. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Small margins.
A Cometarium, showing the motion of a comet on its path around the sun, designed by Benjamin Martin (c.1705-82), a ploughboy turned instrument maker. Published in the 'General Magazine of Arts and Sciences', which became 'Martin's Magazine' when he took it over in 1755.
[Ref: 58144] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Comets. Comets are heavenly bodies of a luminous and nebulous appearance which approach and recede from the Sun, moving in very elliptical...
[Drawn and Engraved by John Emslie.]
London, James Reynolds, 174, Strand. Sep.r 25 1860
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some foxing.
Astronomical diagram from a set of teaching cards published by Reynolds; depicting comets in the years 1811, 1680, 1858, 1835 and 1741 with explainary text. Most likely drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who frequently collaborated with Reynolds on diagrams.
[Ref: 56830] £390.00

Cometes et Aerolithes Pl. XI
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Celestial map showing and explaining comets and aerolites (a meteorite composed mainly of silica). One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56891] £360.00

Comfort for an Old Maid.
[After Woodward.]
[After P. Roberts.]
Drawing. J. Green 1820 watermark. Sheet: 240 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Staining.
A drawing after Woodwards etching c.1800 published by P. Roberts showing an old woman with an oversized hand muff sitting in a chair conversing with her footman.
[Ref: 43626] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Comfort to the Corns.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 6th 1800. by H. Humphrey. 27, St James's Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to printed border.
A grotesque old woman sitting in a gothic chair before the fire with her cat, slicing her corns on her feet with a large knife.
BMM Satires 9585.
[Ref: 61764] £380.00

The Comforts of Matrimony. a good Toast.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured aquatint. 270 x 320mm (10½ x 12½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1810, large margins.
A handsome young couple sit at a breakfast-table near a fire, the husband toasting a muffin, his wife with her arm round his shoulder. Around them are three young children and a dog. Originally published 1809 by Reeve & Jones, this example has their inscription removed and the thick aquatint border reduced, with much of the detail of the scene worn away.
BM: 11452.
[Ref: 51875] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Comic Almanak, for 1847: An Ephemeris in Jest and Ernest, containing 'All Things Fitting for such a Work.' By Ricdum Funnidos, Gent. Adorned with Numerous Humorous Illustrations: - And a Dozen of 'Right Merrie' Cuts pertaining to the Months.
By George Cruikshank.
London Imprinted for David Bogue, Bibliopolist, in Fleet Street. Vizetelly Brothers & Co. Printers, Peterborough Court, 135 Fleet Street.
Very small 4to, original half calf gilt with marbled boards, maroon morocco title label on spine; pp. 64, twelve wood-engraved plates, Bookplate E. C. Grant on front pastedown, some pages toned, one text page with a tear.
A mixture of useful dates (i.e. when the British Museum is open), satire and caricature. The last plate is 'The Banquet of the Black Dolls' with a page of text. In ink 'To Edward C. Grant esq with thanks for his assistance from the Author.
[Ref: 40552] £180.00 view all images for this item

Comic Dance in the Popular Pantomine of the white Cat by Mess.rs Kirby & Chatterley to the Tune of the Bold Dragoon.
Drawn & Etched by W. Heath.
pub 5th of Jan.y 1812 by T. Palser Bridge Road Lambeth.
Coloured etching. 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Large margins on 3 sides.
A scene of two clowns, James Kirby (died 1826) in drag & William Simmons Chatterley (1787-1822) with white face and red triangles, the signature look of Joseph Grimaldi's 'Joey' clown.
[Ref: 33086] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Figures Following a Donkey.] [EWH the gift of his brother Charles. Nov. 1. 1824.][in pencil below image.]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"), with large margins.
A scene showing two caricatured figures following a donkey.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46795] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Figures Following a Donkey.]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 250 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"). Staining and foxing. Holes in top edge.
A scene showing two caricatured figures following a donkey.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46796] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

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