Grosvenor Prints

[Woolsey Hall, Yale.]
E. Parsons.
[n.d. c. 1930.]
Etching. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8").
Exterior view of Yale University.
[Ref: 45835] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Yale II.]
E. Parsons.
[n.d. c. 1930.]
Etching. 175 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"). Old crayon in margins.
Exterior view of Yale University, with people in the foreground.
[Ref: 45837] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Brandford Court, Yale.
E. Parsons.
[n.d. c. 1930.]
Etching, 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½") with large margins.
Yale University.
[Ref: 53604] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Harkness Memorial Library. Yale.]
E. Parsons.
[n.d. c. 1930.]
Etching. 230 x 180mm (9" x 7"). Tear and crayon in wide margins.
Yale University.
[Ref: 45836] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseur; sometimes called The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.]
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 230 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Trimmed to image.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop.'
[Ref: 11911] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Connoisseur; sometimes called The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.]
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured aquatint, excised and glued to album page, set into embossed gold leaf frame. Original guard leaf. Frame 245 x 200mm, 9¾ x 8". Cut around image.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop.'
[Ref: 11912] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Connoisseur and Tired Boy. (from Morland.)
[Henry Morland.]
[n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A man holds up a candle to light a painted landscape in a heavy frame, which is held up for him by a yawning boy. After Henry Morland (c.1719 - 1797, father of George), who exhibited the painting on which this is based several times at the Free Society of Artists. In 1775 he published this description of it: 'An Italian Connoisseur and tired boy. The connoisseur is an admirer of no pictures but Italian, therefore his taste is greatly affronted on being shown a Dutch picture; nevertheless his attention is engaged by some effect he sees in the landscape - has forgotten the boy, who is tired with holding the picture in a heavy frame, which he is just ready to drop'.
[Ref: 60880] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

No. XXII. Mrs. W-ts-n. No. XXIII. The Connoisseur.
Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r Fleet Street, 1. Sep.r 1781.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed. Small margins.
A pair of bust portraits in ovals illustrating the account of a Mrs W., the daughter of a poor parson and the widow of a marine and the son of Lord Chief Justice from an ancient family. He is presumably Staats Long Morris who married the widow of the 3rd Duke of Gordon. Family had very strong links in New York & Quebec. 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 5872.
[Ref: 45503] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Connoisseurs.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Hand-coloured etching, watermarked 'John Pine 1810'. Plate: 340 x 265mm (13¼ x 10½''). Trimmed within plate on right edge, repaired tear. Foxing verso.
A comic print showing three men ogling a portrait of a young, scantily dressed woman.
BM Satire 11451.
[Ref: 50815] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Connubial Happiness.
Painted by J. Northcote. Engraved by E.J. Dumee.
London publishd August 26, 1786; by J.R. Smith No:83: Oxford Street.
Rare stipple with etching printed in brown ink, first state with title in open capitals. 400 x 350mm, 15¾ x 13¾". Mint. Some very faint staining, else a fine impression with wide margins.
A scene of domestic harmony in an interior: a man, his wife and small child around a sofa. Picture on the wall behind, newspaper, and open book on table in foreground. After James Northcote (1746 - 1831).
Ex Collection: Christopher Lennox-Boyd, from Northcote Albums. See Slater p.287, unrecorded. Not in Frankau.
[Ref: 21252] £520.00

Joseph Conrad Sept. 1923. Supplement to the New Statesman, February 13 , 1926 (5).
Low.
Photo-lithograph. Sheet size: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13").
A portrait of author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) by New Zealand born artist, Sir David Low (1891 - 1963).
[Ref: 47269] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

J.W.H. Conradi.
L.E. Grimm fec. ad vivum Cassel 1826.
Etching. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"), with very large margins. Mounted in album paper at sides.
Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi (1780-1861), German doctor, author of medical books and professor of medicine at Heidelburg then Göttingen.
Wellcome 661-6
[Ref: 62198] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Consentement Refusé.
Eisen del. Dorgez Sculp.
A Paris chez Vidal Graveur, rue des Noyers No.29.[n.d. c.1790.]
Copper engraving. Plate 292 x 210mm. 11½ x 8¼".
'Consent refused.' In an 18th Century library with a wall clock where the young woman is jesturing towards a suitor.
[Ref: 16204] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Conservative Angel.
CJG [Charles Jameson Grant.]
Published by the Society of Surppression of Conservative Vice & Sold by E. Birchinall Churchgate St. Bury St Ed.ds Suffolk England Great Britain Europe 1837.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 500 x 320mm (19¾ x 12½"). Tears, some repaired.
Satire against Conservative policies - the 'Conservative Angel' top centre brings 'all Ale to Spirits', dispensing beer from a tankard marked 'vote for Lush'. A 'Nunn at Devotions' prays for the defeat of radicals and two figures on a wheel are 'just caught in the Conservative rat trap'. Other figures include Jim Crow, two fish (brother Gudgeon and friend Haddock) jumping for bait, and 'Don Diego de Carle-os Lie-ing in State'.
See Ref: 39946
[Ref: 51770] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

To the Committee - This View of the Conservative Club, St James' Street, is respectfully Inscribed by the Publisher.
John Olliver, 59, Pall Mall.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 145 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"), large margins.
View of the Conservative Club, at 74 St James' Street, a London gentlemen's club, now dissolved, which was established in 1840. The club was politically aligned to the Conservatives, but it was formed at the outset for dissident Tories out of favour with the Carlton Club, and its membership contained rebellious MPs and activists during its history.
[Ref: 63143] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Conservative Festival] To Sir John Tyssen Tyrell Bart. Charles Gray Round Esq.re Thomas William Bramston Esq.re George Palmer Esq.re Sir George Henry Smyth Bart. Richard Sanderson Sq.re Quintin Dick Esq.re John Round Esq.re, John Attwood Esq.re & William Beresford Esq.re This Representation of the Conservative Festival, held at Chelmsford, on the 22nd September 1841, To Commemorate their Return to Parliament fro the County Boroughs of Essex, is (with their permission) respectfully dedicated by their obedient Serv.t, Henry Guy.
Drawn & Lith.d by Tho.s Picken. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1841.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 425 x 510mm (16¾ x 20"). Several small tears, most have been repaired.
A banquet, held in a specially-contructed pavillion, to celebrate the Return to Parliament of ten Conservative M.P.s for Essex.
[Ref: 51438] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[In ink:] Conservatories _ Larkfield. Oct.r 1874.
A pair of amateur photographs. Sheet 282 x 228mm. 11 x 9".
Two large family conservatories; a photo taken in Larkfield, Kent.
[Ref: 17533] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Reforming Constable.
Pubd. by MDarly Strand March 5th. 1772 accorg. to Act.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7".
A watchman slumps drunkenly against some wooden stocks, his bottle falling from his left hand; a dog urinates on his leg. A notice to right is inscribed 'A Proclamation against drunkenness'. Numbered '13' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14098] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnal Sun Set.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London Pub.d by M.r Constable 35, Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Fine mezzotint. Plate: 175 x 255mm (7 x 10")), with very large margins. More mount burn than the others.
A rural landscape at sunset near East Bergholt after an oil painting by Constable now in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. They worked very closely together with Constable often hand touching up the prints himself.
Wedmore 3. Shirley: 14: I of VI.
[Ref: 58194] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnal Sun Set.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Foxing mainly in margins.
A rural landscape at sunset near East Bergholt after an oil painting by Constable now in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 3. Shirley: 14. Osbert Barnard: I of VI.
[Ref: 44380] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Dedham Vale.]
Painted by John Constable, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
[1834.]
Mezzotint, progress proof before letters, 580 x 495mm (23 x 19½"). Slight cockling of paper on right. Few old minor repairs. Laid on card.
Extremely rare and unique view looking through trees to a river winding through fields to a town with a church tower in the distance.
Shirley 40.
[Ref: 63654] £2,500.00

[The Lock.]
Painted by John Constable, Esq.r R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
[1834.]
Mezzotint, published state before dedication. 695 x 520mm (27½ x 20½"), housed in a magnificent Vicars Bros. frame c. 1900, very large margins. Repaired tear, some spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
A bargee opening a lock gate with a barge on the water behind.
Shirley 35. II of IV
[Ref: 63653] £1,250.00

Summer Afternoon- After a Shower.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub. by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 220 x 180mm (8¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A rural landscape with a church spire in the distance and a windmill on a hill. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 19. Shirley: 28. Osbert Barnard: I of V.
[Ref: 44376] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Constance 578 Tons. Off Kerguelens Land, 20th Oct.r 1849, on her passage from Plymouth to Adelaide in 77 days.
T.G.Dutton, del et lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen.
T.G.Dutton, 1850. London , W.Foster, 114 Fenchurch Street.
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 460 x 360mm (18 x 14¼").
A view of The Constance 578 Tons on its voyage to Adelaide, Australia in 1849. The crew are trying to fix a broken sail, while the vessel navigates rough waters.
[Ref: 67444] £520.00

Constantia von Österreich Königin von Polen.
[n.d., c.1620.]
Engraving, printed from two plates, 17th century watermark Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7") very large margins. Printer's crease at top.
Constance of Austria (1588-1631) became queen of Poland on her marriage to Sigismund III Vasa (his second wife). She was the mother of King John II Casimir.
[Ref: 57759] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Constancy.]
[Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after Giovanni Battista Cipriani.]
London, Publish'd June 1st 1782 by J. Walker Carver, Gilder & Printseller N.o 148 opposite Catherine Street Strand.
Stipple, printed in reddish-brown, proof before title. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼").
A half-length portrait of a woman in a classical robe, one breast bared. One of a set of twelve oval allegorical portraits. "I am constant as the Northern Star ...". Caesar's famous words from Shakespeare.
De Vesme: 589, between I & II.
[Ref: 60358] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Constantia. Nor yet he ended - When, with troubled mien ... He could no more; but on her neck he fell. [ten lines of verse.]
Rigaud R.A. pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt.
London, Publish'd Novr. 30. 1799, by Thos. Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple and etching, fine proof before letters, sheet 420 x 505mm. 16½ x 19¾". Trimmed to plate.
Illustration of 'Constantia, or the Man of Law's Tale', contributed by Henry Brooke (1703? - 1783) to Chaucer Modernised, published by George Ogle, London 1741. Interior of a Roman palace, with corinthian pillars and an eagle in the background to left; Constantia revealing her identity to her father, kneeling at the foot of his throne. He leans forward with outstretched arms, wearing uniform and a laurel wreath, to the joy of the attendant courtiers. After John Francis Rigaud (1742 - 1810). For a proof impression see item 18230.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18277] £380.00

Constantia. Nor yet he ended_When, with troubled mien. [...] He could no more; but on her neck he fell.
Rigaud, R.A. pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.t.
London Publish'd Nov.r 30. 1799, by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple. Platemark: 430 x 500mm (17 x 19¾"). Very large margins. Small tears along top and bottom edges of sheet. Puncture holes for binding into wrappers along left margin.
Constantia kneeling before a king, her left arm resting on the king's knee as he leans towards her with his arms outstretched in grief. Courtiers are surrounding, with a columned building beyond to the left. An illustration to 'Constantia, or the Man of Law's Tale', attributed to Henry Brooke. From Macklin's 'One hundred pictures/Prints illustrative of the most celebrated British Poets [...] with letter-press explanatory of the subject, extracted from the writings of the respective poets.' For proof impressions see items ref: 18230.
De Vesme: 1443.
[Ref: 38513] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Constantia kneeling before a king.]
[Francesco Bartolozzi after John Francis Rigaud.]
[London: T. Macklin, 1799.]
Stipple and etching, proof before letters, sheet 420 x 505mm (16½ x 19¾"). Faint trace of waterstain; two closed tears from upper edge.
Illustration of 'Constantia, or the Man of Law's Tale', contributed by Henry Brooke (1703? - 1783) to Chaucer Modernised, published by George Ogle, London 1741. Interior of a Roman palace, with corinthian pillars and an eagle in the background to left; Constantia revealing her identity to her father, kneeling at the foot of his throne. He leans forward with outstretched arms, wearing uniform and a laurel wreath, to the joy of the attendant courtiers. After John Francis Rigaud (1742 - 1810).
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18230] £330.00

[Constantia of Austria] Constantia Austriaca Poloniæ Regina, Nag.-Duc. Lithuaniæ etc. Constantia van Oosternrÿck [...]
[n.d., c.1620.]
Coloured engraving. 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"), set in text, very large margins. Slight vertical crease.
Constance of Austria (1588-1631), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles II, was the second wife of Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland-Lithiania. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57765] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Constantinople. North view, taken from the Artillery Quay (called Tophana) with H.B.M's ships Le Tigre and La Bonne Citoyenne under the command of Sir Sidney Smith, 1799. After a drawing in the collection of John Spencer Smith Esq.r late his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ottoman Porte, &c. &c. &c.
J.T. Serres Del. J. Jeakes Aculp.
Published [scratched out, c.1805.]
Scarce colour-printed aquatint with hand finishing. 430 x 570mm (17 x 22½"), on Whatman paper.
A view of the arrival of Two Royal Navy ships, both captured from the French, at Constantinople. 'La Bonne Citoyen' was carrying the Turkish Ambassador back to the city, protected by Le Tigre, commanded by Sir William Sydney Smith. The vessels and several Constantinople landmarks are identified by a key at the top of the print. At this time Napoleon had brought an army of 13,000 north out of Egypt into Ottoman Syria, capturing Gaza and Jaffa before moving onto Acre. Smith sailed from Constantinople and helped reinforce Acre's defences, then captured the French artillery being carried by sea for the siege. Thus weakened, Napoleon made two assaults on Acre before withdrawing back to Egypt. His ambitions in the Levant thwarted, Napoleon said of Smith: 'That man made me miss my destiny'.
NMM: PAH9210.
[Ref: 26739] £950.00

Vuë d'un Chan Lit F. D'un cudre Chan Lit. G de la Mosquée Solimanne Lit. H. du Collége de l’Academie Lit. I. et du Navire Lit. K. sur le quel on a desine la Vitteae Constantinople dans le Voisinage du Fauxbourg Tophana, marqué dans le Plan avec No. IV.
Gravé par Ferd Landerer, aux Defenses du Negocie commun de l’Academie Imperiale d’Empire,
Le dit Negoce les vends à Vienne, Augsbourg, et autres Villes d’Europe par et chez M.rs leurs Comissaires avec Privilege et Defense de Sa Majeste Imperial et Royale, de n’en faire pas Copies. Quartozieme Feiulle de Recueil de Vuës et Habillemens Turques, desinée d’apres Nature par le B. de G. dedié en general, à touts les Protecteurs Mecenas et Amateurs des Arts libereaux et belles Lettres. Par l’Academie Imp. d'Empire. [n.d. c.1740.]
Hand-coloured engraving with large margins. Plate 299 x 420mm (11¾ x 16½").
A view of Istanbul from the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara. Landmarks seen, include, Sultan Ahmed Mosque and the Hagia Sophia.
[Ref: 30900] £350.00

[Constantinople] Etat Abregé de la Maison du Grand Seigneur, de ses Revenus et le Gouvernement Civil Militaire et Ecclesiastique de cet Empire.
[Henri Abraham Chatelain.]
[Amsterdam, c.1720]
Engraving, platemark 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"). Fold through centre.
Three views of Constantinople (panoramic view, the Seraglio, and St Sophia) with extensive information about the goverment and customs of the city.
[Ref: 30061] £390.00

A Greek Lady in Constantinople [ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple and aquatint, fine original hand colour. Sheet 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Whatman paper. Trimmed to image and laid on album paper.
A woman in a plain brown gown and ornately-embroidered head-scarf.
[Ref: 35554] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Porto Ferrajo. / Constantinople.
C Warren sculp.
Fisher, Son & Co. London, 1832.
Engraving, two views from one plate, sheet 210 x 255mm. 8¼ x 10".
Portoferraio on the island of Elba, a Mediterranean island and a prospect of Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey, with shipping on the Bosphorus. Numbered '771' upper right.
[Ref: 17154] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Reading War Placards at Constantinople.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 280 x 196mm. 11 x 7¾". Creasing, laid.
Men at a street corner, armed with swords and rifles, look on at the war placards. Two men in the foreground smoking and drinking as a small boy and dog walk past.
[Ref: 21503] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Istanbul.] Constantinopel. Taf. II. Aussicht von Beschik. Tash nach dem Marmora Meer.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Constantinople arranged around a central view of of the harbour, other views include 'Marktscene', 'In einem Bazar', 'Ein Caffehaus'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46032] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Plan of Constantinople.
[Engraved by Herman Moll after Cornelis Le Bruyn.]
[London, c.1739.]
Engraving, with large margins. 210 x 300mm, 8¼ x 11¾". Tears in margins.
A bird's-eye view of Constantinople from behind the Scutari. In 1930 the city of Constantinople had its bane officially changed to Istanbul.
[Ref: 26328] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Constantinople
[Edward Morrison de Courcy Short]
[1887]
Pencil sketch, 95 x 195mm. 3¾ x 7¾".
A view of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) in Turkey, from an album of 'sketches made on a trip round the world'. By Edward Morrison de Courcy Short, b.1857, who attended Charterhouse School, Surrey (1870-6). He passed the Ceylon Civil Service exam in 1878, and in 1905 became Chairman of the Municipal Council and Mayor of Colombo, retiring in 1910.
List of Carthusians, 1800-1879, by W.D. Parrish
[Ref: 11258] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Mosque of Suleymania.
[Lithographed by J.F. Lewis after J.R. Coke Smyth.]
[Published by Thomas McLean, Colnagi & Lewis, 1838.]
Lithograph with later colour and large margins. Printed area 260 x 350mm (10¼ x 13¾"). Slight soiling in margins.
The Süleymaniye Mosque, built 1550-8, the largest in Istanbul, from 'Lewis's Illustrations of Constantinople made during a Residence in that City &c in the Years 1835-6. Arranged and Drawn on Stone from the original Sketches of Coke Smyth'. John Richard Coke Smyth (1808-82).
Abbey Travel 394.
[Ref: 35148] £360.00

The Sheik of Lebanon.
David Wilkie ft. [Lithographed by Joseph Nash.]
[London: Graves & Warmsley, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 520 x 355mm (20½ x 14").
A man in a turban, seated cross-legged, sword in his lap. Behind a partial portraits of a Nubian slave filling a pipe, a woman and child and another man. David Wilkie (1785-1841) set out for the East in 1840 to gather material for a series of biblical illustrations, visiting Constantinople, Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Alexandria. He died at sea on his return journey, before he could turn his sketches into the intended oils: This plate appeared in his 'Sketches in Turkey, Syria and Egypt' published in 1843.
Abbey Travel: 379.
[Ref: 60235] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Constantinopolis.
[After Cornelis de Bruyn, 1698.]
Engraving on three joined sheets, total dimensions approx 1860 x 295mm 73¼ x 11½"). Creases.
Extraordinary long view of Istanbul originally published in the 'Reizen' (1698) of Dutch artist Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726/7). De Bruyn first visited Egypt and Asia Minor in the 1670s, where he gathered the information that informed the travelogue (with over 200 plates) 'Reizen van Corn. de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus enz. mitsg. de voornaamste steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina', published in Delft in 1698. After supervising the publication and its French translation (Delft, 1700), de Bruyn set off on another long voyage, from 1701-08. This time he travelled to Russia, Persia and the East Indies, and the travels led to another large volume, 'orn.de Bruins Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie, verrykt met 300 konstplaten, vertoonende . . . voor al derz. oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig die van het . . .hof van Persepolis' (Amsterdam, 1711). Thereafter he restricted his travels to visiting friends in the Netherlands.
[Ref: 39191] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

[The Slave Merchant, Constantinople.]
[Designed from Nature & on Stone by T. Allom. Printed by C. Hullmandel.]
[Fisher, Son & Co., Paris & London.] [n.d., c.1845.]
Rare lithograph, proof before letters. Printed area 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9"). Crease left bottom and slight soiling in unprinted areas.
An interior, with two men haggling over a woman slave, while other women look on. By Thomas Allom (1804 - 1872). Possibly from 'Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy. Designed and drawn ... by Thomas Allom, Esq. With descriptive letter-press by Emma Reeve' (21 plates).
[Ref: 59822] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The favourite Storyteller of Constantinople.
Designed from Nature & on Stone by T. Allom. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fisher, Son & Co., Paris & London [n.d., c.1845].
Lithograph on india paper, india 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Water stain upper right; marginal spotting.
A Turkish crowd gathers to listen to a public speaker; masts of sailing ships and water in background. From 'Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy. Designed and drawn ... by Thomas Allom, Esq. With descriptive letter-press by Emma Reeve' (21 plates).
Not in Abbey Travel. See BL 747.f.19.
[Ref: 21876] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

View in Constitution Bay [with letterpress 'explanation' of the print] Dedicated to the Loyal Patriots who have served their Country in the cause of constitutional Reform
Drawn by C. Galpin Charmouth On stone by L. Haghe
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King 77 Gate St
Lithograph, printed area 140 x 155mm (5½ x 6") and letterpress, sheet 90 x 160mm (3½ x 6¼"), Very rare with explanation. Glued to album sheet.
A two-masted vessel flies an ensign with a crown and the word 'Reform'; her pennant defines a profile of William IV. A small vessel (right) with a bare mast and rigging, her ensign inscribed 'Anti', sinks, though towed by a steam tug, the 'Tyrant'; her pennant defines a profile of Wellington. Small vessels, one 'Convert', tack to follow "Reform". Below the title: 'Dedicated to the Loyal Patriots who have served their country in the cause of constitutional Reform'. A printed "Explanation" pasted below reads: "REFORM in full sail—Anti-Reform sinking, towed by 'Arbitrary Power', a Steamer. In the distance, the CONVERT Squadron 'going about'. On the topmast of Reform, the Pendant wafts into the Profile of a King! and that on the topmast of the 'Cutter' Anti, into the Profile of a Duke!'
BM Satires 17183
[Ref: 39599] £320.00 view all images for this item

Construction. [In pencil.]
W.A. Howard. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate: 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6"), with very large margins. Cockling.
A view of a skyscraper being built.
[Ref: 47062] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Consultation of Surgeons.
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Etching. 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾").
A group of surgeons debate the death of George Clarke: one says 'Gold is good evidence and carries great weight'', as the chairman decides 'This convinces me that Cl-k did not dye of the Wound he received at Br-d [Brentford]'. Two Irish chairmen, said to have been employed by Sir William Proctor, Wilkes's opponent in the election, were found guilty of the murder of George Clarke on 14 January 1769, but were pardoned after the College of Surgeons had been consulted. According to the Oxford Magazine, in which this satire was published, the consultation, or 'Chirurgical Examination' was held in secret. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1769, p.136, gave the names of those present as Benjamin Cowell, William Bromfield, Stafford Crane, John Ranby, Caesar Hawkins, David Middleton, Christopner Fullager, Robert Young, Percival Pott and Mr Gregory.
BM Satires 4271.
[Ref: 59964] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Consultation of Surgeons.]
[n.d., c.1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½''). Trimmed along top edge. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical scene showing a group of surgeons sitting around a table.
BM Satire 4271.
[Ref: 48416] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

View of Tophana or the Artillery Arsenal at Constantinople.
London, Published by James Cawthorne, 24, Cockspur Street, 1813.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 265 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"). Repair at centre fold, trimmed within plate on three sides, some soiling.
From John Cam Hobhouse's 'A Journey Through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople'. Hobhouse (1st Baron Broughton, 1786-1869), met Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, and travelled with him through Italy, Greece and Turkey, a journey which resulted in this book. Hobhouse became Byron's executor after the poet's death in 1824. Despite being imprisoned in Newgate for writing a Radical pamphlet in 1819, Hobhouse became a successful Whig politician, serving in government as Secretary at War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and President of the Board of Control. He became a Privy Councillor in 1832.
[Ref: 58590] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Il Conte Ugolino.]
Palagi Inv. Drawn by Bocaccini.
Lith. Fabroni. [n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph, proof before title. 285 x 361mm. 11¼ x 14¼". Some staining.
Ugolino della Gherardesca (c.1220-1289), Count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander. He was a leader of the Guelph, or pro-papal, faction in predominantly Ghibelline (pro-imperial) Pisa. His attempts, as chief magistrate, to consolidate his power in Pis, which was anti-Guelph, failed, and he fell victim to a conspiracy. He was arrested for treason and shut in a tower to starve to death with his sons and grandsons. He features predominantly in Dante's divine comedy.
See Ref: 19923 for lettered copy.
[Ref: 19919] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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