Grosvenor Prints

[The Crucifixion] Clamans voce magna Iesus ait, Pater in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum et hæc dicens expiravit.
A van Dyke Equess pinx. J. Smith fecit.
Sold by John Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden [n.d., c.1711].
Fine mezzotint. 425 x 285mm (16¾ x 11¼"), 18th century watermark. Thread margins.
The Crucifixion, with cherubs catching the Holy blood in chalices. In the upper right is an eclipsed sun. The plate was originally published by Alexander Browne, but reworked by John Smith with his own publication line.
Wessely 302. Le Blanc 303. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of ii.
[Ref: 68544] £460.00

Quadro di Paolo Caliari Veronese cavato dalla Galleria Reale di Dresda Alto Piedi 5. Onc: 9. Largo Piedi 14. Onc: 7.
F. B. Internari del: Gravé par Jean Mart: Preisler Graveur du Roi à Copenh: 1752.
Engraving. Plate: 290 x 590mm (11½ x 23"), with large margins on 3 sides. Central crease as normal.
A biblical scene showing Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary. After a painting by Paulo Veronese.
[Ref: 47586] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Ancient Punishment of Crucifixion which was Abolished by Constantine the Great in Deference to the Cross of Christ.] d'Aal-oude Kruis-straffen der Romeinen: hoedanige door Constantyn der Groot, uit eerbied voor het Kruis des Saligmakers, afgerschaft zyn.
[Wilhelmus Goeree]
[1690]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Plate: 280 x 360mm (11 x 14''). Central crease as normal. Stain at bottom left.
An illustration from 'Joodse Oudheden, ofte Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelsche Wysheid...' by Wilhelmus Goeree, Amsterdam, 1690 showing the various forms of crucifixion as well as Romans crucifying prisoners.
[Ref: 48751] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Crucifixion.]
Joannes Bapta Piazzetta pinxit and Marcus Pitteri Venetus scul C.P.E.S.
[Venice, c.1740.]
Fine & rare engraving. 590 x 445mm (23¼ x 17½"). Horizontal fold.
Christ on the cross, a skull at the base, against a dark background. Marco Pitteri (1702-86) collaborated with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754) on a number of engravings, mostly of biblical subjects, including a set of heads of Apostles.
[Ref: 56494] £480.00

[The Crucifixion] [Nate! Die Soboles! sanguis meus!]
A Vandyck pinx.t. R. Laurie fecit.
R. Sayer, Excudit publish'd April 5: 1773.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before verse. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Tears in margins, creasing in inscription area.
The Crucifixion, after Van Dyck; with the Virgin swooning into the arms of St Mary Magdalene and St. John gesturing towards Christ. On the right of the cross is a friar and a Roman soldier.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state i of iii.
[Ref: 66404] £360.00

[The Crucifixion] Nate! Die Soboles! sanguis meus!
A Vandyck pinx.t. R. Laurie fecit.
Published 12.th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), with very large margins. Tear in bottom margin taped.
The Crucifixion, after Van Dyck; with the Virgin swooning into the arms of St Mary Magdalene and St. John gesturing towards Christ. On the right of the cross is a friar and a Roman soldier. First published by Robert Sayer in 1773
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iiii of iii.
[Ref: 66410] £380.00

A Curious Piece of Antiquity on the crucifixion of our Saviour and the Town thieves who were crucified with Him.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Pen and ink with etching. 310 x 228mm (12¼ x 9").
Three poem crosses horizontally and vertically through three crucifixes.
[Ref: 31300] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Cruden, M. A.
Drawn from the Life by T Fry. Engravd by T Trotter.
Published as the Act directs for C. Dilly; and the rest of the Proprietors in London, May 5th 1785.
Etching, published state, frontispiece to Cruden's 'A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures...' 240 x 185mm, 9½ x 7¼". A fine impression.
Bust portrait in oval frame of Alexander Cruden (1701 - 1770), 'a pious Scot of enormous industry and pendantry' (Martin Gayford, 'Constable in Love'). Cruen was author of the 'Biblical Concordances' (J. Buckland, 1785); coat-of-arms below. After Thomas Frye (c.1710 - 1762).
See BL 467.d.9.
[Ref: 22386] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Cruden, M. A.
Drawn from the Life by T Fry. Engravd by T Trotter.
[London: C. Dilly; 1785.]
Etching, scratched-letter state, frontispiece to Cruden's 'A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures...' 240 x 185mm, 9½ x 7¼". A fine impression.
Bust portrait in oval frame of Alexander Cruden (1701 - 1770), 'a pious Scot of enormous industry and pendantry' (Martin Gayford, 'Constable in Love'). Cruden was author of the 'Biblical Concordances' (J. Buckland, 1785); coat-of-arms below. After Thomas Frye (c.1710 - 1762).
See BL 467.d.9.
[Ref: 22387] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Cruel Separation, or, Love subservient to Glory. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1793]
Engraving, platemark 175 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Small margins.
A soldier leaves his partner to join the army/navy ('Love subservient to Glory'); soldiers and ship in background. Print published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', 1793, although a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45856] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Cruger Esq.r.
W. Hincks del et sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs, March 11th 1783 by W.m Hincks.
Rare stipple, platemark 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3"). Small margins.
A bust portrait of Henry Cruger (1739-1827), an American and British merchant who is the only person in history to have be elected to both the Parliament of Great Britain and the New York State Senate. Born in New York to a political and mechant family, his uncle and grandfather both serving as mayor of New York, Cruger left America in 1757 having graduated from Kings College, now Columbia University. He was placed in his family's merchant firm in Bristol, where he was elected as MP for the Whig party. He was elected for two terms 1774-1780 and 1784-1790. As an MP he criticized Britain's increasing failing relationship with its colonies and campaigned for conciliation with America. Following American Independence Cruger returned to New York where he was elected to the New York State Senate as a Federalist.
[Ref: 41432] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Signature of Robert Cruikshank Sept 12, 1863 to "Richard Fisher Esq" in ink maybe a member of the publishing house "H. Fisher & Son"with ink mss. invitation illustration To "Mr. Woodwend's".] Mr G.H. Virtue, at Home... Tues May 26th "Ethereal Material"
Sep.t 12th 1865.
Two sheets: invitation 95 x 135 (3¾ x 5¼"), signature 150 x 180mm (6 x 7"), with boar's head blindstamp and Cruikshank's signature. Laid on album paper.
[Ref: 54490] £390.00

[Lithographic designs by George Cruikshank, signed by the artist] Reissue of Scraps & Sketches by George Cruikshank in Monthly Parts Half a Crown [...]
[George Cruikshank, c.1854]
86 Fleet Street W. Kent & Co Late David Bogue
Lithograph, 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). Glued to backing sheet, wormhole bottom left; frontispiece to Cruikshank's 'Illustrations of Time' verso. Inscribed 'To the Editor of the Morning Post with the compliments of George Cruikshank'
'About 1854 Cruikshank intended to publish "Re-issue of Scraps and Sketches in monthly parts...to be completed in ten parts." [...] For this issue the artist executed a lithographic design for the wrappers, and the work was published by "W. Kent & Co., late Bogue" (Cohn).
Cohn 180
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[Five vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
Nov.r 1 1829.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Some spotting.
Five including: 'Church & State'—', in which a bishop and a layman take wine together at a dinner-table under a gas chandelier, while three bloated footmen attend.
BM Satires 15980.
[Ref: 51603] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Six vignette satires on education on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Some spotting.
Six educational satires including: 'The Pursuit of Letters' in which large-headed infants in baby walkers rush after large letters on spidery legs; and 'The Tutor's Assistant', a birch-rod. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
BM Satires 15622.
[Ref: 51602] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires of wooden legs on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Spotting.
Seven satires on wooden legs, including: 'A Gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on –', in which a chambermaid mistakes a sailor's leg for the handle of the warming pan; and 'Living on Wooden Legs, with four stilt walkers. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
BM Satires 15617.
[Ref: 51600] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½").
Seven random satires, including: 'A Jolly Companion', a bust profile of a man constructed from a punch bowl, decanter, two glasses, lemon, lemon-squeezer and corkscrew; and 'Tooth Powder' showing a sufferer from tooth-ache extracting a tooth by firing a pistol, the bullet attached by a string to the tooth. Plate 1 from the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
BM Satires 15619.
[Ref: 51599] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Six vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching. J. Whatman 1827 watermark; Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½").
Nine random satires, including 'Johnny Cockaigne showing Cousin Tummas a "Lions" den', a view of William Crockford's 'St James's Club', St James's Street. Plate 4 from the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
BM Satires 15620.
[Ref: 51598] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Five vignette legal scenes on one sheet.] "Pleading at the Bar." or - Popular Education - a Farce. Performed every Sessions.
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Some spotting.
Four legal satires around a central realistic rendering of an Old Bailey trial, including: 'Chamber Practice', in which young lawyers carouse drunkenly; and 'Practising at the Bar', depicting a burglar using a crow-bar to jimmy open a shutter of a bar (pub) door. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
BM Satires 15621.
[Ref: 51601] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires of bonnets on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1829.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Spotting.
Seven satires on ladies' hats, including: 'Bonnet Building', featuring four milliners, two on tall step-ladders, trimming a hat far larger than themselves with giant bows of ribbon; and 'Section of the Bonnet Carriage', depicting a carriage shaped accomodate her hat and her bustle. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
BM Satires 15617.
[Ref: 51595] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Nine vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½").
Nine random satires, including 'Lithography', a pun showing a beggar drawing on a pavement. Plate 6 from the series 'Scraps and Sketches'
BM Satires 15982.
[Ref: 51597] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Preservation. An African Settlement. Spoon=bill. Botheration. A Vane Man.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tears in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls. 'Preservation' has hunters shooting each other rather than the pheasants; 'An African Settlement' shows a graveyard. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57283] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Nine vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill, 1829). Tear through vignette top left.
Nine random satires, including 'Lithography', a pun showing a beggar drawing on a pavement. Plate 6 from the series 'Scraps and Sketches'
BM Satires 15982.
[Ref: 57286] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Some staining.
Seven vignette satiresm including 'Brobdignag Bonnet', showing a woman with a massive hat. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57290] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bellows] Scraps & Sketches Part 3.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14").
Eight vignette drolls featuring anthropomorphic bellows. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57285] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires of bonnets on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1829.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Spotting.
Seven satires on ladies' hats, including: 'Bonnet Building', featuring four milliners, two on tall step-ladders, trimming a hat far larger than themselves with giant bows of ribbon; and 'Section of the Bonnet Carriage', depicting a carriage shaped accomodate her hat and her bustle. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Christmas - Time.
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in top and bottom edge, some slight staining.
Six vignette drolls on the theme 'Christmas Time', including 'Pudding Time'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57278] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Comfortables.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1 1830.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14") on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1830. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Six vignette drolls on the theme of 'Comfort', including 'A Batchelor's Comforts', with a man smoking before a fire. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57284] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Comforts.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tear in bottom edge.
Nine vignette drolls on the theme 'Comforts', including 'Christmas Comforts' with anthropomorphic figures of food and crockery dancing. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57275] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Odd Fish.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Sept.r 1st 1832.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tears in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Thirteen vignette drolls mostly with a fishy theme, including swordfish duelling with their bills. In the centre are two elephants, titled "Gentleman and Porters"smoking from a hookah. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57282] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Five vignette legal scenes on one sheet.] "Pleading at the Bar." or - Popular Education - a Farce. Performed every Sessions.
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), on paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1829'. Tear in right edge, some spotting.
Four legal satires around a central realistic rendering of an Old Bailey trial, including: 'Chamber Practice', in which young lawyers carouse drunkenly; and 'Practising at the Bar', depicting a burglar using a crow-bar to jimmy open a shutter of a bar (pub) door. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57289] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Five scenes of 'Time'.]
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls on the theme 'Time', including 'Time Badly Employed', with a fair including a hot-air balloon, and 'Time is ~', with a man in prison, with a game of real tennis being played against a high wall. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

George Cruikshank Novr. 14th. 1851. [ink signature.]
Ink signature. 114 x 184mm. 4½ x 7¼".
Ink signature of George Cruikshank (1792-1878), English caricaturist and book illustrator.
[Ref: 17911] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

George Cruikshank, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Work Executed during the Years 1806-1877 with Collations, Notes, Approximate Values, Facsimiles, and Illustrations.
by Albert M. Cohn Author of A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Printed Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank, etc.
London From the Office of "The Bookman's Journal" 7 Henrietta Street, Strand, W.C.2 1924
Book: 4to (293 x 231mm). pp. vii-xvi + 375. With 31 b/w and colour illustrations, some on coloured paper. Cloth binding with gilt title on spine. Binding worn and rubbed. One coloured illustration loose.
This Edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. This is No. 416. A catalogue of Cruikshanks work between 1806-1877, with illustrations. There is a self-portrait of Cruikshank in the title page area.
[Ref: 10066] £450.00

A View in Crumford, near Matlock Bath, in Derby Shire. [59 in ink].
J.no Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver 1749.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 305 x 456mm (12 x 18").
A view at Cromford, two miles south of Matlock in the Derbyshire Dales. The Cromford Mill was built in 1771, the first water-powered cotton spinning mill developed by Richard Arkwright. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
[Ref: 29386] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Sofia Cruvelli.
Auguste Hüssuner sc.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf floral border, on album page. 286 x 222mm. 11¼ x 8¾". Time stained, some scuffing.
Sophie Crüwell, Viscountess Vigier, stage name Sophie Cruvelli (1826-1907) was a German opera singer. She was a dramatic soprano who had a brief but successful public career in London and Paris. She was known as a tragedienne and both Verdi and Meyerbeer created operatic roles with the intention that she should first perform them.
[Ref: 23674] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sofia Cruvelli.]
E. Desmaisons - lith.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf ribbed border, on album page. 166 x 108mm. 6½ x 4¼". Foxed.
Her right hand raised to her chin and supported at the elbow by her left hand. Sophie Crüwell, Viscountess Vigier, stage name Sophie Cruvelli (1826-1907) was a German opera singer. She was a dramatic soprano who had a brief but successful public career in London and Paris. She was known as a tragedienne and both Verdi and Meyerbeer created operatic roles with the intention that she should first perform them.
[Ref: 23676] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Gems of the Crystal Palace, No. 3 (The Crystal Palace and Gardens).]
[Le Blond.]
Baxter process. Sheet 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to image as normal, some staining.
A view of the Crystal Palace as reconstructed at Sydenham, opened by Queen Victorias in 1854. In the foreground are the famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, the first dinosaur sculptures in the world, designed and sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
[Ref: 60838] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Gems of the Crystal Palace, No. 3 (The Crystal Palace and Gardens).]
[Published Oct.r 30, 1854, by G. Baxter, Proprietor & Patentee, London.]
Baxter process. Sheet 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to image as normal, some staining, laid on album paper.
A view of the Crystal Palace as reconstructed at Sydenham, open by Queen Victorias in 1854. In the foreground are the famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, the first dinosaur sculptures in the world, designed and sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
[Ref: 60839] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Interior of The Crystal Palace at Sydenham. No. 7. The Nubian Court.
[Thomas Hosmer Shepherd]
[n.d. c.1854-55]
Tinted lithograph. 290 x 210mm (11½ x 8¼"). Several repaired tears in margins.
An interior view of the 'Nubian Court' designed by Owen Jones and complete with life size replicas of Pharoahs and Sphinxes. The Crystal Palace was relocated to Sydenham Hill in 1854 after the Great Exhibtion of 1851 was held in Hyde Park.
[Ref: 56944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

T.56 American Merdionale. T.III. Bombarda. Havanna.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Coloured lithograph. 285 x 191mm. 11¼ x 7½".
Two views in Cuba: Havana and Bombarda.
[Ref: 19744] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

North Side of Cuba from Havanna to Organos Mountains.
W.S. Andrews, del. T.G.Dutton, lith.
Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen. [London, c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph on card, sheet 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½").
Four prospects of Cuba from the sea, showing Moro, Muriel and Pan de Cabanas, from 'Andrews's Illustrations of the West Indies'.
[Ref: 45851] £320.00

An Indian Cacique of the Island of Cuba, addressing Columbus concerning a future state.
B. West delint. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
Publish'd Novr. 18, 1794 by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Etching, 255 x 205mm (10 x 8"). Stained.
From the Capper Album.
[Ref: 10700] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Two pottery designs] Vista de la Habana [& four children sat around vase filled with flowers]
[Anon, c.1820]
Two stipples, approx 140 x 155mm (Vista de la Habana) and 90 x 95mm (four children), very scarce. Both prints trimmed to image and attached to backing sheet.
The following label is attached: 'Ridgway, Cauldon Place and Bell Works. Shelton. The cartouche attached to 'Vista de la Habana' is identical to that on a saucer dish (Own Collection) which includes the initials W.R. These pulls are probably by J. & W. Ridgway (1814-1830). The saucer dish is black- printed with the vase and children pattern and entitled 'Souvenir'.'
[Ref: 33745] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Photograph of a waterfall on Cuba.] The place on Cuba from Havanna where Lopes was taken & shot by Spanish troops. Lopez was leader of Spanish American filibusters who invaded attempting to destroy Spanish rule there [ink mss. on reverse.]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Sepia photograph, 315 x 250mm (12½ x 9¾"), mounted on board. Backboard toned.
A photograph of a forest waterfall, apparently where the filibuster Narciso López (1797-1851) was captured. In August 1851 López arrived on Cuba with several hundred men, hoping to stir rebellion with the backing of the Southern states of the United States. When this failed he and his men were captured, most executed, the rest sent to work in mining labor camps. The modern Cuban flag was designed by López and Miguel Teurbe Tolon and carried on this expedition.
[Ref: 37399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Havannah.
Published April 1. 1811 by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, Paternoster Row.
Engraving with hand-colour. Plate: 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾"). Vertical creases as issued
A view of the port of Havannah from the sea.
[Ref: 47369] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Harbour & City of the Havana, taken from the Hill near the Road, Between La Regla & Guanavacoa. To the Right Honourable George Earl of Albemarle, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces on the late Expedition to Cuba; These Six Views of the City, Harbour, & Country of the Havana, are most humbly Inscribed, By his Lordship's most Obedient & Devoted Humble Serv.t Elias Durnford, Engineer.
W. Elliott sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Aug.t 1764 by T. Jefferys, Corner of St Martin's Lane.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 365 x 530mm (14½ x 20¾"), with 18th century watermark. Trimmed to plate, small tear in right edge, tiny worm hole.
The title plate of a set of six views of Havana drawn by Elias Durnford (1739-94) when he participated in the capture of Havana during the Seven Year's War. During the occupation he was aide-de-camp to Lord Albermarle. It shows the British fleet at anchor, with a key to places and plants under the title. The title is repeated in French and Spanish. At the end of the war in 1763 Durnford was appointed chief engineer and surveyor general of the new British colony of West Florida where he laid out the city plan for Pensacola in 1764. In 1769 he became Lieutenant Governor, a post he held into the American Revolutionary Wars, when he was captured by an overwhelming Spanish force in 1780. In the French Revolutionary Wars he was Chief Royal Engineer of the West Indies, campaigning against the French in Martinique, Guadaloupe and St. Lucia until his death from yellow fever on Tobago in 1794.
[Ref: 44445] £1,500.00

[Havana on the Island of Cuba.]
Pocock del.t. Bennett sculp.t.
Published Nov.r 30, 1807 by J.Gold, 103 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, London.
Aquatint. 130 x 220mm. Title rubbed.
Published in the 'Naval Chronicle'.
[Ref: 4370] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the City of the Havana, taken from the Road near Colonel Howe's Battery.
Drawn by Elias Durnford Engineer, Etch'd by Paul Sandby, & Engraved by Edw.d Rooker.
London, Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Feb.y 1765 by Tho.s Jefferys, the Corner of St Martin's Lane.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 365 x 530mm (14½ x 20¾"). Trimmed to plate, worm trail in foliage bottom left corner of image.
A view from a hill west of the Havana, looking down on the entrance to the harbour that was defended by the battery, named after William Howe (1729-1814). Howe played a major role in many of the successes of the Seven Years's War: he had led the ascent to the Plains of Abraham that led to the capture of Quebec in 1759; led a brigade during the Capture of Belle Île in 1761; and served as adjutant general of the Havana invasion force. However as Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American War of Independence he was less successful, resigning in 1777. One of a set of six views of Havana drawn by Elias Durnford (1739-94) when he participated in the capture of Havana during the Seven Year's War. During the occupation he was aide-de-camp to Lord Albermarle. At the end of the war in 1763 Durnford was appointed chief engineer and surveyor general of the new British colony of West Florida where he laid out the city plan for Pensacola in 1764. In 1769 he became Lieutenant Governor, a post he held into the American Revolutionary Wars, when he was captured by an overwhelming Spanish force in 1780. In the French Revolutionary Wars he was Chief Royal Engineer of the West Indies, campaigning against the French in Martinique, Guadaloupe and St. Lucia until his death from yellow fever on Tobago in 1794. The title is repeated in French and Spanish.
[Ref: 44447] £1,500.00

View of the Snuff Mills near the Havana on the River Chorara.
Drawn after nature by the Hon.ble William Harcourt. 1762. Etched by Newnham 1763.
Etching. 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Printed on coloured paper, cut to image with a conservation backing.
William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt (1743-1830) was a Field-Marshal and M.P. for Oxford. He was a British commander during the American War of Independence, and aide-de-camp to Lord Albermarle in Havana in 1762 during the Seven Years' War. While in Havana he sketched this view of what is now the Almendares River, a 45 km river in the western part of Cuba. It was one of the first settlements in Cuba and source of Havana's water supply. Etched by George Simon, [Viscount Nuneham] 2nd Earl Harcourt, [1736 - 1809] politician, statesman and gifted amateur.
BM: 1861,1012.2505.
[Ref: 45844] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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