Grosvenor Prints

[The delights of country life] Les délices de la vie champetres
Eisen Del. de G.t Sculp. [c.1770]
Fine engraving before margins cleaned, sheet 295 x 205mm (11½ x 8"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two naked women frolic in a river. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45077] £320.00

The Delights of Love - a Family Catch.
[by Charles Williams.]
[Pub.d Sept.r 4th, 1804 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.] Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening'
Coloured etching. 250 x 350m (9¾ x 13¾"). Framed. 'Sept 9 1804' in old ink mss in title area. Unexamined out of frame.
Daughter, mother, and father sit by a small oblong table, singing a catch. Daughter: 'Give me the sweet delights of love / Let not anxious cares destroy them, / Oh how divine still to enjoy them'. Mother: 'Pure are the blessings love bestowing, / Peace and harmony ever flowing.' Father, angrily: 'A smoaky house, a failing trade, / Six squalling brats and a scolding Jade'.
BM Satire 10331. See reference 62869 for unframed version.
[Ref: 51853] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Delights of Love - a Family Catch.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Sept.r 4th, 1804 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 265 x 370m (10½ x 14½"). Large margins. Laid on archival paper and false margins added.
Daughter, mother, and father sit by a small oblong table, singing a catch. Daughter: 'Give me the sweet delights of love / Let not anxious cares destroy them, / Oh how divine still to enjoy them'. Mother: 'Pure are the blessings love bestowing, / Peace and harmony ever flowing.' Father, angrily: 'A smoaky house, a failing trade, / Six squalling brats and a scolding Jade'.
BM Satire 10331. See our reference 51853 for framed version.
[Ref: 62869] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Diversi Animali fatti Stef.no Della Bella.
[Drawn & etched by Stefano Della Bella.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
22 etchings (of 24). Each c. 90 x 110mm (3½ x 4¼"), mounted together on two album sheets. Narrow margins, creasing where glued at corners.
The title page and 21 numbered etchings of animals and birds (lacking 5, recumbent lion & 14, girl and goat). Originally published c.1641 by Pierre Mariette in Paris: these are from the third state, with Mariette's name erased from the title.
See BM 1871,0513.56 for the second state of the title.
[Ref: 65557] £680.00 view all images for this item

[Siege of Arras]
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
[Published by Israel Henriot, c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 123mm (2? x 4?"). Glued to backing sheet, slight staining on right.
Attack on a besieged town, which Massar identifies as Arras which was taken by the French in 1640. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 256 ii/iii. For another etching of this siege by Della Bella, see ref. 23780.
[Ref: 23778] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers playing at cards]
Stef. Della Bella. In.et F.
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 124mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet.
Four soldiers seemingly playing at cards while a sentinel watches them. A cannon mounted on its carriage to left, an encampment to right. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 254 ii/iii
[Ref: 23774] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier pointing a cannon]
Stef. Della Bella. In.et F.
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 61 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet. Number '10' scratched out bottom right.
A soldier pointing a cannon under the surveillance of an officer standing to his right. In the background other soldiers carrying out exercises. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 255 ii/iii
[Ref: 23777] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cannon with two soldiers sat on its carriage]
S.D. la Bella fecit.
F.L.D. Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis
Etching, 89 x 143mm (3½ x 5?").
Cannon in foreground with ruins behind, and a town in the distance. From a set of six 'Varii capricci militari' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 259
[Ref: 23787] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cartouche with two women holding a vase of flowers.]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, platemark 233 x 182mm (9? x 7?"). Glued to backing sheet at three corners.
Plate ten from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1036.ii or iii
[Ref: 24293] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Cartouche with dogs]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, 156 x 247mm (6? x 9?"). Glued to backing sheet at corners; water staining top left and right.
Cartouche adorned with four dogs, a stag, and a boar's head, with two more dogs left and right. Plate thirteen from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1039.i (before plate numbers added)
[Ref: 24294] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two overlapping cartouches]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, 116 x 192mm (4½ x 7"). Glued to backing sheet at three corners with glue stains at corners; water staining top left and right. Plate number scratched out top right.
Two overlapping cartouches, each showing a combat between an eagle and a serpent. Plate fourteen from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1040. ii or iii
[Ref: 24298] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cartouche with two lions]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, 135 x 191mm (5¼ x 7½"). Glued to backing sheet at corners; plate number scratched out top right.
Plate eighteen from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1044. ii or iii
[Ref: 24304] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Decorative cartouche]
Stef. Della Bella in. fecit
F.L.D. Il Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis Chris. [n.d., c.1646.]
Etching, platemark 248 x 180mm (9? x 7?"). Slight foxing around edges, glued to backing sheet at top corners.
Cartouche with two children sitting astride two eagles, and holding a plumed helmet. Palms and ribbons below. Plate five from the 'Raccolta di varii cappricii et nove inventioni di cartelle et ornamenti', a set of eighteen etchings of cartouches by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
De Vesme/Massar: 1031.ii or iii
[Ref: 24282] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Carriage at rest]
SD Bella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, top left corner missing, slight staining.
A loaded carriage at rest. The two horses eat the grass while the carriage driver sleeps on the ground next to a dog. Encampment in background with a town in the distance. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 253 ii/iii
[Ref: 23773] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cavaliers crossing a river at a ford]
SDBella f.
Israel ex [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 127mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet. '5' in manuscript bottom left after having been scratched out.
One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 250 ii/iii
[Ref: 23770] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Conversation]
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
Israel ex.
Etching, 73 x 107mm (2? x 4?"). Glued to backing sheet.
Conversation amongst men and women seated on the ground, in the countryside, with other figures left and right. From a set of thirteen etchings of an 'Agréable diversité de figures' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) and published in Paris by Israel Henriet in 1642.
de Vesme/Massar: 123- intermediate state between De Vesme's ii and iii/v.
[Ref: 23782] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Two soldiers talking]
SDBella.
Israel ex. [n.d., c.1644]
Etching, 62 x 125mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet, bottom right corner missing.
Two soldiers standing to left, on the right a dead horse which two wolves are starting to eat. A corps of lancers in the background. One of a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 252 ii/iii
[Ref: 23772] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a young woman, hair tied back, looking left.] 11.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6), with C17th watermark. One very small wormhole bottom right. Slight crease top left. Small margins.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 374, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58183] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a boy with curly hair, bare shouldered, looking right.] 12.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6), with C17th watermark. Mark middle right. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 375, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58184] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a boy with straight hair, with high collar, looking right.] 13.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6), with C17th watermark. One very small wormhole, bottom right, in unprinted area, crease. Small margins.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 376, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58185] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a bearded old man, looking right.] 19.
S. D Bella in et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾), with C17th watermark. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right. Very slight marking near head on left.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 382, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58181] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The head of a bearded old man, with laurel wreath and fur collar, looking left.] 20.
S. D Bella invent et fecit.
Avec privilege du Roy [Paris, n.d., c.1641.]
Etching. 120 x 145mm (4¾ x 5¾), with C17th watermark. Small margins. One very small wormhole bottom right.
From Stefano Della Bella's 'I Principii del Disegno', a collection of 25 etchings. De Vesme records two states, first with the imprint of Pierre Mariette, the second without, as here. However the British Museum (X,5.376) records 'A note supplied by Osbert Barnard in the 1970s states that he had never seen and could find no record of an impression of any of the states other than the frontispiece which carried Mariette's name'. Certainly this applies to all the examples held by the BM.
De Vesme 383, state ii of ii, but see above.
[Ref: 58182] £350.00

[Hungarian Horseman.]
S.D. Bella.
[n.d. c.1651.]
Etching, plate 190 x 180mm (7½ x 7") with small margins. Some horizontal creases.
A round composition of a Hungarian horseman, with a horseman behind on each side and two men on foot behind at centre. From a series of eleven etchings of cavaliers by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), none of which carry a publication line.
De Vesme/Massar: 279.
[Ref: 59003] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Veue des Costes d'Italie.
S.D. Bella inventit et fecit
Israel ex. cum privil. Regis [1647]
Etching, 88 x 137mm (3½ x 5?"). Glued to backing sheet, '12' in manuscript bottom right corner, lower margin trimmed.
The Italian Coast: four men play cards in the centre while another two watch them, prow of a boat on left, and a tower on the right. From a series of eight etchings of sea ports by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64).
de Vesme/Massar: 801
[Ref: 24014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Varij Capricij Militarij di Stef. Della Bella
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella]
[Published by Basan]
Etching, 90 x 144mm (3½ x 5?").
An army on the move, with a dead horse in the foreground. First of a set of six etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 258 iii or iv/iv
[Ref: 23784] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Paisages Maritimes. Faicts par S.D. Bella et Mis en lumiere par Israel.
S.D. Bella in. et fc.
Israel ex. cum privil Regis. [n.d., c.1644]
Seven etched sheets. Title 76 x 141mm (3 x 5½"), remaining plates all approx. 74 x 126mm (2? x 5"). Glued in corners to backing sheets. Some plates numbered in pen and ink lower right.
Complete set of six marine landscapes and title page by Stefano Della Bella (1610-54) and published by Israel Henriet, who also published Jacques Callot's prints.
de Vesme/Massar: 787-793 i/ii.
[Ref: 23733] £650.00 view all images for this item

Montjoye Saint Denis Roy, D'Armes de France.
S. de la Bella fecit [etched by Della Bella, engraving by Jean Couvay].
Van Merle [Paris, n.d., c.1650].
Etching with engraving. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A full length portrait of the King of Arms of France in full costume, with the funeral procession of a French prince at Saint-Denis in the background.
De Vesme 38, intermediate state between ii & iii.
[Ref: 58187] £580.00

Desseins de Quelques Conduites de troupes, Canons, et ataques de villes; faictes Par de la Belle. Dediées a Mon Seigneur Henry Du Plesseys Conte De La Roche-Guyon. Par son tres humble Serviteur Israel. Avec Privilege u Roy.
[Etched by Stefano Della Bella].
[Published by Israel Henriet, c.1644/]
Etching, 60 x 127mm (2? x 5"). Glued to backing sheet.
Frontispiece to a series of twelve military etchings by Stefano Della Bella (1610-64), with the title written on a drape, beneath which can be seen the coat of arms of the dedicatee.
de Vesme/Massar: 264
[Ref: 23764] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier leaning aghainst cannon]
S.D. la Bella fecit.
F.L.D. Ciartres excud. Cum Privil. Regis
Etching, 92 x 142mm (3½ x 5½").
Soldier with pike leaning against wheel of a cannon inforeground. Behind him more soldiers and another cannon, and a windmill centre right. From a set of six 'Varii capricci militari' by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) which were first published in 1641.
de Vesme/Massar: 262
[Ref: 23789] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Steffano de la Belle, natif de Florence en Italie, en l'an 1614…
Stocade pinxit. W. Hollar fecit.
Ioannes Meyssens excudit [n.d. c.1694].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), large margins.
Steffano della Bella (1610-64), Italian engraver. From an edition of the 'True Effigies Of the most Eminent Painters, and other Famous Artists That have Flourished in Europe', first published in Antwerp in 1649, reissued in 1661, 1694, 1705 & 1739. Stocade was the name used by the painter and engraver Nicolaes de Helt [1614 - 1669].
P 1360. iii of iv.
[Ref: 59831] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Della Crusca. Once more on Virgils tomb I'll muse, And Lauras gemm'd with evening dews; Once more Rome's Via Sacra tread, And ponder on the mighty dead. Vid the Poetry of the World, Vol: I. P.103.
S. Harding delin. W.N. Gardiner, Sculp:
Publish'd as the Act directs, July, 1. 1797 by T. Philipe, Pall Mall Court.
Stipple. Plate 299 x 203mm. 11¾ x 8".
A young man sitting by a tomb or wall, his head resting in his right hand, holding the feathers of a hat in his left hand, within an oval.
[Ref: 25979] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dellamaria.
[Godefroy Engelmann.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Domenico Della Maria (1768 - 1800), a mandolin virtuoso and dramatic composer of operas, sitting facing the right, showing his right side profile.
[Ref: 63239] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Gianello della Torre] Juanelo Torriano
[n.d., c.1820.]
Chine collé mezzotint. 175 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"),
An illustration of the carrara marble bust of Italo-Spanish clockmaker, engineer and mathematician Gianello della Torre (c.1500-85), attributed to Pompeo Leoni. now in the Museo de Santa Cruz.
[Ref: 63366] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Maria e Turre.
[n.d., c.1763.]
Scarce mezzotint. 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Giovanni Maria Della Torre FRS (1710-82), Italian priest, naturalist and scientist who wrote several influential books on natural science and taught at several places around Italy.
[Ref: 64154] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Delmé Radcliffe & his Harriers, 1833.
Pub.d April, 1833 by R. Ackermann, Jun.r at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent St.t.
Fine & rare aquatint with superb hand colour. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, edges chipped and soiled.
Three hunters on horses named under the image (Socks, Guardsman and Bob Handy), surrounded by hounds.
[Ref: 53412] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Frederick Peter Delmé-Radcliffe] A Dalme_Tian. Booking the Colonel. This Sketch is dedicated to the Greeks. No.1 Turf Characters____"Quoth Hudibrass I smell a Rat.....
[Monogram of Paul Pry - William Heath] Esq.r del..
Pub June 26 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket Sold Publisher of P. Prys Caricatures.
Hand-coloured etching. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1828', with large margins.
Frederick Peter Delmé-Radcliffe (1804-1871), the noted gentleman jockey in charge of the King's Stud, depicted as a thin man in riding dress with top-hat and top-boots, holding out a betting-book. The performance of the king's horse 'The Colonel' at the Ascot Gold Cup on June 18th disappointed William IV; a letter appeared in the 'Sporting Magazine', signed by 'Independence', claiming the horse had been seen being hacked by a drunken rider only four days before the race. Delmé-Radcliffe issued a denial, but had difficulty getting it published. Heath gives a nod to the author of the letter by referencing the Greek struggle for independence. 'Paul Pry' was the pseudonym of William Heath.
BM Satires: 15932.
[Ref: 55401] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Delos.]
[Drawn by A. Arrowsmith?]
[London: Elizabeth Stuart, 1794.]
Engraved map with aquatint. 530 x 370mm, 21 x 14½".
Map of the Greek island of Delos, published in the 'Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece' by James 'Athenian' Stuart & Nicholas Revett. Delos had been the meeting place of the Delian League, a defensive group of Greek city states founded in 477BC but eventually overwhelmed and turned into the Athenian Empire by 454BC. Stuart (1713–88) and Revett (1720–1804) joined Gavin Hamillton and Matthew Brettingham on a Grand Tour of Italy, the Balkans & Greece between 1748-55. On their return they started work on the 'Antiquities', which was the first accurate survey of the surviving classical buildings of Athens, with the first volume published in 1762, the second 1789, third 1794, fourth 1816 and fifth 1830 (nearly 80 years after the first). The work was incredibly influential, fueling the Greek revivalist style in 18th-century English architecture. The attention to detail was such that it attracted the attention of Hogarth, who satirised the work with his 'Five Orders of Periwig'. This map was published in Volume 4; the general map of Attica in the same volume was signed by Arrowsmith. The hatchuring of elevated regions has been aquatinted, an uncommon usage.
[Ref: 26786] £140.00

Etched from Life by Delpini.C.L. 1812. [in plate]
Etched from Life by Delpini.
Coloured etching. 190 x 130mm.
With A.L.S. dated 1813. - obscure origins although Carlo Antonio Delpini was a Pantomimist and stage manager, born in Rome, arriving in London around 1774.
[Ref: 6937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Laurentius Delvaux Sculptor.
Isaacus Whood Pinx. An 1734 pro Johanne Sanderson Alex. Vanhaecken Fecit, 1735.
Mezzotint. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed into plate and taped onto album paper at the top corner. Damaged.
Portrait of Laurent Delvaux (1696 - 1778), Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the court. Delvaux was a transitional figure between the Baroque and Neo-classicism.
CS 7. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65191] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Henri Dembinski. Aus Jelachichs Einbruch in Ungarn wird Ungarns Freiheit erflogen. [Facsimilie signature.]
Gez. v. Kurowski, lith. v. A.v. Deinert. Druck v. Mercier in Berlin.
Verlag u. Eigenth v. Gebr. Rocca in Berlin.
Lithograph. Sheet: 495 x 360mm (19½ x 14"), with large margins.
A portrait of Polish engineer, traveller, and general Henryk Dembinski (1791-1864). From the collection of Lady Elizabeth Fielding (1773-1846) mother of William Henry Fox-Talbot, and her family.
[Ref: 46450] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, and others.] Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837
Raffet 1838. Imprimé par August Bry, r du Bac 134.
Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, Boulevart des Italiens, 5. [Paris, 1838-48.]
Lithograph on chine collé, laid on original paper printed with title and inscriptions. Total printed area 320 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾") very large margins.
A group of standing officers on the deck of a boat on the Danube, including Prince Anatoly Demidov. This vignette scene was drawn by Denis Raffet and used to illustrate the titlepage of Demidov's 'Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale'. Despite being a Russian prince, Demidov (1813-70) spent much of his life in Paris, from where he financed this scientific expedition to Southern Russia, with Frenchman Denis-Auguste Raffet as the official artist.
[Ref: 48196] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Fallen but Charming Creatures.]
[after Aleksandr Lebedev.]
[St Petersburg: Pol-Peti, 1862.]
Folio, disbound, 30 numbered lithographic plates, each 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"), as called for. Hinges strained, wear to plates, especially first and last, some staining, a few plates misbound.
An extremely rare set of the first issue of 'Fallen but Charming Creatures', 30 satirical plates after Aleksandr Lebedev (1830-98) with titles written by Vsevolod Krestovsky. The scenes depict 'kamelii' (camellias), urban women who used their sex to gain advancement, in various locations including the opera. All but two have Russian titles in Cyrillic: Plate 1 has a French quote from Victor Hugo's 'Les Chants du Crèpuscule' (Hugo's 'Lady of the Camellias' was the origin of the nickname); Plate 5 has a shopkeeper talking about her assistant like one of her wares. The series with another 30 lithographs, issued separately, then 'An additional album, Another Ten Fallen but Charming Creatures' in 1863.
Colleen Lucey: ''Fallen but Charming Creatures'': The Demimondaine in Russian Literature and Visual Culture of the 1860s. (PDF available for download)
[Ref: 52504] £950.00 view all images for this item

A Democrat.
[after Robert Dighton.]
424. London: Bowles & Carver., No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard [n.d., c.1797].
Mezzotint with strong original colour.180mm x 140mm (7''x 5''). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A Jacobin brandishes a dagger titled 'fraternity' as he carrries papers on equality & assasination, Paine's Rights of Man and an illustration of a many-headed hydra. A picture of a guillotine on the wall suggests his future. American interest.
BM Satires 9103.
[Ref: 52127] £520.00

Democritus Gelasinus Abderites. Ex marmore antiquo. h.
P.P. Rubens Del.t. [engraved by John Faber snr.]
Printed for, & Sold by Tho: Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Y.d [n.d., c.1720].
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, printed in brown. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Narrow margins. Repaired tears.
A portrait of Greek philosopher Democritus (c.470 - 360BC), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65007] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Laughing Philosopher. Ha. Ha. Ha.
London Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured etching. Sheet 280 x 225mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate at sides, thread margins top and bottom.
A laughing man with a missing tooth. This is a satirical pastiche of the self-portrait ''The Young Rembrandt as Democritus the Laughing Philosopher''.
[Ref: 56332] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Democritus Gelasinus Abderites. Ex marmore antiquo. h.
P.P. Rubens Del.t. [engraved by John Faber snr.]
Printed for, & Sold by Tho: Bowles next the Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Y.d [n.d., c.1720].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins. Slight soiling.
A portrait of Greek philosopher Democritus (c.470 - 360BC), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65009] £320.00

Democritus.
Rubens delin. Blake sculp.
[Plate from Johann Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy (London, 1789), p.159].
Engraving. Sheet 225 x 175mm (9 x 7"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Democritus (c. 46 c. 370 BC) who was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe, engraved by William Blake. Democritus wrote extensively on a wide variety of topics. None of Democritus' original work has survived, except through second-hand references. Many of these references come from Aristotle, who viewed him as an important rival in the field of natural philosophy. He was known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of cheerfulness.
From Vol I of Lavater, pg. 159.
[Ref: 64221] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le Philosophe Democrite. De la Galerie du Palais Royal. Ecole Napolitaine.
Peint par Joseph Ribera. Dessine par Borel. Grave par Lorieux.
[French, c.1800.]
Engraving, sheet 245 x 175mm. 9½ x 7". Trimmed from a larger sheet, lacking text description and printed border, crease.
Democritus (c.460 BCE – c.370 BCE) was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. Known as the 'laughing philosopher', he smiles broadly. Democritus was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an atomic theory for the cosmos. Here he is placed among classical ruins in a landscape, compass in left hand and pointing at a spot on a globe with his right hand; quill pen and papers and books to left. From 'Galerie du Palais Royal', a set published between 1786 and 1808.
[Ref: 16091] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Democritus; Or, the Laughing Philosopher. This Antient Censor, with a Comic Sneer, Laugh'd at the Follies which did Then appear. Nothing displeas'd; No Object rais'd his Spleen; His Life was One Continu'd Merry Scene; But had he flourish'd in the Present Age, Our Modern Crimes had turn'd his Mirth to Rage.
A. Coypel Pinx. G: Bickham Junr. Sculp.
[n.d. c.1745.]
Engraving. 247 x 157mm. 9¾ x 6¼". Cut and laid.
Democritus (c.460-c.370BC), the Ancient Greek philosopher who was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an atomic theory for the universe.
[Ref: 27660] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Demoiselle de S.t Cyr de la 4.e Classe, portant le ruban rouge. On reconnoît son sang à l'air de son visage, Elle a de la pudeur est bien place: On en verra bien d'avantage Dans un âge plus avancé.
N. Arnoult fec. A Paris chez N. Arnoult rue de la Fromagerie a l'Image S.t Claude aux Halles. Avec priv. du Roy.
Paris [n.d. c.1684-1700].
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 280 x 170mm (11 x 6¾") very large margins. Stain in upper left corner. Mark in right margin.
A fourth class student at Maison Royale de Saint Louis boarding school for girls, holding a book and described wearing a red ribbon. The school was founded in 1684 at St. Cyr by Madame de Maintenon, the second wife of Louis XIV. Engraved by Nicolas Arnoult (c.1650-1722), who also published his own work and was a recognised specialist in fashion and costume portraits.
[Ref: 54867] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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