Grosvenor Prints

L'Empire Ottoman Danse des Derwisch Cadry
V. Raineri inc.
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Hand-coloured aquatint with large margins; publisher's blindstamp. Plate 185 x 270mm (7¼ x 10½"). Proof before title.
Dervishes in the Ottoman Empire. Published in Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario'.
[Ref: 34530] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Des Gouges Latiné Cesonius juris Utriusque Doctor, in Senatu Galliarum Principe et in Regiâ Advocatorum ordine primus, ætatis 80.a Christo nato M.DCCCXII.
peint par R. Tourniere. Gravé par J. du Vivier.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. Sheet 380 x 290mm (15 x 11½"), with 17th century watermark. Trimmed into plate top and bottom. Slight staining verso top (not visible from front).
Pierre des Gouges (1632-1715), French lawyer and politician.
[Ref: 64042] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes, Dominus De Perron, Natus Hagae Turonum, Anno. M.D.X.CVI, Ultimo Die Martii.
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper at edges.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten's important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes's greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 67723] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

René Descartes.
[After Frans Hals.] Iac. Lubin sculp.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Plate: 250 x 195mm (10 x 7¾'') large margins. Creasing.
A portrait of French mathematician, scientist and philospher René Descartes (1596-1650).
[Ref: 50914] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Renatus Descartes. Nobillis Gallus Perroni Dominus summus Mathematicus & Philosophus.
Pet: Schenk fec: et Amstelod: cum Priv: [n.d., c.1680.]
Fine & scarce mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Narrow margins.
Portrait of René Descartes (1596 - 1650), French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
[Ref: 66050] £650.00

[René Descartes] Renatus Des-Cartes, Dominus De Perron, Natus Hagae Turonum, Anno. M.D.X.CVI, Ultimo Die Martii.
Franciscus à Schooten Py Mat. ad vivum delineavit et fecit anno 1644.
[c.1644.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper.
Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes (1596 - 1650), the frontispiece of Francis van Schooten's important second edition of the 'Geometria', Descartes's greatest academic work, one of the key texts in the history of mathematics. Six lines in lower margin by 'Constantini Hugenii F.ly'.
W. 795.
[Ref: 57209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Renatus, Des, Cartes.
De Larmessin, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving. Plate 185 x 140mm. 7¼ x 5½". Glued to backing sheet.
René Descartes (1596-1650), was a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy". Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
NPG: D28641. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 20384] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Rene Des Cartes.
J. Chapman sculpsit.
London Publish'd as the Act directs July 12.th 1800 by J. Wilkes.
Stipple with large margins. Plate 160 x 109mm. 6¼ x 4¼".
René Descartes (1596-1650) the French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, who has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy". One of a number of stipple heads of Kings and Queens of similar format printed on quarto sheets, by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810. They probably appeared as illustrations to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes'.
W: 795-16.
[Ref: 27117] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Descartes.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 177 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
René Descartes (1596-1650), the French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, who is dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy".
NPG: D28640.
[Ref: 30389] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Renatus Descartes, Nobil. Gall. Perroni Dom. Summus Mathem.et Philos..
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), sitting at a desk, writing in a large volume resting on a table; books on shelf in the background
[Ref: 67865] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Renatus Descartes. Nobillis Gallus, Perroni Dominus summus Mathematicus & Philosophus.
Ornatissimis et Integerrimus fuis amicus Dominis Jacobo et Abrahamo plonque dedicat Petrus Schenck Qui Excud: Cum Privil.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Rare and fine mezzotint. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at sides. Collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (1821 - 1897).
Portrait of René Descartes (1596 - 1650), French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and is largely seen as responsible for the increased attention given to epistemology in the 17th century.
LUGT 151. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65531] £490.00

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March in the Desert.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1818.]
Rare aquatint with a pinkish wash. Sheet 220 x 270mm (8¾ x 10½"), watermarked 1818. Binding folds as normal.
A caravan of camels, including a suckling calf, with a man in European dress holding a pen and with an artist's folio under his arm.
[Ref: 50001] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Desert - Imitation of Modern Fashion!
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath, holding a wine glass]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1825].
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate on three sides, to printed border at top.
An upturned wine glass represents a woman, with the brim of a hat with grapes as decoration, the bowl her bustle.
BM Satires 15611.
[Ref: 59479] £320.00

A desert - imitation of modern fashion!
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1825].
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 355 x 240mm (14 x 9½"). Trimmed into printed border.
An upturned wine glass represents a woman, with the rim the brim of a hat with grapes as decoration, the bowl her bustle.
BM Satires 15611.
[Ref: 58276] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Infant's School Pictures No. II.
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London Published by James Nisbet, 24, Berners Street, and Edmund Fry, 73, Houndsditch. [n.d., c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 380mm. Holes to margin where pinned. Small tear from lower edge. Some soiling.
Desert animals captioned mainly of camels. From a set of educational lithographs for schools.
[Ref: 10913] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Deserted Village. Good heaven! what sorrows gloom'ed that partint day...
F. Wheatley R.A. pinxt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Publish'd May 1st. 1795 by Thos. Macklin, Poets gallery, Fleet Street.
Coloured stipple engraving. 510 x 430mm. Trimmed close to plate mark.
An illustration of the poem by Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1770, lamenting the destruction of rural life by the Industrial Revolution.
[Ref: 6572] £360.00

The Deserted Village. Good heaven! what sorrows gloom'ed that partint day..... And clasp'd them close, in sorrow doubly dear [eight lines of verse to left and right of title].
F. Wheatley R.A. pinxt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
London Publish'd May 1st. 1795 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Etching and stipple in sepia, 435 x 510mm. 17 x 20". Uncut sheet.
A family with a dog, standing sadly at the gate of their cottage, looking somberly at the village they are forced to leave through poverty; after Wheatley. Illustrates 'The Deserted Village' by Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774). Published by Thomas Macklin (c.1760 - 1800) for his series of 'British Poets', begun in 1787.
[Ref: 8893] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Deserted Village. From D.r Goldsmith. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'etops the mould'ring wall...
Published 20 March 1797, by John Fairburn 146 Mi ories London.
Coloured mezzotint, 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large top and bottom margins. Thread margins left and right.
A family lead a donkey and a dog away from ruins in the background. They stop at a sign post 'To Auburn', an old man points in that direction. Illustration of the poem 'The Deserted Village' (published in 1770) by Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774). It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth.
[Ref: 60703] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Deserter.] Alexis. Adieu, chère Louise, adieu, Ma vie étoit à toi.... je la perds, vis heureuse: C'est là mon dernier voeu.
à Augsbourg chès J.H. Haid, et fils [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 410 x 295mm (16 x 11½").
A scene from 'Le Déserteur', an opera by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and librettist Michel-Jean Sedaine, first performed 1769. Having being tricked into believing his love Louise has married someone else, Alexis deserts, expecting to be arrested and shot. Having discovered the situation, Louise manages to secure him a pardon from the king, but collapses in his cell before she can produce it. Here Alexis is about to be taken out to the firing squad. Fortunately Louise revives and rushes out to save him, the subject of the print's pair.
[Ref: 68139] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Scene from 'Le déserteur'] Alexis. Adieu, chère Louise, adieu, Ma vie étoit à toi....je la perds, vis heureuse [...]
à Augsbourg chès J.J. Haid et fils [c.1780]
Rare mezzotint, platemark 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 11¾"), with very large margins.
Scene from 'le déserteur', an opéra comique by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Michel-Jean Sedaine first performed in 1769. Copied from an engraving by A.-B. Duhamel after François Marie Isidore Queverdo, this print was published by the Augsburg-based Haid family, who mainly produced mezzotints copied from earlier prints.
[Ref: 43763] £320.00

By the King. A Proclamation, For pardoning such Deserters from his Majesty's Marine Forces as shall return into His Majesty's Service on or before the Thirty-first Day of December next.
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1796.
Broadside. Framed, window 340 x 270mm (13½ x 10¾"). Paper age-toned, time stained. Unexamined out of frame.
A proclamation offering a pardon to naval deserters during the French Revolutionary Wars, announced on the 2nd November 1796. In August that year Spain had entered the war on France's side, threatening Gibraltar and leaving the Royal Navy desperate for experienced sailors. The following year conditions on the Navy's ships led to the Spithead and Nore mutinies.
[Ref: 52123] £420.00

[Design for a frame (for a mirror?).]
C. Hullmandel's Lithography.
London. Published by R. Ackermann 101. Strand. [c.1823.]
Very scarce sepia tinted lithograph heightened in white, on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1823. Sheet 530 x 370mm, 20¾ x 14½". Tatty extremities.
An ornately-carved, probably gilt, frame, featuring grapes and vines and figures from classical mythology; two griffons above. Presumably from a Furniture makers pattern book.
See Ref: 20969
[Ref: 15698] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Design for Monument.]
M. Wyatt Inv.t et Sculp.t
London. Pub.d by M. Wyatt Feby. 1. 1821, Henrietta St. Cavendish Squ.e
Engraving. Plate 222 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Scuffing and soiling; creasing and folds. Scruffy.
A proof engraving, of Georgian sculptor Matthew Cotes Wyatt's design for a memorial sculpture to George III. It represents the king in Roman dress, with sceptre and orb, in a carriage with horses trampling a many headed dragon. Although the design was much praised, its subscription failed in part because of the intended positioning of the statue at Waterloo Place where a statue of the Duke of York would have had its back to George III. Wyatt, son of the architect, James Wyatt, studied at the Royal Academy, and, through the influence of his father, worked on interiors for the king and queen at Windsor Castle. He designed a monument to Nelson in Liverpool and a much admired marble cenotaph for Princess Charlotte. In place of this unrealised design, Wyatt created a more modest bronze equestrian statue of the king now at Pall Mall East.
[Ref: 52395] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Design for Skating Rink. Mr. G. Mallinson, Architect, Leeds and Dewsbury.
Photo-Lithographed & Printed at The Guardian Printing Works, Manchester. [1877.]
Photolithograph, illustration from the British Architect and Northern Engineer, January 12th, 1877. Sheet 365 x 250mm, 14¼ x 9¾".
An indoor skating rink.
[Ref: 15037] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Design featuring children and winged putti.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving and etching with contemporary watercolour and bodycolour, on green wove paper, 110 x 180mm. Light soiling.
A decorative neo-classical design, featuring children and cupids around a flaming sacrificial altar. Possibly for an interior wall panel or porcelain. Heightened with gold and white and set into an attractive frame.
[Ref: 8094] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Diférentes Compositions gravé par Ph. L. Parizeau D'apres Les Dessins De L F La Rue.
L La Rue inv. Ph. L. Parizeau Sculp. 1770.
a Paris chez Parizeau graveur rue des fossez 177. Le Prince maison Du Riche La Boureur a Paris. [n.d., c.1770.]
Etching, 120 x 110mm (5 x 4½").
Two winged figures carrying an oval. One of a series of designs by Louis Félix de la Rue (1731-65) subsequently engraved by Philippe Louis Parizeau (1740-1801).
In BM.
[Ref: 14913] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Desire with Hope.
Pub. June 4. 1810, by Edw.d Orme, London.
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"), with large margins.
A man looks greedily at a bottle of wine held by a second man.
[Ref: 42629] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Desires satisfied] Les Desirs satisfaits. Dédié et Présenté a Monsieur de Damery Chevalier de l'Ordre Militaire de St. Louis [...]
Inventé et Dessiné par Charles Eisen. Gravé par Patas 1772
Avec Privilege du Roi. AParis chez Henault et Rapilly, rue St Jacques a la Croix de Lorraine/
Engraving, sheet 395 x 270mm (15½ x 10¼). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Post-coital scene (probably issued as pair with ref. 44961). Engraved 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: 44962] £520.00

Charlote Desmares.
Lepicie Sculp 1733.
A Paris chez Louis Surugue graveur du Rue des Noyers...[imprint faint]. Avec privilege du Roy.
Engraving, laid paper. Unclear collector's stamp on verso. Image 405 x 285mm. 16 x 11¼". Cut to image, slight stain.
Portrait of French actress and comedienne Christine Antoinette Charlotte Desmares (1682 - 1753); in oval masonry fame on a pedestal lettered with four-line tribute. She is in costume, holding dagger and comic mask in left hand. Two collector's stamps to verso. After Charles Antoine Coypel (1694 - 1752).
[Ref: 23459] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

N.as Desmarest (Géologiste,) Membre de l’Académie des Sciences, Né à Soulaine (Aube ) le 16 Septembre 1725. Mort à Paris le 28 Septembre 1815.
Dessiné d’après le Dessin original comminque para M. son Fils, par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Slight foxing.
Nicolas Desmarest (1725-1815) the French geologist. In 1763 he made observations in Auvergne, recognising that prismatic basalts were old lava streams, comparing them with the columns on the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and referring them to the operations of extinct volcanoes.
W: 800. See Ref: 29595 for a portrait of his father.
[Ref: 29594] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Anselme Gaetan Desmarest (Zoologiste), Membre correspondant de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, Professeur à l’Ecole-vétérinaire d’Alfort, Membre titulaire de l’Académie royale de Médecine &a. Né à Paris le 6 Mars 1784.
Dessiné d’après Nature en 1826 et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 214 x 151mm (8½ x 6"). Slight foxing.
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784-1838) the French zoologist and author. In 1815 he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort. In 1820 he was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
W: 799. See Ref: 29594 for a portrait of his father.
[Ref: 29595] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Christmas Harbour, on Kerguelen's Land.
[after John Webber, c.1810]
Aquatint, rare; platemark 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼").
Christmas Harbour in the Kerguelen Islands (also known as Desolation Islands) in the Southern Indian Ocean. Over 2000 miles from the nearest populated location, the islands are amongst the most isolated places on earth, with no indigenous inhabitants but a small population of scientists and engineers. Derived from an engraving after John Webber which published in Cook's 'Voyage to the Pacific' (1784).
Not in abbey.
[Ref: 33771] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Philippus Despont Presbyter Parisiensis, Et in sacra Theologia Romana Doctor. ætatis Suæ 73.
Jacobus Van Schuppen ad viuum pinxit. Pet. Van Schuppen Sculspit 1694.
Engraving, with large margins. 385 x 280mm, 15 x 11".
Philippe Despont, a Parisian doctor of theology, shown seated in front of a huge theological text, Despont completed.Marguerin La Bigne's 'Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, et antiquorum scriptorum ecclesiasticorum...', a 27-volume compiliation of ancient and early medieval ecclesiastical authors.
[Ref: 27190] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

E. Jahandier Desrochers. Graveur du Roi et de son Academies de Peinture et Sculpture né à Lyon. Il fut gratifié de sa Majesté Imperiale d'une Médaille d'or en 1723 et d'une Prince de Hesse d'Amrstadt en 1726.
Desrochers sc ipse sculp 1727.
Engraving. Plate: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4''), with very large margins.
A portrait of the engraver Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers holding a volume (1668-1741) from his own series of small engravings.
[Ref: 48267] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Antoine-François Desrues, Rompu et Brûle vif, par Arrêt du Parlement, à Paris le 6 Mai, 1777, âgé de 32 ans et demi.
[n.d., c.1777.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 175mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Antoine François Desrues (1744-77) poisoned Madame de la Motte and her teenaged son, then forged a receipt for the purchase of her country estate. Convicted and still maintaining his innocence, he was tortured in an attempt to get his to admit his guilt, before being broken with an iron bar and burned alive.
[Ref: 62097] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Destroyers in convoy.]
[Pencil signature:] Frank H. Mason.
[n.d. c.1939.]
Etching. 190 x 388mm. 7½ x 15½".
British Naval vessels at sea, the coastline visible in the backgroud, a harbour marker buoy in the centre foreground. Frank Henry Mason (1876 - 1965) was a cadet on HMS Conway. Having served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, Mason became a war artist, with several such images held at the Imperial War Museum. Between the wars he became a full-time artist, working as an illustrator, a poster artist for railway companies, and supplying posters and postcards for shipping companies. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929. Mason illustrated the book North Sea Fishers and Fighters in 1911, and was a 'significant artist of marine and coastal scenes, as well as an illustrator of shipping books'.
[Ref: 17985] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Figures menaced by snake in foreground; army advancing middle-ground and ships destroyed by a storm in background]
EC [ms below image]
[c.1680]
Engraving, sheet 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"). Trimmed; glued to album sheet at margins. Collector's mark of P.H. Lankrink lower left. Loss top right & bottom
Engraving formerly in the collection of Prosper Henry Lankrink (1628-92), painter and collector. In addition to his own practice Lankrink worked in the studio of Sir Peter Lely, Charles II's principal painter, where he was employed to paint flowers, ornaments, landscape backgrounds, and occasionally draperies. After Lely's death, Lankrink helped organise the sale of the contents of Lely's studio, purchasing many items for himself. Unfortunately Lankrink's taste for collecting led him to incur debts he was unable to repay during his lifetime, and as a result after his own death, his collection was sold off in order to repay his creditors.
L.2090
[Ref: 46003] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Painted by E. Lambert. Engraved by G.S. Sanders.
[London, Published July 12, 1836, by the Proprietor, 14, Dalston Rise, Near Hackney, and to be had of Mess,,rs Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.]
Rare mezzotint with engraving, proof before publication line. 315 x 420mm (12½ x 16½").
The Romans rampage through Jerusalem at night, the defenders firing down from balconies. In a gap in the clouds the silhouettes of the Roman gods can be seen in the moonlight.
[Ref: 55635] £380.00

The Detection.
H. Wigstead. [Etched by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[Published by S.W. Fores, 1796.]
Fine hand-coloured etching, Collector's mark M.W. Sheet: 240 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼''). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A scene in a drawing room, in which an old man sleeps in his chair before the fire, behind him a young couple sit next to each other on a piano, from the other side of the room a woman wake up and spots the lovers.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 51063] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools. Particularly Rembrandt, Ostade, Conelius Bega and Van Vliet Accompanied with Sundry Miscellaneous Pieces and A Few Designs by Dav.d Deuchar Seal Engraver, Edinburgh. Dec,r 22 1803.
1 vol. of 3, original green morocco gilt; 136 etchings on 101 pages. Some scuffing of binding, bookplate of John Cheesment Severn on front pastedown.
Etchings by David Deuchar (1743–1808), seal engraver to George, Prince of Wales, in Edinburgh.
[Ref: 54926] £950.00 view all images for this item

L'Ancien Ami du Jeune homme, ou Le Secret de la Comédie. Ton bonheur, tes succes sont mes plus grand supplices. Legouve, Mort d'Abel, Trag.
[n.d. c.1812]
Fineley hand coloured etching sheet 245 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A caricature relating to the “Deux Gendres” affair. A dispute between Jean-Antoine Lebrun-Tossa (1760-1837) and a Mr Etienne.
[Ref: 63072] £420.00

Dev'lish Cold.
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver. No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d, 1790].
Mezzotint, 150 x 115mm.
Plate 396.
[Ref: 766] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus A Deventer, Med: Doct. Manet Post Funera Verum.
T: v.d. Wilt Pinx: P: Bouttats fct.
[n.d. c.1680.]
A rare engraving. 216 x 146mm. 8½ x 5¾". Trimmed to the image. Burn mark to top left-hand corner.
Hendrik van Deventer (1651-1724) a renowned Dutch obstertrician. He started life training as a goldsmith until 1679, when he became a surgeon and started in practice as a man-midwife. In 1688 he went to Copenhagen to see some orthopaedic demonstrations, during which he was asked to treat the conditions of two of the King of Denmark's children. He later combined orthopaedics with obstetrics. He was one of the first obstetricians to focus on the function and disfunction of a bony pelvis understanding and talking about the 'mechanisms' and how one had to adopt a mechanistic approach to labour.
W: 803-1.
[Ref: 18651] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus a Deventer, Med: Doct.
T: v.d. Wilt.Pinx: P: Bouttats sc.
Engraving, small margins. Plate 203 x 146mm (8 x 5¾"). Crease and two repaired wormholes.
Hendrik van Deventer (1651-1724) a renowned Dutch obstertrician. He started life training as a goldsmith until 1679, when he became a surgeon and started in practice as a man-midwife. In 1688 he went to Copenhagen to see some orthopaedic demonstrations, during which he was asked to treat the conditions of two of the King of Denmark's children. He later combined orthopaedics with obstetrics. He was one of the first obstetricians to focus on the function and disfunction of a bony pelvis understanding and talking about the 'mechanisms' and how one had to adopt a mechanistic approach to labour
W: 803. See Ref: 18651 for W: 803-1.
[Ref: 31069] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Devereux Earle of Essex / Sir Humphrey Gilbert Kt / Mr Thomas Candish / Sir Martin Frobisher Kt
M. V.r Gucht Sculpt
[n..d., c.1730]
Engraving, sheet 395 x 235mm (15½ x 9¼").
Portrait group with an emphasis on Elizabethan exploration, showing: Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex (1565-1601), soldier and politician; Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-83), explorer and soldier; Thomas Candish (bap.1560-d.1592), explorer; and Martin Frobisher (1535?-94), privateer, explorer and naval commander.
[Ref: 37035] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Earle of Essex his Excellence Lord Generall of the Parli:mts Army etc: lately deceased.
[illegible.] [n.d. c.1700.]
Engraving. 129 x 76mm (5 x 3").
Robert Devereux (1591-1646) 3rd Earl of Essex, the English Parliamentarian and soldier. During the English Civil War he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also know as the Roundheads.
[Ref: 31099] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Robert D'Evreux Ct. D'Essex. General Anglois,
d'apres Wendervers.
A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune rue St. Victor. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 277 x 167mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 1998] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Devereux, Earle of Essex, His Excellency, etc. Generall of ye. Army, [in plate] W. Hollar fecit.
Etching. Sheet 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper. Large margins with minor toning around edges.
Robert Devereux (1591-1646) third Earl of Essex. He served as a Parliamentarian soldier during the Civil War, but resigned in 1646 having been overshadowed by Cromwell and Fairfax. He died from a stroke later that year.
P 1401 ii P. Stent excudit variant state
[Ref: 53730] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The First Day of Term - or, The Devil among the Lawyers. The Lawyers are met, a terrible shew. 625.
[After Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1780.]
Hand coloured mezzotint, 350 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with margins. Some surface dirt, laid on card, tear on bottom edge.
The Devil stands scattering lucrative briefs among a crowd of lawyers, while in the foreground an elderly man hands over gold coins to another lawyer who accepts the case of 'Gaffer Flatscull agt. Ralph Clodpole'. A packet of papers wrapped in red tape and lettered 'Began in 1699 not yet finished In Chancery' lies on the ground.
BM Satires: 3764.
[Ref: 59068] £450.00

The State Hackney Coach. They go fast whom the devil drives.
[n.d., c.1773].
Engraving 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on bottom and indent into plate. Small top margin.
Satire on the corruption of politics. From the 'London Magazine', xli. 589. It illustrates 'A Dialogue between a Politician and a Chinese'. A richly carved glass-coach is being driven on a road which leads past buildings to the Tower of London. Inside King George III leans back fast asleep. At the back stands a devil wielding the reins attached to a bit in the mouth of the coachman (Lord North) his other hand whips him with a long lash. North controls the eight running ministers who power the coach; the leader of which is characterised with a foxes head which could be Lord Holland or perhaps Charles Fox and the other identifiable minister is Jeremiah Dyson as he was often characatured as a black man because he was given the nickname 'Mungo' (the black slave in Isaac Bickerstaffe's The Padlock) by Isaac Barré.
BM 5098
[Ref: 55992] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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