Grosvenor Prints

Cacophanie.
Peint par A. Weisz. Gravé par Paul Giradet.
Berlin - Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé et Publié par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre 1878 - Paris - Londres - La Haye. New York - Published by M. Knoedler.
Mixed-method engraving. 550 x 440mm (21¾ x 17¼"), with wide margins. Spotting in margins.
An elegant interior with a woman putting her fingers in her ears to block the noise coming from the bewigged man playing the cello. To one side is a umbrella yarn swift.
[Ref: 54282] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Harmonie..
Peint par A. Weisz. Gravé par Paul Giradet.
Berlin - Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé et Publié par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre 1878 - Paris - Londres - La Haye. New York - Published by M. Knoedler.
Mixed-method engraving. 550 x 440mm (21¾ x 17¼"). Tear in margin taped.
A man stands by an open window, in 18th century embroidered waist coat, playing a violin as his mother sits listening with hands clasped. A caged bird hangs in the window. A spinning wheel sits by the mother's side.
[Ref: 54283] £350.00

M.r John Napier. A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod; ~ An Honest Man's the noblest Work of God. Pope.
J. Millar pinx.t. J. Lodge sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 10.th June 1774, by John Lodge Red Lion Court, next N.o 43 Shoe Lane Holborn. London.
Rare stipple and line engraving. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Some creasing in both left and bottom right corners. Creasing throught the title area.
A half length portrait of John Napier, Master of St Andrew's Workhouse, Holborn.
[Ref: 54128] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

To the British Navy, This Print representing The Battle of Navarino, is respectfully dedicated by the Publisher.
Peint par C. Langlois. Commencé par S.W. Reynolds et Terminé par Sixdeniers.
London, Published by W.Spooner 259 Regent Street. à Paris chez Schroth, Editeur rué St Honoré Nos 363 bis. New York published by Bailly Ward & Co. Jeune.[n.d. c.1830.]
Mezzotint with stipple and etching. 610 x 800mm (24 x 31½"). Repaired tears.
A scene of the Battle of Navarino (20 October 1827), with the wreck of a ship in the foreground, with turkish sailors clinging to the wreckage, one in the centre stepping up onto the side over a gun-port, looking to the left.
Whitman 397.
[Ref: 54273] £1,500.00

Out of Work.
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by the Rev.d T. Kilby Printed by T. H. Skelton, Southampton.
Southampton, [n.d. after 1820]
Rare lithograph on india paper; 250 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). Slightly messy.
A three quarter length portrait of a gaunt looking man, right inclined.
[Ref: 54118] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Parable of the Unforgiving Servant] Dominus servo suo debitum decies mille Talentorum condonat. Matt. 18.23.
[Engraved by Gerard de Jode?]
CJVisscher excudit [Amsterdam, c.1643].
Engraving. 195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9¾"), with wide margins. Slight tear at top.
A scene from the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, with the king forgiving his huge debt. This plate was probably engraved by Gerard de Jode for his 'Thesaurus Novi Testamenti', 1585. This second state was published in Clanz Janz. Visscher's reissue, 'Theatrum Biblicum'.
[Ref: 54146] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ambroise Paré] In Effigiem Ambrosii Paraei. Anno Aetatis 68. Humanam Ambrosii vere haec pictura Paraei Effigiem, sed opus continet... Ioan. Heroaldus.
[n.d. c.1694.]
Woodcut and letterpress. 305 x 210mm (12 x 8¼"). Trimmed into decorative woodcut on reverse.
Frontispiece to a catalogue of the complete surgical works of Ambroise Paré (1510-90), royal surgeon to kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.
[Ref: 20646] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Partridges.
Drawn by Amos Green. Engraved by R.d Earlom.
London, Published July 1st 1824 by Z. Sweet, 38 Chancerry Lane.
Fine & Rare chine-collé mezzotint. 405 x 470mm (15¾ x 18½").
A partridge family surrounded by ferns in woodlands. An unusual early example of the chine-collé technique, still using laid paper for the print surface. The image area is larger than the upper paper, so some of the print is on the backing paper. The date of publication is two years after the death of the engraver, Richard Earlom.
[Ref: 53583] £580.00

[Peat Cart] Plate 27.
Geo. Walker Del.t. Engraved by R. Havell.
Publish'd by Robinson & Son, Leeds, June 1. 1814.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15"), with wide margins.
One man stands at a cart as another man cuts peat on a hillside. From George Walker’s 'The costume of Yorkshire' published in 1814, containing forty-one coloured aquatint plates based upon the author’s original drawings of social and economic scenes in Yorkshire.
[Ref: 54265] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the Province of Pensylvania in North America 1681. To the Proprietaries of the Province of Pensylvania, &c. &c. This Print, Engraved from the Original Painting belonging to the late Thomas Penn Esquire, Is respectfully Inscribed by Their obedient humble Servant John Boydell.
Benj: West pinxit. John Hall sculpsit.
Published, June 12th. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 485 x 615mm (19 x 24¼"). Repairs to edges.
William Penn's (1644 - 1718) 'Great Treaty' was reputedly signed with Delaware Indian leaders in 1682 under an ancient elm tree at the village of Shackamaxon, located in what are now the borders of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This highly detailed depiction of the event, shows Penn in the centre left, with his arms open, his entourage beside him, two of his men kneeling, offering gifts to the Indians who are assembled at the right. Buildings in construction can be seen behind at the left, with boats on the sea at right. The painting by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820), who was born in Pennsylvania, is now in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. West was the first American-born artist to receive international recognition and remains one of the most important eighteenth-century painters of historical scenes. He enjoyed a career that endured more than half a century that included serving as president of the Royal Academy. William Penn, quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, was the first great hero of American liberty. During the late seventeenth century, Penn established an American sanctuary which protected freedom of conscience. Almost everywhere else, colonists stole land from the Indians, but Penn travelled unarmed among the Indians and negotiated peaceful purchases. He insisted that women deserved equal rights with men. He gave Pennsylvania a written constitution which limited the power of government, provided a humane penal code, and guaranteed many fundamental liberties. For the first time in modern history, a large society offered equal rights to people of different races and religions. Penn's dramatic example caused quite a stir in Europe. The French philosopher Voltaire, a champion of religious toleration, offered lavish praise. 'William Penn might, with reason, boast of having brought down upon earth the Golden Age, which in all probability, never had any real existence but in his dominions'.
[Ref: 54272] £690.00

Druidis Britanni Effigies. Clarisimmo Dignissimoq Viro Dnó Godfrido Kneller, de Whitton in Agro Middlesexæ, Sacri Romani Impery Militi... Hac Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). With small margins. Small tear in left margin. Pinholes in margins.
A bearded British Druid stands within a vast plain with just a thatched building in the distance to the right. He wears a cloak, holds a staff and a book, a shoulder bag sits at his hip. A coat of arms below image. Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.25, page 94).
[Ref: 54003] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Britanni Veteris Icon. Dignissimo, Spectatissimoq. Viro Edwardo Nicholas Armigero Filio natu maximo et...Hac Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). With small margins. Pinholes in margins.
An dedicant of the God Veteris stands overlooking a port and clusters of buildings off into the distance. He wears a robe and sandals. He holds a staff in his right hand and places his left on his hip. A coat of arms below image. Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.26, page 95).
[Ref: 54052] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vir Britannus Pictus. Nobilissimo et Honoratissimo Dnó Dnó Thomæ Vice-comiti Vimuty & Baroni Thynne de Warmister.. Hæc Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). Repaired tears and two pinholes in margins. Small margins.
A British Pict warrior standing to front on a hill, naked, tattoed holding spear and a severed head at his feet with another in his right hand and a shield in the left . A coat of arms below image.Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.28, page 98).
BM 1857,0214.427
[Ref: 53958] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fæmina Britanna Picta Viro Spectatissimo Johanni Hanbury de in Comitatu Glocestrice Armigero.Hac Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). With small margins. Pinholes in margins.
A tattoed female warrior stands with a fortress, harbour and buildings off into the distance. She wears nothing except a necklace and a belt at her waist that holds a scimitar in a scabbard which falls at her hip. She holds a singular spear in her right hand and carries two more in her left. A coat of arms below image. Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.29, page 100).
[Ref: 54006] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vir Britannus Pictis Vicinus. Viro Generosissimo Thomæ Maule Armigero, Excellentissimo Principi Georgio nuper Daniæ et Norwegiæ Principi Hæreditario Cubiculariorum uno. Hæc Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). Repaired tears and two pinholes in margins. Small margins.
A British Pict warrior standing to front on a hill, wearing a belted tunic holding spear, with a scimitar and shield at his waist. A coat of arms below image. Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.31, page 104).
[Ref: 53957] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Fæmina Britanna Pictis Vicina. Nobilissimo et Generosissimo Viro, Domino Thomas Hanmer de Hanmer in Agro Hintensi... Hac Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). With small margins. Small tears and pinholes in margins.
A female warrior stands on top of a hill overlooking a farm. She wears a tunic that exposes her breasts and a belt at her waist that holds a scimitar in a scabbard, which falls at her hip, where she rests her left hand. In her other hand she holds a spear. A coat of arms below image. Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.32, page 106).
[Ref: 54004] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Chatham is represented holding the Cap of Liberty [...] The leading Ideas in this Design are evidently these - Lord Chatham's Care of the Libert of his Country [...]
John Bacon Inv.t F. Bartolozzi Etch'd.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov. 12. 1779.
Etching. 350 x 220mm (13¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper. Minor toning.
A portrait of William Pitt the Elder (1708-1778), 1st Earl of Chatham, styled in full Roman dress. Pitt's figure is surrounded by three allegorical female figures and four children. Pitt served as prime minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768; he was well regarded by his contemporaries and is ranked highly by historians in comparison with other prime ministers. He was lauded particularly for his leadership during the Seven Years War and his commitment to empire and expansionism.
[Ref: 54078] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

John Pounds, late of St Mary Street Portsmouth. who while making an honest substance by Mending Shoes was also School-Master, Gratuitouslyly, to some hundreds of the Childeren of his poor Neighbours. Born 17 June 1766 _ Died 1 January 1839, Aged 72.
Drawn on Stone by W. Mitchell, from the Original Painting by H.S. Sheaf, in the possession of E. Carter Esq.r.
Printed & Published by W.H. Charpentier, Artists' Repository 50, High Street, Portsmouth. [n.d., 1839.]
Fine & rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 435 x 315mm (17 x 12½"). Trimmed to image. Some distortion and toning to the page.
Apprenticed as a shipwright in the Portsmouth dockyard, Pounds was still a teenager when he fell into a dry dock, leaving him with permanent, crippling injuries. He became a cobbler, but while he worked he would give the poor and homeless children the basics of education. He would entice them in with hot baked potatoes, sometimes having as many as 40 children in his fourteen by eighteen feet workshop, as illustrated here. Thomas Guthrie (often credited with the creation of Ragged Schools) wrote his 'Plea for Ragged Schools' in 1847, proclaiming John Pounds as the originator of the idea. The 'Gentleman's Magazine' obituary of Pounds was published in February 1840, in which this print was described.
See Ref: 46400 for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 54072] £360.00

Praise
Painted by R. M. Paye. Engraved by W. Ward.
London publish'd May 12th 1785 by J. R. Smith N.o 83 Oxford Street.
Stipple. 255 x 225mm (10 x 8¾"), with large margins. Some creasing at the corner. A little discolouration.
An angel reading intently from an open book, in an oval design. Appears to be a pair with 'Praise' by William Nutter (After Paye), published by John Raphael Smith (1785).
[Ref: 54113] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Preemer Boy]
Geo. Walker Del. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Publish'd by Robinson & Son, Leeds, Jan.y 1. 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with sheet of letterpress. Trimmed inside platemark.
A boy sitting on a flagstone floor, using a metal toothed comb to remove the flocks of wool from the teasels discarded by the two croppers working on a bench behind. From George Walker’s 'The costume of Yorkshire' published in 1814, containing forty-one coloured aquatint plates based upon the author’s original drawings of social and economic scenes in Yorkshire.
[Ref: 54262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pretty Miss, playing with Puppies.
155 Printed for Carington Bowles, N.o 69 in S.t Paul's Yard, London.
London [n.d.]
Coloured engraving. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with wide margins. Some toning in the margins.
A well dressed young woman holding two puppies.
[Ref: 54084] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Predicazione de' Quacheri. Tom. XII
[n.d. c.1744].
Engraving. 185 x 210mm (7¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed on top, right and bottom sides. Vertical creases as issued.
A scene depicting a congregation of Quakers, with a central figure preaching to the meeting. The meeting is largely attended by simply dressed men and women wearing either hats or head coverings, however in the lower left corner is a group of three elaborately dressed people, two women and a man, who seem to be expressing shock. The three clearly aristocratic figures may be illustrating the radical attitude of Quakers, who refused to follow the social traditions expected of the lower echelons of society. For example, in accordance with their view on equality they would not remove headware in the presence of upper classes, as here, nor would they address anyone by their earthly titles, or follow socially accepted forms of address.
[Ref: 54091] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A Quartette in Character.
[Paul Pry] Esq.
Pub May 1829 by T McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Prys Original Caricatures.
Hand-coloured etching. 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed
The quartet of mail-coach characters are (l-r): King George IV, his Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington, George's mistress Lady Conyngham, and Home Secretary Robert Peel (a cage of rats in his left hand).
BM Satires: 15746.
[Ref: 54076] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Raphael's Prophetic Messenger Almanack 1839. Hieroglyphic for the eventful year 1839. Herin the Aspect of the Heavens learn / And of the times the mystic Signs discern.
London Published by William Charlton Wright 4 Paternoster Row.
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 230 x 265mm (9 x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, binding folds flattened. Creasing as normal.
Nine vignette scenes of 'events' forefold for 1839. In the centre is Queen Victoria receiving a deputation of the poor, as arms houses are being built behind. Other scenes include a man entering a bank with money bags; lawyers being stoned by a mob; rural victims of a plague; highwaymen killing travellers; a blacksmith's forge with a locomotive in the background; and a skeleton raising a bottle in toast at a dinner party.
See BM 1902,1011.9731 for one from the series dated 1863.
[Ref: 54150] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[WITH SIGNATURE OF THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND] A Daily Report of the Progress made in the Equipment of His Majesty's [Ship Rattlesnake, Rio de Janeiro] Captain [William Hobson] the [15th] of [May] 18[35]. [W.Hobson Captain].
[1835.]
Letterpress form with ink mss, scarce. Sheet 170 x 410mm (6¾ x 16"). Creases.
A daily ship's report form signed by the captain of HMS Rattlesnake (1822), William Hobson (1792-1842), during its voyage to join the Far East squadron in Australia. Arriving in Australia in August 1836, Hobson and his officers thoroughly surveyed Port Phillip as part of the founding of the colony that is now Melbourne. In May 1837 the Rattlesnake sailed to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, to help the British Resident deal with a Maori tribal war. Back in England in 1838 Hobson proposed establishing British sovereignty in New Zealand; returning in 1840 he drafted the Treaty of Waitangi and became first governor of the British colony 1841. He died of a stroke the following year.
[Ref: 54176] £650.00 view all images for this item

Mamma, Don't Make Me Beg in Vain; / Pray Read That Pretty Book Again. [&] [A seated woman holding a book, speaking to a child.]
[Mamma inscribed] [Ada]m Buck Delin.t. M.N. Bate Sc[...]
London, Pub. April 15th, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Pair of rare stipple, printed in colours. Sheets 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾") & 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Mamma trimmed into image at sides affecting inscriptions, into plate top and bottom, second trimmed, losing title and inscriptions.
A pair of scenes of a woman dressed in neoclassical style a child begging to be read to. The woman resembles Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852), mistress of Frederick, Duke of York, whose portrait was published by Buck in 1810. The original watercolour of 'Mamma' is in an album the Victoria and Albert Museum.
V&A: P.69-1930.
[Ref: 54182] £320.00 view all images for this item

[A View from Richmond Hill.]
[T.C. Hofland Pinxit. Cha.s Heath Sculpsit.]
[Published Aug.t 1. 1823, by T.C. Hofland, 23, Newman Street, Oxford Street, & Mess.rs Hurst, Robinson & Co. Cheapside, London.]
Etching and engraving on india, proof before all letters. Image 350 x 525mm (13¾ x 20¾"). Slight warping of india paper.
View of the River Thames from Richmond Hill, looking down on Petersham Meadows, Ham House, Marble Hill and Twickenham.
[Ref: 9454] £420.00

Roger, role de Scopetto dans La Sirene. Galerie Dramatique / Theatre Royal De l'Opera Comique / Acte 3.
Imp. J. Rigoet et C.ier. Richer 7. 63. Paris, Maison Martinet, Hautecoeur Freres, rue du Coq. 15.
Paris [n.d. 1844].
Hand coloured lithograph. 275 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾").
A colour portrait of Gustave-Hippolyte Roger in full costume as his character Scopetto in La Sirene, written by Daniel Auber and Eugene Scribe and first performed in 1844.
[Ref: 54088] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Whole Russian Empire. The European Part of the Russian Empire With the Several Countries that are the Theatre of the Present War between the Turks and the Russians, from D'Anville's maps. [&] The Asiatic Part of the Russian Empire with the adjacent Coast of North America from D'Anville's Map.
London Printed for R. Sayer Map & Printseller No 53 Fleet Street. Published as the Act directs 2.d March 1772.
Engraved map on two sheets conjoined, as issued, with original hand colour. 18th century watermark, Total 490 1280mm (19¼ x 50½"), with wide margins. Crack on binding fold taped.
A two-sheet map of the Russian Empire, each with its own title, but with a joint title across the two sheets. It shows from Poland (which was partitioned by Russia, Prussian and Austria later in the year) and the Balkans east to Kamchatka and the Kuriles. What the map calls the 'adjacent coast of North America' is an amorphous peninsula stretching under the eastern limit of the Asian coastline. In the Pacific are many large islands, including Schouten's mythical 'Company's Land' and the confused Jesso/Hokkaido.
[Ref: 54166] £480.00 view all images for this item

[Collection of four ink mss. sailing directions, three ink sketches and a pencil sketch, from the collection of Sir Graham Hamond.]
[Various dates, 1815-1854.]
8 sheets, various hands, largest 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Some staining.
The sailing directions relate to the work of Trinity House (the institution in charge of Britain's lighthouses) on navigational buoys. One sheet, bearing their address as sender and dated 28th August 1815, describes two buoys near Selsey Bill; the same text was published by Trinity House on 23rd May 1818 and recorded in Norie's 'New and complete sailing directions for the east coast of England'. The ink sketches (in the same hand) detail parts of a wooden ship. The pencil sketch, signed '[**] Hammond Dec. 30 /54', depicts two ships under sail with a town in the background. From the collection of Sir Graham Hamond (1779-1862), a Royal Naval officer who appears in Mather Brown's painting of the Battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), at which he served as a young midshipman. He continued to serve throughout the Napoleonic wars, including the Battle of Copenhagen and the siege of French-held Malta. He died less than a month after being promoted to full admiral.
[Ref: 54217] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The Infant Samuel.]
[after Sir Joshua Reynolds.]
[London: Samuel Knight? c.1823.]
Stipple. Proof before all letters. 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Thread margins.
An oval depicting the prophet Samuel as a boy, wearing a shift, kneeling as he says his prayers, beams of light landing on his face. The BM has a larger plate, engraved by George Maile and published by Knight, which they title 'Hallowed be thy Name'. The original oil, painted c.1776, is in the Tate Gallery.
Tate Gallery N00162.
[Ref: 54186] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Scotch Reel.
Publish'd 26. Aug.t 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching with stipple, with hand colour. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9¾"), with large margins. Tear in margin., small patch of paper glue just over top platemark.
Two kilted men dance with ladies outside, a bagpiper seated to the right.
[Ref: 54159] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sheffield Cuttler] Plate 39.
Geo. Walker Del.t. Engraved by R. Havell.
Publish'd by Robinson & Son, Leeds, June 1. 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint. 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'.
Four men standing at benches, hammering cutlery into shape. From George Walker’s 'The costume of Yorkshire' published in 1814, containing forty-one coloured aquatint plates based upon the author’s original drawings of social and economic scenes in Yorkshire.
[Ref: 54264] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of Sydney. S.r Philip Sidney mortally wounded (the victorious) at the battle of Zutphen; being extremely thirsty, asked for water, but as he was going to drink it, he saw a poor wounded Soldier half expiring, casting up a wishful look to it; instantly without tasting it, he gave it to him, saying, here honest fellow take it, thy wants are greater than mine.
GCarter pinxit. J. Jones fecit.
London Publish'd as the Act Directs Oct.r 21, 1782 by Gcarter Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint, Sheet 485 x 620mm (19 x 24½"). Trimmed to plate.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), poet and courtier, was shot in the thigh fighting the Spanish at the Battle of Zutphen (22nd September 1586), dying of gangrene three weeks later. Interred in the Old St. Paul's Cathedral, his grave was lost in the Great Fire of 1666.
[Ref: 54256] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Sleepy Maid.
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit. Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.o 53 in Fleet Street.
London, [n.d.].
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with margins.
A maid nodding off as she darns a piece of clothing.
[Ref: 54083] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Ruderae Ecclesiae Cathedraelis Sancti Andreae. The Ruins of the Cathedrall of St. Andrews. This plate w.th the following Wiews of ye Cathedralls are most humbly Inscribed to the Right Reverend Fath in God William L.d Bishop of Carlyle Lord Almoner to His Majestie. 61.
[after John Slezer.]
[n.d. c.1728.]
Coloured engraving. 260 x 430mm (10¼ x 17"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
The Cathedral of St. Andrew was built in 1158; in 1559, during the Scottish Reformation, the building was stripped of its altars and images; and by 1561 it had been abandoned and left to fall into ruin. From 'Theatrum Scotiae' by John Slezer, first printed in 1693. This issue has '61' added to the sky top right.
[Ref: 54268] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Earle of Derby.
P. Lelÿ pinxit.
R.Tompson excudit. [n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed to plate and laid on album paper. Light stains in the title area and paper.
William Richard George Stanley (c. 1655-1702), Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire 1676-1687 and 1688-1701, and of Cheshire 1676-1687.
CS: Tompson 13, II of III.
[Ref: 54077] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Stone-Breakers on the Road] Plate 7.
Geo. Walker Del. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Publish'd by Robinson & Son, Leeds, Sept 1. 1813.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1811', with sheet of letterpress, with wide margins.
Thee men working with shovel, pick and wheelbarrow, breaking down rocks to repair roads. From George Walker’s 'The costume of Yorkshire' published in 1814, containing forty-one coloured aquatint plates based upon the author’s original drawings of social and economic scenes in Yorkshire.
[Ref: 54263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Stothard Esq.r R.A.
G.H. Harlow Pinx.t. W.H. Worthington Sculp.t.
Published May 1. 1818, by W.H. Worthington, 15, Compton Street, Brunswick Square.
Fine engraving. 345 x 300mm (13½ x 11¾''), with small margins. Foxing on the reverse.
A fine half-length portrait of painter and engraver Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), on the wall behind is part of Stothard's work 'The Pilgrimage to Canterbury' 1806-7.
[Ref: 54073] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Polacca with a View of Stromboli.
Dom.k Serres del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp.t. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
[Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.]
Aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 265 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Trimmed to printed border, losing publication line. Very small repaired hole top left.
A Polacca, a two-masted ship with a lateen hoisted on the foremast), before the smoking volcano Stomboli. Polacca is Italian for 'Polish woman'. From 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 54215] £320.00

Her Royall Highness Mary Princess of Orange, eldest Daughter of King Charles ye first, & Mother to King William the Third.
Van Dyke Pinx.t. Will.m Farthorne Fecit.
[London, Robert Sayer? c.1760.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into plate at bottom, losing publication line. Crease back middle from front.
Three-quarter portrait of Mary Henrietta Stuart (1631-1660) after Adriaen Hanneman. not Van Dyke. The daughter of Charles I and the first Princess Royal, Mary married Prince William II of Orange, but both died of smallpox. Their only child became King of England as William III after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. This print was first published when William was king and had the correct attribution (and spelled Faithorne's name correctly).
CS 27, state iii of iii. Fagan: Pg 10.
[Ref: 54198] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Wearmouth Bridge] A South East View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland in the C.o of Durham. Built by Roland Burdon Esq.r M.P. Span 236 Ft, height 100 Ft, Spring of the Arch 33 Ft, It is supposed to be the Largest Arch in the World - The Foundation Stone was laid 24th Sept, 1793 & the Bridge was opened 9th Aug.t 1796.
R. Johnson Delt. A.Hunter Scult.
[n.d. 1796]
Rare engraving. Sheet 355 x 420mm (14 x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears.
A view of the first Wearmouth Bridge, shortly after it opened, showing that masted ships could pass underneath it easily. It was the second major cast-iron bridge in the world, but twice as long as the Severn Iron Bridge, with an unprecedented single span of 236ft. The bridge was designed and built by the engineer Thomas Wilson, sponsored by Rowland Burdon.
[Ref: 54167] £650.00

The Suspicious Lover. From a Picture in the Possession of V.M. Picot.
Terberg [Gerard Ter Borch] pinx.t. Picot Sculp.t.
London. Pub.d March 1 1784 by V.M. Picot No.83 St Martin's Lane.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"), with very large margins.
A man peers over a woman's shoulder as she writes a letter.
[Ref: 54207] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

David Teniers et sa Famille.
D. Teniers, pinx. Jac. Ph. Le Bas Sculp.
[AParis chez l'Auteur au bas de la rue de la Harpe] [n.d., c1747.]
Etching. 370 x 495mm (14½ x 19½"). Trimmed into inscription area, losing dedication and publication line, new margin added, remarque armorial replaced with manuscript.
Portrait of David Teniers and his family, sitting on a terrace, with the artist playing the cello, his wife holding a book, and his son singing.
[Ref: 54289] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Three French Girls before a Castle Gate.]
Mr Bunbury Del. Js. Bretherton Fec.
Publish'd 4th March 1780, by J.s Bretherton New Bond Street.
Etching printed in brown with added hand colour, J. Whatman watermark; Plate 330 x 305mm (13 x 12"), with small margins. Some toning along right edge and some light creasing.
Standing in a line are three girls with books under their arms, the girl at left her hands under her apron, looking at the ground; the central figure with a half-open fan and a posy of flowers tucked unto her dress, and the third with flowers on her bonnet; at right a figure on horseback enters the gate, a guard beside. The print was sold in the Bretherton 1799 sale as 'The French Girls', suggesting that it was never given a title.
[Ref: 54071] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Time. 'Tis I who measure vital space _
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Oval portrait of an old man with wings. The line of verse comes from John Gay's 'Fable XIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time'.
[Ref: 54201] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Tobias and the Angel. From an Original Picture in the Possession of Samuel Athawes Esq.r to whom this Place is Inscribedm by his very obliged & obedient Serv.t W.m Woollett.
The Landscape painted by Glauber, and the Figures by G. Lairesse. Engraved by W. Woollett and J. Emes.
Publish'd as the Act directs 2 May 1785, by W.m Woollett, No.1, North Street, Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, London.
Engraving, 380 x 450mm (15 x 17½"). Some scuffing and staining in margins.
Depiction of a scene from the book of Tobit, one of the Apocrypha in the King James Bible. Much of the narrative of this book is dedicated to Tobit's son, who is sent by his father to collect a sum of money from the land of Media, in which he is aided by the angel Raphael, who represents himself as Tobit's kinsman Azariah.
Fagan CXIX.
[Ref: 54253] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

View of The Tower of London and The Mint. Vue de la Tour de Londres et de La Monnoie.
Drawn & Engraved by Rob.t Havell & Son.
London, Published June 1821 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co, Cockspur Street.
Aquatint with hand colour. 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") with large margins. Slightly faded colour.
A view of the Tower of London from Tower Hill.
[Ref: 54214] £320.00

Tower Street Ward with their Divisions into Parishes according to a New Survey..
B. Cole sciulp.
[London, 1756.]
Engraved map with later hand colour. 370 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾"). Thread margins.
A plan of Tower Street Ward with the important buildings shown as elevations, including All Hallows Barking, and Custom House. It is dedicated to the local alderman, Thomas Chitty of the Salter Livery Company, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1759. Underneath are elevations of East India House in Leadenhall Street and Westminster Hall, neither of which are in the ward. From Maitland's Survey of London.
[Ref: 54193] £140.00

[An elephant fighting a snake.] Excelsa in Barrum Draco sese ex abrbore iactat: ... II
Joan. Stradanus invent. Carol de Mallory Sculp.
1577 Phl's Galle excud. [but Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Rust hole in tree, old ink mss. numbers in margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
In the foreground an elephant grapples with a large snake, using its trunk. In the background men butcher another elephant, carrying away the pieces Plate 2 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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