Grosvenor Prints

Jacobus II D.G. Britanniarum Imperator 1695. Le Roy d'Angleterre.
S. Thomassin Sculp.
Se vend a Paris Chez Thomassin rue St Jacques vis a vis la rue du Plâtre aux Armes du Roy et de la Ville avec Privil. du Roy [n.d., c.1710].
Fine engraving. 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼") with large margins.
A medallion portait of James II set on a plinth.
Sharpe 1.
[Ref: 57425] £320.00

Jacobus II D.G. Britanniarum Imperator 1701. Jacques II. Roy de la Grande Bretagne.
S. Thomassin Sculptor Regius Sculp 1703.
Se vend à Paris chez Thomassin, rue St. Jacques vis a vis la rue du Platre a l'Image St. Jean C.P.R.
Rare & fine engraving. 230 x 180mm (9 x7"), very large margins.
James II and VI (1633-1701), king of England and Scotland before the invasion of William of Orange forced him to retreat to France. Published in France soon after his death.
Sharp 2 i/ii.
[Ref: 57427] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honourable S.r Joseph Jekyll Knight Master of the Rolls, and one of his Majest-ties most Horourable Privy Council.
M.Dahl pinxit. G.Vertue sculpsit. 1730.
[London, 1730.]
Engraving. Sheet 390 x 285mm (15¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Seated portrait of Sir Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738), wearing judicial wig and robe. A Whig politician, he sat in the House of Commons for 40 years, 1697-1738. He became Master of the Rolls in 1717.
[Ref: 57411] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

John Earl of St Vincent, Admiral of the Red & Gen.l of Marines, F.R.S. &c &c &c.
Painted by Sir W. Beechey, R.A. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Pub.d Nov.r 11. 1816 by C. Turner, 50, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 620 x 420mm (24½ x 16½"), with very large margins.
John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent (1735-1823). As commander in chief in the Mediterranean he blockaded the French at Toulon (1795) before defeating the Spanish off the Coast of St. Vincent in 1797. Jervis later served as the first Lord of the Admiralty (1801-4) where he instigated reform in the administration of the navy. A globe and volumes on the table with a painting of a sea battle on the wall behind. See 31141 for proof before letters.
Whitman: 508. See: Ref: 31141 for Proof before letters.
[Ref: 57457] £380.00

[Louis XIII practicing jousting.] Figure 47. CCC. Seconde partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), on paper with 17th century watermark, very large margins. Creasing at top.
Louis XIII riding down a tilt barrier striking a mannikin in the forehead, watched by four named courtiers, including Earl of Carlisle. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57450] £320.00

[Jousting armour.] Pieces des Armes rompce en lice faict au Naturel dans Le Logis de M. le Duc de Bellegar de grand Escuter de france. Figure 50. ooo 2 partie.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving on two plates. Outer plate 315 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), large margins on 3 sides. Tears affecting image at top, damp stains and creasing. Small loss top right.
An illustration of various parts of a knight's jousting armour. Around the image is a separately-printed architectural border. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, and the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57452] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in Kensington Gardens - or - Fashions and Frights of 1829.
Designed Etched & Publis.d by G. Cruikshank Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 250 x 270mm (9¾ x 10½"), with Whatman Turkey Mill watermarked dated 1829. Tears in inscription area.
Promenaders in the latest outlandish fashions. From the series 'Scraps and sketches'.
BM Satires 15981.
[Ref: 57287] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Langham.]
Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. Engraved by C.Wilkin.
Published as the Act directs June 2.d 1800 by C.Wilkin, N.o 19 Eaton Str.t Pimlico.
Stipple, Proof before title. 250 x 190 (9¾ x 7½") very large margins.
A portrait of Lady Henrietta Langham (1780-1809) from the series 'Portraits of Ladies of Rank and Fashion' published between 1797-1803 by C. Wilkin.
[Ref: 56904] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille de Laupen le 21 Juin 1339. No.2.
L. Midart inv. Sculps. et Excudit, Solodori.
à Berne chéz P.F. Tessaro M.d d'Estampes [n.d., c.1820].
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"). Some creasing and scuffing.
A view of the Battle of Laupen, June 21st 1339, between Bern and Freiburg and their allies, with infantry in the foreground and heavy cavalry behind. Like the Battle of Bannockburn 25 years earlier, the tactics of the infantry negated the impact of the heavily-armoured cavalry, resulting in high casualties among the nobility, changing the style of European warfare.
[Ref: 57349] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[France] Adrienne Le Couvreur Morte a Paris le 20 Mars age de trente sept ans.
Peint par Ch. Coypel . Gravé par P. Drevet.
[French, n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, 415 x 300mm. 16¼ x 11¾". A nice impression, with large margins. Unidentified collector's stamp verso
Portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692 - 1730), French actress, as Cornelia in Pierre Corneille’s tragedy 'The Death of Pompey'. In lettered oval masonry frame, on a pedestal inscribed with tribute verse. After Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752).
BNF FRBNF41506932.
[Ref: 27212] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Lerici] Ericus portus.
HVC [monogram]. Henri Cliven. inven.
Philipp. Gall. excud [n.d., c.1580.]
Engraving. 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with large margins.
A view of the harbour of Lerici with the castle on a cliff at left, a caravan approaching at right and galleys and galleons in the sea. After Hendrick van Cleve III (1525-c.1589). An example of the first state, before a plate number.
H: i of ii.
[Ref: 57453] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A Likely Cast.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 200 x 265mm (8 x 10¼")
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56107] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Literary Dustman. / Ve Dines at Four, and arter that / I smokes a mild Awanna, / Or gives a lesson to the lad / Upon the grand pianna [...]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Wood engraving with fine original colour. Sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed to printed border at sides, bottom corners snipped, laid on album paper.
One dustman lounges on a chaise longue smoking as another plays the piano and sings, with sheet music titled 'Puritani' (Vincenzo Bellini's 'il puritani' of 1835). 'The Literary Dustman' by Francis Robert Glindon (c.1799-1866) was first published in 1832.
[Ref: 57262] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Henri Auguste de Loménie, Count of Brienne]
R. Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat. 1660.
Engraving in mount. 365 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed. Attached to top & bottom on left.
A bust length portrait of Henri Auguste de Loménie (1594-1666) in an oval frame of oak leaves atop a pedastel decorated with a coat of arms. Loménie was a successful French diplomat responsible for many delicate maneouvres including the marriage of Henrietta Maria of France and Charles I.
PW39. i.
[Ref: 57468] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of London about the Year 1560. Reduced to this Size from a Large Print in the Collection of S.r Hans Sloane Bar.t anno 1738.
Etched map. Sheet 310 x 470mm (12¼ x 18½"). Trimmed within plate, binding folds as normal, stains.
A map of Tudor London, based on the so-called 'Agas' woodcut map, showing St James's Park east to Whitechapel, with a 47-point key.
[Ref: 57269] £280.00

Abilltung wie königliche Maistät in Engelandt Die Artickel Dess Spanischen Heyraths Jur: Bekreftiget Anno 1623. Lunden.
[Cologne: Abraham Hogenberg, 1627.]
Coloured engraving. 270 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½"). Evidence of crack in printing plate (as the BM example).
Four scenes relating to the Spanish Match treaty, from Kaspar Ens' ''Fama Austriaca'': James I signing the treaty in the Chapel Royal; James dining with the Spanish ambassador; James in procession; and a prospect of London, with the Norman St Paul's Cathedral. In 1614 a Spanish embassy arrived in London to reach agreement to stop English privateers attacking Spanish shipping in the Americas and prevent England joining the Thirty Years' War. In return Spain would cease supporting opponents of James's rule in Ireland. Spain also proposed the marriage of the Spanish Infanta to Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles I), promising a dowry of half-a-million pounds. James, who desperately needed money, was enthusiastic, but Parliament refused to accept any deal and James dissolved it in fury. It eventually transpired that the Infanta had no intention of marrying a protestant, and Spain was just stringing out negotiations to stop England entering the war. In 1625 Charles married Henrietta Maria of France instead.
[Ref: 57336] £380.00

The City of London as in Q. Elizabeth's Time.
[n.d., 1720.]
Etched map. 185 x 465mm (7¼ x 18¼"). Binding folds, a little staining.
A map of Tudor London, published in 'Stow's Survey of London'. It is based on the so-called 'Agas' woodcut map, it shows St James's Park east to Whitechapel.
[Ref: 57268] £380.00

The New London Bridge, as it appeared on Monday August 1st 1831 at the Ceremony of opening by their Majesties.
London Published August 15. 1831 by J. McCormick 147 Strand.
Aquatint with very fine hand colour. Sheet 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate. Very slight hole top right, not visible from front.
John Rennie's London Bridge, built of Dartmoor granite, opened by William and Adelaide in 1831. A hot-air balloon flies past.
[Ref: 57257] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Dauphin de France.
Hyacinth Rigaud. P. Drevet sculp.
[n.d., c.1701.]
Engraving. Plate: 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13¼''), with large margins. Slight crease in centre, repaired hole.
A portrait of Louis the Grand Dauphin (1661-1711), eldest son of Louis XIV who died before his father.
[Ref: 48741] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

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[Louis XIII on horseback with a lance.] Figur. 39. 3 part.
[drawn and engraved by Crispijn de Passe the younger.]
[Paris, c.1623.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 300mm (8¼ x 11¾"). Trimmed within image, edges chipped. Damaged and loss.
The king in profile with portraits of eleven named courtiers. A plate from Antoine de Pluvinel's important work on dressage, published first in 1623 as 'Le Maneige Royal' and secondly as 'L'instrvction du Roy, en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval' in 1625. Pluvinel (1562-1620), the first French riding master, taught Louis XIII to ride, so the king often takes centre stage in the plates from this work.
[Ref: 57449] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mackerel.
D. Cox Del.t. R. Reecve sculp.t.
London, Published June 1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line.
A still life of three fish, a basket and a pot on a table.
[Ref: 57501] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Virgini Matris.]
F. Poilly ex cum privl Regis [n.d., c.1660].
Engraving. 365 x 360mm (18¼ x 14¼"). Trimmed close to plate, creasing.
Head and shoulders portrait in oval of the Virgin Mary, hands joined in prayer. It is a detail of a painting by Raphael and his studio, 'Madonna del Divino Amore', now at the Museo et Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples.
[Ref: 57443] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Whiteleys Viaduct, Charleston Curves.
A.F. Tait, del et lith.
Day & Haghe lith.rs to the Queen [1845].
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¼"). Faint mount burn.
A view of the viaduct carrying the Manchester & Leeds Railway over the River Calder near Hebden Bridge, with navvies working on the line and a barge on the river below. Plate from 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway' (1845), by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. The volume depicted notable bridges and stations on the route, which opened in 1839.
Abbey 411.
[Ref: 57351] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT)

The March of Intellect.
F.A. Esq.r Inv.t. [monogram of Paul Pry/William Heath] Del, et sculpt.
Pub, Jan.y 23, 1828 by G. Humphrey Sy James's Street.
Rare etching with hand colour. Sheet: 235 x 340mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper.
A fantastic scene on the edge of London, satirising modern technology and the consequences of education for the masses. Among the details are a Channel Bridge, the Thames Tunnel being flooded, a warship held aloft by balloons bombing the enemy fleet, a coal merchant playing chess and a man using a windlass to hoist chairs up a vertical chute from the street. A rare satire: George could only describe a photograph of the example in the collection of the Earl of Harrowby, although the BM has subsequently acquired an example.
BM 15604, with an extensive description.
[Ref: 57478] £680.00 (£816.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Stuart Reye d'Ecosse Souffre de martye pour la Foy; et par la constance de sa mort, renouuelle en ces derniers temps, les exemples de l'ancienne Egliose. Augustus Thuanus lib. 86.
Vignon invent.
Mariette excud. cum Privil. Regis. [Paris, n.d., c.1640.]
Engraving. Framed over image, visible area 340 x 210mm (13½ x 8¼"). Repaired holes in sky.
A French portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), depicting her as a martyr to her catholicism. As she had been Queen consort of Francis II of France, the French preferred to portray her as a victim of religious intolerance than a traitor to Elizabeth I. The quote is from the 'Historia sui temporis' by Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).
NPG: D13129.
[Ref: 57236] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Maria Stuart Regina Scotiæ.
Done from the Original Painting of C. Janet in the Royal Palace of S.t James's. J. Faber fecit.
Printed for Carington Bowles next to the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-yard, London [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins on three sides. Vertical fold, narrow left margin.
Three-quarter length portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, wearing a dark dress with a white ruff and cuffs, a rosary pinned at the waist. Originally published by Thomas Bowles.
CS 235, this state not listed.
[Ref: 57301] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Medicea Hospes, sive descriptio publicæ gratulationis qua Serenissimam, Augustissimamque Reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit Senatus Populusque Amstelodamensis. Auctore Caspare Barlæo.
Amsterodami, Johannis & Cornelii Blaeu, MDCXXXVIII [1638].
Folio, with the arms of Charles Butleav on the cover, full calf gilt, rebacked; pp. (x)+62; frontispiece portrait, 15 (of 16) numbered plates (14 double-page, 1 folding), extra illustrated with one double-page plate. Front board severely strained, extra plate trimmed to image and remargined.
A record of the arrival of Maria de Medici into Amsterdam after her exile from the French court, with allegorical plates representing the fall and rise of France under Henry III and IV. The plates have numbers added lower right. The missing plate is 'Arrival in the Haarlemmermeer'. The extra plate is 'Effigies nobilissimorum et amplissimorum Dd. consulum qui reip. Amstelodamensi præfuere tunc' drawn by Thomas de Keijser and engraved by Jonas Suijderhoef, showing the four Amsterdam burgomasters hearing of Maria de' Medici's arrival. This plate was frequently added to the work.
With the bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill.
[Ref: 57460] £980.00 view all images for this item

Melrose Abbey, Moon Light. Inscribed as a Tribute of Respect to the Revered Memory of Sir Walter Scott. Proof.
Drawn & Engraved by T.M. Richardson.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Published by T.M. Richardson, 53, Blackett Street [n.d., c.1835].
Scarce mezzotint with etching. 370 x 430mm (14½ x 17"). Tears taped.
The ruins of Melrose Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Roxburghshire. Scott supervised the extensive repair work that was to preserve the ruins in 1822.
[Ref: 57335] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

London Fashions for the Summer of 1833.
[by Charles Sibley?]
Published and Sold by G. Walker, 20, Southampton St. Bloomsbury Sq.re
Framed very scarce hand-coloured lithograph. Image size: 560 x 585mm (22 x 23"). Unexamined out of frame.
A large fashion plate showing the various fashions in men's and boy's clothing in the summer of 1833. The plate is divided into two halves, the bottom showing outer and domestic urban wear while the top shows formal wear and country sportswear.
See: Ref 37822 & 55184
[Ref: 57418] £750.00

Man & Woman of Mexico.
[London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, c.1818.]
Engraving with original hand colour, Sheet 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½").
The man carries a bow and quiver of arrows on a backpack, the woman has a baby in a papoose. A plate from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present; being being descriptions of the principal countries of the world. With representations of the various Inhabitants in their respective costumes, beautifully coloured'.
[Ref: 57326] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Military Divertimento for the Piano Forte with an Accompaniment for a Flute Violin and Bass ad libitum Composed and Humbly Dedicated (by Permission) to His Royal Highness The Duke of Cumberland by K. Von Esch.
T. King sc. 411 Strand.
London Printed by Broderip & Wilkinson 13 Haymarket where may be had all this Authors works [n.d., c.1800].
Etching. 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed within plate on right.
A music cover, featuring a scroll draped over a piano and other musical instruments.
[Ref: 57318] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ile-de-France. Moulin à faire l'huile de coco. (Voyes. l'explication des planches,)
Dess. par E. Oliver after les croquis de L. de F [Louis de Freycinet]. Gravé par Adam.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Engraving. 325 x 240mm (12¾ x 9½"). Tears in edges of wide margins.
A mill for extracting coco oil, driven by a donkey, seen on Mauritius. From Louis de Freycinet's 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie.
[Ref: 56867] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Les Delices Maternelles. Dedié à Son Aktesse Sérenissime Madame la Duchess Douaireiere de Saxe-Weimar, née Duchesse de Brunswik et de Lunebourg par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur J: G: Wille. 25.le Pl. 1781.
Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi, de S.M. Impr: et Roy: et du Roi de Danemark, d'après le ableau de son fils, P.A. Wille Peintre du Roi.
à Paris, chez l'Auteur, Quay des Augustins [1781].
Engraving. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½"), very large margins. A little spotting and staining.
An oval portrait of a woman sitting in an armchair with her son standing on her knee.
[Ref: 57455] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Mount Edgcumbe.
G. Lambert & Scott pinx.t. C.W. Bampflyde delin. Canot sculp.t.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer & Bennett, in Fleet Street, Rob.t Wilkinson in Cornhill, John Boydell in Cheapside, & Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 365 x 565mm (14¼ x 22¼"), on thick paper, large margins. Slight surface soiling, edges chipped.
A view of Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall, with ships and longboats. The plate was engraved by Pierre Charles Canot from an intermediary sketch by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde and published in the series 'Five views of and from Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth', first issued 1755.
[Ref: 57358] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT)

Feu d'Artifice Tire a Nantes sur les Decorations Dessinees et Peintes par Antoine Henon, Architecte et Peintre dela Ditte Ville.
Avec priv du Roy ches Francois. de la Bertonniere Sc.
ce Vend a Nantes ches Tanqueray M.d Grande rue.
Engraving 215 x 330mm (8½ x 13"). Some light foxing.
A fireworks display in Nantes, France, on the Loire. The firework structure was designed and painted by 'architect and designer of the city of Nantes' Antoine Henon (1748-1789).
[Ref: 57421] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Memorial to Sir Hugh Brawne in St Mary's Church Newington Butts]
Ink and wash, 18th century watermark. Sheet 315 x 200mm (12½ x 8"). A few stains.
A watercolour of the monument to Sir Hugh Brawne (d.1615), his two wives and six children, once in St Mary's Church, Newington Butts. The church was rebuilt in 1715, 1790, 1876 and after an air raid in 1941, and it is uncertain when this memorial was removed. We have found no photographic record of the monument.
[Ref: 57363] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Newmarket] A View of the Round Course or Plate Course with divers jockeys and Horses in different Actions and Postures going to start for the Kings Plate at New Market.
Tillimans Pinx. J.s Sympson and J.n Lord [ex].
[n.d., c.1730.]
Rare engraving. 305 x 420mm (12 x 16½"); Trimmed. Worm holes filled. Some creasing.
The artist, Peter Tillemans (1684-1734), was born in Antwerp and moved to England in 1708. He specialised in sporting and landscape paintings.
Not in Siltzer.
[Ref: 57276] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Patrick O'Brien, Irish Giant.]
[n.d., c.1810.]
Grey wash with touches of red. Sheet 215 x 130mm (8½ x 5").
The Irish giant Patrick O'Brien (1760-1806, real name Patrick Cotter), leaning on the top of a door, towering over a dwarf, possibly John Coan (1728-1764), the ‘Norfolk Dwarf', an imaginary meeting. O'Brien was the first man in history with a certified height of over 8 feet (8'1", not 8'7'' as claimed), a record not broken for another century. He took the name O'Brien to claim descent from the legendarily gigantic Brian Boru. Working on the sideshow circuit he became quite wealthy, leaving £2,000 to his mother when he died. He left his clothes to his servant, who displayed them on a mannequin in the Haymarket; his boots are still on display in the Kinsale Museum. Cotter requested that his body be entombed within twelve feet of solid rock to prevent exhumation for scientific or medical research; however in 1972 his remains were examined and his height verified.
[Ref: 57248] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Patrick O'Brien, The Celebrated Irish Giant. 8 Feet 7 Inches high. Aged 38 Years.
T. Parry del. A. Van Assen Sculp.
Pub.d June 20, 1804 by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House yard, & J. Scott, 447 Strand.
Etching. 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate on right. Small margins on 3 sides.
The Irish giant Patrick O'Brien (1760-1806, real name Patrick Cotter), leaning on the top of a door, towering over another man. He was the first man in history with a certified height of over 8 feet (8'1", not 8'7'' as claimed), a record not broken for another century. He took the name O'Brien to claim descent from the legendarily gigantic Brian Boru. Working on the sideshow circuit he became quite wealthy, leaving £2,000 to his mother when he died. He left his clothes to his servant, who displayed them on a mannequin in the Haymarket; his boots are still on display in the Kinsale Museum. Cotter requested that his body be entombed within twelve feet of solid rock to prevent exhumation for scientific or medical research; however in 1972 his remains were examined and his height verified.
[Ref: 57247] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[The rooftops of Oxford, with the Radcliffe Camera.]
Monk.
The original pencil sketch on paper for the etching, sheet 390 x 555mm (15¼ x 21¾"), on Whatman paper watermarked with date 1901. Stitch holes around image.
A pencil sketch by British etcher William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 57383] £650.00

[The Broad, looking west.]
Monk 1904.
Etching, proof, 335 x 455mm (14 x 18") very large margins. Slight soiling in margins.
The entrance to Broad Street, Oxford, looking west, with the Clarendon Building on the left.
[Ref: 57384] £350.00

[Christchurch Meadow.]
Monk [William Monk.]
July 8, 1908 [pencil].
Etching. 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½") very large margins.
1st state, before the addition of clouds. British etcher William Monk (1863–1937).
[Ref: 57377] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Christchurch Meadow.]
Monk [William Monk.]
[n.d., c.1908.]
Etching. 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"), with wide margins.
2nd state, with the addition of clouds. British etcher William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 57378] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[New College, Oxford, rear view.]
[by William Monk.]
Pencil sketch on paper, sheet 390 x 555mm (15¼ x 21¾"), on Whatman paper watermarked with date 1901. Stitch holes around image.
A pencil sketch, probably a sketch for an etching, by British etcher William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 57376] £580.00

[The entrance gate to Queen's College from the High Street.]
[by William Monk.]
[n.d., c.1910.]
Pencil sketch on paper, sheet 390 x 555mm (15¼ x 21¾"), on Whatman paper.
A pencil sketch, probably a design for an etching by British etcher William Monk (1863-1937).
[Ref: 57382] £490.00

The Garden Gate of Trinity College, Erected 1713. The Oxford Almanack for the Year of our Lord God M.DCCCC.II. [1902]
[William] Monk 1901.
Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Horace Hart, M.A., Printer to the University; - and published by Henry Frowde, M.A., Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, London, E.C.
Etching set in letterpress, sheet 760 x 560mm (30 x 22"). Central fold, spotting.
A view of the ornamental gates of the college, with an almanack and a list of the University staff.
[Ref: 57380] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Garden Gate of Trinity College, Erected 1713.]
[William] Monk 1901.
Etching proof 300 x 380mm (11¾ x 15"), large margins.
A view of the ornamental gates of the college, also published as 'The Oxford Almanack for the Year of our Lord God M.DCCCC.II.'
[Ref: 57381] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Hyde Parker, Captain of the Phoenix.
Painted by George Romney. Engraved by James Walker.
[London: James Walker, 1780.]
Mezzotint with separate title plate, total 660 x 390mm (26 x 15½"). Trimmed into title plate, losing publication line, thread margins elsewhere.
Full length portrait of Sir Hyde Parker (1714-1782/3), in uniform, unsheathed sword in right hand, his ship in the background firing its guns. As captain of HMS Phoenix Parker broke the defences of the North River at New York in 1776, during the American Revolution, earning him a knighthood in 1779.
CS 12. II of II. Horne 94. Ex: collection of Minto Wilson.
[Ref: 57389] £500.00

[Pierre Payen] Pet. Payen D. Deslandes Senat. Cler. In Sup. Cal. Curia Decanus Ab. S.t Mart. Prior Et D. De Charitate
Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat 1659.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"). Trimmed to plate mark.
A half portrait of French magestrate Pierre Payen (d.1664) in magesterial robes in oval frame with coat of arms.
PW 190. ii.
[Ref: 57431] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Penelope and the suitors] Ingratam Veneri pone superbiam. Non te Penelopem difficilem procis. Tyrrhenus genuit Parens. Horat. lib. 3.
Dom.us Magiotto pinx. Nicolaus Cavalli sculp Venetiis.
[Venice, n.d., c.1760.]
Rare engraving. 370 x 490mm (14½ x 19¼"), with very large margins. Creasing in margins.
A young man addresses a young woman in the centre who holds an apple, with an elderly bawd watching behind. The lines from Horace refers to the scene in the Oddysey in which Penelope receives unwelcome suitors.
BM 1951,0714.159. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57476] £340.00

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