Grosvenor Prints

Jesus College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
Published Nov.r 1 1809, by R. Harraden & Son Cambridge and by R. Cribb & Son, 288, Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 225mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed.
Exterior view of Jesus College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62986] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

King's College, Cambridge.
Drawn by R. Harraden Jun.r, Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
[Published Jan 1, 1809, by R. Harraden & Son Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 288 Holborn, London.]
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of King's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62970] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Kings College. The Provost Lodge.
R. B. Harraden del.t R. W. Smart sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of the Provost Lodge at King's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62971] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Kings College. Old Buildings.
R. B. Harraden del.t F. McCabe sculp.t.
Published 1825 by R. B. Harraden Cambridge.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of the Old Buildings at King's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62972] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[King's College, Cambridge] Collegium Regale. Admodum Reverendo DD. Johanni Coplestonb SS. T.P. vitro integerrimo. Coll: Regali Præsito dignissimo Hannc tabulum Coll: ejusdem. DD.C.Q. Dav. Loggan.
Dav, Loggan delin. & Sculp, cum Privil S.R.M.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Fine engraving. 340 x 480mm (13¼ x 19"), 18th century watermark. Original centre fold, small margins.
View of the Old Court of King's College, Cambridge, with the pinnacles of the Chapel behind. From David Loggan's 'Cantabrigia illustrata' published in 1690.
[Ref: 63118] £450.00

King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
R. B. Harraden delin & Excud.t J. Newton sculp.t.
Published by R. Harraden Feb.y 1st. 1800 Great St. Mary's, Cambridge.
Aquatint, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Small margins on 3 sides.
Exterior view of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62973] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Magdalen College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden. Etched by Eliz.th Byrne.
Published April 2nd 1810, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & R. Cribb & Son, 288, Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of Magdalen College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62985] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Observatory. Cambridge.
R. B. Harraden del.t. E. F. McCabe sculp.t.
[Published by R. B. Harraden, Cambridge, 1826.]
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Lower margin, trimmed into plate on lower margin, cutting off description of publisher. Small margin left & right.
Exterior view of the Observatory, Cambridge. Two scholars stand in the foreground.
[Ref: 62988] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Pembroke College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. Etched by Eliz.th. Bryne.
Published April 2nd 1810, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62994] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Scholae Publicae et Bibliotheca Univer. Cantabr.
David Loggan.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Fine engraving. 355 x 410mm (14 x 16""), very large margins.
An elevated view showing the courtyard.
[Ref: 63265] £450.00

Pythagoras's School.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. Engraved by Joseph Skelton.
Published June 1809, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge, and by R. Cribb & Son, 288, Holborn, London.
Engraving, plate 160 x 175mm (6¼ x 7"), large margins.
Exterior view of Pythagoras's School, at St. John's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62989] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Queen's College.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r, Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
Published March 1 1810, by R. Harraden & Son Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 288 Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of the exterior of Queen's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62981] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Queen's College.
R. B. Harraden del.t. E. F. McCabe, Sculp.t.
Published 1824 by R. B. Harraden, Cambridge.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed on 3 sides.
View of the exterior of Queen's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62982] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

St. John's College.
Drawn by R. Harraden Jun.r, Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
Published Han.y 20th 1809, by R. Harraden & Son Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 288 Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of St John's College, Cambridge, many academics stand outside.
[Ref: 62974] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

St. John's College. From the Walks.
Drawn by R. Harraden Jun.r, Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
[Published Han.y 20th 1809, by R. Harraden & Son Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 288 Holborn, London.]
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
A view of St John's College, Cambridge from the Walks. Two scholars walk along the river towards the bridge, a dog running ahead of them.
[Ref: 62975] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

St. John's College. Great Court.
Drawn by R. Harraden Jun.r, Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
Published Oct. r 18. 1810 by R.Harraden & Son Cambrudge & by R. Cribb & Son 288 Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Plate is trimmed slightly into the lower margin, close to publisher description. Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of the Great Court at St. John's College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62976] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Kitchen of Trinity College.
W.H. Pyne del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1812', large margins on 3 sides.
With kitchen workers preparing geese, fish, bread and vegetables.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 62914] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity Hall.
Drawn by R. B. Harraden Jun.r. Etched by Eliz.th. Bryne.
Published August 1 1810, by R. Harraden & Son, Cambridge & by R. Cribb & Son 188, Holborn, London.
Etching, sheet 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Exterior view of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
[Ref: 62995] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Canova.
Maurin. Imp. lithog. de Chambert, rue Cassette Nº 2.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 290 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"), with large margins. Slight foxing in margins.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Italian sculptor who was the most innovative and widely-acclaimed practitioner of the neo-classical style. He was made famous by his marble sculptures rendering the delicate touch of the nude flesh. Being neo-classical, his work marked a return to the classical perfection and fine art after the excessive extravagance of the Baroque era.
[Ref: 63182] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The North Prospect of Canterbury.
Tho: Johnson delineavit. W: Hollar fecit.
[n.d. c.1670] But later.
Etching, watermark J. Whatman c. 1795; sheet 180 x 550mm (7 x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate and glued to backing sheet at edges. Right third folded. Time staining. Ink transfer from cartouche dedication to the middle.
A long view of the city in the middle distance, with the cathedral in the left to the centre, seen across a field in the foreground. A coat-of-arms with mitre crest and two fields at top left and an ornamental cartouche at top right containing dedication to Gilbert by Ogilby.
Pennington 961 iii.
[Ref: 62706] £320.00

Cape Town and the Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope.
W. M. Craig del. E. Goodall sculp.
[Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Co. Liverpool, April, 1816.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 200 x 255mm (7¾ x 10") Trimmed within plate, losing publication line, corners snipped.
A view of Cape Town from the sea.
[Ref: 63013] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Capitalisme.
Comin'Ache (pseudonym of H. Comin).
[Pub. by Tailliardat, 1899-1903.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 565 x 450mm (22¼ x 17¾"), watermarked 'Van Gelder Zonen'. Edges chipped.
An anarchist condemnation of capitalism, showing workers dying beneath a monster consisting of a human skull with money bags in its teeth, bat wings and a peacock as a headpiece. It was published as plate 16 of 'Les Temps nouveaux', which were issued as inserts in the newspaper before being published as a collection in 1903.
[Ref: 63144] £850.00

Michele Carafa.
Lith. de Feillet. L,, Dupre, 1825.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 155 x 240 (6 x 9½").
Portrait of Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (1787 - 1872), Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri.
[Ref: 63240] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Le Joli Jeu de Ecarte.
A chez Alex.dre Tessier, Suc, de M.me V.e Chereau rue S.t Jacques N.o 10. Depose. [n.d. c.1823]
Etching with wonderful hand colour, 19th century watermark. Plate 235 x 325mm (9¼ x 12½"), with large margins.
Grotesque figures play écarté (an old French casino game for two players) at two tables while a couple in the background dances.
[Ref: 63100] £390.00

Le Jeu des Sages. Caricatures Parisiennes.
A Paris chez Martinet libraire, rue du Coq St Honoré. [n.d. c.1802]
A finely hand coloured etching, plate 210 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼"), with very large margins. Some time staining and surface dirt, largely contained to margins.
A group of five elderly men playing at boules; behind two dogs and an elegant lady.
[Ref: 63062] £390.00

[Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal & Carlos, Prince of Asturias] Maria Filia Emanuelis D. Gratia Regis Portugaliæ. Carolis Dei Grã Hispa Infans Philippi Secundi Angliæ Regis Flius.
ICI [monogram of Jan Collaert].
Cock Excud. [n.d., c.1556.]
Two scarce engraved plates on one sheet. Each c.250 x 155mm (9¾ x 6"), with large margins. Old ink mss. numbers in margins, laid on card at edges.
A pair of portraits of Maria Manuela (1527-45), Princess of Portugal and wife of Philip II of Spain, and their son Don Carlos (1545-68), who decended into insanity within his short life. The title of the portrait of Carlos describes Philip II as king of England, dating it to the duration of his marriage to Mary I, 1554 to 1558. From a series of 39 'Portraits of European Rulers', engraved by van der Heyden, Frans Huys and Jan Collaert. The British Museum's description of the series notes 'Most of these portraits are engraved two on a plate, but the pairs have almost always been cut apart'.
See BM 1854,0614.203 for the description of the series. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63110] £320.00

The Hall Carlton House. Plate 15.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculpt. J. Bluck aquat.
London. Pub 1.st April 1808. at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101. Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 250 x 320mm (10 x 12¾"). Trimmed to plate at top.
Interior of the grand hall; six Ionic columns supporting room, presumably two further columns behond viewer; a small fireplace at far end with two armchairs; a slim red carpet crosses hall, a man leads two military men across carpet. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.15.
[Ref: 62750] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Catalani in Semiramide. her first Appearance in England, Dec.r 13th, 1806.
Drawn Etch,d & Pub,d by Dighton, 21 New Bond Street, Dec.r 1806.
Fine coloured etching. 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"), paper watermarked ''E & P 1805''. Small margins.
A full-length portrait of Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), as Semiramide the Assyrian, in the opera by Gioachino Rossini. a soprano with a range of nearly three octaves.
[Ref: 62799] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Mountain in Labour_or Much ado about nothing.
[Robert Seymour?]
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, March 2 1829.
Rare fine hand-coloured etching, sheet 230 x 320mm (9¼ x 12½"). On paper watermarked 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828'. Trimmed to image on 3 sides. Paper toned.
Satire on the imminent 'birth' of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, published just days before the Bill was introduced/delivered. At the centre of the image are Wellington (holding 'Ministerial Forceps'), Peel (with a bottle of medicine), and an old woman, as doctor-accoucheur, apothecary, and nurse. The nurse sits with a copy of The Times, which had urged concessions to the Catholics and was styled 'the hireling of Popery' by opponents of the Bill. Three winds of 'Faction' blow from above, issuing from the heads of Eldon (chief opponent of Emancipation), Winchelsea (included in reference to his extravagant speches) and a third. Figures around the edges include two frenzied bishops, two non-Anglican ministers (of which one is evidently Irving), O'Connell in wig and gown stood addressing a band of his followers, and Cumberland top right, in hussar uniform.
BM Satires 15677.
[Ref: 62867] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Cecil] The Countess of Salisbury.
G. Kneller Eques pinx:
J. Smith fe: & ex: [n.d., c.1696.]
Fine mezzotint. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Frances Cecil (née Bennett, 1670-1713) in a landscape, wearing a widow's black high dress with a veil on her head. Her husband, James Cecil (1666-94), the 4th Earl of Salisbury, died on the 24th October 1694, aged only 28; only a month earlier Frances's mother had been murdered by a butcher who broke into her house.
Chaloner Smith 221, II.
[Ref: 63011] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances Cecil] The Countess of Salisbury.
G. Kneller Eques pinx:
J. Smith fe: & ex: [n.d., c.1696.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
Three-quarter length portrait of Frances Cecil (née Bennett, 1670-1713) in a landscape, wearing a widow's black high dress with a veil on her head. Her husband, James Cecil (1666-94), the 4th Earl of Salisbury, died on the 24th October 1694, aged only 28; only a month earlier Frances's mother had been murdered by a butcher who broke into her house.
Chaloner Smith 221, II.
[Ref: 62762] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

S.t. Cecilia.
Benjamin West inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculpsit.
London Published June 1.st 1784, by A: Poggi, No.7, St. Georges Row, Hyde Park.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½''). Small margins.
A portrait of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, shown playing the organ.
De Vesme 2217 III. See Ref: 20481 for different state.
[Ref: 62926] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Planisphaerium coeleste.
Tobias Conrad Lotter, Geog. Excudit. Aug. Vindel [Augsburg, n.d., c.1760].
Engraved map with original colour. 490 x 580mm (19¼ x 23"), very large margins. Borders bit messy.
A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart, centred on the poles, with the constellations shown with their classical depictions. Around the central map are other diagrams, including the solar systems of Ptolemy, Brahe and Copernicus, armillary spheres and globes.
[Ref: 63297] £850.00

[Ceramics] W.T. Copeland, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordsihre. Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, 1849.
T. Underwood Lith. High S.t Birm.m.
[Birmingham, 1849.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾").
A display of ceramics published in the brochure of the Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, a precursor of the Great Exhibition of 1851. William Taylor Copeland continued the business of Josiah Spode. W T Copeland & Sons operated from 1847 until 1966, when it merged with Royal Worcester. It is now part of the Portmeirion Group.
[Ref: 63038] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Fisher's Apartments. Charter House.
A.Pugin del.t. J.Stadler sculp.t.
London Pub.d July 1 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Charter House.
Very fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate at bottom.
A view of Dr. Fisher's Apartments, Charterhouse with figures sat in the background viewing papers. From Ackermann's 'History of the Charter House.'
[Ref: 62909] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Hall of Charter House.
A.Pugin del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
London Pub. Aug.t 1 1816, at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Charter House.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins on 3 sides.
A view of the London Charterhouse Hall, the former Carthusian monastary located between Smithfield and Barbican. From Ackermann's 'History of the Charter House.'
[Ref: 62908] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Charter House. From the Square.
W.Westall del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t.
London Pub.d. July 1 1816, at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Charter House.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of The Charter House from the square in London, women and children walk and sit in the square. The school moved to new buildings in the parish of Godalming, Surrey in 1872. From Ackermann's 'History of Charter House School'.
[Ref: 62906] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Chasteaux Corrèze.]
AYGross.
[Merivale Editions, c.1985.]
Etching, limited edition, 402/500, unsigned. 150 x 225mm (6 x 8¾"), in publisher's printed wrapper.
Anthony Imre Alexander Gross (1905-1984), war artist and etcher, known for designing the dust jacket for the first edition of Lord of the Flies. He was made CBE in 1982. This scene was etched in 1929 but only a few proofs were taken. This posthumous printing was in an edition of 500, most signed by his daughter, Mary West.
[Ref: 62789] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Railway across Chat Moss. Plate 5.
T.T. Bury del.t H. Pyall sculp.t.
London Published Feb.y 1831 by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 240 x 305mm (9½ x 12") Small margins, slight mountburn.
From ‘Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with plates of the Coaches, Machines, &c. from drawings made on the spot by Mr. T.T. Bury. With Descriptive Particulars, serving as a guide to Travellers on the Railway.’ A view of the crossing of Chat Moss in Cheshire. The original watercolour picture by T.T. Bury is in the National Railway Museum. Thomas Talbot Bury (c.1809–1877) was only about twenty when he was commissioned to illustrate the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
[Ref: 62717] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Stowell Park Estate. Plan showing Cottages and Small Holdings in the Village of Chedworth. (Lots 14 to 29 Inclusive) To be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Bruton, Knowles & Co. 16th July, 1923.
Cook, Hammond & Kell Ltd 47 & 49 Tothill Street, Westminster.
Lithograph. Sheet 595 x 910mm (23 x 35¾"). Splits to original folds taped, some creasing.
An estate agent's map of Chedworth, showing from Manor Farm and St Andrew's Church to Pancake Hill. It shows the railway and station, both closed 1961. Rose Cottage, a Cotswold stone building bought in 1930 by Henry Ford to be transported to Michigan, is probably one of the unnamed buildings on the road in the centre of the map.
[Ref: 62659] £260.00

The Royall Hospitall at Chelsey. 33.
Sutton Nicholls sculp.
London. Sold by John Bowles Print and Map Seller over against Stocks Market [n.d., c.1730].
Engraving. 345 x 465mm (13½ x 18¼").
A bird's eye view of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, with the river in the foreground and the formal gardens between the river and the hospital. The Westbourne can be seen entering the Thames.
Longford: Images of Chelsea, 5.
[Ref: 62823] £360.00

[Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini.] L. Cherubini.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1809.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (1760 -1842), Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. Cherubini's operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini.
[Ref: 63315] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of the Chief of the Black Eunuchs in 1749. Chef des EunuquesNoirs. 14.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a slave, whole-length standing, looking to the left. He is wearing a turban with a feather at the front, a fur-trimmed cape and a robe with fur cuffs. Plate 14 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62878] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of the chief of the Black Eunuchs in 1749. Chef des Eunuques Noirs. 13.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins. Small foxing in upper left corner of plate.
Portrait of a slave, whole-length standing, facing the viewer. He is wearing a plumed turban with pearls, a fur-trimmed cape falling behind him and on the floor to the right. He holds a pipe in his left hand, his right hand open. Plate 13 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62875] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Another Habit of a Chinese Lady in 1700. Autre Dame Chinoise. 45.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins.
A full-length portrait of a woman, whole-length standing. She is wearing a headpiece and robe with large sleeves, her hands are together in front of her. Plate 45 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62836] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Honourable Miss Cholmondeley.]
Reynolds pinx.t. Marchi fecit.
Sold by Ryland, Bryer & Co. in Cornhill] [n.d., c.1763].
Mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins. Small repaired tear in bottom left margin. Very small hole nearby in publication line on left.
Lady Hester Frances Cholmondeley (1763 - 1844) as a child, wading across a stream in bare feet, carrying a shaggy white dog. The daughter of Robert Cholmondeley and granddaughter of George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, she married Sir William Bellingham in 1783.
Chaloner Smith, between states i of ii. Hamilton ii of iii.
[Ref: 62771] £380.00

Part of Christ Church Cathedral.
W. Westall del.t. W. Bennett sculp.t.
London Pub. June 1st 1814 at 101 Strand for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (9¾ x 11¾"), with large margins on 3 sides.
View of the interior of Christ Church Cathedral.
[Ref: 62957] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Library of Christ Church.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. C. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub. Dec.r 1 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾") large margins.
The interior of the Library of Christ Church. A Scholar stands reading in the right foreground next to a large table.
[Ref: 62945] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Christian III of Denmark & Albert, Duke of Prussia] Cristianus D.G. Rex Daniæ et Norvegiæ Dux Slesvicen Holsatiæ Stormariæ et Ditmersiæ Comes I Oldeborg. Albertus Senior Dei Gratia Marchip Brandeburgensis Dux Prussiæ 1556.
PAVE [monogram of Pieter van der Heyden].
Cock Excud. [n.d., c.1556.]
Two portraits on one plate. 195 x 350mm (7¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Trimmed into plate on right, to plate on left, old ink numeral in bottom margin, laid on card at edges.
A pair of portraits of Christian III of Denmark (1503-1559) and Albert (1490-1568), first Duke of Prussia and 37th grand master of the Teutonic Knights. From a series of 39 'Portraits of European Rulers', engraved by van der Heyden, Frans Huys and Jan Collaert. The British Museum's description of the series notes 'Most of these portraits are engraved two on a plate, but the pairs have almost always been cut apart'.
See BM 1854,0614.203 for the description of the series. Ex collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
[Ref: 63111] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Christie's Auction Room. Plate 6.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. J.Bluck Aqua.t.
London. Pub. Feb.1. 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with very large margins.
A auction of paintings, with the clientele a mixture of connoisseurs, clergy and rakes, all caricatured in Rowlandson's unique style. From Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London'.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62692] £360.00

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