Grosvenor Prints

Elisabeta D. G. Angliæ. Franciæ & Hiberniæ Regina.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Plate: 155 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Small margins.
A half-length portrait of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) set in an oval with a decorative border.
[Ref: 48734] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth I.]
Mburg de, et f.
[n.d. c.1668-1727.]
Engraving. Plate 166 x 102mm (6½ x 4").
Columned interior in which a man (possibly Roger Ascham) wearing a ruff and long cloak reads from a paper to Queen Elizabeth; resting on two columns at the top, busts of the heads of Demosthenes and Cicero; arranged around the outside of the scene circular portraits of the heads of Edward VI, Elizabeth I, John Cheke, Johann Sturmius, William Cecil, Thomas Smith, Johann Sleidan, John Aylmer, Jane Grey, and Mary I.
[Ref: 52520] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Queen Elizabeth.
E. Lutterell delin. P. Vanderbanck sculp.
[n.d., c.1680.
Engraving, Sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed, losing decorative border, laid on album paper.
Engraved by Peter Vandrebanc (1649-97) after Edward Lutteral. The BM biography of Vandrebanc describes him as 'the best engraver working in London in his time'.
[Ref: 52537] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth I] Effigies Elizabethæ Reginæ Angliæ etc.
[Anon. after Isaac Oliver, c.1730]
Engraving, sheet 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"). Trimmed within plate, small nick in bottom edge.
One of many prints derived from the drawing by Isaac Oliver (Royal Collection) of Elizabeth I in the dress in which she usually appeared at the opening of Parliament, holding sceptre and orb.
[Ref: 52578] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabetha D.G. Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, Regina.
[Rome: Francesco Corbelletti, 1648.]
Etching. Sheet 110 x 60mm (4¼ x 2½"). Trimmed to printed border.
Portrait of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), published in Famiano Strada's 'De bello Belgico'.
[Ref: 52587] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Elizabeth I.] Lo:Burleigh. Sr. Fr.Walfingham. 322
[after William Faithorne.]
Sold by C. Dicey & Co in Aldermary Church Yard. [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. 200 x 165mm (8 x 6½"). Backed onto album paper at left corners.
Queen Elizabeth I seated in ermine-trimmed cloak, chain and crown, holding the orb and sceptre; Lord Burghley standing to left with a staff and a casket decorated with a royal coat of arms, Sir Francis Walsingham to right holding a scroll.
Fagen p.4.
[Ref: 65275] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth I.] Elizabeth par la grace de Dieu Reyne d'Angleterre Fille de Jenry 8...
[n.d., c.1710.] AParis Ches Habert sue de la Harpe a la Bible D'Or.
Rare line engraving. 255 x 175mm (10 x 7") large margins. Some of publication line removed. Some small foxing.
Portrait of Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
[Ref: 65203] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Elizabeth I.] Elisabet D.G.Ang.Fran.et.Hib. Regina Fidei Christiana Propvgna Trix Acerrima. 23
[After Crispijn de Passe the Elder.]
[n.d., c.1618. Published by Compton Hollard.]
Rare engraving. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Backed onto album paper at sides on left. Some foxing and time-staining.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor.
[Ref: 65273] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabetha Dei Gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regina.
[n.d., c.1652.]
Fine engraving. Plate: 315 x 190mm (12½ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate. Text verso.
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) set in an oval. An illustration from Emanuel van Meteren's 'Historien de Nederlanden' 1652.
[Ref: 46697] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabeth D.G. Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Virginæ Reginæ.
CVS [monogram of Christoffel van Sichem] Scul et ex.
[Arnhem: Jan Jansson, 1614.]
Engraving. 190 x 145mm (7½ x 5¾").
A full-length portrait of Elizabeth I, holding orb and sceptre before a table with a closed book and her coat of arms on a tapestry. In the background is a coastal landscape with town and ship. This is one of a series of eleven portraits by van Sichem (1546-1624), originally published with woodcut borders and Dutch letterpress, c.1603. This example, with 'fol. 662' added top right, comes from Emanuel van Meteren's 'Eigentlich und volkomene Historische beschreibung des Niederlendischen Krieges'.
[Ref: 48204] £320.00

Elisabeta, D.G. Angliae Franciae & Hiberniae Regina.
[n.d. c.1780.] ~Dec 2. pag.119. Top right.
Rare copper Engraving. 315 x 225mm. 12½ x 9". Some toning along left edge.
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603).
[Ref: 19685] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabeth D.G. Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Virginæ Reginæ.
[n.d., c.1600.]
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½'') very large margins. Foxing.
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Engraved by Christoffel van Sichem I. Illustration to E. van Meteren's ''Historia Belgica'' 1600.
See O'Donoghe portraits of Queen Elizabeth 1894 No. 40.
[Ref: 49296] £360.00

Elizabeta D.G. Angliæ Fran. Hibern, et Virginiæ Reginæ.
CVSichem fecit.
[Dortrecht: De l'Impression de Guillaume Guillemot, 1601.]
Etching, set in letterpress. Sheet 270 x 145mm (10¾ x 5¾"). Laid on album paper.
A life-time portrait of Elizabeth I, shown full-length, holding orb and sceptre, after Christoffel van Sichem I (1546-1624). From the second volume of Jean-François Le Petit's 'La Grande Chronique Ancienne et Moderne, de Hollande, Zelande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'An 1600. The English queen was included as she was, according to the sur-title, 'Protectrice de la liberté des Provinces unies du Pays-bas'.
[Ref: 60222] £320.00

Elisabeta, D.G. Angliæ Franciæ & Hiberniæ, Regina.
[Rome: Francesco Corbelletti, 1648.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Slight binding holes on right.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) from Famiano Strada's 'De bello Belgico'.
[Ref: 51801] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
[Anon, c.1620.]
Engraving, sheet 100 x 85mm (4 x 3¼"). Trimmed from book page (type verso); top left corner repaired.
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603); reigned 1558-1603. The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth came to the throne on the death of her half-sister, Mary I. Her long reign, beginning in 1558, saw the secure establishment of the Church of England. It was characterised by relative peace and prosperity, a great increase in foreign trade and exploration, and a flourishing literary culture. Despite receiving many proposals of marriage, Elizabeth remained single and became legendary as the 'virgin queen'.
O'D 117(?)
[Ref: 34234] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth D.G. Angliae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regina.
Phil: a Gunst Sculpsit
M. Marrebeeck excudit [c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; crease through centre not visible from front.
Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen of England and Ireland, reigned 1558-1603. The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth came to the throne on the death of her half-sister, Mary I. Her long reign, beginning in 1558, saw the secure establishment of the Church of England. It was characterised by relative peace and prosperity, a great increase in foreign trade and exploration, the defeat of the Armada, and a flourishing literary culture epitomised by Shakespeare. Despite receiving many proposals of marriage, Elizabeth never married and became legendary as the 'virgin queen'.
[Ref: 42384] £320.00

Elizabeth Queen of England. She dyed at Richmond the 24th March 1602, in the 44th yeare of Her Raign and 70th of Her Life.
W. Marshall sculp:
[n.d., 1648.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper, slight staining.
A half-length portrait of Elizabeth I, the frontispiece to the 1648 edition of Thomas Fuller's 'Holy and Profane State'.
[Ref: 57250] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth thanks Thomas Gresham (text in German and French)]
[Anon., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 100 x 55mm (4 x 2¼").
Elizabeth I and Sir Thomas Gresham, the mercer and merchant adventurer much esteemed by her. Anonymous book illustration.
[Ref: 46369] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Effigies Elizabethæ Reginæ Angliæ etc.
R. White sculp:
[Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crowne in St. Pauls Church yard.] [n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, part 1820 watermark, sheet 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate.
From Gilbert Burnet's 'History of the Reformation', first published 1681. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in inscribed oval frame on pedestal, wearing crown and holding orb and sceptre; royal arms and Latin lettering below.
O'Donoghue: 42.
[Ref: 55262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Her Sacred Majesty Queen Elizabeth, in the Superb Dress in Which She Went to St Paul's, to Return Thanks for the Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Engraved by Charles Turner. from the extremely rare Print by Crispin de Passe, after a Drawing by Isaac Oliver.
London: Published by S. Woodburn, 112 St Martin's Lane [n.d., 1816.].
Mezzotint and etching. Sheet 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 16½"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, to plate on right and slightly on publication line, mounted in album paper at edges.
A full-length portrait Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), based on a contemporary engraving, published in the series 'Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages'.
[Ref: 59417] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

This Print of The Arrival of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle, 9.th July 1575. is with Permission most respectfully dedicated to The Right Honourable the Countess of Clarendon. by her Ladyship's most obedient humble servant, C. Elston. The Scene represents the Cavalcade within the Chase Vide Sir W. Scott's Kenilworth Vol: 3 p.p. 75 to 79.
J. Brandard del. et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Leamington, Published by C. Elston, Lower Union Parade. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 260 x 342mm (10¼ x 13½").
Between the 9th and 27th July 1575, the 41 year old Elizabeth I visited the home of her friend and favourite, Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester, Kenilworth Castle.
[Ref: 28951] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Queen Elizabeth at the Head of her Army at Tilbury-Fort, A.D. 1588. Acta Historica Reginarum Angliae. Plate X. Engraved from the Original Drawing, of the same dimensions in the Possession of Mr. V. Green. To Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the 2:d Empress and Autocratix of All the Russias. This plate is Most Humbly Dedicated by Her Imperial Majesty's Most Devoted and Obedient Servant Valentine Green.
Drawn by J. Gerhard Huck. Engraved by V. Green Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd September 3rd 1792 by V. & R. Green No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London.
Fine mezzotint, very rare, platemark 490 x 625mm (19¼ x 24½"). Creasing; stain top right, uncut, large margins
Queen Elizabeth I delivering her speech to the troops at Tilbury in August 1588 in preparation of the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada. Plate ten of 'Acta Historicae Reginarum Angliae' by the celebrated mezzotinter Valentine Green (1739-183) from drawings by his former student Johann Gerhard Huck (c.1759-1811), with parallel text in French.
Whitman: 257 II of II; CS: 153.10. Ex Collection of Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 23085] £450.00

[Queen Elizabeth in Parliament.]
[n.d., c.1682.]
Engraving. Sheet: 325 x 205mm (12¾ x 8''). Trimmed. Some small loss at edges.
A scene showing Queen Elizabeth seated on an ornate throne in Parliament. An illustration to Sir Simonds D'Ewes 'The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth' 1682.
[Ref: 48653] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Luncheon to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Guildhall 12 June Coronation Year MDMLIII. [Intro Page:] To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A Royal Luncheon given by The Corporation of the City of London at Guildhall Friday 12 June 1953 in Celebration of Her Majesty's Coronation.
Designed & Printed at the Baynard Press, London. [1953.]
Printed letterpress, facsimile and photo-lithograph; embossed front cover; 4 sheet, double-side 4to. 280 x 205mm. 11 x 8".
The programme for the Royal Luncheon held at the Guildhall on Friday 12th June 1953, following her coronation 10 days previously; including the speeches, the musical programme, menu, list of toasts to tbe made, a picture of the Guildhall before damage by enemy action in December 1940, and a list of the Sub-Committee members.
[Ref: 19156] £60.00 view all images for this item

[Elizabeth of Austria] Elisabeth Königin von Polen Ertzhe von Osterreich.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, printed from two plates. Total 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7"), very large margins.
Elizabeth of Austria (1526-45) became Queen of Poland following her marriage to Sigismund II Augustus, but died only two years later, aged 18. From Franz Christoph Khevenhiller's 'Annales Ferdinandei'.
[Ref: 57761] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Elisabhet D'angleterre Femme du Roy de Boheme Comte Palatin du Rhin.
[after Michiel Jansz. Mierevelt.]
B. Moncornet excudit. [n.d., c.1620.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-62), daughter of James I & VI. She married Frederick V (1596-1632), who was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from 1610-23, and King of Bohemia from 1619-20, both roles he was forced to abdicate from. Their children included Prince Rupert, the Royalist general during the Civil War, and Sophia, mother of George I.
[Ref: 52582] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Elizabeth of France] D Elisabethæ Borboniæ Principi serenissimæ Philippi in Hispaniarum Indiarumq. Coniugi Ineomparabili.
[Balthasar Moncornet, n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), very large margins.
Elisabeth of France (or Isabella of Bourbon, 1602-1644), eldest daughter of Henry IV of France, wife of Philip IV of Spain.
[Ref: 56401] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Great and Glorious days of Queen Bess.
Agnes T_n. [Townshend?]
Pub.d 30th June 1781 by H.Humphrey, No 18 New Bond Street.
Engraving. 185 x 270mm (7¼ x 6¾") Creased, some soiling.
A satire on Elizabethan dress, probably a companion print to one satirising the fashion of 1781. It has been suggested that the artist was Agnes Townshend, a noted courtesan.
BM: 5937 (and see 5936).
[Ref: 6849] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Great and Glorious days of Queen Bess.
Agnes T_n. [Townshend?]
Pub.d 30th June 1781 by H.Humphrey, No 18 New Bond Street.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satire on Elizabethan dress, probably a companion print to one satirising the fashion of 1781. It has been suggested that the artist was Agnes Townshend, a noted courtesan.
BM: 5937 (and see 5936).
[Ref: 54354] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Elk. Plate IV. (Elces machlis).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
An Elk as named in Eurasia (Alces alces) or moose as called in North America. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30178] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ella-Polka für das Pianoforte von Johann Strauss. 160.les Werk.
Wien; bei Carl Haslinger, q.m Tobias, k.k. Hof. u. priv. Kunst u. Musikalienhändler [n.d., c.1855].
Music score, pp. 6 with with etched illustrated cover. 310 x 250mm (12¼ x 9¾").
A lady trick-rider billed as ‘Miss Ella', made her début at Vienna's Carl-Theater on 7 February 1855. Her act was a sensation and ran for 51 performances. Johann Strauss capitalised on this novelty act and, just four days later, presented his 'Miss Ella Polka' at his benefit concert in the Sofienbad-Saal. However Carl Haslinger, Strauss's publisher knew something Strauss didn't: 'Miss Ella' was the stage-name of Olmar Stokes, a man, so he amended the title to simply 'Ella-Polka'.
[Ref: 53235] £230.00

[Lord Ellenborough in India] Alarming Situation! In India. From an Old Tame Elephant Running Wild!!! HB Sketches No 760.
HB [monogram of John Doyle]. Printed at 70 St Martins Lane.
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Feb.y 1843.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 295 x 385mm (11½ x 15¼"), with 'HB Subscriber's Copy' blind stamp lower left. Some foxing.
Edward Law (1790-1871), Lord Ellenborough, as an out-of-control elephant with mahout Wellington reassuring Robert Peel and Lord Stanley in a howdah, and Lord Auckland carried in his trunk. Ellenborough was appointed Governor General of India in 1842 (replacing Aukland), with instructions from the British government to restore peace. However India was immediately plunged into war, firstly in Afghanistan, then Sind and Gwalior. Ellenborough was recalled serving only half of the usual 5-year term.
BM 1868,0808.12091.
[Ref: 57999] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Ellice [facsimile signature]. Private Plate.
Painted by George Richmond R.A., D.C.L. Engraved by Thomas L. Atkinson.
[n.d., c.1875.]
Mezzotint on chine collé. 445 x 350mm (18 x 13¾").
Seated portrait of Edward Ellice the younger (1810-80), Scottish politician, son of a deputy-governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and nephew of Earl Grey. He served as Private Secretary to Lord Durham during his diplomatic mission to Russia (1832) and his governor generalship in Canda (1838), and was MP for St Andrews Burghs from 1837 until his death. His wife Katherine is remembered for watercolours she painted of the Patriote rebels who captured her in the rebellion of 1837-8. Ellis attended Trinity College, Cambridge.
[Ref: 48497] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Général Elliot. Quo nihil majus meliusve. Dédié a son Excellence, Milord Vicomte de Torrington. Pair d’Angleterre Ministre Plenipotent.re de Sa Majesté Britannique pres le Gouvernement Général des Pais-Bas Austrichiens &c.&c.&.
De Glim invenit & delineavit. Martin Sculpsit.
Par son tres humble Serviteur, P. De Glim. [n.d. c.1790.]
Stipple, very scarce; 520 x 357mm (20½ x 14"). Thread margins, some spotting.
A portrait of George Augustus Eliott (1717-1790), 1st Baron Heathfield, K.B., celebrating the failure of the 'Grand Assault' of the French and Spanish forces on 13th September, 1782, part of the Great Siege of Gibraltar 1779-83. He stands with one hand on a cannon, with smoking shot to the side. In the background besiegers jump from their ships into the sea. The British used red-hot shot on the ten new floating batteries that the enemy were depending on: three blew up and the others were so badly damaged they were scuttled.
[Ref: 47320] £520.00

[Ann Elliot] Miss Elliot in the Character of Minerva.
R. Cosway Pinx.t. J. Saunders Fecit.
Publish'd as the Act Directs Feb.ry 24, 1774 by H. Bryer at N.º 12 Stephen Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Collector's blindstamp in image.
A head and shoulders portrait in oval of actress Ann Elliot (16 November 1743-69) wearing helmet, medusa collar and carrying a shield. She had relationships with playwright Arthur Murphy, Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland, younger brother of George III.
CS 108, iv of iv. G. 88; Ex: collections of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd & Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860), MP.
[Ref: 66077] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Honble. Sir George Augustus Elliott, Knight of the most honorable Order of the Bath: General of his Majesty's Forces, and Governor of Gibraltar. Who defeated the Spaniards in their Attack upon that Fortress, the 13th September 1782.
Printed for & Sold by Caringtron Bowles, No.69 in St.Pauls Chruch Yard, London.
Published as the Act directs, 9 Nov. 1783.
Mezzotint. 250 x 353mm. Small tear in left edge.
General George Augustus Elliott, 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, [1717 - 1790]. Appointed (1775) governor of Gibraltar, he was forced to defend it against a combined Spanish and French siege that lasted three and a half years (1779-83).
[Ref: 769] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Daniel Ellis Esq.r F.R.S.E.
Painted by Colbin Smith, S.A. Engraved by Thomas Lupton, 4 Kepple Street, Russel Square.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint. 430 x 325mm (17 x 12¾"), large margins. Stains & worm holes in margins.
Dr Daniel Ellis (1772-1841), an English physician, aerologist, botanist and author, who spent most of his career in Scotland, being an important contributor to Edinburgh’s Encyclopædia Britannica (6th edition). He was president of the Royal Medical Society in 1806 and was elected F.R.S.E. (Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) in 1812.
[Ref: 49833] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Ellis.]
[Engraved by Samuel Bellin after John Lucas.]
[n.d., c.1858.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters on chine collé. Platemark: 815 x 510mm (32 x 20"). Small tears to lower edge of sheet in margin.
John Ellis (1789-1862), Quaker, businessman and liberal reformer. He was Chairman of the Midland Railway 1849-58 and MP for Leicester between 1848-52. He attended the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London and was included in Benjamin Robert Haydon's painting of the event, now in the NPG.
Ex collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. The original painting is in the National Railway Museum
[Ref: 39247] £480.00

Joe Pullen's Elm. Hedington Hill, Oxford. ''I have the honor to be well known to Mr Josiah Pullen, of our hall above mentioned, (Magdalen Hall in Oxford) and attribute the florid old age I now enjoy to my constant morning-walks up Hedington hill in his cheerful company.'' Steele, Guardian No.2.
W.m Dela Motte del.t. 1821. Lithog.
Printed & Published by Rowney & Forster.
Lithograph. Sheet 350 x 275mm (13¾ x 10¾"). Slight soiling.
Reverend Josiah Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall from 1656 until his death in 1714, planted this elm c.1680 on a hill with an uninterrupted view of Oxford. He would walk there and back twice daily in half an hour from Magdalen Hall, sometimes accompanied by Richard Steele, the essayist, on a raised footpath that is now Pullen's Lane. The stump of the elm was destroyed by fire in 1909.
Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 52061] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Elm, in Hyde Park.
[first word illegible] & on Zinc by Edward Hassell. Printed by C. Chabot, Zincographer, 7, Thavies Inn, Holborn.
Published by Pigot & Co Fleet St. London [n.d., c.1845].
Rare zincograph. Sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Mounted in album paper.
An illustration of an ancient elm with a hollow trunk. Zincography is the same technique as lithography but using zinc rather than limestone.
[Ref: 63622] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Waterfall, Hyde Park. [&] Elm, in Hyde Park.
[Second image:] from Nature & on Zinc by Edward Hassell.
[n.d. c.1820.] [&] Printed by C. Chabot, Zincographer, 7, Thavies Inn, Holborn. Published by Pigot & Co. Fleet St. London. [n.d. c.1850.]
Sheet with two images, two lithographs, both scarce. Sheet 482 x 330mm. 19 x 13".
View of a waterfall and two swans in Hyde Park, London; [&] View of Hyde Park, with old elm tree in foreground and a cow grazing behind at left; more trees in middle ground, buildings in the distance.
[Ref: 25944] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Miraculous Preservation from Shipwreck, or Captain Donald Campbell, on the Coast of Malabar.
W. E. [William Elmes.]
London Pub. by T. Tegg, Sep 25 1808.
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published. Small tear in lower edge.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg. In 1782, after surviving a cyclone off Goa he was captured and kept prisoner for many years by Hyder Ali, but was finally released and returned to England.
[Ref: 37436] £320.00

Capt. Woodward, defending himself from the Treachery of the Malays.
[William Elmes.]
London Pub. by T. Tegg, Nov. 12 1808.
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg.
[Ref: 37440] £320.00

Wreck of the Antelope Packet, Capt. Henry Wilson, on a Reef of Rocks, near the Pelew Islands.
[William Elmes.]
London Pub. by T. Tegg, Dec. 3. 1808.
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published. Small tear in lower edge.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg. This was the first sustained contact with the Pelew Islands whilst the Antelope was being repaired. Lee Boo, a Pelew islander was brought to London but he died of smallpox. Wilson wrote a popular book about his experiences.
[Ref: 37441] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Shipwreck & dreadfull sufferings of the Captain & crew of an English Sloop in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
[William Elmes.]
[London Pub. by T. Tegg. 1808.]
Aquatint. Sheet size: 185 x 265mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Folds as published. Small tear in lower edge.
From a very scarce series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture. Published by Thomas Tegg. Probably the Rover built at the Tynes Yard Bermuda. She got lost in a fog and struck rocks at Cape Breton Island. All the crew were saved.
[Ref: 37443] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Heloise. In Trance ecstatic may thy pangs be drown'd...
Painted by J. Gardner. Engrav'd by T. Williamson.
London, Published by R. Lambe, Gracechurch Street, Dec.r. 1 1814.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished. 245 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with margins. Tear entering plate, crease top left.
A portrait of Eloisa, face lit by a sunbeam, illustrating Alexander Pope's epic poem 'Eloisa to Abelard'.
[Ref: 55605] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eloisa meditating on St. Preux's Letter. Rousseau's Eloisa Vol.1 Page 16.
F. Wheatly R.A. pinxt.
London Pub.d June 27. 1791 by S. Vivares No.13 G.t Newport Street.
Stipple with etching, printed in sanguine. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"). Faint crease.
A woman seated in a wooded landscape, reading a letter, turning her head away with an expression of despair. Representation of Héloïse, illustrating 'Julie, or the New Heloise', an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) inspired by the 12th century story of Héloïse's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris. After Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
See reference 11566 for one printed in black ink.
[Ref: 63020] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Eloisa. Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, [/] That well known name awakens all my woes. Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. W.Wynne Ryland Sculp.t.
Published Nov. 28, 1779 by W.W. Ryland No.159 Strand, London.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. 310 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"), with large margins. Slight staining. 1 spot above publication line.
A scene from Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard' in which the character of Eloisa, now a nun confesses to the reawakening of her feelings for her husband Abelard who is now a monk. The scene shows Eloisa, sat on a chair in her nun's habit, having just read the letter.
[Ref: 42509] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Eloisa meditating on St. Preux's Letter. Rousseau's Eloisa Vol.1 Page 16.
F. Wheatly R.A. pinxt.
London Pub.d June 27. 1791 by S. Vivares No.13 G.t Newport Street.
Stipple with etching. 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½").
A woman seated in a wooded landscape, reading a letter, turning her head away with an expression of despair. Representation of Héloïse, illustrating 'Julie, or the New Heloise', an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) inspired by the 12th century story of Héloïse's illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard, perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris. After Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801).
See reference 63020 for one printed in sanguine.
[Ref: 11566] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

I view my Crime, but kindle at the view, Repent old Pleasures, and solicit new.
Millar pinx.t 1773. R.Laurie fecit.
London, Printed for R.Sayer & J.Bennett, No 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 12th June 1776.
Mezzotint. 590 x 410mm (23¼ x 16").
A mint example of a rare mezzotint depicting Pope's Eloise & Abelard.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 4248] £1,250.00

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