Grosvenor Prints

[The Annunciation.]
Warner [Joseph Werner] delin. Lens fe:
E. Cooper ex [n.d., c.1690.]
Scarce Mezzotint. 130 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Thread margins.
The archangel Gabriel informs Mary that she would bear Jesus through a virgin birth. A dove representing the Holy Spirit is bathed in light.
See 1870,0514.2755 for a matching scene of the Holy Family in the stable.
[Ref: 60135] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Member of the Benevolent Pension Society?]
Painted and Engraved by W.T. Dennis 1852.
Mezzotint. Sheet 375 x 245mm (14¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, creases in corners.
A three-quarter length portrait of a man in tailcoat and velvet waistcoat, resting one hand on architectural plans, probably for almshouses for a Benevolent Pension Society.
[Ref: 63175] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of a young man in wig.]
Kneller [pencil in later hand]
[n.d, 1812 written in ink on reverse.]
Chalk portrait on paper. Sheet 245 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). Edges chipped.
A half-length portrait in a roundel.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35557] £950.00

Dandy Dick, the Mostrous Masher.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Wood engraving, printed in red. Sheet 380 x 80mm (15 x 3¼") Folded, several worm holes.
A caricature of a dandy, smoking a cheroot.
[Ref: 63711] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Oh no! I never touch Spirits.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Wood engraving, printed in green. Sheet 380 x 80mm (15 x 3¼") Folded, one worm hole.
A caricature of a woman, gin bottle in her basket.
[Ref: 63712] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

'Ossy, who'll take the odds?
[n.d., c.1900.]
Wood engraving, printed in red. Sheet 380 x 80mm (15 x 3¼") Folded, several worm holes.
A caricature of a gambler, pencil between his teeth, notebook in hand.
[Ref: 63713] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Image of its Dad.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Wood engraving, printed in green. Sheet 380 x 80mm (15 x 3¼") Folded, several worm holes.
A caricature of a grinning man holding a baby in a christening gown.
[Ref: 63714] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Women herding cows, sheep and goats.]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching, proof before letters. 460 x 650mm (18 x 25¾"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear, vertical centre fold.
Peasants and their flocks at a stream. One woman rides a cow laden with firewood.
[Ref: 47933] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Another Warning! Your Newsman I, and humbly crave; Again to sing my New Year's Stave: Last year I gave you breathing time; And did not preach in all my rhyme; . . . . Command his services, and he Your's most obsequiously will be: Your smiles shall speed his tripping feet, Your Mite shall make those smiles most sweet. || *[asterisked insert] And thus from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale." Shakespear [taken from "As You Like It."]
[n.d. c.1760.]
Letterpress. 203 x 164mm. 8 x 6½". Laid on separate sheet.
[Ref: 13010] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Another World: Nineteenth Century Illustrated Print Culture.
Patricia Mainardi.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017.
4to, paper boards with illus. d/w. pp. viii + 296, profusely illustrated.
An account of popular prints in the C19th.
[Ref: 59737] £50.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), with large margins, on 18th century watermarked paper. Some faint foxing. Two small tears in margins.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS 3. Charrington 33 ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65616] £480.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"). Trimmed to plate lower bottom. Small margins on 3 sides.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS 1 Uncleaned inbetween i & ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65618] £520.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, with unknown Collector's Mark. 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), large margins. Crease across upper right corner.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS 3. Charrington 33 iii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65620] £420.00

Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Sir Lawrence Dundas Bart.
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Very fine mezzotint, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), on 18th century watermarked paper.. Small margins. Some minor foxing.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
CS3 vii of viii. Charrington 33 iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 65608] £420.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), with large margins, on 18th century watermarked paper. Some faint foxing. Repaired tear at bottom centre going into image.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
Charrington 33 ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65617] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Sir Lawrence Dundas Bart.
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 525 x 440mm (20¾ x 17¼"). Trimmed close to iamge.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
Charrington 33 iv of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65612] £320.00

[Regnier Hansloe an Anabaptist Minister, and His Wife.]
Rembrandt Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint & Sculpsit.
Published May 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint proof before title, 530 x 445mm (21 x 17½"), with large margins, on 18th century watermarked paper.
Double portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 - 1646), Dutch Mennonite minister and his wife Aeltje Schooten. The minister wears a hat, his right-hand outstretched as he speaks earnestly to his wife who is sitting on the left. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian born Dutch cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo.
Charrington 33 ii of iv. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65610] £490.00

Incendie de la Ville de Paita sur la Côte de Santa Fé, dans la Mer du Sud.
[Paris, c.1756.]
Engraving. 210 x 370mm (8¼ x 14½"). Trimmed lower right for binding, binding folds as normal
A view of Commodore Anson's fleet attacking the Spanish town of Paita in north Peru, during his privateering circumnavigation. Published in Abbe Prevost's 'Histoire generale des voyages', it copies the engraving from the official account, probably drawn by Peircy Brett, Anson's first lieutenant.
[Ref: 49984] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble George Lord Anson. Baron of Soberton, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Vice Admiral of Great Britain. Admiral of the Blue Squadron, & one of his Majesty's most Hon.ble Privy Council.
[After Sir Joshua Reynolds][Engraver James McArdell]
[Published by James McArdell] [n.d. c.1755]
Mezzotint proof before artist, engraver and publisher were added. Print 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet. Crease through middle.
Three-quarter length portrait of naval officer and politician George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762), with his right hand on his hip and left resting on anchor, ship and foliage behind. He wears shoulder-length wig and embroidered coat and waistcoat. Anson served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro during the War of the Quadruple Alliance. He then undertook a circumnavigation of the globe during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Anson commanded the fleet that defeated the French Admiral de la Jonquière at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre during the War of the Austrian Succession. Anson went on to be First Lord of the Admiralty during the Seven Years' War.
CS 2. Goodwin 43. Hamilton page 2.
[Ref: 58873] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Lord George Anson Admiraal Van Groot Brittanje.
J. Wandelaar effig ad viv. J. Houbraken Sculp.
te Amsterdam bu P. Fouquet Junior. [n.d c.1751]
Rare engraving, 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Thread margins. Some very light foxing.
Half length portrait of Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762), wearing admiral's jacket, short wig and set within an oval. A naval reformer, distinguished Royal Navy officer and politician. He sailed around the world (1740-44) ) during the War of Jenkins' Ear attacking the Spanish in the Pacific, burning Payta in Peru, and capturing a treasure galleon full of silver. Worth half a million pounds, 32 wagons were needed to take the silver to the Tower of London. After Dutch draughtsman and etcher Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) and engraved by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780) a Dutch engraver who specialised in portraits, he also collected and dealt in Rembrandt etchings.
[Ref: 65939] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Lord Anson.
J. Chapman sc.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 1. 1800.
Stipple with large margins. Plate: 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 6¾").
Half portrait in a roundel of Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762) an admiral of the British Navy, who also served as an MP in Yorkshire between 1744 ad 1747 and was elevated to Lord Anson, Baron of Soberton in 1747. Following a prestigious career which included a circumnavigation of the world and the defeat of the French fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, Amherst was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty between 1751 and 1756 and again between 1757 until his death.
[Ref: 33525] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Anson. The renowned George Lord Anson, one of our most enterprizing and successful circumnavigators, and heroick British admirals, was the son of William Anson, Esq. of Huckborough, in Staffordshire...It has been pleasantly remarked of this great man, who was not unfrequently duped at play, that "he had been round world, but never in it".
From Houbraken. Rothwell sculp.
Published by Harrison & Co. April 1. 1795.
Engraving and letterpress. Plate of image 63 x 58mm (2½ x 2¼"); printed area 185 x 89mm (7¼ x 3½").
George Anson (1697-1762), admiral and naval reformer. From 1740 to 1744 he sailed around the world attacking the Spanish in the Pacific, burning Payta in Peru, and capturing the Manila galleon with a treasure of half a million pounds. He was twice Lord of the Admiralty from 1751-6 and again from 1757-62.
NPG: D38589.
[Ref: 28928] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[George Anson].
[Engraved by J. Houbraken].
[n.d. c.1751].
Proof before letters printed in Amsterdam, engraving. 240 x 375mm. Foxing, mostly outside image.
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson [1697-1762] admiral and naval reformer. He sailed around the world 1740 - 44 attacking the Spanish in the Pacific, burning Payta in Peru, and capturing a treasure galleon full of silver. Worth half a million pounds, 32 wagons were needed to take the silver to the Tower of London. Rare proof before all letters. Included in the 'Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain' published in folio in London by Knapton between 1743 and 1752. After the painting by J. Wandelaar.
[Ref: 3298] £450.00

Thomas Viscount Anson.
Painted by T. Phillips Esqr R.A. Engraved by C. Turner, Member of the American Academy of Fine Arts.
London Published April 24, 1823 by Mr. Turner 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 546 x 386mm (21½ x 15¼"). Cut, losing part of publication line' stain lower right.
Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in an armchair in a room with pillars, shelves of books, a sculpted bust, and archway; wearing a dark double-breasted coat, light waistcoat and neckerchief; holding a plan above his knees; on left, portfolio with scraped lettering "T.P. 1819"; on right, a table with papers, books, inkstand, inkwells and pens. Engraved from a portrait by Phillips now in Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire. Thomas William Anson (1795-1854), 1st Earl of Lichfield, known as The Viscount Anson from 1818 to 1831, was a British Whig politician who served under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne as the Master of the Buckhounds and later as Postmaster General.
Ex Collection: The Late Hon.ble Christopher Lennox-Boyd. NPG: D37327. Whitman: 18, ii.
[Ref: 28771] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Lichfield [facsimile signature].
A D'Orsay fecit - 1839 [signed in plate.]
London, Published Augst. 5th. 1839 by J. Mitchell Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 205 x 170mm. 8 x 6¾". Small scratches in the india.
Portrait of Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield (1795 - 1854), MP for Yarmouth and Postmaster General. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue p.61, 1.
[Ref: 21825] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

D. T. Ansted [facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1850. [Etched in plate.]
[M & N Hanhart, London.]
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 600 x 435mm (23½ x 17") very large margins. Some foxing in margins.
A three quarter length portrait of geologist David Thomas Ansted (1814-1880). Ansted was appointed a follow of the Royal Society in 1844 and by 1850 had produced a number of seminal texts and manuals on practical geology. From the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852, the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were designed to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846. American interest in Virginia.
Wellcome: 78.
[Ref: 57122] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Christopher Anstey]
Engraved by J. Hibbert Jun.r [after Thomas Lawrence].
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple. 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"), watermarked 1794. Old ink mss. title. Small margins. Very small pinhole left centre.
English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), sitting at his desk, writing. Resident at 4 Royal Crescent, Bath, he penned 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', an immediate success. Although he is buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath, he has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 59810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Anstey Esquire. Aetat 52.
T. Lawrence R.A. del.t. W. Bond sculp.t.
Published March 1st 1807, by Cadell and Davies, Strand.
Stipple. Sheet size: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within platemark.
A half-length seated portrait of English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), at his desk, writing. He is best known for his famous rhymed letters, 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', 1766. The work had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. Anstey was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath but has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq.'.
[Ref: 67852] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Anstey Esquire. Aetat 52.
T. Lawrence R.A. del.t. W. Bond sculp.t.
Published March 1st 1807, by Cadell and Davies, Strand.
Stipple. Sheet size: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside platemark at lower and right edges. Glued to backing sheet in corners.
A half-length seated portrait of English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), at his desk, writing. He is best known for his famous rhymed letters, 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', 1766. The work had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. Anstey was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath but has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq.'.
[Ref: 32204] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Edmund Anstie]
C.H.Jeens 75 [Etched in plate]
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 204 x 132mm.
Physician. [1833-1874]
[Ref: 3443] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

William Anstruther of Anstruther one of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council & Exchequer, And one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice in the Kingdome of Scotland.
I.B de Medina Pinx. I. Smith fe:
[n.d. c.1694]
Mezzotint, 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait of Sir William Anstruther, Lord Anstruther (d. 1711), almost half-length, turned to the left within an oval frame, his head facing slightly towards the viewer. He wears a long curled wig, cloak, and lace cravat. Anstruther was a Scottish judge and politician from an ancient Scottish family. He represented Fife in the Scottish Parliament and, following the Revolution of 1688, became a Lord of Session and Privy Councillor. He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1694 and later appointed a Lord of Justiciary. A strong supporter of the Union, he also published Essays, Moral and Divine (1701).
CS 14 II of II. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69820] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

William Anstruther of Anstruther one of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council & Exchequer, And one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice in the Kingdome of Scotland.
I.B de Medina Pinx. I. Smith fe:
[n.d. c.1694]
Very rare mezzotint printed in red, sheet 280 x 200mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed to plate on right, thread margins elsewhere. Top right small loss.
Portrait of Sir William Anstruther, Lord Anstruther (d. 1711), almost half-length, turned to the left within an oval frame, his head facing slightly towards the viewer. He wears a long curled wig, cloak, and lace cravat. Anstruther was a Scottish judge and politician from an ancient Scottish family. He represented Fife in the Scottish Parliament and, following the Revolution of 1688, became a Lord of Session and Privy Councillor. He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1694 and later appointed a Lord of Justiciary. A strong supporter of the Union, he also published Essays, Moral and Divine (1701).
CS 14 II of II. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69821] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Answer.]
W. Dendy Sadler. Jules Jacquet [Pencil signatures, signed in plate by Sadler.]
London Published 1912 L.H. Lefevre & Son 1a King Street St.James' S.W. The Proprietors of the Copyright. Imprimerie A. Salmon, Paris.
Etching, artist's remarque proof, 460 x 355mm. 18 x 14". A fine impression. Crease to margin lower right.
A woman composing a letter at her writing-desk; wall-mounted clock upper left. Remarque of a carrier-pigeon holding a letter in its beak. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left. After Walter Dendy Sadler (1854 - 1923).
Not listed in PSA.
[Ref: 14073] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Answer to John Bulls Complaint. 233.
T Tegg Cheapside [n.d.]
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark 1819; Plate 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
The Regent, seated sideways on his chair, is in back view, holding out his hand in an oratorical gesture towards a ragged and despairing John Bull, who stands hat in hand addressing him. He says: "Why you unatural Grumbler after I have done all I could to get rid of your Money you Still grumble did I not give you a Fète did I not Build you a Bridge did I not Treat you with a Smell of all the nice things at my Feast did I not sign the Corn Bill did I not refuse the [scored through] your Address have I not drank whole Pipes of Wine for fear it should be waste'd have I not spent all your money because you should not spend it your self have you not got the Income Tax to keep you sober, & as for your Dress the Thinner the better for the Sumer Season so Johnny go Home to work its all for the good of your Country." The Regent wears a powdered wig and whiskers, a tight-waisted coat with small pointed tails over very tight breeches, sleeves puffed at the shoulders. John has no coat, wears a tattered waistcoat, shirt, and breeches, has one ragged stocking with a pad over the knee, and one bare leg covered with a twisted straw rope, with dilapidated shoes, thus resembling a destitute day labourer instead of a 'cit' or farmer. He registers despair and alarm.
BM Satires 12556. W: 395.
[Ref: 52272] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Anteater. Myrmecophaga Jubata.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
A pair of giant anteaters, natives to central and South America. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45776] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

('Black Buck') The Alarm [in crayon].
Horace W. Williamson [signature in pencil].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8" x 10½". Small crease in the paper.
Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is a species of antelope found mainly in India, but also in parts of Pakistan and Nepal.
[Ref: 8951] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Young Eland. Oreas Canna.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 280 x 345mm (11 x 13½"). With a text page.
A large antelope of southern Africa, from 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park.' Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 30148] £350.00

The Leucoryx Antelope. Oryx Leucoryx
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 290 x 350mm (11½ x 13¾"). With a text page.
A large antelope of southern Africa, from 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park.' Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 30149] £350.00

[The Defassa Waterbuck. Plate IX. (Cobus defassa).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [n.d. c.1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 171 x 241mm (6¾ x 9½").
Three waterbuck, a large antelope found widely in sub-Saharan Africa. 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: 30181] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Antelope and Zebra]
5/50. A Radclyffe Dugmore [pencil signature].
[n.d. c. 1910]
Etching, signed by artist. 215 x 315mm (8½ x 12½")., with large margins. Laid on paper. Some marking in top corners.
Landscape of Antelope and Zebra grazing, East Africa, by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-1955), Welsh-born American naturalist and wildlife photographer, painter, print-maker and author.
[Ref: 54760] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Antelope & L'Atalante] To the R.t Hon.ble the Earl of Chesterfield, & the R.t Hon.ble Lord Walsingham, Postmasters General, This Plate representing the Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer L'Atalante, Is by permission most respectfully dedicated by their Lordshipa most oblig'd & most obed.t humble Servant, Charles Rosenberg.
Painted by Tho: Yates Lieu.t R.N. Engrav'd by Cha: Rosenberg.
Publish'd as the Act directs, May 12. 1794, by Robert Wilkinson, N.º 58 Cornhill.
Scarce coloured aquatint. 270 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into plate at top, paper cockled, staining.
On December 1, 1793, the British packet ship Antelope was passing by Cuba on her way home to England from Jamaica, when she was engaged by two French schooners, one of which was L'Atalante (probably an old American privateer which passed into French hands at the end of the war for American independence). L'Atalante gave chase alone after the Antelope bore up for Jamaica, and caught up the following day. The Atalante grappled the Antelope and its crew tried to board the British ship, but was repulsed and, in the ensuing battle, the Antelope took possession of its opponent.
See Edgar Stanton Maclay, 'History of American Privateers', pp.189-90.
[Ref: 69864] £490.00

St Anthony & the Infant Jesus.
Morillio Pinxit. John Dean Fecit.
Published Aug.t the 7th 1776, by John Dean, No 13, Church Street, Soho.
Mezzotint. Sheet 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed to plate, worming in sky area, some filled, pin-holes remaining.
St Anthony (1195-1231, the patron saint of Lost Things), wearing a habit, on one knee in a landscape, holding a lily and a large open book on which the infant Jesus stands. After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
[Ref: 45229] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

St Anthony & the Infant Jesus.
Morillio Pinxit. John Dean Fecit.
Published Aug.t the 7th 1776, by John Dean, No 13, Church Street, Soho.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (19¾ x 14"). Thread margins.
St Anthony (1195-1231), the patron saint of Lost Things, wearing a habit, on one knee in a landscape, holding a lily and a large open book on which the infant Jesus stands. After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67515] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Anthony and Cleopatra] The Death of Mark Anthony. La Mort de Marc Antoine.
Angelica Kauffman pinxit. J.M. Delattre sculpsit.
Published according to Act, Feb.y 23rd, 1785, by Ann Bryer, No. 5, Poland Street, Soho.
Stipple, printed in brown. 385 x 330mm (15¼ x 13"), with large margins. Mint.
The death of Marcus Antonius according to Shakespeare: having stabbed himself he finds that Cleopatra is still alive, dying in her arms.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60310] £350.00 (£420.00 incl.VAT)

[The Temptation of St. Anthony]
[after David Teniers the younger.]
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 360 x 295mm (18 x 11¾"). Trimmed into image, losing all inscriptions. Repaired tears. Slight marks on saint's head.
St Anthony praying in a cave while a demon is trying to tempt him with a glass of wine, monstrous creatures all around. An adapted copy of the engaving by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (BM 1850,0713.32).
[Ref: 70018] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

S. Antonius de Padua.
[Johann Elias Ridinger.]
[n.d. c.1740.]
Mezzotint, very scarce with small margins. Plate 526 x 394mm (20¾ x 15½"). Some creasing.
A large and impressive mezzotint of St. Anthony of Padua with elliptic gloriole sitting to the left, worshipping the child Jesus in his glory gliding in the clouds. His hands resting on an open book, from which a long blossom branch projects. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), the Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, who was patron of animals.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28372] £360.00

D. Antonius van Dyck Eques. [In image] Ant Van Dyck pinxit. De Larmessin Sculp.
From 'Academie des Science et des Arts', Amsterdam 1682.
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 135 (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Foxing along the left margin.
Half portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), back turned and looking over his shoulder. Van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist and, after artistic success in the Netherlands and Italy, was recruited as a court painter in England. He was granted a knighthood by Charles I.
[Ref: 53791] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Anti-British propaganda relating to 4th Anglo-Dutch War] Algemeene Staatkundige Konstplaat Van't Jaar 1780 [parallel text in French below]
[Amsterdam, 1780]
Etching, sheet 485 x 455mm (19 x 18"). Trimmed inside platemark on left, folds. Very scarce.
Fifteen satirical images directed against the British preceding the outbreak of war between the English and the United Provinces in 1780, a war related to the American Revolutionary War. Most of the plate is composed of reduced of reduced versions of previously published plates. Some have explicit American content, such as 8 (which mentions Florida) and 15 (Philadelphia). In the wake of the Gordon Riots in London, 'the intention here seems to be to identify English sailors with the plundering London mob' (George).
BM Satires 5728; plate also includes copies of BM Satires 5712-22
[Ref: 30062] £650.00

A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affiliated friends.
[After Thomas Rowlandson]
Publish'd February 1st 1799 by [Wright's name erased] for the Anti Jacobin Review. by J Whittle Peterborough Court Fleet Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 305 x 460mm (12¼ x 18"). Trimmed within plate. Vertical crease as normal in centre where previously folded.
Satirical illustration from the ‘Anti-Jacobin Review’ (vol. ii, frontispiece) depicts a chaotic, hellish scene titled the Cave of Despair, where radical political figures are shown as demonic conspirators. A divine light from above drives away evil, symbolizing divine intervention against revolution and sedition. Three robed figures (wizards) prepare a grotesque potion in a cauldron inscribed with names and symbols of rebellion, such as Kosciuszko’s blade (1746-1817) and Fox’s (1749-1806) fur, while the Devil and a monster watch approvingly. Pamphlets promoting radical ideas like atheism, sedition, and insurrection fuel the flames beneath the cauldron, added by figures like Horne Tooke (1736-1812). A grim procession of opposition politicians, including Fox, Erskine (1750-1823), Tierney (1761-1830), and Thelwall (1764-1834), file into the cave, each uttering phrases of regret or defiance. Above them, the King (1738-1820) and ministers like Pitt (1759-1806) and Grenville (1759-1834) appear in divine light, symbolizing order and justice. Meanwhile, defeated demons including Robespierre (1758-94) and Voltaire (1694-1778) flee, and an ape dressed as a newsboy (symbolizing the radical press) sounds his horn, spreading seditious ideas. The scene is a visual condemnation of revolutionary ideology, radical journalism, and political opposition, portraying them as part of a satanic conspiracy against Britain.
BM Satires 9345.
[Ref: 67299] £320.00

Anticipation. hus let me wipe dishonor from my name, And hurl thee from the earth, thou stain to goodness. Perdition take thee, villain, for thy falshood! Now nothing but thy life can make atonement.
Second Sketch - Published Feby 9. 1784 as the act directs, by S. Fores No.3 Piccadilly.
Etching, printed on Portal watermarked paper. 240 x 221mm. 9½ x 8¾". Chip to upper left corner.
Fox (left) and North (right), stripped to the waist, are engaged in a pugilistic encounter. Fox's torso is so hairy that it suggests the effect of tarring and feathering. They stand in profile with clenched fists, Fox's left being near North's nose; both are fat, clumsy, and muscular. A boxing print.
BM Satires: 6407.
[Ref: 25568] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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