Grosvenor Prints

[Schoolboys on Holiday.] Vakanzfreuden Junger Studenten. Ecoliers en Vacances.
Gemalt von Hanno Rhomberg. Nach d. Originale aus Stein gez v. C. Straube.
Verlag der K.B. priv. Kunstanstaldt v. Piloty & Loehle in Munchen. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Publisher's blind stamp in centre of title area. Printed area 620 x 445mm (24½ x 17½"). Slight foxing.
Two schoolboys in a shop, trying their first cigars. The original painting was in the collection of Ludvig I of Bavaria.
[Ref: 38086] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Banquet donné aux généraux Buonaparte et Moreau.
Courtin, les figures par Adam. Lith: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 310 x 375m (12¼ x 18¾"), with large margins. Foxing. Taped tear in outside margin.
A banquet in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte on his return from Egypt, held in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, 6th November 1799. Three days later he executed his coup d'etat, becoming First Consul. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The First Interview, or Happiness Sacrificed to Riches. 516
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [****] [1784.]
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Large margins, left margin repaired, tears in edges, date erased.
A young woman turns aside in disgust from a simian-looking suitor. Her father looks very unhappy.
BM Satires 6762; ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37579] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The First Kiss of Love. But soft_to wound those tender lips forbear, Or dread, the fatal Vengeance of the Fair: Tho' sharp Your Strings, her eyes can scatter round, Darts, that with more tormenting strings may wound; Nor, as ye sip, inflict the slightest pain, For unreveng's the Wrong will ne'er remain; But gently gather from those precious rills, Th'ambrosial drops each humid lip destills.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculps. R. Stanier Excudit.
Pubd. July 1.1787 by R. Stanier No.15 Villiers Street, Strand, & T. Simpson St. Pauls Church Yard.
Stipple and etching. 208 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed to plate.
The first kiss of love. A woman sleeping in a garden, reclining on a large sofa, breasts bare, her left arm resting on a cushion, right hand holding roses; Cupid behind her, his left hand lifting a veil over her head, right index finger touching his right eye; to right, a vase on ornamental pedestal.
De Vesme: 1317 iv/iv.
[Ref: 20442] £360.00

The First Letter from the Emigrants. Royal Association Promotion of Fine Arts Scotland. 1850.
Painted by Thomas Faed, ARSA. Engraved by W. Howison, & J. Horsburgh.
Proof. Printed by McGlashon & Wilding.
Engraving, laid on india, proof. India 438 x 552mm (17¼ x 21¾").
Cottage interior with a family gathered listening to a young man reading from a letter.
See Ref: 25616 for later copy (not proof and not on india).
[Ref: 28997] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The First Letter from the Emigrants. Royal Association Promotion of Fine Arts Scotland. 1850.
Painted by Thomas Faed, ARSA. Engraved by W. Howison, & J. Horsburgh.
Printed by McGlashon & Wilding.
Engraving. 463 x 578mm. 18¼ x 22¾". Toning and nicks around the edges of the sheet.
Cottage interior with a family gathered listening to a young man reading from a letter.
[Ref: 25616] £320.00

[The First Mug] La Première Chope.
Peint par Schloesser. Lithog par Durand. Imp. Lemercier, r. de Seine 57, Paris.
Publié par Goupil et C.e le 1.r Octobre 1864. Paris, Londres, La Haye, Bruxelles. Berlin _ Verlag von Goopil & Co. New York, Published by M. Knœdler.
Rare tinted lithograph. Printed area 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"), with large margins, publisher's blind stamp.
A small boy being given his first mug of beer, in a large rustic room. One side is a basket of vegetables, the other a gun and shooting bag. Engraved by André Durand (1837-67) after Carl Schloesser (1832-1914).
[Ref: 53900] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

First of April (by appointment).
Painted by S.E. Jones. Engraved by James Scott.
[London Ackermann & Co, 1838.]
A rare mezzotint. 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"). Tear into inscription area, surface crack, glue stains in left margin.
A middle-aged dandy made an April Fool. He stands, waistcoat and trousers bulging, waiting in vain at a country turnstile while two young women, obviously the senders of the letter in his hand, peer over the wall. This print was advertised as 'newly published' by the Monthly Literary Advertiser May 1838.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 43950] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The First of September. [Title in old ink mss.]
[n.d., c.1835.]
Mezzotint with etching. Image 160 x 130mm (6¼ x 5"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper, title on separate sheet.
A hunter with a gun, ridiculed as a city amateur by sitting him on a chimney pot surrounded by pigeons. In the background a sweep pops out of a chimney, brush in hand.
[Ref: 33869] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The First of September. "I shall be sure to nick em now". Hodgson's Special Originals No. 1.
W.N.
Pub.d by O.Hodgson, 10 Cloth Fair. [n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Image 270 x 180mm, 10½ x 7" Some soiling and damage.
A hunter with a gun. To ridicule him as a city amateur he is sitting on a chimney pot.
[Ref: 13912] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Advancing to the Charge. The First (or Royal) Regiment of Dragoons.
[Pub. by J. Carpenter & Co., Old Bond Street, July 1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving, 225 x 165mm. 9 x 6½".
A military costume engraving, from a series published in the British Military Library or Journal.
Ogilby 134.23
[Ref: 11171] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The First Scrape.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"), on waxy paper. Slight creasing, mounted on album paper.
A young boy plays the violin, music book propped on a chair, watched by his smaller sister.
[Ref: 56339] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Fishing for spouses] Le Bon Poisson. Il aime qu'on le Prenne. [&] Le Poisson des Dames. c'est à qui en attrapera.
A Paris, chez Noël, rue St Jacques No. 16.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each c.220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½") very large margins. A few spots.
Two satirical plates. In the first six men in a boat fish with rod and nets for fish with the heads of women, using different baits. In the second the roles are reversed. Extremely interesting images of dating in the early 19th century!
[Ref: 58457] £690.00 view all images for this item

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man In Their Employment During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 20. Fish.
Designed and Drawn on Stone by R.K.Thomas.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal. Mint.
A central illustration of various landed fish, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of catching them and their preparation as food.
[Ref: 13286] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

How ar' ye off for Fish! a_a_ Soal _ Whiting _ Haddock _ Skait _a_a
Drawn by M.E. [Egerton] Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
Pub. by Geo. Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden [n.d., c.1825.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 310 x 240mm (12¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
A fish-faced man looks at a menu in a restaurant. This satire is an early example of product placement: on the wall behind is an advert for 'Charles Wright's Champagne', one of several references to the brand found in Hunt's satires. The cheapness of the champagne led critics to allege that it was not of French origin, causing Wright to sue. The first state: Thomas Mclean reissued this plate in 1827.
BM Satires 15002. Hickman p.55.
[Ref: 59448] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Études de Poissons. Raie, Maquereau, Brochet, Rouget, Anguille, Langouste, Homard et Ecrevisse.
Peint et Lithog. par Gaildrau.
Paris, L. Turgis J.ne Imp.r Edit.r r. des Ecoles, 60 _ Maison à New-York.
Chromolithograph. Sheet 710 x 540mm (28 x 21¼"). Notch in right edge.
An array of fish and seafood, including a skate, mackerel, pike, mullet, eel, lobster and crayfish, around a bottle, glass of wine and a plate of open oysters.
[Ref: 50258] £520.00

[Two Fighting Fish.]
[Engraved by Antonio Tempesta.]
[n.d., c.1600. Published by Nicoluas van Aelst.]
Etching. 130 x 90mm (5 x 3½"). Trimmed with some time-staining.
Two fish battling. From a series of twenty-six prints depicted two animals fighting each other. By Antonio Tempesta (c.1555-1630) painter, draughtsman, and etcher from Florence, he was a pupil of Stradanus. He was active in Rome around 1580, with his earliest dated prints appearing in 1589. Published by Nicolas van Aelst (c.1550's- 1613) engraver, printer, print dealer and print publisher, from Brussels, working in Rome.
[Ref: 65266] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Studies of Fresh Water Fish. Drawn on stone from Nature, and respectfully dedicated (with permission) to S. Gurney, Jun.r, Esq.r, (Carshalton) by his obedient Serv.t. H.y Leonidas Rolfe. 1851.
Published by the Artist at his Studio, Shorter's Court, Throgmorton S.t City.
Oblong folio, contemporary half morocco gilt, with marbled boards, red morocco gilt title label on front board; lithographed illustrated title pasted on original wrapper; 7 tinted lithographs on thick paper, mounted on stubs, each sheet approx. 355 x 540mm (14 x 21¼"). Binding worn, plates with some surface soiling and spotting, two plates with bottom right corner knocked.
The plates are: Pope, Minnow, Perch, Gudgeon; Barbel, Bream, Chub; Eel, Roach, Dace, Bleak; Tench, Carp; Trout; Graylng; Pike. The set of plates by Henry Leonidas Rolfe (1823-81). As the plates were issued loose in wrappers, complete sets are unusual and very scarce.
[Ref: 60910] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Fish Barks.
Drawn and Etched by John Augustus Atkinson.
London Published as the Act directs, May 1. 1803, by J.A. Atkinson and Ja.s Walker, No. 8, Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess.rs John & Josiah Boydell, Pall Mall & Cheapside.
Hand coloured soft gound etching and aquatint with very large margins. Watermarked paper: 'J. Whatman. 1801'. Platemark: 185 x 245mm (7¼ x 9¾").
Plate 85 from John Augustus Atkinson's (1775 - 1831) 'A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians', 1803 - 1804. The scene depicts Russian fishermen and women on a row boat on the Neva. According to the text these vessels 'serve the fishmongers at once for dwelling houses, shops and fishponds... the lower part of the bark is divided into different wells for the keeping [of] all kinds of fresh-water fish'. John Augustus Atkinson was a British etcher, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He spent 1784 - 1801 in Russia with his uncle, James Walker. After returning to London in 1801, he made prints after his works, of Russian subjects, and made outline etchings for other artists. He also executed paintings on military subjects and battles.
Abbey: 223.
[Ref: 33502] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Marche au Poisson. [The Fish Market.]
Peint par Pierre. Grave par Pelletier.
A Amsterdam chés Pierre Fouquet Junior, A Paris, chés Basan, Graveur, Place Maubert. [n.d., c.1765.]
Etching, 365 x 275mm. 14¼ x 14¾". Tear into plate at left; full margins.
After Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714 - 1789). This particular scene very eastern in content. The man on the left is dressed in Turkish style costume while the market is being held on a harbour front dominated by an antient "lion" fountain.
[Ref: 17578] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A fish market.]
Snyders pinxit. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1782. Publish'd June 1.st 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 18th century watermark, 415 x 580mm (16¼ x 22¾") with large margins. Repaired margins, uncleaned. Platemark splits repaired.
A Dutch market scene, with a man shaking fish into a large basket and another chopping fish. A long table with a variety of sea animals. One of a set of four markets engraved by Earlom after Frans Snyders and Jan Boeckhorst. The original painting is now in the Hermitage Museum, having being bought by Catherine II.
[Ref: 60698] £580.00

A Cornish Hug. A Beau t'other Day made a Monkey like spring...[etc.]
J Nixon Del.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Etching, sheet 340 x 250mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate. Some stain spots.
A feisty female fish seller at Billingsgate market in the City of London exacts a unique revenge upon a man who has upset her stall - a "rib-squeezing hug". Social satire by John Nixon (c.1750 - 1818), amateur watercolourist and designer and maker of satirical prints. Also city trade merchant.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10827] £360.00

Anne Fisher [facsimile signature]
Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding from a Miniature by W.C. Ross. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 200 x 160mm. 8 x 6¼". Rather surface-soiled. Trace of diagonal crease through lower left corner.
Portrait of a woman seated, in a bonnet, stroking a toy spaniel; spindle and thread in background to right. William Ross, portrait 'Miniature painter to the Queen'.
[Ref: 21689] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Rev.d John Fisher D.D. Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of the most Noble Orde of the Garter.
Painted by J. Northcote Esq.r R.A. Engraved by R. Dunkarton.
London, Published March 19-1811, by Wm. Cribb, 13 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, fine. Plate 502 x 351mm (19¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate. Laid on album sheet. Iron spot upper left.
John Fisher (1748-1825) was a Church of England bishop, serving as Bishop of Exeter then Bishop of Salisbury. Salisbury Cathedral in background behind.
NPG: D36931.
[Ref: 29065] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Kitty Fischer.
J. Reynolds pinxt. J. Watson fecit.
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Glued to album page at corners.
Catherine Maria ('Kitty') Fisher (d.1767) as Cleopatra dissolving the pearl. Although originally a milliner, she became an aspiring actress known for her beauty, wit, daring horsemanship and high-profile affairs with men of wealth. She was a favourite model of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Chaloner Smith: 53a, II of II. Hamilton: p.98, III of III. Goodwin: 10, II of II. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7876] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Whaling] To the Hon.ble S.r John Eyles Barr.t Sub-Governour of the South-Sea-Company This Plate of the Whale or Greeland Fishery is most humbly Inscrib'd.
Baston F. E. Kirkall S.
[n.d., 1721.]
Scarce etching, 18th century watermark. Plate c.305 x 400mm (12 x 15¾"), extended with ink mss. image and borders. Tear taped.
A scene of British sailors hunting whales from longboats and (unrealistic) polar bears and walruses on land. The manuscript borders were added to make the print fit with others in a print room.
Ex: Collection Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 59510] £490.00

To the Hon.ble the Court of Directors of the South Sea Company This Piece being a Representation of the Fishery of Great Britain, in it's three different Branches viz.t Cod, Herring, and Whale, is most humbly Dedicated.
T. Baston Del. E. Kirkall sculp.
[n.d., 1721.]
Etching. 255 x 365mm (10 x 14¼"), extended with ink mss. image and borders. Laid on archival paper, with repairs.
A composite scene representing the three most important types of commercial fishing. The manuscript borders were added to make the print fit with others in a print room.
Ex: Collection Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 55664] £360.00

To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, and the other Directors of the Society of the British Fisheries [dedication preface to all plates] This View of the Town and Harbour of Stornoway/ This View of Kilichuirn/ This View of the Town and Port of Oban/ This View of the Harbour of Cana. [Property of (owner's name) follows]. Is humbly Inscribed by Lieut. John Pierie.
Drawn by Lieut. John Pierie of the Roy. Navy. Engraved by John Beugo.
Published as the Act directs Ist. July 1789.
Set of 4 engravings. 400 x 290mm. Some crinkling and discolouration in paper, largely in margins. Faint horizontal crease through centre of all 4 images.
A rare complete set of 4 fisheries on the west coast of Scotland.
[Ref: 4652] £980.00 view all images for this item

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[An Angler in Waders.]
[Joseph Simpson, c.1930.]
Etching, progress proof, 110 x 125mm. 4¼ x 5".
Joseph Simpson (1879 - 1939), painter and etcher of portraits and sporting subjects. Simpson was born in Carlisle and studied art at Glasgow School of Art. He became a close friend of D.Y. Cameron and was elected RBA in 1909. Simpson designed covers for Edinburgh publishers and was a prolific designer of bookplates. In 1918 he became an official war artist for the RAF and was stationed in France. Simpson was already forty-five when he took up etching in 1925, at the height of the boom period for the medium. His first twenty or so plates were etched with a gramophone needle and printed by the artist himself on the small press lent to him by a local Carlisle printing firm. His first exhibition of etchings took place in Glasgow at Wishart Brown in March 1926. His friend Frank Brangwyn wrote the catalogue introduction. A second highly successful show was staged in November 1926 by Alex, Reid and Lefevre in London. Simpson exhibited in Munich, Venice, Florence & Stockholm.
[Ref: 16261] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled fisherman on bridge]
Norman Wilkinson [Pencil signature]
[n/d. c.1930]
Dry point etching. Plate size: 230 x 160mm. 9 x 6.5". Unexamined out of frame.
[Ref: 27833] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Fisherman.
[1762.]
Engraving. Plate: 90 x 110mm (3½ x 4¼") very large margins. Foxing.
A satirical scene showing four authors, Churchill, Smollett, Arthur Murphy and Arthur Beardmore, fishing in the 'Waters of Sedition' by each figure is a bag labelled bait each one with a means with which to catch the public. This print is an illustration to "The British Antidote to Caledonian Poison".
Reduced and reversed copy of BM Satire 3876.
[Ref: 45491] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Fisherman.
Pillement inv.t et delin. P.C. Canot sculp.t.
Published according to Act of Parliament Sep.r 30, 1757. London, Sold at the Golden Head, Little Chapple Street, Soho.
Etching. 205 x 295mm (8 x 11¾"), with very large margins.
Men fishing with nets on a shoreline, with the setting sun.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60319] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Riverside Fishing.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c. 1920s.]
Etching with drypoint with artist's signature in pencil; limited edition 100; 230 x 300mm (9 x 12") very large margins.
Etching of a fisherman standing on the water's edge casting a line into the river. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56127] £320.00

[The Border Angler].
Joseph Simpson [signed in pencil].
[n.d. 1927]
Etching with artist's signature in pencil. 300 x 210mm (12 x 8¼), very large margins. Mount stain.
Etching of a fisherman wading by the bankside with rod and net, smoking a pipe. Joseph Simpson (1879 - 1939), painter and etcher of portraits and sporting subjects. Simpson was born in Carlisle and studied art at Glasgow School of Art. He became a close friend of D.Y. Cameron and was elected RBA in 1909. Simpson designed covers for Edinburgh publishers and was a prolific designer of bookplates. In 1918 he became an official war artist for the RAF and was stationed in France. Simpson was already forty-five when he took up etching in 1925, at the height of the boom period for the medium. His first twenty or so plates were etched with a gramophone needle and printed by the artist himself on the small press lent to him by a local Carlisle printing firm. His first exhibition of etchings took place in Glasgow at Wishart Brown in March 1926. His friend Frank Brangwyn wrote the catalogue introduction. A second highly successful show was staged in November 1926 by Alex, Reid and Lefevre in London. Simpson exhibited in Munich, Venice, Florence & Stockholm.
[Ref: 56121] £330.00

[Vinegar Valentine.] A mermaid I think, will be your bride, [/] If even a mermaid you can find, [/] Willing to take such a creature as you, [/] You're the fishiest animal ever I knew.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Colour-printed lithograph. Sheet: 215 x 125mm (8½ x 5").
A cruel Victorian valentine poking fun at a fisherman. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 43805] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Fisherman Going Out.
G. Carter pinxt. J. Jones fecit.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Novr.19 1782 by G. Carter Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 500mm. (14 x 19½").
[Ref: 1179] £320.00

The Fisherman Going Out. [&] The Fisherman's Return.
GCarter pinx.t. J. Jones fecit.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Nov.r 19 1782 by GCarter Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.
Pair of mzzotints, matching pair; 490 x 340mm (19¼ x 13½"), on 'H & S' wove paper. Repair to margin of 'Going Out'.
A fisherman walking to his boat, carrying the nets, and his return to his family with some of his catch. After George Carter (1737-94).
[Ref: 54222] £550.00 view all images for this item

G.W.'s Transparencies. The Fisherman's Hut.
London: Published for G.W., by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside, W. Morgan, 49, Judd Street, New Road; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; and J. Reynolds, 174, Strand [n.d., c.1845].
Lithograph, mounted in card with title label. Card 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9").
A view of men fishing on an estuary on a moonlit night, with their hut on one side and a ruined abbey on the other. The print has been treated so that holding it up to a light source enhances the scene.
[Ref: 61093] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Morning. The Fishermans Departure. [&] Evening. The Fishermans Return.
Painted by R. Corbould. Engraved by W. Ward.
Published August 1st 1799 by B. F. Scott, No. 80 Tottenham Court Road, London.
A pair of coloured mezzotints, very fine colour & rare. Plate size: 610 x 490mm, 24 x 19¼" each. Few marks and minor stains. Unexamined out of frames.
Morning. A young man wearing a fur hat and carrying oars over his shoulder, gesturing towards a boat drawn up on the seashore to the left while looking back at a baby held in its mother's arms at the doorway to a thatched building; two boys carry nets and a basket on poles ahead of their father, and a little girl stands holding onto her mother's skirts. / Evening. Interior of a cottage where a young man wearing a fur hat is displaying his catch to his wife, who sits on the left with a sleeping baby on her knee and knitting on the stool beside her; a little girl and two boys bend over the basket at the man's feet, one boy showing a large crab, while the man holds up a large fish, and a kitten menaces a lobster.
Frankau: 204 II of II.
[Ref: 28098] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Fishermans Hut.
Willes Johnson pinx.t Lith de E. Ardit, r. Vivienne.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 310 x 432mm. 12¼ x 17". Tear in upper left-hand side of margin.
A scene outside a fisherman's hut. A man on a donkey rides along the path to the left. Smoking his pipe, the fisherman sits with two rods.
[Ref: 18434] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Fishermen.
H. Bunbury Esq.r del.t G. Shepheard sculp.t
[London Published: Jany. 10th. 1796, by Tho.s Macklin Poets Gallery Fleet Street.]
Hand-coloured stipple and etching. Watermarked: Whatman. 279 x 222mm. 11 x 8¾". Cut.
A fisherman unloads fish from his boat into a basket held by a fisherwoman; another fisherman stands holding two fish in his right hand; a dog looks on at the couple unloading the boat. From a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury.
BM Satires: 11456 (cf).
[Ref: 20104] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

No. 42. [Fishermen.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805. [but c.1820.]
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 260 x 365mm, 10½ x 14¼".
Fishermen with nets, published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430, 42.
[Ref: 27027] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Spring Fish
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil].
[n.d. c. 1920s].
Etching with artist's signature in pencil; Limited edition 100; 225 x 300mm (9 x 12"), very large margins.
An etching of two men on a riverbank; one holds a fishing rod, the other a speared fish. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56122] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Fishermen on a beach.]
J.T. Serres fec.t. 1803.
Pen Lithograph. Sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Trimmed into image at sides. Slight creasing.
From 'Specimens of Polyautography'.
BM: 1866,0407.125.
[Ref: 58068] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Peche d'ete.
[Anon.]
[Paris, c.1825. Russian School]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 205 x 285mm. 8 x 11¼".
French fishermen bringing in their nets at the quayside after a day at sea, with the assistance of a man-powered winch. Ship in background. Numbered 'N.48' upper right. Russian collection stamp to verso.
[Ref: 13111] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To Claude Scott Esq.r of Sans Souci, Dorsetshire, this plate of Fishermen, is most respectfully dedicated with Permission, by His most humble and much obliged Servants, J. Hassell & T. Rickards.
Painted by P.Reinagle R.A. Engraved by J. Hassell & W. Nicholls.
London: Pub.d May 2 1814 by J. Hassell & T. Rickards, 344, Strand.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint proof, very scarce in good condition. 450 x 540mm (17¾ x 21¼"). Title area bit messy.
Three anglers discussing their catch at the side of a river, possibly the Frome or Piddle in Dorset, as Beazley has traced 'Sans Souci' to Tolpuddle, Dorset.
Beazley: 170, illus, 'very appealing picture'.
[Ref: 56117] £850.00

Fishermen. From an Original Drawing of J. Mortimer. in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r; to whom this Plate is most humbly Inscrib'd by His much oblig'd and most obedient Servant, R. Blyth.
Drawn by J. Mortimer 1774. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs. Nov.r 9th 1780 by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Etching. 390 x 440mm (15¼ x 17¼"), with very wide margins on 2 sides. Trimmed to plate lower and upper sides. Creasing along left and right edges in margins. Repaired tear in title area.
A group of fishermen hauling a net. A woman stands to the right with her breast exposed and a classical figure to her right.
[Ref: 53974] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[A Lowland Stream.]
[Robert Nesbet Snodgrass.]
[n.d. c. 1930s.]
Etching with drypoint. 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"), with very large margins. Taped in mount.
Etching of a man wading and fishing in the river.
[Ref: 56132] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Scottish Fishing scene.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed bottom right.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, 225 x 305mm. 9 x 12".
A fish jumping out of the water. Norman Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 12311] £320.00

Les Pecheurs des Monts Pyrenees. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de Jos: Vernet, Peintre du Roi.
Jos.Vernet pinx. J. Jac. Le Veau Sc.
Se vend a Paris, chez le Veau, rue S. Jacques, vis-a-vis le College du Plessis. [c. 1790.]
Copper engraving, very fine, 400 x 490mm. 15¾ x 19¼".
A fishing party on a rocky shoreline examining their catch in a basket, one man holding rod and line; a boat being dragged on to shore in an inlet behind. Also ship out to sea, a fisherman bringing in his net, and a mule train descending the cliffs in distance to left. After the famous marine artist Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789).
[Ref: 16384] £330.00

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