Grosvenor Prints

The Lady Essex Finch.
S.r P. Lely pinxit. J. Vander Vaart fecit.
R. Tompson excudit [n.d., c.1680].
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed to plate, mounted on album paper.
Three-quarter seated portrait of Essex Finch (c.1652-84), Countess of Nottingham, leaning on a table with a vase of flowers, a column behind.
Blackett-Ord T55. CS 3. Russell 3, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65349] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Effigies of the Right Hon.ble Heneage Lord Finch, Baron of Daventry, Lord High Chancellor of England, &one of the Lords of the most Hon.ble Privy Councell, o King Charles ye. Second Anno Dni: 1676.
After John Michael Wright
1679
Engraving. Sheet 280 x 170mm (11 x 6¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning.
Heneage Finch (1620-1682), became 1st Earl of Nottingham in 1681, a position which was created for him, and resided in what is now known as Kensington Palace. He had an active role during the Popish Plot.
[Ref: 53745] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Margaret Finch Queen of the Norwood Gypsies, Died 1740, Aged 108 Years.
Jack Sharp sculp.t [after John Straeho].
[n.d., c.1742.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 210mm (10 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, some damage & loss in edges, mounted on album paper.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was fortune-teller Margaret Finch (d.1740). A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 60891] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Margaret Finch Queen of the Gypsies at Norwood.
Drawn from the Life by Ino. Straeke 1739. Engrav'd by Hen. Roberts 1742.
Engraving. 240 x 230mm. Trimmed inside plate mark along bottom edge. Stuck on scrap sheet.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was Margaret Finch [d.1740]. A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 5760] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Maidstone [facsimile signature].
A. D'Orsay fecit 24 Mai 1840 - [signed in plate.]
London, Published by J. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond Street. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph on india paper, india 205 x 165mm. 8 x 6½".
Portrait of George Finch-Hatton, 11th Earl of Winchilsea (1815 - 1887). 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 undescribed.
[Ref: 21880] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Finding of Arms or A Midnight Domiciliary Visit to the Boarding School.
[by Charles Williams]
No.111 Cheapside
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 380mm (9¾ x 15"), with large margins. Paper watermarked 'G. Wilmott / 1819'
Satire on the Search for Arms Act, brought in December 1819. This print, in which a police-officer with a warrant searches the dormitory of a female boarding school during the night, responds specifically to protests against searches being conducted during the night on account that they would subject women to 'insult and indignity'. Etching by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830, fl.), prolific etcher of satires from his own designs and those of other artists (especially Woodward). Almost all his plates are anonymous and little work has been done to establish for certain which prints he made. As a result Williams is little-known in comparison with contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray in spite of the comparable quality of some of his work.
BM Satires 13291.
[Ref: 46560] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Finding of Moses] Affigis Tharidas...
Egidius Coninxlogensis Inucntoz. Nicolaus de Bruyn Sculptoe.
1601.
Fine & rare engraving, 420 x 655mm (16½ x 25¾"). Thread margins. Glued to album paper in corners. Central crease where previously folded.
A biblical scene set in a wooded landscape: a man stands on a riverbank holding a cradle with an infant, while Pharaoh’s daughter and her attendants watch from the opposite shore; a stag appears at left, with towns lining a winding river in the background. After Flemish painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544–1607) and engraved by engraver and publisher Nicolaas de Bruyn (1571 - 1656).
New Hollestein 23.
[Ref: 68098] £750.00

The Finding of Moses.
Painted by Frederick Goodall, R.A. Engraved by Richard Josey.
London, April 17th, 1888. Published by Fairless & Beeforth, Doré Gallery, 35 New Bond Street W. Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1888 by Frank Hunter Potter in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, USA.
Mint mezzotint on India laid paper, Open letters. 785 x 585mm (31 x 23"), uncut.
Engraving after the painting by Frederick Goodall (1822-1904). Goodall was taught by his artist father, Edward, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838. After painting landscapes and rural scenes early in his career, a trip to Egypt in 1858-9 led to a change in direction. Thereafter Goodall painted mainly scenes from Egyptian life with Biblical associations. Goodall was elected RA in 1864 and enjoyed great popularity during this time, but his fortunes later declined greatly and in 1902 he was declared bankrupt.
Briony Llewellyn, 'Edward Goodall', in the Grove Dictionary of Art.
[Ref: 14090] £450.00

E.E. Leggatt. From Messrs Agnew & Sons.
Frank Paton 1884. [signed in pencil.]
Rare etching. Plate: 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼''), with large margins. Slight foxing.
A night scene in Cheapside in which two large men in classical armour and laurel wreaths, and a winged figure with a scythe, stand outside a fine art gallery. One of the large figures chases a policeman down the street.
[Ref: 50402] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Series of Four Fine Arts.] Poetry. [&] Painting. [&] Sculpture. [&] Music.
H. H fec.t.
[c.1826.]
Set of 4 hand-coloured etchings, rare. Each sheet: 170 x 200mm (6¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed and some paper loss in corners.
A series of four scenes by Henry Heath, showing artists at work, the first plate shows an impoverished poet struggling over a poem, plate two shows a painter sitting before a painting of a plain woman, plate three shows a sculptor at work and plate four a violinist with a wooden leg playing 'Rule Britannia'.
[Ref: 44861] £550.00

"Fine Feathers"
by Reuben Ward Binks [singed in pencil]
Copyright in all countries, including the U.S.A. by Frost & Reed Ltd Bristol & London, 1938. Printed in England.
Aquatint printed in colour, platemark 270 x 325mm (10¼ x 12½"). Mount burn around edges.
Swans on a lake.
[Ref: 24321] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Grotte de Fingall. Vue de l'intérieur à l'éxtérieur.
Dessiné par Ed. de Montulé. Gravé par Paul Legrand.
Aquatint. Plate: 215 x 295m, (8½ x 11¾"). Very large margins.
A view inside Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa in Scotland. From 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Russie, pendent les années 1821, 1822 et 1823' by Edouard Montulé published in 1825 in which he described his travels to Great Britain and Eastern Europe.
[Ref: 39448] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The Method of High-finishing Family Pictures.
Printed for Carington Bowles, N.º 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd 1.st August 1771.
Coloured mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, bottom corners rounded, edged with album paper.
A man, who is about to join a woman on a couch, reaches up to draw the cuckold's horns in chalk on a man's portrait. At that moment the same man looks around the door. The BM suggests that the couple are Lady Henrietta Grosvenor and Henry, Duke of Cumberland (brother of George III), who were discovered in flagrante delicto in 1769, leading to Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl, bringing an action against the Duke for ''criminal conversation''.
BM 2010,7081.1300.
[Ref: 63422] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Finishing Bore.
Design'd and Etch'd by D.T.Edgerton.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1824.
Coloured aquatint. 215 x 270mm, 8½ x 9¾".
Gamblers escaping onto the rooftops during a police raid. A scene from 'Fashionable Bores or Coolers in High Life by Peter Quiz', with plates by Daniel Thomas Egerton.
Abbey: Life, 287.
[Ref: 12119] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

View of Enontekis, at the Source of the Muonio. shewing the Ministers House, the Church, and the Warehouses of the Lapps, and Merchants of Tornea.
E.D. Clarke delt. L. Byrne Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1. 1819 by T. Cadell & W. Davies Strand. London.
Engraving, sheet 210 x 260mm. 8¼ x 10¼". Trimmed within plate.
Enontekio, Finland, on the banks of the Muonio River. From 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia & Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769 – 1822), English mineralogist and traveller. In 1799 Clarke set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke was of considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts, etc., which had been collected by the French savants.
[Ref: 13511] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Winter Clothing. Nomade or Wild Laplander, in his Summer Clothing.
E.D. Clarke delt. R. Pollard Sculpt.
Published Jany. 1. 1819 by T. Cadell & W. Davies Strand. London.
Engraving, 200 x 275mm. 8 x 10¾". Slightly soiled.
Finnish costume plate, two images from a single plate. From 'Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia & Africa' by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769 – 1822), English mineralogist and traveller. In 1799 Clarke set out with a Mr Cripps on a tour through the continent of Europe, beginning with Norway and Sweden, whence they proceeded through Russia and the Crimea to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards to Egypt and Palestine. After the capitulation of Alexandria, Clarke was of considerable use in securing for England the statues, sarcophagi, maps, manuscripts, etc., which had been collected by the French savants.
[Ref: 13512] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

No 5. [A Woman of Finland in her Holiday Dress.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Portrait of a Finnish woman dressed in a heavily-embroidered dress, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37870] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in Russian Finland. The Seat of a Nobleman near Wyburg. [&] A Scene in Russian Finland. The Seat of a Nobleman near Wyburg.
Mortinoff Pinx.t in the Possession of Baron Nicolay. Aquatinted by M. Merigot.
London Published May 1 1805 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
Pair of rare coloured aquatints. Each c.420 x 520mm (16¾ x 20½"). Narrow margins; second plate with repairs, laid on archival tissue.
Two views of an estate on the Vyborg Bay, Russia, engraved by J. Mérigot after Andrej Jefimovitsh Martinoff.
[Ref: 57682] £680.00 view all images for this item

Vue du Village de Kyrö en Finland, 22 8.br 1839.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Lith par Sabatier. Imp. Lemercier à Paris.
Paris. Arthu-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d., 1842.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 440mm (13½ x 17¼"). Very large margins.
The rocky scenery of Kyrö (Karinainen) in western Finland. It was published in 'Voyages de la Commission Scientifique du Nord, en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et au Feröe, pendant les années 1838, 1839 et 1840, sur la corvette La Recherche'.
[Ref: 37048] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Les Thermopiles (Environ de Tammerfors).
Dessiné et lith. par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier à Paris.
Paris. Arthu-Bertrand éditeur. [n.d., 1842.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 440mm (13½ x 17¼").
A narrow passage between two cliffs near Tammerfors (Tampere) in southern Finland. It was published in 'Voyages de la Commission Scientifique du Nord, en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et au Feröe, pendant les années 1838, 1839 et 1840, sur la corvette La Recherche'.
[Ref: 37053] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Lake view near Turku, Finland.] Vue de Sjolac près de la Gymnastique.
[Anon, c.1880.]
Watercolour, 95 x 150mm (3¾ x 6"). Glued to album sheet, with cut out watercolours of birds. Ms in pencil 'My cousins House in Finland nr Abo'.
Attractive Victorian watercolour showing a view in Finland, identified by manuscript naming it as near Abo (the Swedish name for the city of Turku in Southwest Finland). Swedish, while still widely spoken in Finland, was still more common in the 19th century.
[Ref: 39596] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Bannatyne Finlay.]
H. Macbeth Raeburn Sct [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1917.]
Mezzotint with pencil signature, proof. Plate 489 x 323mm. 19¼ x 12¾".
Robert Bannatyne Finlay (1842-1929) the British lawyer, doctor and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1916 in Lloyd George's coalition government. In 1920 he was appointed a British member of the Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1921 was elected a Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justivce.
GAC: 4494.
[Ref: 27745] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Finish. Oh, what a thing for a man of renown...
Pub.d by O. Hodgson 10 Cloth Fair. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 245 x 385mm (9¾ x 15¼'') large margins. Paper tone and tears.
A satirical print showing Wellington and Robert Peel running out of a door, Peel hold a cage from which several rats escape.
[Ref: 48892] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the New River Head.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Rare etching. Plate: 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼''), with 18th century watermark. Small margins. Slightly time stained.
A rare view of the water cisterns in Finsbury. In 1713, in order to bring clean water to London a network of cisterns were erected to collect and store the water brought in from the countryside.
[Ref: 48043] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Pair.] Easter Hunt. [&] [Peerless Pool.]
G. Carfrae del [Hunt]. [The Pool is totally unlettered, possibly after William Mason? Probably by G. Carfrae.]
[British, n.d., c.1787.]
Extremely rare pair of etchings in outline, image borders 230 x 360mm and 265 x 415mm. Centrefolds; one small marginal tear, generally good.
Popular pastimes for 18th century Londoners. The Easter Hunt at Epping Forest. The Peerless Pool, City Road, Finsbury, was London’s first outdoor public swimming pool. Perilous Pond, an ancient London spring whose overflowing waters formed a pond near Old Street, was a noted place for duck hunting in the 17th century. The pond acquired a dark name because of the many youths that had drowned in it. In 1743, a local jeweller named William Kemp converted this pond into London’s first outdoor public swimming pool, renaming it the Peerless Pool. Situated behind St. Luke’s hospital, the newly embanked pool was 170 x 108 ft in dimension and from 3-5 feet deep.
"Easter Hunt"British Museum:1876,1014.52
[Ref: 22565] £300.00

The Fir.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½") Trimmed.
From a series 'Trees and their Uses', with vignettes of the uses of fir wood, including artist's easels, arrows and rabbit hutches.
[Ref: 52796] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Four Elements Fire.
P. van Avont inu. R. Gaywood fecit. R. Walton Excudit.
London, [n.d. after 1648].
Rare etching, 17th century watermark, 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Creasing in the corners and some small tears along the top edge. Repaired tear in the centre of the lower margin. Small margins.
A scene depicting three cherubs playing with a gunpowder cannon and a discarded suit of armour. After Petrus van Avont's series the Four Elements, in which the first was fire, which were also done by Hollar, published 1647.
[Ref: 54114] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Feu. [Fire.] Dans de certains momens, je suis fort deplaisante...[etc.]
Chez HBonnart rue S.Iacques du Coq avec privil. [Paris, c.1690.]
Etching. Sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Holes to corners; some soiling/staining. Trimmed to plate.
A lady holding a tasting spoon beside an elaborate stove upon which a large pot is bubbling. From a series of allegorical representations of the Four Elements, published by Henri Bonnart (1642 - 1711).
[Ref: 13930] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Dean's Portable Steam Engine and Patent Irrigator and Fire Engine combined, Mounted on Four Wheels, With Shafts, &c. Complete, for Travelling.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 100 x 165mm, 4 x 6½". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A horse-drawn water pump, patented by A.Dean of Birmingham.
[Ref: 11576] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Preservation, in Imminant Danger, Or Families rescued from Destruction by Davis's Machines.
[n.d., c.1800.]
A rare aquatint. Sheet: 255 x 195mm (9 x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene showing a group of men using a fire machine on a fire in a house. Several men work large pumps to create a spout of water. Illustrated is a balcony type rescue machine extended to the top of the building.
[Ref: 46218] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Representation of Mr. Joachim Smith's New invented Machine for Escaping from Fir[e]
[Anon., c.1800]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 175mm (4½ x 6¾"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; bottom right cormer missing, losing text.
Rare and interesting image showing people escaping from a burning building by means of enclosed chutes; print made to publicise a new invention by Joachim Smith, possibly the modeller employed by Wedgewood.
[Ref: 44488] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Destruction of both Houses of Parliament, as seen from Abingdon St. on the Night of the 16.th Oct.r 1834. [&] The Destruction of both Houses of Parliament, as seen from the Surry-side of the 16.th Oct.r 1834.
T. Picken Lith.
Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King. [n.d., c.1835.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½"), with large margins.
Two views of the Houses of Parliament as they burnt down in 1834. The top view shows a large crowd gathered pouring water on the blaze, the bottom view shows the crowds and boats gathered to watch the spectacle.
[Ref: 47495] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Destruction By Fire Of Both Houses of Parliament. On Thursday Night 16.th Oct. 1834.
Sketched from the River Thames by H.O'Neill. Printed by Graf and Soret.
London. Published by W. Spooner 259, Regent Street Oxford S.t. [n.d. c.1834]
Very fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 295 x 380mm (11¾ x 15") Some surface dirt at top and creasing.
A view of the Houses of Parliament from the Thames. On 16 October 1834, most of the Palace was destroyed by fire. Only Westminster Hall, the Jewel Tower, the crypt of St Stephen's Chapel and the cloisters survived.
[Ref: 61139] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Destruction of Both Houses of Parliament. October 16th 1834.
M. Joy & C. Simpson del.t. Printed by Graf and Soret.
London, Published by J. Dickinson, New Bond S.t.
Very fine and-coloured lithograph. Printed area: 260 x 315mm (10¼ x 12¼"), with large margins.
A view of the Houses of Parliament from the Thames, with attempts to stop the fire. On 16 October 1834, most of the Palace was destroyed by fire. Only Westminster Hall, the Jewel Tower, the crypt of St Stephen's Chapel and the cloisters survived.
See ref: 61139 & 61140
[Ref: 58585] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Destruction of Both Houses of Parliament by Fire On The 16.th Oct.r 1834. As it Appeared at 10 O'Clock At Night.
By an early spectator. Printed by Graf and Soret.
[n.d. c.1834]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, pt J. Whatman watermark; sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½") Taped tear on right right.
A view of the Houses of Parliament from the Thames. On 16 October 1834, most of the Palace was destroyed by fire. Only Westminster Hall, the Jewel Tower, the crypt of St Stephen's Chapel and the cloisters survived.
See ref: 61139, 58585 & 61140
[Ref: 61129] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Fire in Broad-Street. .J. Girtin, Engraver, &c., 25, Old Compton-Street, Soho [...]
Broadsheet, 210 x 230mm (8¼ x 9"). Scarce.
An advert broadsheet decribing items which are to be sold cheaply following a fire.
[Ref: 9415] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Fire in London.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J. Bluck, Aqua.t.
London. Pub 1st Sept, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 230 x 280mm (9 x 11") very large margins. Slight mount burn.
The fire that destroyed the Albion Flour Mills, on the Southwark side of Blackfriars Bridge, March 2nd, 1791. Also destroyed were John Rennie's steam-driven milling machines inside: it was rumoured the fire was deliberately set to prevent these innovations putting windmill-owners out of business. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 53466] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Fire King Steam Ship. Burthen 600 Tons _ 150 Horse Power _ Robert Ewing Commander _ getting under weigh off Liverpool. To the Chairman and Directors of the Ardrossan and Liverpool Steam Packet Company, This Print of their Spelndid and Powerful Vessel is Respectfully Dedicated by their Obedient Servant, Samuel Walters.
Painted by Samuel Walters. Fairland, lith. 45 St John's Squ.e London.
Published by S. Walters, 99 Mill Streetm & Mr Aylward, Lord Street, Liverpoolm & Ackermann & Co. London [n.d., c.1839].
Scarce tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 310 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾") very large margins.
A paddlesteamer, built in 1839 as a pleasure yacht for Thomas Assheton Smith, with engines by Robert Napier. In 1840 it was converted for passengers and served the Ardrossan-Liverpool route, a 13 hour journey, with departures coinciding with mail train arrivals from Glasgow and London. In 1847 it was sold out of the British register.
[Ref: 57870] £480.00

[Great Fire of London.] Abbildung der Statt London, sambt dem erschröcklichen brandt daselsten, so 4. tagen lange gewehrt hatt. Ao. 1666. im 7bris.
[Frankfurt: Heirs of Matthias Merian, n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Plate: 220 x 355mm (8¾ x 14''). Central crease as normal.
A German print showing the Great Fire of London which burned through London for four days destroying much of the medieval city.
[Ref: 49299] £580.00

E. de brandt van London, op den 12. 13. 14. 15. en 16 September Anno 1666.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Sheet 100 x 135mm, 4 x 5¼". Trimmed, laid in album paper. A very fine impression.
The Great Fire of London at night, from an elevated viewpoint south of the river.
[Ref: 11832] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Insurance policy receipt from Bristol Crown Fire-Office] Whereas Christopher Willougby Chamberlyne for the Use of the Mayor, Burgeses and Commonalty of the City of Bristol [...]
[filled out September 29, 1747]
Engraving, letterpress and manuscript, sheet 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13"). Folded.
Document insuring against fire damage the post office was being built at the corner of Exchange Alley and Corn Street in Bristol, insured for £300.
[Ref: 40871] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A true Sketch of ye Fire which caused W.J. Lanes death.
taken on the spot by a surgeon given D E H [?]
[c.1820]
Pen and ink sketch, sheet 180 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Glued to album sheet with other scraps overlapping. Tears, staining etc.
Remarkable sketch of a fire with people fleeing the burning building and valuable depictions of firefighting equipment.
[Ref: 44789] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Fire-Engine. Plate II. Bramah's Improved Patent Fire Engine.
J. Pass sculp.t.
London, Published as the Act directs June 20 1805 by J. Wilkes.
Coloured engraving. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"), large margins.
Diagrams of the parts of a fire-engine designed by Joseph Bramah (1748-1814), who is best known for inventing the hydraulic press and the water closets for Osborne House, Queen Victoria's home on the Isle of Wight. In 1806 he created a machine for printing bank notes with automatic sequential serial numbers.
[Ref: 56702] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A Christmas Fire-Side. Intended as a present to the rising generation. HB Sketches 236.
HB [John Doyle]. A. Ducote's Lithography. 70 St. Martins Lane.
Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, June 8th 1833.
Lithograph. Size: 370 x 280mm. (14½ x 11").
Title followed by: "And can I ever cease to be / Affectionate and kind to Thee / Who wast so very kind to me / My Mother". About this period the newspapers informed the public that Lord Brougham was paying a visit to his mother at Brougham-hall, and gave some particulars of the domestic affairs of his Lordship, with anecdotes of his venerable parent. From these, H.B. has been able to sketch the scene, the primitive simplicity of which has suggested the quotation from the well-known poem of "My Mother."
[Ref: 31419] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

"Firefly".
D. Lewis Graves. '31. [pencil signature.]
Etching. Watermarked: David Strang. Limited edition: 19/30. 311 x 235mm. 12¼ x 9¼".
A ballerina in attitude en pointe.
[Ref: 19200] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate 4: Fireman.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), with 2pp. letterpress. Trimmed within plate.
A fireman working for the Sun Fire Office, standing before a fire engine. The letterpress records the history of insurance, five instances where fire nearly destroyed London, the fireman's uniform and the abilities of the fire engine. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 52044] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[4. Fireman.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 10").
A fireman holding an axe in one hand and a flare in the other, the logo of the Sun Fire Office on his arm. Behind him is a water wagon, with a dozen men manning the pump, another the hose. The print was published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 28717] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A l'Anglaise or the English Fireside [&] A la Francaise or the French Fireside
Cha.s Ansell del.t P W Tomkins sculp.t late pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Published Sept. the 22nd 1787. by In.o. Matthews No. 441 Strand.
Pair of stipples part printed in colour, each sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate;
Pair of scenes contrasing the decorous courtship of English men and women (reinforced by the neoclassical order of the objects on the fireside behind) and the uninhibited behaviour of the equivalent French fireside.
For the prints sold individually (uncoloured) see refs. 18068-9.
[Ref: 41226] £320.00

Fete Du 14 Juillet An IX. Vue des 3 Theatres construits aux Champs Elysees dans le Carre Marigny; Sur les quels on a Celebre aussi la Fete du 1.er Vendemiare An X.
A Paris chez B[as]set M.d d'[e]stampes et Fabriquant de Papiers Peints rue St.t Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 670. [n.d., c.1802].
Hand coloured engraving, plate 275 x 445mm (10¾ x 17½"), with margins. Slightly crea top right. Abrasions in publication line.
A view of a large crowd watching acrobatic, musical and theatrical entertainment happening in the three theaters built on the Champs-Élysées in the Marigny square. With a firework in the shape of a Masonic (a five pointed star) symbol lighting up the sky. In celebration of the national holiday of July 14 (25 Messidor) 1801 organized in Paris, by the architect Chalgrin, to commemorate the storming of the Bastille in 1789. They were reused on September 23, 1801 (1st Vendémiaire, year X) for the celebrations of the anniversary of the founding of the Republic in 1792.
[Ref: 57436] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Firework Macaroni. V.5. 15.
Pubd as the act directs by MDarly 39 Strand. Octr 26 1772.
Etching. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
A man in an embroidered coat holding a stick in one hand and a firework with a threaded fuse in the other. A possible representation of Leoni (1772; fl.) the pyrotechnist.
BM Satires: 4664.
[Ref: 38216] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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