Grosvenor Prints

Surgere quæ rutilo spectas incendia coelo Ferdinandi succendit amor.
[Antwerp: Jan van Meurs, 1636.]
Scarce & fine etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 320 x 430mm (12½ x 17"). Trimmed to image, repair top right corner.
A fireworks display held on January 28th 1635 in the town square of Ghent, including a monster head breathing fire. held to celebrate Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (c.1610-41, brother of Philip IV of Spain) becoming Governor of the Spanish Netherlands. He watches from the balcony of the Saint Bavo Church. One of 42 plates in 'Serenissime Fernandi Cardinalis Infantis triumphalis introitus in Flandriae metropolim Gandauum'.
[Ref: 58261] £360.00

Royal Grecian Saloon, Pleasure Grounds and Olympic Temple, Eagle Tavern, City Road [...] Benefit, Tuesday, September 14, 1841. A Grand Ball Gala, Fire-works, and Illuminations [...]
J.W. Peel Printer, 9 New Cut, Lambeth, opposite the Victoria.
[1841.]
Letterpress handbill, 4pp., printed on two sides. Sheet 255 x 370mm, folded once. Tear taped, edges chipped, laid on album sheet.
After an evening of opera, pantomine and singing, the entertainment was 'To Conclude with a Magnificent display of Fireworks by Mr. Fenwick".
[Ref: 57166] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Fireworks] Francica Seqvantis Atollit Gloria Rebvs. Pacatori Orbis Vota Publica. Soclorum Vindici Principum Concordia. Iurium Assertori Victoria Perpetva.
[Feu de Ratisbone fait Par M.r Verius].
[Paris: I. B. Nolin c.1691]
Proof engraving, plate 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 6¾"), with small margins.
Print from 'Histoire du roi Louis le Grand, par les médailles, emblèmes, devises, jetons, inscriptions, armoiries, et autres monuments publics,' written by French author, heraldist, Jesuit and attendant of the royal court Claude-François Ménestrier (1631 –1705).
[Ref: 57361] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Fireworks for the wedding of Leopold I] Eigentliche Abbild ,, ünd vorstellüng des sehr künftlichen ünd tostbarn Feuerwerds welches auf dem Hochfeyerlichen Kayserl. Beylager zu Wien den 8, Decembris (28) Novemb.) dess 1666. Jahrs, angesündet und branet worden.
[after Melchior Küsel.]
[Frankfurt: Johann Görlin & Johann Bauer, 1703.]
Engraving. 300 x 345mm (11¾ x 13½"), with margins. Binding folds.
A fireworks display celebrating the marriage of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I to Margaret Theresa, daughter of King Philip IV of Spain. The fireworks are being launched from a baroque building, with centaurs fighting in the foreground. From 'Theatrum Europaeum', published by the heirs of Matthaus Merian.
[Ref: 54927] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

L'Artifice. Q.6
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. Plate 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing fireworks, with timer, keys, measuring tools and smoking clay pots.
[Ref: 59103] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Artificier.
[Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert, c.1760.]
Set of seven engravings with letterpress contents sheet. Bound together in paper wrapper, some sheets loose. Each sheet: 255 x 390mm (10 x 15½") Staining.
Seven plates detailing the tools and equipment of a pyrotechnician, from Diderot and d'Alembert's 'Encyclopédia ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers' 17vols (1751-1765).
[Ref: 41357] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye Water near ye Court at ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix le Chapelle Oct:18, 1748) and exhibited June 13, 1749. N.S.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine according to Act of Parliament 1749, for J. Hinton at ye Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church-Yard London.
Etching and engraving, 180 x 300mm. 7 x 11¾". Vertical folds as normal, tearing at lower paper edge. Some staining.
Preparations for a display of fireworks to celebrate the second Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) of 1748, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession. Fold-out illustration to the Universal Magazine.
[Ref: 9672] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Positively the last Night. Dobree's Theatre [...] he has at a considerable expence, engaged the Celebrated Madam Hengler, who will exhibit A grand Display of Fire Works, As performed by her with such unbpunded Applause at Vauxhall Gardens, London, last Season [...]
Printed by G. Norton, Henley.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress handbill Sheet 380 x 220mm (15 x 8¾). Folds and creasing, toning to edges, a few chips.
After an evening of comedy, Sarah Hengler would put on a show of fireworks, including 'a grand Metamophose Wheel, displaying in brilliant Fire, ''Prosperity to Marlow!'''. Hengler (c.1765-1845), second wife of the circus performer John Michael Hengler, ran her firework business from 4 Asylum Buildings, off Westminster Bridge Road. In 1818 three people died in explosions there; after retiring from the business she was killed in a fire on the premises.
[Ref: 57167] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Representation of the Royal Fire-Work perform'd by the directions of Coll. Hopkey and Coll. Borgard on the River of Thames near Whitehall, y.e 7.th of July 1713. being y.e day appointed for a publick Thanksgiving for the General Peace.
B. Lens fec. et exc.
[n.d. 1713]
Extremely rare & fine mezzotint. 520 x 410mm (20½ x 16"). Trimmed to plate mark. Horizontal centre fold crease with minor creasing and scratches across the image. Small nicks to the edges. Loss to bottom left corner filled in with ink.
An architectural facade of paired columns adorned with statues and the royal crest. Fireworks burst into the sky in the background as well as on the Thames in the foreground. The statues take the allegorical form of Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, Justice, Courage, Victory, Peace and Conduct. The year of peace, or Anno Pacis, refers to the Peace of Utrecht signed in April 1713 by Queen Anne, Louis XIV and Philip V of Spain.
[Ref: 56467] £950.00

Afbeelding der Illuminatie voor het Huis van de WelEd. Geftr. Heer M.r W.C. Backer. Hoofd Officier &c. &c. der Stad Amsterdam, op den 8.sten Maart 1788.
W. Kok ad Vivum del. D.t Veebraard fecit.
De Wed: J. Doll. Excud:
Engraving, sheet 210 x 205mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed.
Dutch print of fireworks structure.
[Ref: 57294] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Chinese Bridge in St. James's Park. [&] A View of the Temple of Concord in the Green Park as seen at Midnight on the 1st August. in Celebration of the Glorious Peace of 1814.
Exec.d by F. Calvert.
Published as the Act Directs, by Burkitt & Hudson, 85 Cheapside London. [n.d., 1814.]
Pair of aquatints with hand colour. Ea. c. 395 x 470mm (15½ x 18"). Trimmed to plate mark top & bottom. "Temple of Concord" without publication line
Two scenes of the firework displays designed and directed by Colonel William Congreve to celebrate the supposed end to the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. Planned by the Prince Regent, the display was watched by Frederick William III of Prussia, Tsar Alexander and Prince Metternich. Frederick Calvert (fl. 1814-44).
[Ref: 199] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

[Saint Firmina] S. Firmina Verg. Mart. Padrona a Protetrice di Civita Vechia d'Amelia e d'Arles in francia, et Avocata delli Naviganti [...]
[Anon. Italian, c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Very damaged; glued to backing sheet. Losses to image.
Saint Fermina (272-304 AD), saint of sailors, Amelia, and Civitavecchia.
[Ref: 46088] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ferozepore Races. Second Day. December 1842. First. The Ellenborough Cup on its Terms. Second. 50 Gold Mohurs from the Fund, all Horses, Heats Round the Course....Third. 30 Gold Mohurs from the Fund, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 Gold Mohurs, for all Maiden Galloways, 14 hands, to carry 9st. 7lbs. 1¼ mile, Heats. Fourth. Great Welter of 30 Gold Mohurs, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 Gold Mohurs each, for all Horses 11st. 7lbs. Arabs allowed 4lbs. and Maidens 5lbs. G.R. Round the Course and a distance. Ferozepore Races, - Second Day, December 27, 1842. To start at One P.M. First Race. A Cup value 1,000 Rupees, given by the Governor General, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 G.M. each, for horses…Second Race. 50 G.M. for all horses. Heats R.C. Arabs, 9st…The winner of the Maiden Arabs, first day not allowed 5lbs….Third Race. 30 G.M. for all Maiden Galloways, 14 hands, to carry 9-7, 1¼ mile heats added to a Sweepstakes of 5 G.M….Fourth Race. Great Welter of 30 G.M….R. Knatchbull, Secretary. N.B.-Gentlemen are particularly requested to remit their subscriptions to Major Parson, or the Secretary, Horse Artillery Camp…Ferozepore Races, - Third Day, December 29, 1842. Lancer Cup, - 1842-43. First Race, A Gold Cup, value One Thousand Rupees, given by the Officers of Her Majesty’s 16th Lancers, for all horses…Subscriptions to be sent to Captain Reynolds, H.M’s 16th Lancers…In case of any difference arising relating to these terms, the same to be decided by the Officers of the Regiment, or such person or persons as they shall appoint…Second Race. The Little Welter of 10 Gold Mohurs each, with 20 Gold Mohurs from the Fund…Third Race. Charger Stakes of 15 Gold Mohurs, added to a Sweepstakes of 2 Gold Mohurs, ½ mile, G.R. same terms as regards qualifications as the Lancer Tankard…Fourth Race. 25 Gold Mohurs for all horses ½ mile heats…R. Knatchbull, Secretary. [&] A Day with the Etawah Hunt, a 25 Minutes run.
[1842.] Bellin & Co. lith.
Letterpress, three pages, and one lithograph, 4 items, very scarce collection. Sheet 432 x 260mm. 17 x 10¼".
Firzopur, India on the banks of the Sutlej River was of great strategic importance to the British during the First Anglo-Sikh War. This particular racing event was during the time of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871) who was Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844. His governance was riddled with criticism as Ellenborough was sent to “restore peace to Asia” but the whole term of his office was occupied by war. These races took place in the December of his first year. When Ellenborough arrived, he discussed the possibilities of a military occupation of the Punjab, and soon after infantry reinforcements began to arrive at the frontier posts of Firozpur and Ludhiana. [&] Etawah is on the Yamuna River and was an important centre for the Revolt of 1857.
[Ref: 18382] £420.00 view all images for this item

[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)

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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)

[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)

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

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

Mr. Lloyd of the Theatre Royal Edinburgh as The Newhaven Fish-Wife.
Drawn & Lithographed by Maclure & Macdonald, Glasgow.
[n.d., c.1850.] Published by J.Finlay, Glasgow; Le Sage & Crickton, Edinburgh; & Ackermann & Co London.
Lithograph. Sheet 245 x 135mm (9½ x 5¼"). Creasing on india-paper.
A full-length portrait of Mr. Lloyd of the Theatre Royal Edinburgh as the Newhaven Fish-wife. Horatio Lloyd's Newhaven Fishwife,a song and performance based on the fishwives of Newhaven who were famous for both their beauty and confidence. They carried the fish their men had caught in baskets on their backs up to Edinburgh to sell it.
[Ref: 68708] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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)

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

[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 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)

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

[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)

[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

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