Grosvenor Prints

Ceremonie, observée par un des Rois de la Floride, avant que de faire une Expedition. Un des Rois de la Floride, consultant son Magicien, avant que de marcher a l'Ennemi.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII No.12.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Engraving. 343 x 209mm. Sheet 391 x 249mm. A small tear and staining in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.
Two scenes. 1. A ceremony that takes place before they set-off on an expedition, attended and observed by a Floridian King. 2. A Floridian King consults his magician before he marches off towards the enemy. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12497] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Floridiennes, que ayant perdu leurs maris, a la guerre, viennent implorer l'asistance du Roi Hermafrodites, déstinez a servir les malades, et à enterrer les morts. Veuves de la Floride, que sèment leurs cheveux sur les Tombeaux de leurs Maris.
B. Picart, del. Tom. VII. No. 13.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 343 x 219mm. Sheet 390 x 250mm.
Two scenes. 1. Floridian women huddle around seeking the asistance of the King Hermafrodites, having lost their husbands in battle at war. They are now destined to serve to the ill and needy and to bury the dead. 2. Floridian widows seed the graves of their husbands with locks of their own hair. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12498] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Maniere d'ensevelir les Rois, et Pretres de la Floride.
[B. Picart del.] Tom VII. No. 14.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 341 x 218mm. Sheet 390 x 251mm.
The way of burying the Kings and Priests of Florida. A small mound surrounding by arrows sticking out from the ground, and a shell placed on the centre of the mound. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12499] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Floridian Natives.]
[Amsterdam, Olfert Dapper, 1671.]
Engraving, 130 x 165mm, set in German text. Sheet trimmed.
Published in Armold Montanus' 'America'.
[Ref: 7146] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Religious ceremony in Florida.]
[Amsterdam, Olfert Dapper, 1671.]
Engraving, 130 x 165mm, set in German text. Sheet trimmed.
Published in Armold Montanus' 'America'.
[Ref: 7125] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Floridian Natives.]
[c.1680]
Engraving, platemark 130 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed from full page.
Copy of an illustration from Arnold Montanus' 'America' (1671).
For another version of the same scene, with German text, see ref. 7146
[Ref: 33755] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a King of Florida in 1625. Roy de la Floride. 208.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Sheet 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9½"). Large margins.
A full-length portrait of a man wearing a fur-trimmed cap with feathers on top, he is holding a lance in his left hand, and his right hand is on his waist. Plate 208 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62827] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Timucua Village.]
[After Jaques LeMoyne.]
Fumagalli sc. [n.d., c.1827.]
Aquatint. Plate: 210 x 305mm (8¼ x 12'') very large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A view of a Timucua village in Florida. An illustration to Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement...' 1816-1827.
[Ref: 49048] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Florida Natives Cooking]
[After Jaques LeMoyne.]
Fumagalli f. [n.d., c.1827.]
Aquatint. Plate: 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼'') very large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A view native Americans preparing food by the water. An illustration to Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement...' 1816-1827.
[Ref: 49049] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Habits et Maisons des Floridiens.
[Amsterdam c.1760.]
Engraving. 205 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"). Paper slightly cockled. Bit of time staining largely outside the plate.
A view of Europeanised Floridians and their houses. A Dutch copy of the plate in Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages'.
[Ref: 44745] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Saturiwa] Regis & Reginae prodeambulatio recreandi animi gratia.
[after Jacques Le Moyne]
[Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, 1591.]
Scarce engraving. 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½"), set in letterpress.
The king and queen of a Florida tribe take a recreational work with their entourage. Jacques Le Moyne visited Florida in 1564 with the French expedition of René Laudonnière. His scenes were engraved for de Bry's 'Grand Voyages'.
[Ref: 63446] £420.00

An Old House Florida
L.K. Harlow [c.1900]
Etching, platemark 90 x 140mm (3½ x 5¾").
Etching by Louis Kinney Harlow (1850-1913).
[Ref: 39588] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Emmanuel Sweert's 'Florilegium', with portrait of Sweert verso] Florilegium Amplisimum et selectissimum, quo non tantum varia diversorum florum [...]
[1612]
Engraving with original hand-colouring, sheet 320 x 205mm (12½ x 8"). Thread margins; glued into album sheet with early marginalia in Latin. Time stained.
Frontispiece to the famous 'Florilegium' (1612) by Emmanuel Sweert (1552-1612), a superb volume of engravings of flowers. The volume was essentially a sales catalogue, in which the beauty of the engravings served to promote the desirability of the plants. Verso is a portrait of Sweert published in the same volume, in which the flower in Sweert's left hand is balanced by the skull on which his right rests, as a reminder of the mixed symbolism of flowers.
For a coloured impression of the portrait of Sweert, see ref. 39203. W 2860.
[Ref: 40096] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Floris III] Florentius IIIus, Theoderici VIti filius [...]
[C. Visscher sculp.]
[Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, c.1650.]
Etching with engraving, 17th century watermark, 410 x 295mm (16 x 11½") very large margins. Margins chipped and stained in bottom right margin.
Head and shoulders portrait of Floris III (1141-90), from Cornelis Visscher's series, 'Counts of Holland, Zeeland and West-Frisia', first published by Pieter Soutman in 1650. Floris joined his emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the Third Crusade, dying of pestilence at Antioch, where he was buried. This second state has Visscher's name removed.
BM 1839,0413.348.
[Ref: 62538] £320.00

La Fleuriste. Monsieur de Marcenay de St Prix, Ecuyer. Digni autem sunt amicitia, quibus in ipsis, in est cansa cur diligantur. Par son parent, ami, et tres humble Serviteur, de Marcenay de Ghuy.
Gerard Dow Pinx. De Marcenay, Sculp. 1766.
A Paris chez l'Auteur, rue d'Anjou, la derniere Porte Cochere, a gauche par la rue d'Auphine, et echez Mr. Wille, Graveur du Roi, Quay des Augustins a cote de l'Hotel d'Auvergne.
Etching and engraving with small margins, rare. Plate 358 x 252mm (14 x 10").
The florist; a young woman leaning out of a window and looking to the right whilst picking a carnation from a plant pot placed at left, a birdcage hangs on the wall.
[Ref: 29929] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Florist. Thus Fields of Joy youth's blooming seasons bless...
Painted by J. Hoppner. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Dec.r 12.th 1786 by J. Dean, Bentinck Street, Soho.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed within plate, pinholes in top corners, slight surface soiling.
A young girl picks flowers under trees. An early example?, without the aquatinted border.
For an example with the border see 66945.
[Ref: 62758] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Florist. Thus Fields of Joy youth's blooming seasons bless...
Painted by J. Hoppner. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Dec.r 12.th 1786 by J. Dean, Bentinck Street, Soho.
Scarce mezzotint with aquatinted border. Sheet 365 x 240mm (14¼ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
A young girl picks flowers under trees.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For a state without the aquatinted border see 62758.
[Ref: 66945] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[The Florist. Thus Fields of Joy youth's blooming seasons bless...]
[Painted by J. Hoppner. Engraved by J. Dean.]
[Published Dec.r 12.th 1786 by J. Dean, Bentinck Street, Soho.]
Scarce colour-printed mezzotint, with black aquatinted border. Sheet 270 x 235mm (10¾ x 9¼"). Trimmed into printed border, crease.
A decorative image of a young girl picking flowers in a forest.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. For a state without the aquatinted border see 62758.
[Ref: 66946] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Flower painted by Varelst. From Prior. When fam'd Varelst this little Wonder drew...
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. Tho.s Burke fecit.
Published January 1st 1784 by Tho.s Burke, Kemp's Row Chelsea.
Stipple. Plate: 405 x 305mm (16 x 12''). Trimmed to plate on left and right side. Messy.
A tribute to the still-life painter Simon Verelst (c.1644-1721). Thomas Prior's poem on a painting by Verelst is accompanied by an engraving after Kauffman depicting Flora herself lending a hand to the painter's work.
[Ref: 48315] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Flower painted by Varelst. From Prior. [...] From the Original Picture, in the possession of Geo.e Bowles, Esq.r.
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. Thomas Burke Fecit.
Publish'd Jan.y 1st 1784 by Tho.s Burke, Kemp's Row Chelsea.
Stipple and etching with large margins. 410 x 310mm (16 x 12¼").
A tribute to the still-life painter Simon Verelst (c.1644-1721). Thomas Prior's poem on a painting by Verelst is accompanied by an engraving after Kauffman depicting Flora herself lending a hand to the painter's work: 'When fam'd Varelst this little Wonder drew; / Flora vouchsaf'd the growing work to view: / Finding the painter's science at a stand, / The Goddess snatch'd the pencil from his Hand; / And finishing the Piece, she smiling said; Behold one work of mine, that ne'er shall fade.'
[Ref: 29791] £320.00

The Flower Girl.
G. Smith del et lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by W.H. Mason 81 King's Road, Brighton.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 395 x 250mm (15½ x 9¾") very large margins. Some soiling of margins.
A pretty bare-footed street trader in Brighton.
[Ref: 51958] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Flower Girl.
N.M. Delin.t C. White Sc.t [after Miss Langham].
Pub.d Jan.y 1785 by C. White Stafford Row Pimlico.
Stipple and etching, with very large margins. Plate 240 x 177mm. 9½ x 7". Very fine & rare;
A young woman standing at right in a park, handing a flower from her basket to a boy at left.
[Ref: 28165] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Flower Girl. From an Original Picture by Murillo in the Dulwich Gallery.
Drawn, Engraved & Published by R. Cockburn, Dulwich.
Lithograph with fine colour, rare. Sheet 280 x 240 (11 x 9½"), mounted on card now separate, with printed label on reverse, with title and artist in old ink mss.
It has been suggested that the girl is Murillo's only daughter, Francisca María (1655-1710), who was born deaf and entered a Dominican convent aged 16. Ralph Cockburn, keeper of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, published a collection of aquatints of popular paintings in the collection. This plate seems to have been issued as a separate print as it is reviewed individually, rather than as part of a set, in the Annals of Fine Arts vol 1. 1817. The review describes Cockburn as 'a painter of watercolours with no small talents, and holds the place of Keeper of the Dulwich Gallery. He has therefore ample time for study, and there would bo no excuse for an indifferent print from his hand, This should be more esteemed as an imitation of a drawing, than a specimen of fine engraving; for it is executed in the soft ground style of etching, mounted and coloured after the manner of Mr. Westall, till scarcely any of the engraving appears'.
[Ref: 44040] £420.00

[Set of Twelve Months. Flowers.]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Twelve mezzotints. Sheets c.120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½").Mezzotint. Sheet: 120 x 165mm (4¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plates, some small pin holes.
Extremely rare & fine set of 18th century flower prints, depicting a vase of flowers for each month set in an oval, accompanied by names of flowers depicted. In a similar fashion to Robert Furber's famous set of twelve months, these plates might be providing information as to what seeds or flowers are available in the various months.A set of twelve months depicting a vase of flowers for each month set in an oval, accompanied by names of flowers depicted. In a similar fashion to Robert Furber's famous set of twelve months, these plates might be providing information as to what seeds or flowers are available in the various months.
[Ref: 37477] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

[Sir Charles Flower] The Misfortune of having Short Legs or the Flower of the flock loseing his stick! Vide city police.
W. Heath.
Pub. Jan.y 26 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarker Sole Publisher of W. heath Etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 260 x 355mm (10¼ x 14''). Paper tone, foxing, messy. Small margins.
A caricature of Alderman Sir Charles Flower attempting to get into a carriage, behind him a shop keeper carrying a large turtle.
BM Satire 16414.
[Ref: 50805] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Flower, Esq.re. Painted & Engraved for the Gentlemen who were Educated at Mr. Flower's Academy, Islington.
Painted by J. Linnell. Engraved by Henry Cook.
London, Published Oct.r 14.th 1828 by Carpenter & Son, Old Bond St. Colnaghi, Cockspur S.t Moon, Boys & Graves, Pall Mall & Scholey, 100, Upper St. Islington.
Engraving, very fine & rare impression. Plate: 335 x 235mm (13 x 9¼''). Staining on right margin and slight foxing
A portrait of schoolmaster of Flower's Academy in Islington, a stricking image.
[Ref: 50654] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Bunch of Flowers] Quatriéme Cahier de Principes de Fleurs coloriées. La Girofflée set fait de Laque pure [...]
Carle delin. Bonnet direx.
[Paris: Louis Marin Bonnet, c.1780.]
Crayon-manner etching, printed in colours. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"), very large margins.
A fine example of colour printing, with the colour printed from separate plates, with no hand retouching. The publisher, Louis Marin Bonnet, was the inventor of crayon manner. He operated from the above address between 1776 and 1789.
See Dunthorne 211 for a print probably from the same series. See Ref: 58812, 58813
[Ref: 58814] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Bouquet with tulip and carnation, tied with a ribbon, with butterfly.]
[n.d., c.1650.] Bit later.
Etching. Sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed into the printed border.
Similar in style to the series of flower studies after Nicolas Guillaume Delafleur (1608-63), first published by Cornelis Danckerts in 1638.
[Ref: 51471] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Motif Chinoiserie].
[Jean Pillement.] E. Gautier Dagoty.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. Plate 242 x 165mm. 9½ x 6½".
A design of idealised flowers, after Jean Pillement's original drawings of 1769; these appeared one year later and in reverse.
Gordon-Smith: 191a.
[Ref: 20055] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Flowers from Nature.
[n.d., 1830s.]
Sketchbook, 4to, original full morocco gilt, title (as above) on front board, all edges gilt; 24 floral watercolours on card, interleaved with paper, album completed. Edges of binding scuffed and worn.
An album of 24 good amateur watercolours of bouquets of flowers, each signed by either 'Emma', 'Alice', 'Bessie' or 'George', suggesting a family.
[Ref: 37173] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

[Motif Chinoiseri]
[J. Pillement.] E. Gautier Dagoty.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. Plate 237 x 165mm. 9¼ x 6½". Uncut, stain at far right of sheet.
A design of idealised flowers, after Jean Pillement's original drawings of 1769; these appeared one year later and in reverse.
[Ref: 20058] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Stem of idealised flowers.]
[Jean Pillement. E. Gautier Dagoty.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. Plate 247 x 167mm. 9¾ x 6½". Uncut.
A design of idealised flowers, after Jean Pillement's original drawings of 1769; these appeared one year later and in reverse.
[Ref: 20268] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Moss Rose.]
[Tho.s Harper pinx.t. J.P. Quilley sculp.t.]
[London, Published Feb.y 20, 1830, by Tho.s M.cLean, 26, Haymarket.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Trimmed to image, a few spots.
A woman's head in the centre of a rose flower, a butterfly settled on her head, one of a series of prints after Thomas Harper (1817-43, fl.), in which women are combined with flowers, comets, eclipses, etc.
See: Ref 54181
[Ref: 58059] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Flowers of Loveliness. Narcissus. No.1.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph with added gum arabic. 273 x 234mm. 10¾ x 9¼". Cut and laid on Album sheet.
A man on his hands and knees, leans over the edge of the lake to look at and admire himself. Two women standing to the left in the background as onlookers, with looks of disdainment.
[Ref: 15968] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Flowers of Lovliness. Night-blowing Cerus.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 275 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½").
A scene in a bedroom in which a matronly woman dressed in an elaborate nightcap blows out a candle. A night-blooming cereus is a species of ceroid cacti with large flower which bloom at night.
[Ref: 43786] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Flowers of Lovliness. Passion Flowers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 275 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½").
A comic scene in which two women seem to be getting ready for a fight.
[Ref: 43787] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Flowers of Lovliness. Narcissus. No. 1.
HH.
Pub.d Jan.y 1836 by Preston, Burlington Arcade. W. Lake. lith. 50, Old Bailey, London.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 295 x 180mm (11½ x 7"). Trimmed.
A comic scene showing an unattractive man caught, like the classical Narcissus, gazing at his own reflection in a pond.
[Ref: 43790] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Water Lily]
Tho.s Harper pinx.t. [J.P. Quilley sculp.t]
[London, Published Feb.y 20, 1830, by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket.]
Mezzotint printed in colour, sheet 210 x 180mm (8¼ x 7"). Trimmed around image and artist's name, losing text.
One of a number of prints after Thomas Harper (1817-43, fl.), portrait and miniature painter, in which women are combined with flowers, comets, eclipses, etc.
For other similar prints after Harper see refs. 38818 and 21580.
[Ref: 42464] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Water Lily.
[Th]o.s Harper pinx.t. J.P. Quilley sculp[.t].
London, Published Feb.y 20, 1830, by Tho.s M.cLean, 26, Haymarket.
Rare mezzotint printed in colour, sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, clipping artist's and engraver's names and into title at bottom. Slight staining in title area.
A woman's head in the centre of a water lily flower, one of a series of prints after Thomas Harper (1817-43, fl.), in which women are combined with flowers, comets, eclipses, etc. Very decorative.
See Ref: 54181
[Ref: 54180] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

"When the Flowing Tide Comes In."
[n.d. c.1860.]
Coloured lithograph. 332 x 447mm. Some spotting.
A satirical image of a man with his monocle attempting to dislodge the boat with the oar three-quarters of the way deep into the silt. A lady with a parasol grabs the back of this jacket stopping him from falling in. A stout man having attempted to dislodge the boat, holds his oar up as if to give up; whilst a third man at the stern looks up to the sky in despair.
[Ref: 12535] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

View of the entrance into the Port of Flushing. Engraved for Banke's, New System of Geography Published by Royal Authority.
B. Peters Pinx. Sparrow Sculp.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Copper engraving. Plate 215 x 317mm. 8½ x 12½". Small water stain bottom left-hand corner.
From "A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography Antient (sic) and Modern..." by the Reverend Thomas Banks, London, 1787-1790. Flushing, in southwestern Holland. It has been an important harbour for centuries, strategically located between the Scheldt river and the North Sea. It was a harbour of great importance to the Dutch East India Company; and as the construction harbour for the ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
See: NMM: PAD1578.
[Ref: 16469] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Flushing Slipway.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
The view in the town of Flushing in Cornwall. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49338] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

A Garden of Flowers. Flushing.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
A view of a garden in the seaside town of Flushing, a young woman stands by gate. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49330] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Music Quartet.]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Photogravure, sheet 130 x 125mm (5¼ x 5"), on album music sheet with letterpress verse, honouring Edgar Allan Poe, 'That Amateur Flute', from the New York Arcadian and two woodcut portraits.
Four musicians sit facing each other.
[Ref: 62815] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The Flute Player.]
F. Hals Pinx.t. J.S. Negges fecit.
Cum Gratia et Privil. S.C.M. Acad. Fr. A.A.L.L. [Augsburg, c.1740.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to plate on all sides, crease in inscription area.
A half-length portrait of a young man playing a wooden flute, wearing a feathered cap and cloak. It was engraved by Johann Simon Negges (1726-92) after the painting by the Dutch painter Frans Hals (1585-1666), who is best known for the 'Laughing Cavalier'.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33709] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

Le Fluteur. De la Galerie du Palais d'Orleans, École de Lombardie. III.me Tableau de Michel-Ange Amerigi Surnommé Le Caravage. Peint sur Toile, ayant de hauteur 2 Pieds 4 Pouces, sur 1 Pied 11 Pouces de large. Cette figure de jeune homme, qu'on peut considere comme une des plus savantes productions du Caravage, réunit à l'étonnante vérité du Coloris...Le Dominicain fut aussi tenté de la suivre; mais le goût du Dessin qui sáj trouve attaché, et le choix de sa Lumiere, toujours le même dans toutes sortes de Sujéts, l'en a detourné.
Peint par Michel Ange dit Caravage. Gravé par Mondet.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Etching. Plate 419 x 285mm. 16½ x 11¼". Some paper toning.
The flute player: a young man seen half-length, turned to the right and looking towards the viewer, holding a flute with his elbows resting on a rock.
[Ref: 20067] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Fly Fishing.
Engraved by J. Scott from a Drawing by J. Barringer.
Published by Sherwood & Co. Sep.tr 1831.
Engraving. 134 x 222mm. 5¼ x 8¾". Repaired tears into title. Bit messy.
A man stood on the shore fly fishing, with a basket and five caught fish to right; a waterfall in the background.
[Ref: 26835] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Sea Weeds. Flying-Fish Chase. Plate 2, Vol. 1.
I. Basire sculp.
[London: Thomas Astley, c.1745.]
Engraving. 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Narrow bottom margin, folds.
Two maritime scenes on one plate. The upper scene shows three ships at sea with depictions of Sargossa and Trombas seaweeds, as reported off South Africa by Cornelis de Houtman in 1595-1597). The lower scene depicts seabirds chasing flying fish. From John Green's 'A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels'.
[Ref: 64422] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

L'expèrience de cette Figure Aërostatique haute de 8 pieds faite par les frères Ensten.
Weis sc.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slight creasing.
A print showing a flying figure of Mercury, the figure was made to float and was the invention of the Ensten brothers.
[Ref: 46207] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Kaufmann's flying machine] Mechanische Technik. Taf. 34.
Druck und Verlag von F.A. Brockhaus in Leipzig [n.d., c.1870].
Wood engraving. Sheet 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Small tear repaired, some foxing.
A sheet of 15 numbered vignette illustrations, of which 14 show designs and uses of balloons. The exception is the most interesting, '14 Flugmachine von Kaufmann'. This was a steam-powered flying machine designed in 1867 by Joseph Kaufmann, a mechanical engineer from Glasgow, with a 40-horsepower steam engine weighing over 5,000 pounds, driving a pair of flapping 35 feet long wings. A large ball was suspended below the aerial machine for stability. He presented a lecture on his experiments to the Glasgow Mechanics Institute in 1869, with a working model. After the wings of the model broke off, the lecture ended and no further reports of Kaufmann's machine exist.
[Ref: 56956] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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