Grosvenor Prints

Archimedes Philosophe.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 400 x 267mm. 15¾ x 10½".
Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer. He is seen as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Through his studies he laid the foundations of hydrostatices, statics and an explanation of the principle of the lever.
W: 96.
[Ref: 15644] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Archimède. Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur Papillon de la Ferlé, Intendant et Contrôleur Général de l'Argenterie, Menus Plai=sirs et Affaires de la Chambre du Roi; et Trésorier Général de la Maison et Finances de M.gr le Comte de Provence & c.
Le Prince pin. R. Gaillard sculp.
A Paris et à Londres chez Tessari et C.º [n.d., c.1780.].
Rare etching, printed in red and brown. Sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear. Bit messy.
Archimedes, seen half-length, sitting at a desk, turned to left, and tracing figures with a pair of compasses; he wears a turban and an anachronistic embroidered gown. Archimedes (c.287-212BC) was a mathematician, born at Syracuse and died during the siege of the city. Le Prince's painting is a copy after Gerard Dou. First published by Gaillard c.1773.
[Ref: 66683] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Death of Archimedes] Mentre Siracusa era in predaa al saccheggio, un soldato di Marcello, avendo trovato Archimede occupato nei suoi studi, irratato dalle sue fredde risposte, l'uccide. Rollin 1st. Rom. T.VI.
Pinelli inv. e inc.
In Roma 1819.
Etching. 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"), with large margins.
A Roman soldier commands Archimedes to come and meet Gerneral Marcellus, but he declines, as he is too busy working on a problem. Enraged, the soldier kills Archimedes with his sword. On the right an assembly of scientific items and charts. From Pinelli's series of 100 plates illustrating the the history of Republican Rome, as told in Charles Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'.
[Ref: 62146] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Archimedes, Steamer. Fitted with Mr. F.P. Smith's Patent Screw Propeller, off the North Foreland, on her Trip from Gravesend to Portsmouth, which was Performed in 21 Hours, Against a Fresh Breeze from the West, May 14th, 1839.
Painted by W.J. Huggins. Engraved by E. Duncan.
London, Published by Mr. Huggins, Marine Painter to His Late Majesty Will.m IVth _ 105 Leadenhall Street. But later.
Coloured aquatint. 410 x 540mm (16 x 21¼"). Crack in bottom platemark and tears repaired, abrasion to edges. Margins very messy.
A view of SS Archimedes, the world's first successful screw propeller steamship, in rough seas. Named after Archimedes' Screw, she was built in 1839 with a propeller designed by Francis Pettit Smith (1808-74). The ship was lent to Isambard Kingdom Brunel to trial for several months, after which Brunel changed the design of the SS Great Britain from paddle to screw propulsion
[Ref: 58967] £750.00

[Architectural Drawing.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink drawing, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 330 x 405mm (13 x 16''). Creasing and tears.
An architectural drawing showing the interiors of an arch, showing measurements of the walls and spaces and high and low tide marks.
[Ref: 50639] £320.00

[Vaulted room]
Invent et del: par Angelo Quaglio [c.1818]
Lithograph, printed area 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), with large margins
Early lithograph by Angelo Quaglio, member of a large family of Italian artists from near Lake Lugano. Angelo Quaglio supplied the drawings used to illustrate Sulpiz Boisserée's history of Cologne Cathedral, which was part of the successful effort to get the unfinished nave of the church completed. Examples of his work are in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Provenance: Rokeby Park Durham.
[Ref: 46503] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece?; an emblem of architecture/design.]
Cochin Filius inv. Soubeyran Sculp.
[French, n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving, laid paper, large margins; 215 x 160mm. 8½ x 6¼".
Putti engaged in draughtsmanship and calculations with a compass, under the supervision of a classical female figure; a river, buildings and architectural fragments to background. After Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790). Pierre Soubeyran (1709-1775), who engraved many of Cochin's designs, became Director of the Ecole de Dessin at Geneva, Switzerland in 1751.
[Ref: 27046] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Architecture.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving with original hand colour. 235 x 325mm (9¼ x 12¾"). Trimmed to image, laid on card.
An allegorical scene of the building of a neo-classical building, with an architect showing his plans to smartly-dressed people.
[Ref: 46394] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Architecture.
London Printed for & Sold by J.Boydel in Cheapside, W.Herbert on London Bridge, & F.Bull on Ludgate Hill.
Engraving. 250 x 350mm.
[Ref: 829] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT)

Architecture.
Printed for Carrington Bowles, in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1765.]
Engraving, sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). 18th century watermark. Trimmed within plate.
Two couples ponder an architect's plan that he gestures to. Men work on the construction. In the middleground the structure is part finished with scaffolding erected to continue.
[Ref: 57085] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Livre Nouveau ou Regles des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture, Par Jacques Barozzio de Vignole. Nouvellement revu, corrigé et augmenté par Monsieur B.*** Architecte du Roy [...]
Cochin inv. Vasseur Sculp
A Paris chez Mondhare et Jean, rue St. Jean de Beauvais. No 4 [c.1757]
Engraving. 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8½").
Frontispiece to a posthumous edition of Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola's work 'Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura' (1562), a concise Renaissance tract on the five orders of architecture, which (with various additions and amendments by later editors) enjoyed enormous success and remained the most influential book on classical architecture until the advent of Modernism.
For another plate from the volume see ref. 27318.
[Ref: 40095] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Affaire d'Arcis sur-Aube.
V. Adam del.t. Lith: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 295 x 350mm (11½ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
The Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (20-21 March 1814) was fought between the French and Austrian armies as Napoleon attempted to stop the Allied advance on Paris. Outnumbered, the French withdrew before their opponents realised how small his forces were. Napoleon fought only one more battle before his abdication and exile to Elba. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 35927] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of Arcite No. 2 of Macklin's British Poets Vide Chaucers Palamen & Arcite moderniz'd by Dryden.
W. Hamilton R.A. pinxt. F. Bartolozzi R.A & Engraver to his Majesty sculpt.
London. Pubd. Feby. 20. 1790 by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Stipple engraving with etching, 430 x 500mm, very large margins. Small tears repaired with tape, one just going into the plate mark at the top. Two small holes in image.
Arcite on his deathbed, wounded in a joust he held with his sworn brother Palamon to compete for the love of Emelye. She stands beside the bed, her hand in his, removing her veil, while Palamon approaches on the right and Theseus sits watching on the left. Illustration from 'Palamon and Arcite' by John Dryden (1631 - 1700), based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Tale of the Knight). Published by Thomas Macklin (c.1760 - 1800) for his series of 'British Poets', begun in 1787.
[Ref: 63752] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon Forcing the Passage of the Bridge of Arcola.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original design of C. Vernet, executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published April 2, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Folded twice as issued, album paper stuck over left edge.
The Battle of Arcole (15-17 November 1796), fought south east of Verona between French and Austrian forces attempting to relieve Mantova. The scene has Napoleon riding Marengo over the bridge, following the Tricoleur: in the painting by Horace Vernet (not Carle as the inscription states) it is Napoleon who carrys the standard. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53345] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Frozen North] Im hohen Norden [...]
[Anon., c.1850]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
Plate from a German travel volume with eleven vignettes of animals and hunting scenes in the Arctic. Central image shows whalers in a small boat fighting off polar bears.
[Ref: 45584] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Arctic.] Polar Regions.
Eng.d by W.H. Lizars.
Published by A. Constable & C.o Edin.r 1822.
Engraved map. Sheet 415 x 390mm (16¼ x 15¼"). paper watermarked 'A. Cowan 1820'. Trimmed within plate, small repaired tear, stains and offset, original binding folds.
A map of the Arctic Circle from Lizars' 'Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas'. In North America the mouths of the Coppermine and McKenzie rivers are shown before the results of John Frankin's expeditions of 1819-22 & 1823.
[Ref: 59113] £190.00

View In The Arctic Regions. [Embossed]
G Baxter. Inventor & Patentee 11 & 12 Northampton Square. [nd. c. 1854]
Coloured Baxter print with stamp, sheet 220 x 230mm (8¾ x 9"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet as normal.
Sailors in search of the lost Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) fend off polar bears. In the spring of 1845, Franklin had embarked on a British expedition to find the Northwest Passage to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He and and his 128-member crew were last seen that July. After three years, the Admiralty offered a large reward to find Franklin, setting off a series of rescue attempts, among them the British expedition portrayed here under the command of Sir John Ross (1777–1856).
[Ref: 60695] £320.00

[American Arctic] Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou sont compris le Destroit de Davids, le Destroit de Hudson &c.
A Amsterdam Chez Pierre Mortier. [n.d., 1705.]
Engraving on two sheets conjoined, total 90 x 830mm, with strong original hand colour. A few repairs to verdigris cracking.
A large and decorative chart showing from the west coast of Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and the bays of Arctic America. The abundance of English placenames is a testiment to their efforts to find the North West Passage, thus reaching the east without having to pass the French and Spaniards. Published in Mortier's issue of the'Neptune Francois'.
[Ref: 4325] £500.00

Amérique Boreale pour servir à l'Histoire des dernieres découvertes.
Gravé sur Acier par Laguillermie, Rue de Noyers, no 55.
Imprimé par Mangeon. [Paris, 1837.]
Etched map with some outline colour. Printed area 330 x 470mm, 13 x 18½". Slight crease on left; edges knocked.
Map of Arctic America, published in Montemont's 'Histoire Universelle des Voyages', with Alaska still marked as Russian (a boundary line shows the limits of Russian and British territory under a treaty of 1825). Designed to show 'new discoveries', there is evidence of re-engraving in the Nunavut region of Canada.
[Ref: 27655] £230.00

[Gulf of Boothia.] To His Most Excellent Majesty William IVth, King of Great Britain, Ireland &c. This Chart of the Discoveries made in the Arctic Regions, in 1829, 30, 31, 32, & 33, is dedicated with His Majesty's gracious permission by His Majesty's Loyal and devoted Subjects, John Ross, Captain Royal Navy, James Clark Ross, Commander Royal Navy.
Published by Capt. Ross R.N. Dec.r 1834.
Engraved map with original hand colour. 465 x 615mm. Binding folds flattened, as normal, narrow right edge.
A map of the discoveries of John Ross and his nephew, John Clark Ross, in the Gulf of Boothia, with five coastal profiles (one lettered upside-down). On an expedition to find the North West Passage Ross was the first European to enter the gulf (although it had been seen by Parry in 1822), naming it after their patron, gin-magnate Sir Felix Booth. They spent the next four years stuck in ice, during which time John Clark Ross became the first European to reach the Magnetic North Pole, then at Cape Adelaide on the Boothia Peninsula. Eventually the crew left their ship and were rescued by a whaler, who thought they had perished two years before. This map was published in Ross's 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage', 1835.
Abbey Travel 636.
[Ref: 52848] £350.00

[The Arctic Circle on globe sheets.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Pair of coloured engravings, two semi-cicles making a diameter of 340mm, 13½".
Pair of sheets apparently designed to be pasted onto a globe. In Arctic America the Mackenzie River is marked (discovered 1789) but the discoveries of Captain Cook in Alaska from 1778 are not. In the East Novaya Zemlya still has its early shape.
[Ref: 10905] £260.00

Arctic Regions. Musk Ox LVIII
[Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, c.1860]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 210 x 325mm (8¼ x 12¾"). Tears to edges.
An arctic view depicting snowy mountains, green pasture with Musk Oxen, the icy sea with a whale spouting water from its blow hole and birds catching fish. From Edmonston and Douglas's 'The Instructive Picture Book. Quadrupeds.'
[Ref: 56029] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Encamping for the Night.]
[Lithographed by Joseph Needham after Walter William May.]
[London: Day & Son, 1855.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 175 x 285mm (7 x 11¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on card,
A sledge party set up camp in a snow-covered, barren wasteland, from Walter William May's 'Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin'. Sir Edward Belcher led five ships to the Arctic in the largest and last naval search for Sir John Franklin and the crews of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror', missing from an earlier expedition seeking the Northwest Passage. Four out of the five vessels were abandoned in pack ice, for which Belcher was court-martialled, but acquitted. Although they were unable to find Franklin they rescued the crew of HMS Investigator, which had become stuck during an earlier rescue expedition under the command of Robert McClure.
Abbey 646.
[Ref: 59118] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Ardebil.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼").
A prospect of the city of Ardabil, an ancient city in Iranian Azerbaijan known for its silk and carpets. From John Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 47530] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Ardebil.
[Gasper Bouttats.]
[n.d., c.1674.]
Engraving. Plate 355 x 290mm (14 x 11½"), with large margins. Central crease as normal.
View of the Iranian city of Ardabil with people and camel in the foreground. Notably the city is the origin for the 'Ardabil' or 'Ardebil' Carpet's, two different famous Persian carpets. It was made in the town of Ardabil in north-west Iran, the burial place of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, who died in 1334. The Shaykh was a Sufi leader, ancestor of Shah Ismail, founder of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722). While the exact origins of the carpet are unclear, it's believed to have been commissioned by the court for the shrine of the Shaykh, which, by the 16th century, had became a place of pilgrimage. The carpet was still in the shrine of Shaykh Safi al-Din in 1843, where it was seen by British visitors. Around 30 years later, the shrine suffered an earthquake, and the carpet was sold to a Manchester carpet firm, who in turn put it up for sale in 1892. On inspecting the carpet on behalf of the V&A, designer William Morris reported it of “singular perfection… logically and consistently beautiful”. The V&A Museum acquired the carpet for £2,000 in March 1893.
[Ref: 63092] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Ardizzone's World. The Etchings and Lithographs. An Introduction and Catalogue Raissoné.
Nicholas Ardizzone.
University Press and Wolseley Fine Arts. London. [2000.]
4to, red cloth gilt and illust. d/w; pp. 144, profusely illustrated. Tear on d/w.
A catalogue raisonné of the work of the english artist Edward Ardizzone.
[Ref: 59926] £45.00

Pier at Ardrossan, Ayrshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Jan.y 1, 1817.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
Ardrossan in Ayrshire, with Arran visible across the Firth of Clyde. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36286] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Areneños (subtribe of the Papagos).
A. Schott del.. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[Washington: Department of the Interior, 1857.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Image 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
Two Hia C-e? O'odham ('Sand Dune People), also known as Areneños or Sand Papagos, after a fishing expedition. Today the tribe is based in Arizona. Arthur Carl Victor Schott (1814-1875), a Stuttgart-born artist, topographical engineer and cartographer, joined the 'The United States and Mexican Boundary Survey' which was determining the border after the Mexican–American War (1846-8). His sketches, including this one, appeared in William H. Emory's 'Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey'. They were reproduced in the 'Illustrated London News' in 1858.
[Ref: 43338] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Pierre Aretin. Ne a Arezzo en Toscane, mort environ l'an 1556. age de 65 ans.
Titianus pinxit.W Hollar fecit 1647.
Etching, 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Toning
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was a well-regarded Italian author, poet and playwright as well as an influential satirist and notorious blackmailer. He was a close friend of Titian, who painted his portrait many times.
Pennington 1346 iii of iii.
[Ref: 53770] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Argent de mes petits Oiseaux. Il est si fot de son oiseau Qu'il vient de tirer de sa cage Que pour apprendre son ramage Il le siffle en godelureau.
Chez HBonnart vis a vis les Mathurins au Coq avec pril. [n.d. c.1740.]
Etching and engraving with very large margins. Plate 271 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½"). Mint; glued to backing sheet at corners.
A man selling birds in the street from a cage hung around his waist. From a set of Street Cries.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28417] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Fishing.]
[E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t]
[London: Published by R. Ackermann, 101, Strand. Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand. M.DCCC.XX. (1820).]
Coloured aquatint, paper watermarked. 120 x 165mm. 4¾ x 6½". Cut.
In the river a cart pulled by oxen is being loaded with fish collected by two men on horses with a net to the right, and then gutted by a man in the middle. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.9. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 25011] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Water Cart.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published Aug.t 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Narrow margins, mount burn around image, repairs to bottom margin.
A high-wheeled cart pulled by two oxen, driven down a steep bank by a gaucho riding on the yoke. The flat plains of Argentine mean that no canals could be built to supply Buenos Aires with drinking water, resulting in large numbers of water carts From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45757] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Les Steppes.
Lith.e Roche, r. Leregrattier, 1.
Paris, Arnauld, de Vresse, Editeur. 55, Rue de Rivoli. [n.d. c.1869.]
Coloured lithograph with added gum arabic. 323 x 242mm. 12¾ x 9½".
A view of a Steppe. Hunters on horseback chase bulls attempting to catch them on the plains. Probably the Pamamapa, Argentina.
[Ref: 17921] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Convoy of Wine Mules.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Published Aug.t 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1819. Mount burn around image.
Early wine related image showing a rider on horse leading a convoy of mules, each laden with two barrels of wine. Vidal saw these coming from Mendoza in Cuyo, describing the convoy as between two-and-three hundred mules, each with two ten-gallon casks, accompanied by only three or four riders. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.19. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45753] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Fishing.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London: Published Aug.t 1. 1820, at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (10 x 11¾") with wide margins. Holes in top edge where it has previously been bound. Light staining in margins.
In the river a cart pulled by oxen is being loaded with fish collected by two men on horses with a net to the right, and then gutted by a man in the middle. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.9. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52744] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Market Place.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. D. Havell sculp.t.
London: Published May 1. 1820, at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (10 x 11¾") with wide margins. Holes in top edge where previously bound. Light staining in margins. Some marks within the platemark.
A busy market square, with an archway flying the Argentine flag. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52750] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Paolistas, Soldiers of the East Bank of the Plata.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London: Published Ot.r 1. 1820, at R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 10") with wide margins. Holes in left edge where it has previously been bound. Light staining in margins.
South American soldiers. One, with lace at the bottom of his trousers, is drinking chimarrao, a type of tea. The other man has a long plait; both are barefooted. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile. From one of the earliest representations of Argentinian life.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52755] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Guachos (Rustics) of Tucuman.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published Sep.r 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Narrow margins, trimmed within plate at top, repaired tears to edges,
Four gauchos resting by a fire, their carts behind. Vidal explains that city dwellers call all countrymen 'gauchos' and suggests it derives from the same root as the English 'gawkey' (i.e. awkward and uncooth). Their carts would be unloaded outside the town to avoid congestion inside. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45756] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Travelling Post.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Published June 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 325 x 520mm (12¾" x 20½"). Centre fold, as issued, repairs to centre fold and nicks in margins.
A coach pulled by four mules with a lead horse. One of the few double-page plates from Emeric Essex Vidal's "Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video". Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816, the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile. From one of the earliest representations of Argentinian life.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52872] £320.00

Walking dress of a Lady of rank, andher Servant of Chili. [Plate III.]
[London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1819.]
Fine hand-coloured aquatint with etching, with large margins. Plate 246 x 190mm. 9¾ x 7½".
A lady of high society walking, covering her face with a thin veil; a servant girl walks behind. From 'Letters from Buenos Ayres and Chili, with and Original History of the Latter Country. Illustrated with Engravings'.
[Ref: 23594] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Travelling Wagon in a Pontano (Morass).
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published June 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Small hole in inscription area, repairs to bottom margin. Small margins.
Two high-wheeled carts drawn by six oxen wading through a bog. Vidal describes these large wheels as necessary because 'no gravel or stone of any kind, not even a pebble, is to be found on the west bank of the river' for 100 miles from Buenos Ayres, making building good roads impossible. Evidence of an unsuccessful crossing is in the foreground. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45754] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Public House & Travellers.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published Oct.r 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Repairs in inscription area and bottom margin.
A 'Pulperia', one five leagues south-west from Buenos Aires, which are described by Vidal as being 'most miserable, dirty hovels, where may be bought a little canna, or spirit distilled from sugarcane'. He writes that horses are so cheap, 'three dollars, the cost of two or three days keep in the city', that they are abused and then abandoned, accounting for the skeleton bottom right. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45755] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Cavendish plunders & burns Paita.
[London: F. Newbery, 1774.]
Engraving, 110 x 165mm. 4¼ x 6½".
European soldiers carry goods from a burning town down to a ship in the harbour. Includes swords, shields, boxes or casks, and sacks; burning churches in the background. From 'An Historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators...', which describes (among others) the voyage of Thomas Cavendish (1560 - 1592), the second Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Cavendish's men sacked the town of Paita in northwestern Peru in May 1586.
British Library: 008615932.
[Ref: 13202] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Cavendishes Crew in Great distress at Port desire, Set up a Forge & repair their shatterd Vessels.
[London: F. Newbery, 1774.]
Engraving, 115 x 190mm. 4½ x 7½".
European sailors work at a forge, make rope, saw wood, and carry provisions. Includes ship, boat, hammers, fire, and axe or hatchets. From 'An Historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators...', which describes (among others) the voyage of Thomas Cavendish (1560 - 1592), the second Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. He discovered Puerto Deseado in present day Argentina, where he landed to effect repairs to his ship, and which he named after his ship. Numbered 'pa. 250' upper right.
British Library: 008615932.
[Ref: 13201] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Estantia (Farm) on the River San Pedro.
E.E. Vidal Esq. del.t. Maile & Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Published July 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1819. Small margins.
A ranch, workers staking out hides to dry and gauchos roping cattle. Vidal describes it as being 16 miles north of Colonia, with no other house within ten miles, with thousands of horses and cattle roaming free. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.16. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45751] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Quinta (Farm).
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. Sutherland & Maile sculp.t.
London. Published Aug.t 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Thread margin at top; bottom of inscription area rubbed, repairs to margins.
A view of an opulent house from the Rio de la Plata, surrounded by fruit trees, with women washing clothes in the foreground, with high-wheeled carts in the middle distance. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.23. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45752] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Argentina] [Bernadino Rivadavia.]
Painted by T. Phillips Esq.r. R.A. Engraved by C.Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London Published Oct.r 24 1825, by Mr Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 510 x 370mm. Slight damp stain in edge.
Bernardino de la Trinidad Gónzalez Rivadavia y Rivadavia (1780-1845) was the first president of Argentina, 1826-7.
Whaitman 497: first published state.
[Ref: 4639] £450.00

[America] [Don Bernardino Rivadavia, President of the Republic of the United Provinces.]
Painted by T. Phillips Esq.r. R.A. Engraved by C.Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London Published Oct.r 24 1825, by Mr Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 510 x 370mm (20 x 14½"). Slight foxing to margins; very scarce.
Bernardino de la Trinidad Gónzalez Rivadavia y Rivadavia (1780-1845), first president of Argentina (then known as the Republic of the United Provinces), 1826-7. He sits at a desk holding a document headed 'Reforma [E]celesiastica Buenos Ayres 1822' (Rivadavia's religious reforms transferred many of the Catholic church's assets to the Republic). Another document, headed 'Systema Representative' also on the table. In 1824 Rivadavia visited London where, in association with the Hullet Brothers bank he founded the Rio de la Plata Mining Association. Rivadavia was also a correspondent and admirer of Jeremy Bentham, who he first met in London in 1820. Engraved after the portrait by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845), whose over 700 portraits record the leading personalities of his time.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Whitman 497 i/ii.
[Ref: 34927] £620.00

Monte Video, From the Anchorage outside the Harbour. Buenos Ayres, From the Bank between the Outer and Inner Roads.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Published May 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 325 x 510mm (12¾" x 20"). Centre fold, as issued, repairs to centre fold left edge.
Separate views of the capital cities of Uruguay and Argentina from the sea. One of the few double-page plates from Emeric Essex Vidal's "Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video". Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816, the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile. From one of the earliest representations of Argentinian life.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52875] £380.00

South Matadero (Public Butchery).
E.E. Vidal Esq. del.t. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published July 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Mount burn around image, repaired tear entering plate, other repairs in margins, colour faded.
One of the four mataderos around Buenos Aires, a field in which cattle are being lassoed by horsemen and slaughtered. The city's skyline is in the background. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45748] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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