Grosvenor Prints

Ex-Libris John Galsworthy.
R.H.Sauter. fec.
[n.d., c.1930.]
Engraved bookplate, image 110 x 70mm.
R.H Sauter illustrated many of Galsworthy's books.
[Ref: 15578] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

John Galt Esqr.
[Anon., c.1825.]
Stipple, sheet 220 x 140mm. 8½ x 5½". Sheet trimmed.
John Galt (1779-1839), novelist. John Galt was a prolific Scottish novelist admired for his depiction of country life. From 1824 he worked for the Canada Company, a charter company established to aid in the colonisation of Upper Canada. He opened up a road between Lakes Huron and Erie through the forest country and founded the city of Guelph in Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1827. Galt was dismissed in 1829 for his lack of accounting skills and failure to carry out the company's policies. He returned to Britain in 1829, after which he devoted himself entirely to literature. His masterpieces, novels of Scottish rural life, are The Ayrshire Legatees (1820), The Annals of the Parish (1821), Sir Andrew Wylie (1822), The Provost (1822) and The Entail (1823).
[Ref: 12971] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

John Galt [facsimile.] The Author of a "Life of Byron".
Daniel Maclise.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching. 266 x 297mm. 10½ x 11¾".
John Galt (1779-1839) was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commenter. He published the Life of Lord Byron in 1830. Depicted here with a bust of Byron and a map showing Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and environs.
See NPG: D34534.
[Ref: 24467] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Galton Bridge. Erected over the new line of the Birmingham Canal at Smethwick in the County of Stafford, in the Year 1826. From a Design by Thomas Telford Esq.re F.R.S. L.& E. Cast at the Horseley Iron Works,
R. Bridgens Del.t. L. Haghe.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Fine lithograph. Sheet 425 x 570mm (16¾ x 22½"). Repaired tears.
When the Galton Bridge was opened in 1829 it was the highest in the world. It is now Grade 1 listed. It was named after Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS (1753-1832), a Quaker who was paradoxically an arms manufacturer.
[Ref: 56946] £390.00

Galway Harbour Improvement. Sections.
Samuel U. Roberts. I.E. Galway 20 Nov.ber 1852.
Lithograph with hand colour. Neatline 395 x 700, 15½ x 27½". On the back in pencil Col Lloyd Royal Engineer Edges chipped.
Cross sections of the new breakwaters and piers. Samuel Ussher Roberts (1821-1900), engineer & architect. He became engineer to the Galway Harbour Commissioners while still running his own private practice as an engineer and architect. In 1873 he moved to Dublin as the Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, becoming Commissioner in 1878. He was also an organiser and a judge of the Dublin Horse Show.
[Ref: 10824] £220.00

Mrs Payne Galwey.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds Engraved by J.R. Smith.
[London Publishd Feby 1st 1780 by J.R. Smith No 10 Batemans Buildings Soho Square]
Mezzotint, sheet 370 x 285mm (14½ x 11¼"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line;
Double portrait of Philadelphia Payne Gallwey (1758-85) and her son Charles (1777-95) engraved after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds shortly after it was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1779. The painting is now in the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati.
Hamilton p.101; CS 133 iii/iii; D'Oench 144.
[Ref: 46917] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Gambado seeing the World, in a Six Mile Tour so famed in History. Lakes, Forests, Cities, Plains, Extended Wide / The Pomp of Kings The Shepherds Humble Pride.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin. Maddox Sc.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. 220 x 200mm. 8¾ x 8". Pin holes in corners of margin.
Bunbury's self-portrait of himself as a slightly rotund man awkwardly-astride a horse. Geoffrey Gambado was the pseudonym used by Bunbury when he published his 'Annals of horsemanship'.
[Ref: 26426] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[John Gamble] Vera Effigies Joannis Gamble Philomusici. This to the Graver owes; / but read and Find / By his owne hand / a most Harmonious Mind. J:S:
T. Cross Sculspit.
[n.d., 1656.]
Scarce engraving. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed to plate on right.
A half-length portrait in oval of composer John Gamble (d. 1687), a musician in the courts of Charles I & Charles II.
[Ref: 66075] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[John Gamble.] Vera Effigies Joannis Gamble Philomusici.
Published as the Act directs, March 1 1795, by W.Richardson, Castle, Street, Leicester Square.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed into plate on left. Some faint foxing.
Portrait of John Gamble (died 1687), composer and musician in the courts of Charles I of England and Charles II.
[Ref: 67014] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Gambler Surprised.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Scarce etching. 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"). Trimmed to plate top right, creasing.
A satire in two scenes on one plate. On the left is a macaroni smiling, standing at a table leaning on a book ''on chance'', on a table with a pack of playing cards, dice box and two dice on the floor, a painting of a racehorse on the wall behind. On the right is a skeleton, leaning on a tomb, spade in its right hand. A reversed version of 'Macaronies Drawn after the Life', published by Matthias & Mary Darly, 1773.
Not in BM Satires but see 4645 for the Darly version.
[Ref: 67735] £490.00

[Landscape with Gamblers.]
[Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.]
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. Plate: 250 x 330mm (9¾ x 13'') with large margins. Very slight central crease.
A landscape scene with three figures playing a game of dice in the foreground. By Italian printmaker Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680).
BM 1874,0808.682. Bartsch 38
[Ref: 51157] £380.00

[Thrush, greenfinch, sparrow and finch] La grive litorne, le verdier, le moineau-franc et le pinçon. Souvenirs du Chasseur.
Edouard Traviés [signed in plate]. Imp. Lemercier Paris.
Paris, E. Savary et C.e Place du Louvre 10. London, E. Gambart & Co. [c.1850]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic, sheet 610 x 435mm (24 x 17"). Savary blindstamp bottom left.
Dead game hanging by string in tromp-l'oeil frame. One of a series of lithographs of dead quarry, 'Souvenirs du chasseur' by Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865), animal painter and illustrator. Traviès was born in Doullens in the Somme district of France in March 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolour (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography, as here.
For another plate from the same set see ref. 22489. Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire
[Ref: 46771] £450.00

[Game Birds.]
G. Stevens pinx.t et del. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 180 x 145mm (7 x 5¾''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A still life showing game birds in a larder.
[Ref: 51074] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Black Game.
Painted by Elmere. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
Published Oct.r 16th, 1807 by W.D.Jones, High Street, Oxford.
Fine mezzotint. 380 x 430mm.
A cock and hen, after a painting by Stephen Elmer (c.1714-1796), a painter of hunting subjects who exhibited at the Royal Academy. Engraved by Charles Turner (1773-1857).
Whitman: 726, state ii of ii. See 16023 for 'Red Game'
[Ref: 16024] £520.00

[Still-life with game birds and cats] Dedié a S.E.Mr. le Marquis de Chauvelin Ambassadeur de France a Turin D'aprés le Tableau de Benedetto Castiglione haut de onze pouces et large d'un pied neuf pouces [...]
[c.1760][Bit later]
Etching, platemark 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Small margins.
Etching after a painting by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64), Genovese artist of mostly religious subjects, which exploited his gift for animals and still-life elements. This painting was owned by Jacques-Laure Le Tonnelier, balli de Breteuil (1723-85), Maltese diplomat and patron of the arts. The print, in turn, is dedicated to the French ambassador in Turin, the Marquis de Chauvelin. Famous cat image.
[Ref: 40219] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Game Cock.
Painted, Engraved, & Published, Aug.t 14. 1792, by T. Lord No. 11 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.
Original copper etched plate with a later strike from the plate with hand colour, both presented in a modern cloth portfolio. Copper plate: 310 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Folio: 440 x 350mm (17¼ x 13¾").
A cloth bound presentation portfolio containing a copper plate and recent impression, with hand colour, of a portrait of a game cock. Copper plate etching is a traditional form of printmaking.
See: 66539
[Ref: 41373] £420.00 view all images for this item

Red Game.
Painted by Elmere. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
Published Oct.r 16th, 1807 by W.D.Jones, High Street, Oxford.
Mezzotint, 380 x 430mm. Crease.
A brace of red grouse, after a painting by Stephen Elmer (c.1714-1796), a painter of hunting subjects who exhibited at the Royal Academy. Engraved by Charles Turner (1773-1857).
Whitman 727, state ii of ii. See 16024 for 'Black Game'.
[Ref: 16023] £520.00

The Grief of Self Will'd Boy at having Ruined his Hom.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Wood engraving with hand colour. Sheet 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼").
A boy weeps before his burnt-out home. The scene is surrounded by an elaborate border reaturing pastimes including cricket, kite-flying, swimming and a spinning top.
[Ref: 64080] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Russie. Le Jeu du Gorodky, du Pristinky.
Bramatti dis. e inc. Biasoli A.T.
[Milan, c.1826.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 180 x 325mm (7 x 13¾"), watermarked 'FAG', publisher's blind stamp in margin. Large margins.
Russians playing Grodki (literally 'little cities', an ancient game in which skittles arranged in different patterns are knocked over by a thrown bat) and Pristinky (a coin is bounced of a wall to land as close to the opponent's coin as possible). Peter the Great is known to have played Grodki. From Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne...'.
[Ref: 37901] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Russie. Le Jeu du Svayky, du Babky.
Bramatti dis. e inc. Biasoli A.T.
[Milan, c.1826.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 180 x 325mm (7 x 13¾"), watermarked 'FAG', publisher's blind stamp in margin. Large margins.
Russians playing Svayky (trying to throw an iron spike so that it sticks in the ground within a ring) and Babky (a game illustrated on Etruscan vases, in which throwers attempt to knock over pairs of bones). From Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne...'.
[Ref: 37902] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Joueur. Il faui que des mes maux enfin je me delivre: J'ai cent moyens tout pretes pour m'empecher de vivre, La riviere, le feu, le oison et le fez, Regnard.
D L... Pinx. L. C. T... Sculp.
A Paris Chez le Citoyen Jean rue S.t Jean de Beauvais N.o 4. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving, 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), with large margins.
Full length image of an upset looking man who has upturned a table, scattering cards and his jacket on the floor. Quote from Jean-François Regnard's (1655–1709) 'Le Joueur' ("The Gamester", 1696) underneath the title.
Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 65895] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Die Spieler. The Gamesters.
Caravagio pinx.t. W. French sc.
Dresdener Galerie [n.d. c.1850].
Engraving, sheet 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed losing platemark at top.
Two card players, shown half-length at a table: the player on the left conceals a card in his right hand while watching as an accomplice stealthily approaches his opponent from behind, signalling three with his right hand, sword poised in his left. The painting is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, long thought to be by Caravaggio (1571–1610), it was reattributed to Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) in 1906. Engraved by the English engraver William French (1815–1898), who produced engravings after works by English contemporaries as well as old masters.
Ex: Ricky Jay Collection.
[Ref: 68154] £25.00 (£30.00 incl.VAT)

The Gamesters. In the Cabinet at Houghton.
Teniers Pinxit. Geo. Farington delin.t. Val: Green Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
John Boydell excudit 1779. Published Nov,,r 13.th 1779 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, 290 x 350mm (11½ x 13¾"), with very large margins.
The interior of a Dutch inn, with three men playing cards, with other men smoking pipes and one urinating in a corner.
Whitman 210, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67059] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[White Star Liner].
S.A. Gammick [?].
Etching, 5.7/8" x 8.½".
The White Star Liner docked.
[Ref: 2623] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Galerie Théâtrale / Gandolin (Troupe du Marais) / ((Année 1634) / Gandolin par sa Réthorique / Nous fait la rate épanouir [...]
Delacluse del. Prud'hon Sculp.t. Ecrit par Beaublé. Imprimé par Langlois
Déposé à la Direct.on de la Librairie. [n.d., c.1810]
Stipple printed in colour with large margins, platemark 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8½").
Gandolin, celebrated comic actor at the Théâtre du Marais in the 17th century, with verses below paying tribute to his ability. He specialised in playing a role similar to that of Harlequin.
Harvard 2.
[Ref: 35594] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Boat on the Ganges.]
Etching by Francis Fane [in ink outside the image.]
[n.d. c.1850.]
Etching, extremely scarce. 109 x 120mm.
A view along the Ganges, the river that linked Delhi with Lucknow during the India Mutiny 1857-1859.
Colonel Francis Augustus Fane (1824-1893) was a Colonel who fought in the Indian Mutiny. He was commander of the Peshawar Light Horse. He gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the 25th Regiment. His life was full of excitement starting first as a soldier, then a banker before settling down as a country gentleman. He started life as a soldier in Antigua where he did some extensive sightseeing before returning to England for his second assignment which took him to Quebec, leading to further sightseeing with his uncle Major -General Mildmay Fane, around Niagara, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston. In 1854 he returned to England to immediately join his uncle in India. It was until 1860 when he next moved to join the 25th regiment in Gibraltar. Following the death of his father in 1862 and the later death of his brother-in-law Anthony Willson, the Sleaford banker in 1866, he returned in November to end his army career, and embarked on a career in banking and finance.

During his time as a soldier he managed to find a lot of free time to indulge in numerous pastimes. This enabled him to become adept at music, and at drawing, painting and engraving. Whilst in the West Indies he had a large organ, which he took with him and exchanged in Calcutta in 1857 for a large harmonium, which was lost during the Mutiny. This ability enabled him to play in church in Quebec and in 1860 he received a new piano from Berlin in Gibraltar. It wasn’t until 1851 that he began etching, at which point he was in London based at a printers to learn that art of printing and engraving. He then bought his own printing press, which he took to India.

After leaving finance he soon became involved in local affairs in Fulbeck and in farming. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1875; and was very active in the affairs of the Conservative Association and of the Agricultural Society. His diaries came to abrupt end in 1884, nine years before his death, so little can be said about his remaining years.
[Ref: 16161] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To J. H. P. J. Pigott Esq.re. this print of his Cutter Yacht "Ganymede", R.Y.S. is respectfully dedicated by his obedient servant Edmund Fry.
N.M. Condy, del. T.G. Dutton, lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs. to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1850].
Lithograph with large margins, rare. Sheet: 460 x 360mm. (18 x 14"). Small tear in title. Repair outside image on top right & left.
View of the cutter yacht 'Ganymede', with three yachts in the distance.
[Ref: 32824] £980.00

I........'m, rather Gapish! [&] S.......o, am I!
[London Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery Street, Bishopsgate.] [n.d., c.1830.]
Pair of coloured aquatints. Each sheet c. 145 x 170mm (5¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed, losing publisher's address, laid on album sheets.
A couple stretching and yawning.
BM 1948,0214.762 & 1985,0119.329.
[Ref: 54327] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Un Corps de Garde de la Garde Nationale. Mais Monsieur Pigeon faites vous donc Habiller.
AG [Monogram of Adrien Godefroy]
A Paris chez Martinet. Déposé &a [1815].
Fine coloured etching platemark 255 x 325mm (10 x 12¾") very large margins.
French soldiers in their barracks, all in uniforms (identified by a legend below the image) except for one 'bourgeois san uniforme' on the right. Plate from the series 'Armée des Souverains Alliés, année 1815', illustrations of the uniforms of the various armies.
[Ref: 43822] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Illustrissimus Excellentiss.us et generosissim.o Domius, Dn. Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie. Comes in Läcköö, & Augsburg &c. &c. Regni Senator et Cancellarius &c &c.
David Klööker pinxit. Petrus van Schuppen Scul.1669.
Fine engraving. Plate: 305 x 185mm (12 x 7¼''). Small margins.
A portrait of Magnus-Gabriel de la Garde (1622-1686) a Swedish politican who was a favourite of Queen Christina.
[Ref: 49448] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[In Memory's Garden.]
W.Dendy Sadler [in pencil to left.] James Dobie [in pencil to right.] W. Dendy Sadler.
London Published 1911 by L.H. Lefevre & Son, 1.a. King St, St. James's S.W. the Proprietors of the Copyright. Copyright 1911, by E.L. Knoedler, New York.
Etching, signed remarqued proof, Printseller's Association Blindstamp. Plate 431 x 571mm. 17 x 22½". Large margins.
An elderly couple seated in a garden; sitting in whicker chairs looking at a small swing attached to a branch in front. Remarque of a girl in a swing.
PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 375.
[Ref: 22984] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

In mortem primi quondam cecidere Parentes, Dum vetita dulces decerpunt arbore fructus.
[Anon, c.1740.]
Very fine & rare mezzotint. Plate 241 x 178mm (9½ x 7"), with large margins. Faint creasing and some foxing; rust mark outside plate to right.
Eve convincing Adam to take and eat the Apple; the devil in his guise as the serpent is coiled around the tree coaxing Eve to trick Adam.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 28388] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Eve Eats of the Fruit & gives to Adam. Gen: Chap. III, v.6.
Arnold Vanhaecken Delin. Jams. Smith Sculp.
[Thomas Edlin, n.d., c.1725.]
Etching, 335 x 205mm. 13¼ x 8".
Biblical illustration, Eve giving the forbidden fruit to Adam as a winged serpent looks down from the tree.
[Ref: 11860] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Adam and Eve In Paradise. Haste hither Eve, and worth thy sight behold. Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape Comes this way moving; seems another morn Ris'n on mid noon ~______________________Some great behest from heav'n To us perhaps he brings, and will vouchsafe This day to be our guest. Milton, Book 5th.
Drawn by J.B.Cipriani R.A. & T. Hearne. The Figures engraved by F.Bartolozzi R.A. The Landscape by W. Byrne & B.T. Pouncy.
London Pub. July.1.1794, by Darling & Thompson. Gt. Newport Str.t and T Simpson. St. Paul's Church Yard.
Copper engraving. Plate 362 x 387mm. 14¼" x 15¼". 19th Century impression.
Adam and Eve look on as an Angel from on high descends
[Ref: 9356] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

And the Woman Said the Serpent beguiled me and I did Eat. Genesis. 3.d Verse 13.th
N. Coypel Eques pinx.t I. Johnson fecit.
Very scarce mezzotint. Plate 322 x 251mm (12¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate along upper edge.
Adam and Eve clothed with vine leaves on a mountain-top. Adam standing on the left, looking up to left and gesturing outwards as he explains why he ate from the forbidden fruit; whilst Eve kneels beside him and the serpent slithers along the ground between them.
Provenance: Hermitage Hexham.
[Ref: 30135] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Adam and Eve eating the forbiden Fruit.
Proud sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Sheet 295 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate on three sides.
Adam and Eve under the Tree of Life, the serpent coiled around a branch, Eve offering Adam an apple.
[Ref: 44156] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Adam and Eve. So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword &c. Genesis Ch. 3, ve/ 24.
Painted by E. Bird R.A. Engraved by Charles Warren.
London, Published May 1815 by Walker & Co., Paternoster Row.
Engraving. 280 x 230mm (11 x 9") with large margins.
Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden, the serpent at their feet.
[Ref: 42014] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Garden Rose. [&] The Wild Rose.
Designed & Engraved by Henry Richter.
Published Sept.r 1799 by J.& H. Richter, 26 Newman Street, Oxford Street.
A pair of hand-coloured stipples. Sheet: 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½''). Borders messy. Cut to platemark.
A rare & decorative pair of scenes, one shows a young, well-dressed woman sitting in her cultivated garden while the second shows a girl in rags collecting wild roses. Title in English and French.
[Ref: 48094] £550.00 view all images for this item

[A garden scene with a fountain.]
A.Watteau p.t. G. Bockman fecit.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 355 x 250mm.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6489] £380.00

Peter Garden. Who lived in the Parish of Auchterless Aberdeen Shire. and dies 12.th Jan.ry 1775, Aged 131 Years.
Ja.s Wales Pinx.t. H. Gavin Sculp.
[n.d. c.1810] ['Publish'd by W,, RIchardson, Antient and Modern Print Warehouse 174 Strand.]
Engraving with aquatint, 18th century watermark; sheet 295 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Portrait of centenarian Peter Garden (1644-1775) in middle age, head facing front, smiling and looking left, with curled hair on his forehead and sides, wearing a neckerchief.
David Alexander pg 373. (H. Gavin the first), Edinburgh.
[Ref: 67761] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Jardinier Industrieux.
From a Painting by David Teniers in the Possession of Dawson Turner Esq.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Plate: 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"), with large margins.
A portrait of a hard working gardener carrying a heavy pot while a woman behind helps with cuttings.
[Ref: 47007] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Italian Gardener.
Mle. Benedetti Delineavit et Sculpsit.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov 25th. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving in sepia, sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate. Crease.
Michele Benedetti (b.1741) was an Italian-born engraver in stipple who spent some time in London, and who may have been a pupil of Bartolozzi, whose style his work resembles.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 7416] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Little Italian Gardener.
Sig.ra Rozalba pinx. Thos. Letton sculp. No. 15.
London. Pub: as the Act directs. Nov.r 5, 1781 by I.Birchall. No.473. Strand.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. 190 x 140mm.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's London 1997.
[Ref: 5286] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Why a Gardener is the most extraordinary Man in the World. Because mp man has more business upon Earth...
Pub.d Decem.r 1.st 1773 by MDarly (39) Strand according to Act.
Etching, 250 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7". Faint offset.
A gardener with spade and rake, satirised as a casanova. The engraved text is full of puns, for example: "he makes RAKEING his business more than his diversion, as many other gentlemen do" and "he can have YEW when he pleases". It is signed "An Adamite". From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '24' upper right.
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 14547] £320.00

[Landscape Gardening]
H. Repton Esq. del. J.C. Stadler sculpt. [c.1800]
Aquatint, platemark approx. 505 x 345mm (20 x 13½"). Several tears. Damaged bottom left.
Fine image representative of landscape gardening by one of its pioneers, Humphry Repton (1752-1818), and possibly published as the frontispiece to one of his many books. Two passages of text, one from Edmund Burke on the Sublime, together claim that gardens are works of art rather than nature, and can only become great by availing themselves of the resources of deception and artifice characteristic of art. Repton was the last great English landscape designer of the 18th century, who coined the term 'landscape gardener'. Regarded as the successor to Capability Brown, he worked at Blaise Castle, Woburn Abbey, Stoneleigh Abbey & the central gardens in Russell Square, but lost out on the Prince Regent's Brighton Pavilion to John Nash (although he published his designs).
[Ref: 44019] £350.00

[Set of four views in a landscaped gardens, continental.]
d'apres nature par F. Wolf [in images.]
[German; one plate apparently dated 1842.]
Four hand-coloured lithographs, each image/sheet c.205 x 285mm. 8 x 11¼". Trimmed to images; spotting and discoloration. One rather tatty.
All scenes show groups of figures wandering in the grounds in front of garden ruins, a pavilion which looks a little like an orangery, a cottage and temple type building on a hill above a wooded grove.
[Ref: 21633] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Colonel Gardiner's Conversion.
Topham Leeds.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. Plate: 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4").
A scene showing the conversion of Scottish solider James Gardiner (1688-1745) who following being wounded at the Battle of Ramillies had a religious conversion. Gardiner died at the Battle of Prestonpans during the Jacobite rising in 1745.
[Ref: 46894] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Opera. The Countes of Blessington - [written in ink above image.]
Drawn by Harper. Engraved by Huffam.
Published as the Act directs Jan 1. 1832 by S. Knights Royal Exchange and King Str. Holborn.
Mezzotint. 293 x 210. Cut and laid.
Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, (1789-1849), Countess of Blessington, an Irish novelist.
[Ref: 15398] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

W.N. Gardiner, Engraver, and Bookseller. Late of Pall Mall Celebrated by the Rev.d Mr. Dibden in his Bibliomania under the Character of Mustapha.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 171 x 103mm. 6¾ x 4". Very fine.
William Nelson Gardiner (1766-1814), the Irish engraver and bookseller who studied art at the Dublin Academy. c.1790 he moved to London and became a principal assistant to Francesco Bartolozzi. He engraved plates for Harding's Shakespeare, De Grammont's Memoirs, and Diana Beauclerk's illustrations to Dryden's Fables. His portraits, in particular, were highly sought after by publishers such as Boydell. Around 1800 he returned to Dublin and is said to have squandered all his money, committing suicide in 1814.
[Ref: 26467] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Alan Gardner Bart. Admiral of the Blue, & M.P. for the City of Westminster.
T. Clarke pinxt. B. Reading sculpt.
[19 Dec 1799]
Fine line engraving. Sheet 335 x 275mm (13¼ x 10¾"). Cut. Some spotting to the right hand side of the sheet.
Alan Gardner, First Baron (1742-1809) Admiral; present at Quiberon Bay in the Dorsetshire. He carried to Howe the first news of the French approach. In 1778 he captured a large French merchantman off Sandy Hook; he commanded the Sultan at Grenada in 1779 and the Duke in Rodney's action in 1782. In Jamaica he was made Commander-in-Chief 1786-9 and Lord of the Admiralty 1790-5. In 1794 he was created a Baronet for services in Earl Howe's victory. 1790-6 he was M.P. for Plymouth and for Westminster 1796-1806.
Parker: 355. From the Collection of Viscount Hood.
[Ref: 12415] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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