Grosvenor Prints

[Ambrose Godfrey, F.R.S.] Hac Amicitiae tessera Fautorib valedicit Perigri / naturus Ambros: Godfrey Hanckwitz Chym: / ad Phoenici Londini [...]
R. Schmutz pinxit / Geo Vertue Sculp 1718
Engraving, sheet 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; printer's crease lower left; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Ambrose Godfrey, the elder (1660-1741), chemist. Born in Germany, after moving to England Godfrey first worked for Robert Boyle, and distinguished himself by learning the difficult skill of isolating white phosphorus. Godfrey kept his means of doing so a secret, and maintained a monopoly on his method for over forty years until in old age he disclosed his secret. Godfrey was also employed at Apothecaries' Hall, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and began his own chemical and pharmaceutical trade. One of his more unusual discoveries was the 'fire annihilator', a wooden barrel containing an aqueous solution surrounding a pewter container of gunpowder. In 1723 he successfully demonstrated that the device, when detonated in a burning building (it had a pipe and fuse attached) extinguished the fire by the explosion and dispersed water. Bust after a painting by the Zurich born Rudolph Schmutz (1670-15), a pupil of Kneller, who was in London from 1702 until his death.
Alexander 235 [as done in 1717]
[Ref: 38358] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The true Effigies of Sr. Edmond Bury Godf[reye] Knight and Iustice of the Peace who was Murthered by Papists the 12th day of October An. Dom. 1678.
F.H. Van Ho[ve] Sculp:
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 135 x 90mm (5¼ x 3½"). Trimmed to image, some loss in title and border, laid on album paper.
Rare portrait of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate. In 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a 'Popish Plot', and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch. Three men were hanged for Godfrey's murder on perjured evidence.
[Ref: 62115] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Medallion depicting Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey and his murder] Effigies Dn. Edmund-Bury Godfrey Equitis Aurati justiciary pacis [...]
[Anon., c.1680]
Etching, sheet 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate, died in mysterious circumstances soon after becoming involved in the scandal of the Popish Plot in September 1678. He took depositions from Titus Oates, later to be revealed as having invented the 'plot' to kill Charles II and his brother James, duke of York, but was uncertain whether he should have done so. Godfrey's body was found lying in a ditch near Primrose Hill in London, with a sword run through him, while strangulation marks were also found. A verdict of murder was brought in, and almost inevitably blame was laid on the Catholic community once the revelations about Oates' deposition emerged. This print, with its assertion Godfrey was 'Murthered by the Papists', typifies this response, although in fact his murder was never satisfactorily solved.
[Ref: 42605] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey] Veritas Ex Cineribus Reviviscit Aetatis Suae 57 [...]
P. Vandrebanc Sculp.
Are to be Sold at Thomas Cherets in James Street Covent Garden.
Engraving, sheet 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet at edges.
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621-78), magistrate, died in mysterious circumstances soon after becoming involved in the scandal of the Popish Plot in September 1678. He took depositions from Titus Oates, later to be revealed as having invented the 'plot' to kill Charles II and his brother James, duke of York, despite being uncertain whether he should have done so. Soon after, Godfrey's body was found lying in a ditch near Primrose Hill in London, with a sword run through him (strangulation marks were also found). A verdict of murder was brought in, and almost inevitably blame was laid on the Catholic community once the revelations about Oates' deposition emerged. This print, with its assertion Godfrey was 'Murthered by Papists', typifies this response, although in fact his murder was never satisfactorily solved.
[Ref: 42608] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt Honble Francis Earl of Godolphin.
G. Kneller Bar.t Pinx. G. White fecit.
Printed for S. Sympson & Sold at his Print Shop in Maiden Lane Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1730.]
Mezzotint, paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 248mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, rubbed.
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin (1678-1766), British politician. He was one of the founding Governors of the Foundling Hospital, created in 1739. He held many positions and titles under both George I and George II, including Governor of the Scilly Islands, to which he was appointed in 1728.
CS: 18, iii/iii.
[Ref: 28960] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Sidney Earl of Godolphin.]
J. Houbraken sculp. Amst.
[Amsterdam, c.1740.]
Engraving, early proof before publication in letterhead, 365 x 235mm 14 1/4 x 9 1/4"
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645 - 1712); a statesman and financier. Godolphin's expertise and loyalty were crucial to the Duke of Marlborough's success in the war against France. Appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1679 and First Lord in 1684, he was made Lord High Treasurer on the accession of Queen Anne but was dismissed in 1710. A cautious, capable and flexible man, according to Charles II he was 'never in the way and never out of the way'.
[Ref: 13427] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Manuel Godoy.] The Prince of Peace Signing the Portugal Treaty.
Pubd July 22d 1801 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"), large margins. Faint paper tone, small hole in unprinted area.
Manuel Godoy (1767-1851), genaralissimo of the Spanish army, force two Portuguese to sign the Treaty of Badajoz, banning British shipping from Portugal's ports. Godoy was given the Spanish title 'Prince of the Peace' for negotiating the 1795 'Peace of Basel', ending the War of the Pyrenees.
BM 9724.
[Ref: 63474] £320.00

[Manuel de Godoy.] En Memoria de la Paz de M.DCC.XCV. Il Señor Pricipe de la Paz.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Mezzotint, very scarce. Sheet 500 x 350mm, 19¾ x 13¾". Trimmed to plate, several paper cracks, damaged.
Portrait of Don Manuel Francisco Domingo de Godoy (1767-1851), seated before the goddess Peace, who holds an olive branch above him. Behind is a bust of Charles IV, who made Godoy Prime Minister of Spain in 1792. Godoy has given the title of '1st principe de la Paz' (1st Prince of the Peace) in 1795 for negotiating the Treaty of Basel, which withdrew Spain from the War of the First Coalition against revolutionary France. This proved to be a disaster for Spain: the closer ties with France led to war with Portugal and Great Britain, the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, then popular revolt against Charles IV in 1808. Godoy went into exile and was not allowed to return until 1844.
[Ref: 24477] £320.00

Godstow Bridge Oxon.
Wm De La Motte. Fe Oxford. 1802
1802.
Etching, very large margins. Platemark: 255 x 345mm. (10 x 13½"). Some toning to sheet. Light creasing. Small tears to left and bottom edges. Puncture holes in left margin where previously bound.
A view of a stone bridge from the riverbank, with wooden supports on the side, and a house in the background at right. William Alfred Delamotte (1775 - 1863), was an English painter and engraver, who studied at the Royal Academy, becoming a student of Benjamin West.
[Ref: 31691] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Goebbels, Germany. Supplement to the New Statesman and Nation, December 21, 1935.
Kapp.
Photo-lithograph. Sheet size: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Light stain in centre. Smal tear in left edge of sheet.
Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897 - 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Goebbels came to power in 1933 after Hitler was appointed chancellor. Within six weeks Hitler arranged his appointment as Propaganda Minister, and quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany.
[Ref: 37148] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Germany] Goethe.
J.H. Fiedler sc: Hannau
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching with very large margins. Plate 95 x 89mm. 3¾ x 3½". Very fine.
A portrait in profile of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German writer and statesman, in middle-age.
[Ref: 33717] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Goethe.]
[D.C. Read.]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching. Plate 95 x 89mm. 3¾ x 3½". Very fine.
A profile to left bust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) the German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. After David Charles Read (1790-1851), an admirer of Rembrandt's etching who began producing his own from 1827.
[Ref: 23404] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.]
H. Goffey [pencil signature].
Published 1925 by The Museum Galleries, 53, Shorts Gardens, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), very large margins, with a letterpress biography.
Seated portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, playwright & novelist, shown aged 79. The original oil, painted by Joseph Karl Stieler in 1828, is in the Bavarian State Painting Collections (WAF 1048).
[Ref: 57849] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Going on Duty.
T.A. Del.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very rare etching. 175 x 175mm (7 x 7"), large margins. Album paper pasted over platemark on left.
A journeyman parson going on duty, riding a reluctant horse that has dug its front hooves in.
[Ref: 58299] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Going out in the Morning. Le sortie des Chasseurs au Matin.
J. Seymour inv.t. T. Burford del. et fec.t.
Published according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint with etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, within plate at bottom, a little wear to edges. Damaged.
A fox hunting scene originally published by Thomas Burford in 1753, by here with date erased, and more riders and hounds added. one of six that Laurie & Whittle issued as a set in 1794.
See BM 2010,7081.2857 for earlier state, listing this state as iii of v according the the Lennox Boyd database of mezzotints.
[Ref: 55306] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Going South.
Painted by H. Garland. Engraved by J. B. Pratt.
London, Published Oct.r 1.st 1874, by L,, Brall & Sons, 6, Gt. Prescot St., Goodman's Fields.
Mezzotint. 630 x 960mm. Some damage to wide margin. Paper cockled with linked staining.
Companion of piece to 'Going North'. Herd of Highland cattle and dog.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 2632] £550.00

Going to Market.
Engraved by W.Nutter. Painted by Singleton.
London. Published Octob.r 1st 1791. by E.M.Diemar, No.114 Strand.
Stipple, printed in brown. 440 x 330mm.
[Ref: 5540] £520.00

Going to Market.
T: Gainsborough. I: Ogborne Sculp.
Pub: by I: Ogborne No 58 Great Portland St. [n.d. c.1785.]
Stipple and etching. Plate 209 x 254mm. 8¼ x 10". Slight foxing.
A famer leads his horse to market passing along the road and a thatched cottage behind; on the back of the horse are two lambs. After a drawing by Gainsborough now part of the collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
[Ref: 21676] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Going to Market.
Pub. by J. Ogborne No. 5 Great Portland St. [n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple with large margins. Platemark: 215 x 250mm (8½ x 9¾") Fine impression.
An exterior scene in which a farmer is leading a horse along a road to the right, upon the back of which two lambs have been strapped. A cottage can be seen behind to the left. After a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788).
[Ref: 35411] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Going to the Park. 2.
J.E.Millais R.A.
[n.d. c.1872] [Published by the Etching Club for 'Etchings for the Art Union of London', 1872 (no 9).]
Etching on india. Signed with the monogram in the plate. Plate 184 x 133mm. 7¼" x 5¼".
Two little girls, one in a three-wheeler pram being pushed by nursemaid.
[Ref: 8949] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Going up Highgate Hill] Two 3 Pounds in full speed to a shilling ordinary on Sunday. From London to Highgate, behold the Array, Of two Hearty Trenchermen now on the Way: Three Pounds they'l devour besides Beer & Bread, Who the Devil can feed them at Twelvepence a Head.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett N.o53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith N.o 35 Cheapside, as the Act Directs 18 Dec.r 1780.
Rare engraving, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Two portly 'cits' laboriously make their way up a dusty country road. One, hat and wig in hand, wipes his bald head; the other, coat slung over his shoulder and waistcoat unbuttoned, mops his brow. Their haste is driven by the hope of reaching the tavern in time for the 18th-century version of a “meal deal.”
See also BM Satires 8405.
[Ref: 66895] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Margarite, de Gojen. Femme de J. Steén.
J. Steén Pinx. J. Heudelot, Sculp.
à Amsterdam chez P. Fouquet Junior: à Paris chez Basan rue St Jacques [n.d. c.1770].
Engraving. 280 x 203mm (11 x 8"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at sides.
Portrait of Margarite, the wife of the artist Jan Steen (c.1625-79), holding a wine glass in one hand and a bottle in the other.
[Ref: 62195] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Gold & Silver Refiners at Work.
Printed for J.Hinton at the King's Arms, St Pauls Churchyard. 1747.
Engraving. 200 x 220mm. Binding folds flattened.
[Ref: 6992] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Gold Beater.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Woodcut, with three sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½'').
A gold beater working at a piece of gold with a large hammer, with text.
[Ref: 50499] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Colony of Victoria. Miner's Right. Issued to Robert [illegible] under the provisions of the Act of the Governor and Council, 18 Victoria, No. 37, to be in force until 16 March 1859 MJ Smith Not Transferable.
By Authority: John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne [n.d., c.1858].
Licence printed on vellum, with vignettes including royal coat of ams. Signed by the Commissioner and completed and dated in ink 17th March 1858. 195 x 220mm. 7¾ x 8½". Folds as normal.
A very rare surviving licence for gold mining issued in Castlemaine district, Victoria, Australia. Numbered 'No. 38', and priced '£1'. In 1851 gold was discovered near Ballarat, and subsequently at Bendigo. Later discoveries occurred at many sites across Victoria. This triggered one of the largest gold rushes the world has ever seen. The colony grew rapidly in both population and economic power. In ten years the population of Victoria increased sevenfold from 76,000 to 540,000. All sorts of gold records were produced including the 'richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world' and the largest gold nugget. Victoria produced in the decade 1851-1860 20 million ounces of gold, perhaps as much as one third of the world's output. Castlemaine was established during the gold rush. In September, 1851, three shepherds and a bullock driver discovered gold in Specimen Gully, about 5 km northeast of present-day Castlemaine. Within a month the alluvial bed of Forrest Creek was being worked with 8,000 miners on the field by the end of the year, and 25,000 by March 1852. The gold license system caused considerable unrest on the diggings. It was regarded as a tax and greatly resented since it was applied regardless of the success or failure of the digger. However, the gold commissioners and Police known as ‘traps’ enthusiastically policed the goldfields, checking on licenses and arresting and fining the unfortunate diggers who could not produce them. The Police ‘licence hunts’ were often brutal, corrupt, unfair and inefficient. These license hunts came to symbolise the government’s oppression of the diggers and directly led to major protests on goldfields in Sofala in 1852, Bendigo in 1853 and the Eureka Rebellion in 1854. A year after the Eureka Rebellion the gold license was replaced by a Miner’s Right like this one which cost one pound a year for the right to dig and also entitled the owner to vote in parliamentary elections.
[Ref: 9147] £1,250.00

[The Gold State Coach.] His Majesty King George the Third's New State Coach. For the London Magazine.
[n.d., c.1762.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 285 x 445mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Bindings folds as normal, tears taped.
The Gold State Coach, used at the coronation of every British monarch since George IV, commissioned by George III in 1760 and completed in 1762. Weighing in at four tons, it is decorated with tritons and cherubs, with side panels painted by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (not shown here). Quotes from its passengers include: 'tossing in a rough sea' (William IV); 'distressing oscillation' (Victoria); 'one of the most uncomfortable rides I have ever had in my life' (George VI) 'horrible' and 'not very comfortable' (Elizabeth II). For Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee a new state coach was built.
[Ref: 57831] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Goldweigher.]
[After Rembrandt.] [E. Girling.]
[n.d. c.1817.]
Etching on india. Plate 275 x 223mm (10¾ x 8¾").
Portrait of Jan Uytenbogaert, 'The Goldweigher', after Rembrandt's 1639 etching. Uytenbogaert sits in a fur-trimmed cloak and soft beret at a table, writing in a ledger while handing a small bag to a youth who kneels beside him. Chests and barrels in right foreground, a scale hanging from a hanging-shelf above the table which is littered with bags and coins, a picture of Moses and the brazen serpent on the wall behind and a man and woman waiting at a counter in right background. Etched by Edmund Girling, one of the 'Norwich School' of artists, of whom John Crome is most well-known.
[Ref: 28969] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

London Genuine Gold Beaters Skin
[n.d., c.1850]
Packet with additional embossed sheet, 55 x 85mm. 2¼ x 3¼".
Goldbeater's skin is a parchment traditionally used in the process of reducing gold to leaves. It was made from the outer membrane of cat's intenstine.
[Ref: 15830] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck. Ofrosz-Canzler des Koenigreichs Preuszen u. aller Koeniglichen Provinzen [...]
von A. Graff ist der Kopf gemahld, die Figur von Elisabeth Sintzenich. von Sintzenich geschahl, Churfuerslich Pfalz Bayrischer Hof. Kupfersticher [...]
[illegible] in Sintzenichs Kunst Verlag zu Berlin im Septem. 1795
Mezzotint, platemark 485 x 315mm (19 x 12½"). Rubbed; spot to right of head; creasing. Very scarce.
Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck (1733-1818), minister of justice and chancellor for Prussia. Three-quarter length portrait with allegorical figure of justice behind. Engraved (and partly painted) by Elisabeth Sintzenich (b.1778), daughter of Heinrich Sintzenich (1752-1812), an engraver who studied under Francesco Bartolozzi in London before becoming court engraver in Mannheim.
[Ref: 35957] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Golden Age.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, June 4.th 1777.
Mezzotint with large margins; Platemark: 475 x 570mm (18¾ x 22¼"). Light foxing and rubbing to surface.
A domestic scene in a stylised Eastern setting. A mother is seen sitting to the front and sewing, watching her sleeping young child beside her. A cat sits in a besket below. An elderly couple, the man seated, are in the doorway to the right with a dog. A rural landscape can be seen beyond. Within an oval. For an open letter proof impression, see item ref: 36646. For a pair, 'The Golden Age [&] The Silver Age', see item ref: 29074.
CS: 159. Whitman: 203. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Ex Oettinger-Wallenstein collection Sotheby's Lot 736, 13/11/97.
[Ref: 36645] £420.00

The Golden Age.
Painted by B.West Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved from the Original Picture by Facius.
Publish'd Jany 1st 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple, printed in colours. 295 x 330mm.
[Ref: 6517] £520.00

The Golden Age. [&] The Silver Age.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver Cheapside, June 4.th 1777. Engraved by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
[&] Painted by H. Walton. Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver. Cheapside Jan.y 30.th 1778. Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Pair of framed mezzotints, extremely rare in matching contemporary frames. Visible area 470 x 559mm (18½ x 22").
Domestic scene in stylised Eastern setting; mother sitting to front and sewing, watching her sleeping young child beside her, old couple in doorway at right; oval format. [&] A circular frame with a little girl in a plain bonnet and cape, sitting in profile to left on a path with a basket of chickens beside her, a tree and high ground behind to the right, a town in a landscape below to the left.
CS: 159. Whitman: 203. [&] CS: 198. Frankau: 320. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 29074] £950.00 view all images for this item

The Golden Age.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by J. Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, June 4.th 1777.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 475 x 570mm (18¾ x 22¼"). Thread margins. Light creasing and rubbing to surface.
A domestic scene in a stylised Eastern setting. A mother is seen sitting to the front and sewing, watching her sleeping young child beside her. A cat sits in a basket below. An elderly couple, the man seated, are in the doorway to the right with a dog. A rural landscape can be seen beyond. Within an oval. For a pair, 'The Golden Age [&] The Silver Age', see item ref: 29074.
CS 159. Whitman: 203. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36646] £450.00

[The chevalier of the Golden Calf, or captain of the early and late time of slaughtering, in procession to the Oracle of Delphi.] De ridder van het gilde kalf of hopman van de vroege en laate slacht tyd in optogt naar 't orakel van Delfos.
[Anon.]
[1720.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 340 x 270mm (13¼ x 10½'') very large margins. Marking, old ink stains and crease as normal.
A Dutch satirical print showing a stock broker riding a cow, vomiting coins, being led to the slaughter. A commentary on the chaos and panic following the collapse of the speculative stock market.
[Ref: 48485] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Prospectuses for 1944 publications by the Golden Cockerel Press with wood engravings by John Buckland-Wright and others] Per Ardua Ad Victoriam. After Five Years of War the Golden Cockerel is Still Alive & Pecking: He Offers the War-Weary for the Refreshment Some Tasty Pickings
6 prospectuses (each 2pp-4pp) in beige wrappers, 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8").
Prospectuses for the Golden Cockerel Press, founded in 1922 and run by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter. With engravings by John Buckland-Wright (who illustrated seventeen books for the press) and others. The books advertised are Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine', Napoleon's memoirs, volumes of correspondence between the Shelleys, T.J. Hogg and others, and Anders Sparrman's 'A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution'.
[Ref: 41157] £360.00 view all images for this item

The Golden Farmer and the Tinker.
J. Nicholls delin. I. Basire sculp.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving and etching. Plate 310 x 210mm (12¼ x 8¼"). Toning and some creases.
William Davis, a highwayman active in Surrey and Kent nicknamed the Golden Farmer, on horseback at left, pointing a pistol at a terrifiied tinker who drops his goods. Davis, knowing the tinker was not an honest worker (sabotaging anything he was paid to mend) and had seven or eight pounds on him, stopped and robbed him on Blackheath. Davis eventually went to the gallows in 1689, having shot dead a butcher who tried to stop him after a robbery. He was executed at the end of Sailisbury Court in Fleet Street and left to rot hanging in chains on Bagshot Heath. An illustration to an edition of Capt.n Alexander Smith's (pseud.) History of the Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen'. First published in 1714, this bestseller was republished with a variety of titles.
[Ref: 34716] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Boy Discovering the Golden Eggs. [&] The Boy Disappointed of His Treasure.
Painted by R.M. Paye. Engraved by John Young.
London, Published Jan.y 1.1796, by John Jeffreyes Ludgate Hill.
Pair of coloured mezzotints with small margins, partly printed in colour. Plate 603 x 440mm (23¾ x 17¼").
A boy and girl standing in front of the ruins of a wooden shed, the boy, smiling towards the viewer, displays two golden eggs to the girl, who throws up her hands in delight, while the goose flaps its wings, standing between them. [&] A boy and girl distraught at the death of their golden goose; the girl standing in the background, wiping her eyes, the boy sitting at a table on which the goose lies dead, one hand to his head, the other holding the goose's feet.
CS: listed on p.1646.
[Ref: 31116] £690.00 view all images for this item

[Golden Labrador]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 178 x 222mm (7" x 8¾"). Limited edition: 148/250.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 9704] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Golden Retriever. [Pencil title]
Lucy Dawson [Signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching 175 x 255mm.
Lucy Dawson d.1954 was noted for her paintings and etchings of dogs of all breeds. Under the pseudonym 'Mac' she illustrated books as well.
[Ref: 1597] £360.00

Golden Square. A.A. Iames Street. B.B. Iohn Street.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of Golden Square with a key, from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45311] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Le Chardonneret et son nid. __ Sure une branche de Pommier a fleurs doubles (Buffon.) Fringilla carduelis (Linné). 49. Europe.
Edouard Traviés [lithographed into plate.] Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris, Berrieux, Edit. rue de Rivoli 36. London, E. Gambart & Co. [n.d. c.1857.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 368 x 494mm. 14½ x 19½". Some toning around the edges.
A goldfinch standing on the edge of her nest, the male flying in with more twigs to make the nest. From Edouard Traviés (1809-1865) "Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables".
[Ref: 21730] £350.00

[Goldfinch.]
[Dobbs n.d., c.1840.]
Hand-painted embossed card. Sheet: 135 x 160mm (5¼ x 6¼''). Faint staining.
An embossed card with very fine hand-colour.
See Ref: 43955
[Ref: 49302] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Goldfish.
R. Herdman-Smith.
[London: Arthur Greatorex, n.d., c.1935.]
Etching, printed in colours, limited edition 13/75, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. 125 x 175mm (5 x 7"), in publisher's mount with printed title label.
A pair of Japanese women with parasol, fan and goldfish bowl. Robert Herdman-Smith (1879-1945) produced 18 prints in the Asian Art-Deco style during the 1930s. Although he travelled to India, Australia and the United States, he never visited Japan.
[Ref: 62319] £320.00

[Children gathered around a goldfish bowl.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image, creased, laid on card. Some marking.
[Ref: 58538] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

This Print representing M.r John Goldham, field Adjutant of the London Volunteer Cavalry, executing the six Divisions of the Austrian Broad Sword Exercise at speed, with a Sab re in each hand, and with the utmost effect and precision, Is Dedicated to Lieut. Col.l Anderton, and the other Officers & Members of the Regiment, by their most obedient and very humble Serv.t Dean Wolstenholme.
Painted by D. Wolsteholme. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published Feb.y 1, 1806 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & C.º Cockspur Street, London.
Scarce coloured mezzotint. Sheet 445 x 555mm (17½ x 21¾"), with large margins. Tears in image and margins repaired.
A rider standing in his stirrups holding two sabres. The print was described by the Sporting Magazine in January 1806: ''The subject of this beautiful Engraving is Mr. John Goldham, Field-Adjutant of the London Cavalry, going through the six divisions of the Austrian Broad-sword Exercise with a sabre in each hand, when riding at the rate of thirty miles an hour; which he performed for a bet of 200 guineas, before several military characters of the first eminence; and, to the great astonishment of the beholders, he made the cuts with admirable effect and precision, and won the bet with great ease. As a proof of his superior horsemanship, he went through one of the divisions while going over a five-barred gate, to the wonder and terror of all present. It is here but justice to notice, that, at the request of several noblemen and military officers who were present, a large painting has been taken by Dean Wolstenholme, who has succeeded in the manner of action and likeness of both man and horse so happily, that the best judges pronounce it - a picture of great merit''.
Not in Whitman.
[Ref: 68209] £480.00

This Print representing M.r John Goldham, field Adjutant of the London Volunteer Cavalry, executing the six Divisions of the Austrian Broad Sword Exercise at speed, with a Sabre in each hand, and with the utmost effect and precision, Is Dedicated to Lieut. Col.l Anderton, and the other Officers & Members of the Regiment, by their most obedient and very humble Serv.t Dean Wolstenholme.
Painted by D. Wolsteholme. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published Feb.y 1, 1806 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & C.º Cockspur Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 445 x 555mm (17½ x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate, small tear, backed with paper.
A rider standing in his stirrups holding two sabres. The print was described by the Sporting Magazine in January 1806: ''The subject of this beautiful Engraving is Mr. John Goldham, Field-Adjutant of the London Cavalry, going through the six divisions of the Austrian Broad-sword Exercise with a sabre in each hand, when riding at the rate of thirty miles an hour; which he performed for a bet of 200 guineas, before several military characters of the first eminence; and, to the great astonishment of the beholders, he made the cuts with admirable effect and precision, and won the bet with great ease. As a proof of his superior horsemanship, he went through one of the divisions while going over a five-barred gate, to the wonder and terror of all present. It is here but justice to notice, that, at the request of several noblemen and military officers who were present, a large painting has been taken by Dean Wolstenholme, who has succeeded in the manner of action and likeness of both man and horse so happily, that the best judges pronounce it - a picture of great merit''.
Not in Whitman. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68208] £490.00

Andreas Goldmayer Guntzen Huanus Fr. Diversorum Principum, Urbium & Imperialium Constitutus Mathematicas Æt: Suae 47 A.o 1650. Hæc Goldmaieri Facies, quem Diva Mathesis, Omnimodâ rerum Cognilione beat. Erratmens animi in coelis et Sidera langit; Hinc ea Sculpturam hanc haut animare potes t. Fac: honoris ego. I.C.R.M.D.
Johann Pfann Sculp.
[n.d., c.1650.]
A scarce engraving. Sheet: 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed.
A portrait of German Evangelist, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Andreas Goldmayer (1602-1664) shown holding astronomical apparatus.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 46702] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Carlo Goldoni.
Antionio Fedi disegno Rafaello Morghen inc.
Engraving, 265 x 190mm. Crease outside platemark.
Carlo Goldoni, (1707-1793), celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist.
[Ref: 8408] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Carlo Goldoni.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple, laid on album page. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½").
Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793, the celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist. His best known comedy is 'Servant of Two Masters', which has been translated and adapted internationally. One such adaptation is Richard Bean's 'One Man, Two Guvnors', which became a hit transferring from Broadway to London's West End.
[Ref: 34579] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

I sit me down a pensive hour to spend.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 65 x 85mm (2¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed, stained.
A man sits under a tree overlooking a city. The title is a line from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Traveller', 1765.
[Ref: 51392] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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