Grosvenor Prints

The Tavern in an Uproar; M.rs Bonniface shewing more Pluck than her ''good Man'' by backing her husband against Bob Hit-a-Body ripe for mischief; A case for the Phrenologists.
Designed & Etched by Theodore Lane.
[London: Knight & Lacey, and Pierce Egan, 1827.]
Coloured etching. 130 x 220mm (5 x 9"). Trimmed on three sides, hole in right edge, some staining, colour faded.
A scene of a tavern brawl, from ''Pierce Egan's Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase, the Ring and the Stage''.
[Ref: 63955] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin Count Rumford. F.R.S. V.P. P.R.I. Acad. R.Berol. Elect. Boicæ et Palat et Amer S o c. &c.
[n.d.,c.1800.]
Etching. 120 x 80mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Faint offset.
Silhouette of Colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (1753 - 1814) was an American-born British military officer, scientist, inventor and nobleman. Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, he supported the Loyalist cause during the American War of Independence, commanding the King's American Dragoons during the conflict. After the war ended in 1783, Thompson moved to London, where he was recognised for his administrative talents and received a knighthood from George III in 1784. A prolific scientist and inventor, Thompson also created several new warship designs. He subsequently moved to the Electorate of Bavaria and entered into the employ of the Bavarian government, heavily reorganising the Bavarian Army. Thompson was rewarded for his efforts by being made an Imperial Count in 1792 before dying in Paris in 1814.
[Ref: 64113] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[A tiger's head.]
Gape [after Samuel Howitt].
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching on chine collé. 165 x 185mm (6½ x 7¼") very large margins.
An impressive image of a plate in Samuel Howitt's 'New Work of Fables & Animals'.
[Ref: 64055] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A tiger drinking.]
Aglaiis Bauvenne [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching, signed by the etcher. 255 x 335mm (10 x 13¼"), with large margins, 'MBM' watermark.
A tiger drinking at a waterhole, after Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)?
[Ref: 64063] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bengal Tigers and Cubs.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"). Trimmed into image at sides, into title at bottom.
A tiger, tigress and three cubs.
[Ref: 64058] £360.00

Key to the large Historical Engraving of the Death of Lord Nelson.
[after W.M. Craig.]
Published by Edw.d Orme. 59, Bond Street.
Rare stipple and line engraving. 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"), 1808 watermark. Creasing and surface dirt. Small margins.
A keyplate to Robert Cooper's print after W.M. Craig showing Nelson's death on the deck of H.M.S Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar. The key shows outlines and identifies 15 portraits within the painting, although a disclaimer reads 'The above are not considered as likenesses but merely a reference to the Portraits in the large Engraving'.
[Ref: 63942] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Temple at Strawberry Hill.
Drawn & Etched by Rowlandson. Stadler Aquatinta.
[London: Thomas Tegg, n.d., 1822.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½"), with large margins. Stain in inscription area.
A reversed and inaccurate view, showing the gate and chapel as adjacent. A man seats in a chair reading. From Rowlandson's 'Sketches from Nature': The plate was first published by Rowlandson in a fortnightly series in 1809: it was not published in a book until 1822.
Abbey 33; Gascoigne Images of Twickenham 314a.
[Ref: 63922] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A List of Maps and Plans given in the Universal Magazine, from its Commencement in 1747, including all the Countries and Places that have been distinguished in the present arduous and comprehensive War; and forming, at the same Time, a General Atlas, or Series of Maps, of almost all the Countries on the habitable Globe.
[London: Universal Magazine, c.1782.]
Letterpress, 205 x 130mm (8 x 5¼, printed on both sides. Binding stitch holes in left edge.
A list of over 70 maps published in the Universal Magazine between 1747 and 1781, with dates of publication, covering both the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
[Ref: 63994] £250.00 view all images for this item

[The Vicar of Wakefield] Olivia, & Sophia with the Fortune-Teller.
F. Bartolozzi correct.d [after Thomas Stothard].
Published May 20.th 1784, by Jn.º Matthews No. 438 Strand.
Stipple, printed in colours. Sheet 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, spotting, slight crease. With collector's ink stamp on reverse.
A fine colour print. With the ink stamp of Alexander Anderdon Weston (d.1901), who inherited a fine collection of English portraits formed by his uncle, James Hughes Anderdon.
De Vesme 396; Lugt 65 for the ink stamp.
[Ref: 64083] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Victoria] The Queen. Attired in her Robes of State, on the occasion of proceeding to the House of Lords, withe the Diadem Her Majesty wore when opening Parliament.
Drawn by J. Bouvier.
[n.d., c.1837.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 275 x 215mm (10n x 8½"). Laid on album sheet with four other scraps relating to Victoria. Mint.
A seated portrait of Victoria as a young queen. Scraps includes rare keyplate of Sir David Wilkie's Victoria presiding at the Council.
[Ref: 64010] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Maria Waldegrave, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.]
[Engraved by William Hoare of Bath after Joshua Reynolds.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Etching. 400 x 305mm (15¾ x 12"), on wove paper, very large margins. Slight surface dirt.
A sketch portrait of Maria Waldegrave (1736-1807), Countess Waldegrave 1759-66, as a result of her first marriage to James Waldegrave, then Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh after marrying Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, in 1766. A scarce Bath item.
[Ref: 64027] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Washington.
[L. Radosinc]
[n.d.,c.1800.]
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Trimmed. Time stained.
Portrait of George Washington (1732 - 1799), American Founding Father, politician, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted the current Constitution of the United States. Washington has thus become commonly known as the "Father of his Country".
[Ref: 64117] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Conversation at Whites.
HB [John Doyle]. Printed by C. Mott, 23, Leicester Sq.r.
Published by Tho.s McLean, Haymarket Dec.r 30.th 1830.
Lithograph. Printed area 270 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). Tears in edges.
Three men stand in discussion by the fireplace of White's Club, although all are dressed for outside, with top hats. One says ''Of course vested Interest's will be respected, to which another replies ''How! no such thing as vesated Interests in our days''. Another man, seated reading a newspaper, eavesdrops and says ''That is one of S-ft-n's perculiar hits! agad! I'll send it as a hint to HB''. According to McLean's 'Illustrative Key to the Political Sketches of H.B.' (1841): The subject of this conversation appears to be the Reform Bill, then the prominent topic of the day. The dress and figure of the Speaker, who observes that ''vested interests will of course be respected,'' sufficiently prove him, although his face is not seen, to be Sir Francis Burdett; the respondent is the late Earl of Sefton, a nobleman equally eminent for the good things which he said, and for those which he devoured. Though not conspicuous in Parliament, he was a very distinguished and influential member of the Whig party, of which it was sometimes alleged, by their opponents, that Lord Sefton's head contained more sense than the heads of all the rest of the party put together. This species of supremacy, some of his party might not be disposed to allow him; but his taste and judgment in gastronomy were universally admitted. The other figures in the sketch are not portraits.
[Ref: 63969] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cardinal Nicolas Wiseman & the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851] The Cardinal's Baratarian Banquet. Political Fly Leaves. _ N.º 10.
Touchstone.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, Feb 17. 1851. Printed at 70. S.t Martin's Lane.
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 300 x 340mm (11¾ x 13½"). Two repaired tears, creasing.
Cardinal Wiseman (1802-65) seated at a dining table, but the platters (marked 'Territorial Titles' and 'Charitable Bequests') are being removed by the servants, prompted by a staff coming from one side. When Pope Pius IX set up a hierarchy of dioceses in England and Wales in 1850, the government responded with the 'Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851', which prevented anyone outside the established ''United Church of England and Ireland'' to use any episcopal title ''of any city, town or place... in the United Kingdom''. Any property passed to a person under such a title would be forfeit to the Crown. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 63986] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d. J. Witherspoon, DD. President of Princeton College, New Jersey, America.
Ridley & Blood, sculp._
[n.d.,c.1808.]
Stipple engraving. 115 x 80mm (4½ x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794), Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, farmer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Witherspoon embraced the concepts of Scottish common sense realism, and while president of the College of New Jersey (1768-1794; now Princeton University) became an influential figure in the development of the United States' national character. Politically active, Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. He was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration. Later, he signed the Articles of Confederation and supported ratification of the Constitution of the United States.
[Ref: 64118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Allen Young.] ["Alleno.'']
Ape [Carlo Pellegrini].
[Vanity Fair, 1877.]
Chromolithography, proof before letters. Image 310 x 180mm (12¼ x 7"), very large margins. Margins spotted.
Sir Allen William Young (1827-1915), master mariner and explorer best remembered for his role in Arctic exploration including the search for Sir John Franklin.
[Ref: 63883] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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