Grosvenor Prints

The Fish Quay (St Ives). Original Dry Point Etching by Sam Garratt. Edition Limited to 300 Artist's Proofs. Plate to be Destroyed.
Sam Garratt [pencil signature.]
Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. Publishers to their Majesties. [n.d., c.1920.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, publisher's blind stamps. 200 x 175mm (8 x 7") very large margins. In original mount with publisher's title label, as above. Mint. Glued into mount at top corner.
A horse and cart loading barrels, surrounded by seagulls, by Sam Garratt (1864-1946).
[Ref: 62595] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Il est venue le brave S.t Michel, Faire avec nous la Kermesse a Brussel.
Lithogr. de Jobard.
Déposé [n.d., c.1850].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"), watermarked 'Hennessey'.
A statue-like figure of St Michael in armour stands on a bat-like Satan, sword raised. A cross sword seems to be embedded in his forehead. A Kermesse is a Dutch festival.
[Ref: 62467] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

St. Peters Norfolk [in pencil on the mount].
W R Hay [in image]. William R. Hay [in pencil].
[n.d. c. 1920]
Etching signed by the artist, 160 x 320mm (6¼ x 12½"), with very large margins. Taped into original mount at top corners.
A view of one of the St. Peter's Churches in Norfolk. William Robert Hay (1886-1964).
[Ref: 62609] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Un derrière de Diligence.
A Paris, chez Martinet, Libraire, rue de Coq. N.º 25.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 270mm (9 x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, some creasing.
A view of the back of a stagecoach with two men sharing the compartment with a woman changing her baby. One man blocks his ears, the other holds his nose.
[Ref: 62446] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A Marsh Road]
Charles J Watson [in image and in pencil].
1919.
Trial proof etching signed by the artist, 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"). Some time staining in large margins.
Road at Stokesby on the bank of a canal, with old trees and thatched buildings at left and two cattle at centre; distant view of Aclebridge. Charles John Watson (1846 - 1927). Born in Norwich, Watson was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and chief Founder and first President of the Norwich Art Circle. After leaving Norwich to move to London in 1888, he exhibited successfully at Robert Dunthorne's Gallery in Vigo Street.
Watson 1931: 197.
[Ref: 62608] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Pebble [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Limited edition numbered 1 of 75. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A nude woman skips stones at the beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62509] £360.00

[Stonehenge] English Etchings Part IX.
M. Snape.
[n.d. c.1881]
Etching, 150 x 225mm (6 x 8¾"), with very large margins. Laid on card. Time stained.
From "English Etchings", Vol I, 1881-2, pl. 30. A moody scene of Stonehenge. Martin Snape (1852-1930) was a British painter, watercolourist, printmaker; exhibited in RA between 1874 and 1901.
[Ref: 62600] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Morning Dip [in pencil].
J. H. Dowd [in pencil and in image].
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching signed by the artist, 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"), with very large margins.
Children swim in a large bathing pond amongst a wooded area. James Henry Dowd (1883 - 1956) specialised in images of children, and portrayed his subjects in a less sentimental way than some of his contemporaries, such as Eileen Soper.
[Ref: 62606] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

En gouterai-je?
L. Noël. Lithog: de F. Noël.
Publié par Giraldon-Boivinet et Comp.ie, M.de d'estampes, Commissionnaires, rue Pavée St André, N.º 5.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Some cockling of paper at top corners, dusty.
'Will I taste it?'. A man in an embroidered dressing gown and nightcap stirs a cup, with an uncorked medicine bottle on the table next to him.
[Ref: 62447] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Tax Payer. We do want Reform _ at any rate a change _ things cannot be worse.
London, July 1831. Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet St.
Etching. Sheet 285 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A ragged man stands in a delapidated room.
[Ref: 62276] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

George Christie Tea Merchant.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Wood engraving, printed in blue. Sheet 130 x 170mm (5 x 6¾"), priced letterpress stock list on reverse. Trimmed.
An advert showing the outside of the premises of a tea merchant at 135 Edgware Road.
[Ref: 62460] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

On The Banks of the Thames.
A. Evershed. Printed By Delatre London.
Gazette Des Beaux-Arts. 1876
Etching, 150 x 220mm (6 x 8¾"), with large margins.
A view of the Thames in the suburbs of London, most likely Twickenham; a wharf in the foreground and houses in the background. Published in 1876 as part of an article in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette was a major champion of the etching revival publishing etchings from both British and French artists. Dr Arthur Evershed MRCP (1835 - 1919). After retiring from a medical career specialising in tuberculosis, he dedicated himself to etching, gaining renown for his ability to draw directly onto a copper plate, reversing the image without mirrors. He exhibited at the Royal Academy regularly and became treasurer of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers.
[Ref: 62614] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Thirst.]
H.D. 1911. [in image] Herbert Dicksee [signed in pecil]
Copyright 1911 by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Etching. Framed, sight size 350 x 705 (17¾ x 27¾"). Frame size 775 x 1030mm (30½ x 40½"). Wormholes. Unexamined outside of frame.
Two tigers drinking. The remarque is a cobra.
[Ref: 62498] £950.00

A Tigress. In the Possession of the Duke of Marlborough; to whom this place is most humbly dedicated, by his Graces most dutiful & obedient Serv,t John Dixon.
G. Stubbs Pinxt. J. Dixon fecit. J. Dixon fecit.
[Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1st Feb.y 1773. & sold by J. Boydell Cheapside, S. Hooper Ludgate Hill, T. Bradford Fleet Street, T. Burford Bridge Street Westminster, & J. Dixon Kempe's Row, facing Ranelagh Walk (near theWhim) Chelsea.
Mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 550mm (15¼ x 21¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, through publication line at bottom, a few marks & repairs, laid on archival tissue.
An example of Dixon's rare mezzotint rendering of the Stubbs painting of a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger in Stubbs's possession when he died. It is described in Lennox-Boyd as 'the most highly praised print after Stubbs in its day'. Impressions are rare because, according to the 'Monthly Magazine' (1806), the plate was melted in a fire at the printers. New plates were engraved by Robert Laurie and John Murphy.
Lennox-Boyd et al, George Stubbs Engraved Works 33, iv of iv. Please note that the print is trimmed losing 70mm at the top and 34mm from the sides compared to the one in the above Christopher Lennox-B
[Ref: 60808] £1,250.00

The Tower of London, Commanded in Chief by the R.t Hon.ble Robert L.d Lucas. La Tour de Londres. 5.
L. Knyff Delin. I. Kip Sculp.
[n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving. 350 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Central fold as issued. Small margins.
View of the Tower of London from the river; boats in the foreground. This state has Smith's publication line removed.
[Ref: 62519] £360.00

The Tower of London [in pencil].
Dorothy F Sweet [in penicl]
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 165 x 255mm (6½ x 10"), with very large margins. Slight mountburn.
A view of the Tower of London from the Thames.
[Ref: 62604] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cirque Ambulant [in pencil].
A Brouet [in pencil]
[n.d. c.1920]
Etching signed by the artist, Artist embossed stamp; 215 x 265mm (8½ x 10½"), with margins. Left bottom margin corner missing. Some light creasing in margins.
A woodland scene; members of the travelling circus relax next to their caravan. The son of poor parents, Auguste Brouet (1872 - 1941), worked his own way through night drawing classes, and then the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He lived in poverty as an art student, but became well known to collectors due to the sincerity of his portryals of the street-peddlers, gypsies, street-musicians, beggars, and rag pickers, whom he would depict in the passages and places where they congregated. He became enthralled by the singers, dancers, and circus life of Paris. Having lived the in the poverty of those he was portraying, Brouet's work conveys a sensitivity and sympathy for his subjects uncommon amongst his contemporaries. Not only is he acclaimed as one of Paris's most important etchers, he has also etched approximately 20 plates of World War I, acclaimed not only for their historical accuracy and reliabilty, but for intense artistic quality.
[Ref: 62605] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Tree]
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching, 85 x 120mm (3 x 4¾"), with large margins. Time stained.
A rural landscape with a large central tree; two women carry baskets on their heads in the background.
[Ref: 62623] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Studies of Trees in Water Colour. By Frederick Earp. Executed in Chromo-Lithography. The distinctive touch of Each Tree will be found in these Example, and it is hoped they may be of assistance to those who have found Trees a difficult Study in Water-Colour Painting.
Brighton: Published by George W. Ryde (late H. Shelley), Artists' Repository, 73, Western Road [n.d., c.1860].
Oblong folio (275 x 385mm, 10¾ x 15¼"), printed wrapper and four chromolithographic plates. Foxed throughout.
A rare guide to watercolour painting, with each plate giving several details of branches of trees. The Artist's Repository at 73 Western Road, Brighton, was operated by Harriet Shelley from 1852 to 1856, then by George W Ryde & Co from 1859 until 1909.
[Ref: 62452] £160.00 view all images for this item

To the Honourable Henry Guy of Tring-House Esq. this Plate of ye Mannor House is Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver. Pag. 593.
[London: Benjamin Griffin et al, 1700.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 290 x 330mm (11½ x 13"), very large margins.
The facade of Tring Manor House, home of Sir Henry Guy (1631-1710), a Groom of the Bedchamber and secretary of the Treasury in 1679. In 1669 Guy obtained a grant of the manor of Great Tring. He later commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build a new house, now Tring Park Mansion, but in 1695 he was accused of funding the building work by taking bribes in the Treasury. He was arrested and was committed to the Tower of London. In 1702 he sold Tring. From Sir Henry Chauncy's 'Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire'.
[Ref: 62542] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

At Twickenham.
A. Evershed. Printed By Delatre London.
Gazette Des Beaux-Arts. [n.d. c.1876].
Etching, 100 x 200mm (4 x 8"), with very large margins.
A scene on the Thames at Twickenham, with men fishing in boats on the river and houses and trees in the background. Published in 1876 as part of an article in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette was a major champion of the etching revival publishing etchings from both British and French artists. Dr Arthur Evershed MRCP (1835 - 1919). After retiring from a medical career specialising in tuberculosis, he dedicated himself to etching, gaining renown for his ability to draw directly onto a copper plate, reversing the image without mirrors. He exhibited at the Royal Academy regularly and became treasurer of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers.
[Ref: 62613] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Orleans House] Vue de la Maison occupée par Son Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur de Duc D'Orleans a Twickenham en 1815 et 1816.
L. Attbalin Del.t. J.C. Stadler Sculp.
Published Jan.y 17.th 1817, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, N.º 101, Strand, London.
Aquatint, printed in brown and blue hand finished, J. Whatman watermark. 450 x 770mm (17¾ x 30¼"). Trimmed to plate on left, repaired tears at edges.
A large & rare coloured aquatint showing view of the entourage of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans (1773-1850, later King of the French), in a carriage and on horseback, crossing the Thames from his house in exile, Orleans House to the Ham bank. The main house shown here was demolished in 1926, but the baroque octagonal room designed by James Gibb remains as part of the Orleans House Gallery. In 'Images of Twickenham' Gascoigne states that Ackermann's 1830 catalogue attributed the print to 'Athalin', the name of one of Louis Philippe's ADCs.
Gascoigne: Images of Twickenham 114.
[Ref: 62282] £650.00

The Story of Uncle Sam. Page 104.
G. Millar sc. Edin.r.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4"). Binding notches in right edge.
A woman in a sari listens to a man seated under trees. In the background are cupolas of Indian temples.
[Ref: 62515] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Rialto Venice [in pencil]
W Travis Jackson [in pencil]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching signed by the artist, 170 x 250mm (6¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the Ponte de Rialto crossing the Canal Grande in Venice.
[Ref: 62588] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Venetian Steps]
SM Litten [in pencil]
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching signed by the artist, 270 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"), on blue tinged paper with very large margins. Creases in corner of left margin.
A view of some steps in Venice with a gondola approaching. Sydney MacKenzie Litten (British 1887-1949) was a British etcher and engraver who was apupil of Sir Frank Short at the Royal College of Art before going on to become Senior Master at St Martin's School of Art.
[Ref: 62594] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Bridge of Sighs Venice [in pencil]
W Travis Jackson [in pencil]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching signed by the artist, 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the Ponte de i Sospiri which passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace.
[Ref: 62589] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Villefranche.]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 365mm (8¾ x 14½"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild.
A view of the lovely resort town of Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62637] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Warren.]
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by C. Hodges.
[n.d. c.1790.]
A scarce mezzotint. 500 x 340mm (19¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Time stained.
Portrait of Anne Warren, who was one of two daughters to William Powell the actor and theatre manager (1735/6-1769). According to Chaloner Smith, this was the only state from a private plate and that it was never published.
CS: 32, ii; Horne: 126.
[Ref: 21925] £850.00

[Bound reprint of The Times newspaper, June 22nd 1815, with reports of the Battle of Waterloo.]
[n.d., 1915?]
4to, 450 x 300mm (17¾ x 12"), blue cloth gilt; pp.(iv), letterpress. . Folds, tears and surface dirt, bottom edge reinforced with brown tape, binding worn.
A centenary(?) facsimile of The Times newspaper printed five days after the Battle of Waterloo, containing the first reports, including a list of casualties. The original was larger and had five columns; the list of casualties was published on the 23rd June.
https://guides.loc.gov/noteworthy-newspaper-issues/london-times
[Ref: 62559] £150.00 view all images for this item

The Waveney below St. Olaves [pencil].
W.P. Robins 1921 [pencil].
Etching, signed and dated by the artist in pencil. 145 x 295mm (5¾ x 11½"), large margins. Faint mount burn.
A view of from the bank of the Waveney, the river that divides Norfolk from Suffolk, with a windmill. William Palmer Robins (1882-1959), member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, and the Chicago Society of Etchers.
[Ref: 62563] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Wetterhorn [in pencil]
W Travis Jackson [in pencil]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching signed by the artist, 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins.
An Alpine view in Switzerland.
[Ref: 62587] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[The Cenotaph, Whitehall]
Fred. A. Farrell [signed in pencil]
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching. 272 x 213mm. (10¾ x 8½" ), with very large margins.
View from the Cenotaph down the road in Whitehall, designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 61522] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[William & Mary] Gulielmus et Maria D.G. Angl: Scot: Franc: et Hib: Rex et Regina etc.
Engraven by R. White & Sold at his house in Blomsbury Market. 1690.
Printed and Sold by John King at the Globe against the Church in Poultry [n.d., c.1710].
Scarce engraving. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Trimmed to plate, repairs in title area (not visible), top right corner frayed.
A double portrait of William and Mary within a canopy border with their arms and cherubs. John King bought Robert White's stock when he died c.1703.
[Ref: 62279] £360.00

[Royal Windsor.]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 355mm (9 x 14"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild.
A view on the river Thames, featuring rowing, looking towards Windsor castle. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62635] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with a lantern] Dans ce sombre séjour dans cette nuit profonde, Qui semble rappeller l'ancien Cahos du Monde / J'allume la Chandelle, pour m'en aller Chercher / L'homme que Diogene ná jamais sceu Trouver.
Gerart Dou pinxit. C:H: Van Meurs Sculp:
[n.d., c.1670.]
Rare engraving. 360 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼"), with a 17th century watermark and very large margins. Tear in platemark taped top right.
A woman lights a candle to put into a lantern, so she can look for Diogenes' 'honest man'.
[Ref: 62469] £380.00

The Xmas Academics. A Combination Game of Whist.
HWBunbury del. 1772. J. Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs 20.th Jan.y 1773. By J. Bretherton N.º 134. New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 265 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, nicks in edges, small hole, slight crease in centre.
Cambridge dons play whist in a Combination Room, grimacing at each other. A spectator signals the cards held by one player to his opponent. An old woman serves wine.
BM Satires 4728.
[Ref: 61786] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A young boy with spaniel.]
W Vaillant fec: et Exc.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Mezzotint. 290 x 345mm (11½ x 13½"). Framed. Small margins, small chip in bottom edge, slight crease. Unexamined out of frame.
A full length portrait of a young boy in the long skirts fashionable at the time, holding a stick, a dog on the table beside him. A pencil annotation on the frame suggests this is Charles II; however the life dates of Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77) makes this unlikely.
BM 1868,0612.1133, "young boy"; Hollstein 212.
[Ref: 62577] £360.00

Youth [in pencil].
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A half-naked woman wrapped in a towel looks over to her nude companion, near a stone and wood structure, who holds something in her right hand (a towel or branch) and gestures to her friend playfully. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62501] £320.00

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