Grosvenor Prints

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)

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)

[Brick Lane] Interior of a Gas House.
Drawn by Charles Blunt. Engraved by J. Dower.
London Published by William Orr Paternoster Row. Septr. 1833.
Engraving. 114 x 142mm. 4½ x 5½". Trimmed to the image along the top edge. Laid on separate album sheet.
Men inside a gas house, stoke the furnaces with coal and wood. Steam swells around the room.
[Ref: 16814] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Der Blatt Muller.
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼").
A scene inside a cog-maker's workshop. The figure works on a bit of machinery made up of various cogs and keys. An illustration from 'Abbildung der Gemain-Nutzlichen Haupt-Stande'.
[Ref: 39554] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Gipsy Fortune Teller. To her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire This Plate is with permission Inscribed by her Graces most obedient & Devoted humble Servant J. Young.
Painted by W. Beechy. Engrav'd by J. Young.
London Publish'd Novr. 6th. 1786 by J. Young No. 28 Newman Street, Oxford Road.
Mezzotint. 636 x 430mm. 25 x 17".
A gypsy woman with a baby strapped to her back pauses on her way along the path to read a young girl's palm.
Russell: 72: ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14794] £350.00

View of the British Plate Glass Manufactory; View of the British Plate Glass Warehouse.
[n.d.. c.1810.]
Rare aquatint, 270 x 215mm. (10½ x 8½"), with large margins. Paper toning. Small tears in margins.
[Ref: 61520] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The several Methods of blowing and casting Plate Glass, with the Men at Work.
Printed for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in St Pauls Churchyard. London _ For the Universal Magazine, November 1747.
Engraving. 205 x 240mm. Tear in bottom edge.
[Ref: 6994] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Art of Grinding and Polishing of Plate Glass.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in St Paul's Church-Yard, London 1748.
Engraving. 195 x 230mm. Binding folds flattened.
[Ref: 6982] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Syntax in the Glass-House.
Drawn by T. Rowlandson.
[R. Ackermann, n.d. c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. 158 x 250mm. 6¼ x 9¾".
Dr Syntax and another man blowing glass, a man to the far left prods the man behind. Onlookers applaud in delight. From 'The Second Tour of Dr Syntax. In Search of Consolation'.
[Ref: 23558] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Glass House. The Glass-Makers at Work.
C.Grignion sculp.
Printed for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in Newgate Street. 1747.
Engraving. 180 x 280mm. Binding folds flattened.
[Ref: 6991] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The rough polishing of Glasses. [&] The Running of Glasses. [&] The Polishing of Glasses.
[n.d., 1763.]
Three engravings. Each sheet c. 170 x 195mm (6¾ x 7¾"), with three sheets of letterpress. Original folds, slight offset from text.
From 'Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses On such Particulars of Natural History As were thought most proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth'.
[Ref: 60858] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A New method of Cultivating Vines. &c and procuring their Fruit in the greatest Perfection.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1751, for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms at St Pauls Church Yard London.
Engraving. Sheet: 310 x 200mm (12½ x 8"). Trimmed. Creases as normal.
A diagram showing the design for a hot house for growing vines.
[Ref: 44601] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Vitrier.]
[After Jan Van Vliet.]
[Published by Gaspard Duchange?] [n.d. c.1750.]
Etching. 210 x 165mm. 8¼ x 6½". Trimmed to the plate.
The glaziers; a male figure in left foreground glewing panes of glass on a table, another working in right background. This is one from a series of twenty-two plates (plus title) after Jan van Vliet, published by Gaspard Duchange, with French captions.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. See BM: S.6186 [in reverse].
[Ref: 19915] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Nalders & Co's. Glove Factory, Shacklewell.
Eastman & Yeo, Cheapside. [n.d. c.1815.]
Engraving. 102 x 210mm. 4 x 8¼". Laid on album scrap.
A glove factory owned by Nalders & Co, in Shackewell, Hackney, London.
[Ref: 24111] £90.00 (£108.00 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)

Das Goldspinner.
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼"). Slight staining.
A scene in a goldspinner's workshop, showing a woman spinning the thin gold around a thread. An illustration from 'Etwas für Alle...' by Abraham à Santa Clara (1644-1709).
[Ref: 38894] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Marchande de Raisin. du bon chasselas a la livre. No 32.
Carle Vernet. S. lith de Delpech.
[Paris, n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 300 x 140mm (11¾ x 5½").
A woman with baskets of grapes. One of a series, 'Cris de Paris', depicting Parisian street vendors, lithographed by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825) after Antoine Charles Horace (Carle) Vernet (1758-1836).
[Ref: 33227] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of Part of the Vaults of the Gray's Inn Wine Establishment.
[Anon, c.1840]
Wood engraving printed on pink paper, rare; sheet 75 x 125mm (3 x 5"). Trimmed;
The vault of the Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, 23 High Holborn, London. Vignette image published as part of an advertisement and price-list for the premises in 'The Quarterly Review', 1841.
[Ref: 43361] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Gray's Inn Wine Establishment. High Holborn, London. 23, High Holborn, George Henekey and Comp.y.
[1841.]
Letterpress advert with wood engraving. Sheet: 135 x 230mm (5¾ x 9").
An advert for Gray's Inn Wine Establishment with a wine list printed on the back. From 'The Quaterly Review' 1841.
[Ref: 44627] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Iohann Gutemberg. Buchdrucker in Maintz, Gebürtig von Strassburg. lebte um das Jahr Christi A. 1455. war mit Johann Fausten in Companie.
[n.d. 17th century.]
Engraving with large margins, platemark 152 x 102mm (6 x 4").
Johannes Gutenberg (c.1395-1468), the German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. It was his invention of mechanical moving type printing that started the Printing Revolution. It influenced the development of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution. In 1455 he completed his 42-line Bible, known as the Gutenberg Bible.
[Ref: 28448] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Hair dresser.
London Pub. by Tabart & Co. Sep. 14. 1808.
Engraving, with three sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Foxing.
A barber combing the hair of a man reading a paper, with text.
[Ref: 50497] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman with a hairdresser.]
Petrus Schenck inven: Fecit et exc Amstela: Cum Privil. Ord: Holl et West-Frisi [n.d., c.1690.]
Scarce mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Thread margins, a little surface scuffing.
A hairdresser positions two mirrors so a woman with long, crimped hair can see the back of her head.
[Ref: 60129] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Oysters! Mar'm! Oysters! Oysters! Corney Harriman.
On Stone by J.P. Hunter. Printed by Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, London.
Published by W. Watts Bookseller, Wisbech.
Scarce lithograph on chine collé. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7") very large margins.
A street trader selling oysters, with wicker basket and pipe.
[Ref: 58099] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Harrowing.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 115 x 155mm, 4½ x 6". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a boy leading two horses dragging a harrow. Harrowing breaks up clods of earth after ploughing to make a fine finish to the soil in readiness for planting.
[Ref: 16438] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Marchande de Casquettes. Voulez vous des Casquettes? Achetez des casquettes.
Carle Vernet. lith. de. Delpech.
[n.d., c.1820].
Hand coloured lithograph with very large magins. Sheet size: 365 x 275mm (14¼ x 10¾").
A woman selling hats of various shapes and sizes from a wicker basket. Plate number 8 from the series 'Cris de Paris', depicting Parisian street vendors, lithographed by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825) after Antoine Charles Horace (Carle) Vernet (1758-1836).
[Ref: 33602] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Art of Hat-Making.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine according to Act of Parliament 1750 for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in St Paul's Church-Yard, London.
Engraving. 200 x 240mm. Binding folds flattened.
[Ref: 6984] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Le Petit Marchand des Rues.
Lith. Rigo Freres 1, Richer, 7.
Desesserts Editeur. [Paris, 1841.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½").
A boy sellings good from a folding table. Plate 30 from 'Les Enfans peints par eux-mêmes, sujets de composition, donnés a ses Élèves' by Alexandre de Saillet (1811-1866). Each picture was to illustrate a story about child labour written by pupils at de Saillet's boarding school.
[Ref: 36861] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

A Herb Market. In the Gallery at Houghton.
Snyders & Long John Pinxerunt. Joseph Farrington delin.t. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1779. Published Nov.r 13th 1779 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside.
Mezzotint. 415 x 570mm (16¼ x 22½"), large margins. Tears repaired, one just entering incription area, some creasing.
A vegetable stall, with a woman filling a basket with produce as a boy slyly empties her purse. On display are asparagus, artichoke, cabbage, cauliflower, onions and shallots. One of several market scenes painted by Snyders, which were part of Sir Robert Walpole's celebrated collection of Old Masters at his gallery at Houghton. When much of the gallery's contents were sold by Walpole's grandson to Catherine the Great of Russia, the eminent publisher John Boydell commissioned a series of mezzotints of Houghton's key works.
[Ref: 58746] £580.00

A true & exact Representation of the Art of Casting & Preparing Letters for Printing.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1750. for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in St Pauls Churchyard. London.
Engraving. 205 x 250mm.
[Ref: 7136] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Printing Press. Composing Stick. The Letter Case for the Roman.
W.H. Toms sculp.
Printed for J.Hinton at the King's Arms, St Pauls Churchyard. 1747.
Engraving. 165 x 125mm.
[Ref: 6993] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Hoop Makers.
Forster & Co. Lith. [n.d., c.1840s.]
Rare sepia tinted lithograph, sheet 110 x 180mm (4¼ x 7").
A man making hoops surrounded by women and children, which he uses for barrels; a woman uses them as a dress support.
[Ref: 15433] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Hop Picking.
Drawn & Etch'd by W.H. Pyne.
Pub. by Pyne & Nattes 1804. London, Pub.d Sep.r 1804 by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint. 225 x 290mm (8¾ x 11¼"), large margins.
Vignette scenes of hop picking, from Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain…'. William Henry Pyne was an English writer, painter and illustrator. He trained at a drawing academy in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.
[Ref: 62457] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Musical Instrument Maker.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Woodcut, with seven sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Foxing.
A musical instrument maker working on a harp, with text.
[Ref: 50495] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Mathematical Instrument Maker.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Woodcut. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Foxing.
A man examining a a collection of mathematical instruments.
[Ref: 50494] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

L'Interet.
Se vend ches Haid. [n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching with large margins, printed in brown ink, paper watermarked. Plate 190 x 139mm (7½ x 5½"). Some slight foxing.
Interest: A girl stood holding a basket watching a butcher-boy take an axe to a leg of meat. From a series of prints of prints showing children performing 'adult' tasks.
[Ref: 28739] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Plate V. To the Right Hon.ble Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, This Plate representing a Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flax with groved Rollers, and Scutching it with Blades fixt on a Shaft, both turn'd by the Main Wheel, Great Improvements in the Method of Breaking and Scutching of Flax. Is most respectfully Dedicated by his Lordships obedient and much obliged humble Servant, W.m Hincks.
W.m Hincks delin. et sculp.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs by R. Pollard, Spafields June 20. 1791.
Coloured stipple, sheet 345 x 425mm (13½ x 16¾). Trimmed to plate.
An interior view of a 'scutch' mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fibre. From William Hincks illustrations depicting the Irish Linen Industry.
[Ref: 60388] £360.00

Plate V. To the Right Hon.ble Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, This Plate representing a Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flax with groved Rollers, and Scutching it with Blades fixt on a Shaft, both turn'd by the Main Wheel, Great Improvements in the Method of Breaking and Scutching of Flax. Is most respectfully Dedicated by his Lordships obedient and much obliged humble Servant, W.m Hincks.
W.m Hincks delin. et sculp.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs by W.m Hincks, July 4.th 1783.
Stipple, sheet 345 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, nicks and tears at edges. Small holes on image.
An interior view of a 'scutch' mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fibre. From William Hincks illustrations depicting the Irish Linen Industry.
[Ref: 60381] £380.00

Plate IX. To the Right Hon.ble Lord Bangor, This Plate Representing a Complete Perspective View of all the Machinery of a Bleach Mill, upon the Newest and most approved Constructions. Consisting of the Wash Mill, Rubbing Boards moved by a Crank, and Beetling Engine for Glazing the Cloth, with a View of the Boiling House. Is most respectfully Inscribed by his Lordships obedient humble Servant. W.m Hincks.
W.m Hincks delin. et sculp.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs by W.m Hincks Aug.t 23, 1783.
Stipple, sheet 340 x 415mm (13¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate on two sides, nicks at edges.
An interior view of a mill where three men and a woman are engaged in washing, rubbing, glazing and boiling fabric. From William Hincks illustrations depicting the Irish Linen Industry.
[Ref: 60378] £380.00

Iron Foundry Pl. 1.
Drawn & Etch'd by W.H. Pyne.
Pub. by Pyne & Nattes 1802. London, Publish'd August 1 1802 by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"), very large margins. Margins dusty, printer's crease top right.
Four vignette scenes of an iron foundry, from Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain…'. William Henry Pyne was an English writer, painter and illustrator. He trained at a drawing academy in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.
[Ref: 62456] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ironmongery Manufactory. Ironmongery Warehouse.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Very rare lithograph on green stained paper. 133 x 235mm. 5¼ x 9¼".
Inside the factory and warehouse of an ironmongery.
[Ref: 24197] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Portrait Of An Italian Dancing Dog Master.
Painted by E. Bird. Engraved by Will.m Ward Engraver to His Royal Highness the Duke of York.
Bristol Published July 1805, by E. Bird.
Coloured mezzotint. 500 x 355mm (19¾ x 14").
A street entertainer posing with his bagpipe, a monkey sitting on the back of his chair.
[Ref: 8530] £450.00

Les Jardinieres Italiennes au Marché. Dédié à Monsieur J.B.M. Pierre, Ecuyer, Professeur de l’Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Premier Peintre de Monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans. Par son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur et Ami J. Ouvrier.
J.B.M. Pierre pinx. J. Ouvrier sculp. Gravé d’apres le Tableau Origiinal d’un pied cinq pouces de hauteur sur un pied dix pouces de largeur.
A Paris chez l’Auteur Place Maubert chez M. Bellot Md. Bonnetier au Soleil d’Or. [n.d. c.1760.]
Etching and engraving with small margins. Plate 255 x 316mm (10 x 12½"). Crease through middle.
Peasant woman standing in front of the stall of another woman selling vegetables; in the background, a tent in the background on the right, and a building in ruins on the left; other street vendors around. The print is dedicated to J.B.M. Pierre, from whose painting the engraving was made.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28441] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Jeweller.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Woodcut, with four sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½'').
A jeweller working at his bench, with text.
[Ref: 50498] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Jeweller.
Pub. Jan. 1. 1806, by Tabart & Co.
Engraving. Plate: 70 x 115mm (2¾ x 4½").
A scene in a jeweller's workshop, a jeweller shown working at his work bench.
[Ref: 44647] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Jewellery. Plate 23. Vol. 5. Designed & Manufactured by J.H. Barlow.
No. 28 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. April 1. 1811, at 101 Strand, London.
Aquatint. Plate 272 x 222mm. 10¾ x 8¾". Two horizontal creases. Slight staining. Paper loss lower right-hand corner.
Jewellery designs for a necklace, earrings, a head-piece and bracelets. Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the publication was "Respository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it did cover all of these fields. At the time, it was considered to be of great influence to the English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature.
[Ref: 19132] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[A Judge.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albermarle Street, Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand-coloured aquatint, with letterpress sheet. Sheet: 365 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾"). Staple in bottom left corner.
A portrait of a Judge shown seated in large wooden chair with a large book resting on his knee. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 44616] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Dentellière. Bruxelles.
Madou fc. Déposé. Lith: de Burggraaff rue Royale No.68.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand coloured lithograph. 241 x 190mm. 9½ x 7½". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
Scene in Brussels: a lacemaker sat in a chair on her front doorstep weaving.
[Ref: 16219] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Lacemaker.] Engraved from a Picture of Ger.d Dou in the Collection of His Grace the Duke, of Montague.
Gerard Dou pinxit Wbaillie Sculp.
Published Sept.r 1.st 1773.
Mezzotint, 440 x 320mm. 17¼ x 12½". Later issue c.1800. Margins foxed.
A lacemaker, after Gerard Dou (1613-75), who worked in Rembrandt's studio as a young man and went on to become the first and most famous of the Leiden 'Fine' painters. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.

[Ref: 12241] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Lacemaker.]
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼"). Slight staining.
A scene in a lacemaker's workshop in which three figures work on the process of making the fine threads for lace. An illustration from 'Etwas für Alle...' by Abraham à Santa Clara (1644-1709).
[Ref: 38910] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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