Grosvenor Prints

Massaroni [ink mss.]
[Anon., c.1840.]
Pen and ink drawing on coarse wove paper, sheet 220 x 185mm. 8¾ x 7¼".
Italian Brigand Chief Alessandro Massaroni (1790 - 1821). His exploits were immortalised in the 1823 book 'Events of the life of Massaroni, an Italian bandit' by Bartolomeo Pinelli, illustrated by his plates. By a competent hand, probably from a 19th century sketch book.
[Ref: 16090] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Insurrection of Massianello.
Benezech delin. Fittler sculp.
Published by J. Trusler. April 1.1794.
Engraving. 195mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Narrative scene depicting Massianello (Tommaso Aniello, 1622-1647), leader of a revolt againt the Habsburg rule of Naples in 1647, condeming fellow rebels to death in an attempt to discipline his followers and restrain their destructive behaviour. Massianello and his rebels reacted to increasing taxes placed upon food which made up the diet of the poor. Massianello was eventually murdered by a mob of grain merchants after blaspheming and denouncing his fellow citizens, in what may have been a fit of madness, during mass.
[Ref: 32061] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Guiseppe Mazzini.
J. Henshaw Del. H.y Meyer sculp.
[n.d., 1860.]
Stipple. Sheet 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Cut to platemark.
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-72), a journalist and political activist who campagned for the unification of Italy, earning the nickname 'The Beating Heart of Italy'.
[Ref: 33301] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Cosimo III de Medici] Princeps Primogenitus Serenissimi Ferdinandi Secundi Magni Ducis Hetruriae Natus Die 14 Augusti 1642.
[Anonymous.]
[n.d. c.1680.]
Engraving, unfinished; collector's stamp on verso, rare. 215 x 152mm. 8½ x 6". Trimmed with few stains.
Cosimo III de' Medici (1642-1723) was the penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tsucany. His 53-year long reign was the longest in Tuscan history and was marked by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and banned May celebrations. He married Marguerite Louise d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XIV.
Ex Collection: A. Castagnari, Rome (1881-1940). Lugt: 86a.
[Ref: 24834] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Francois de Medicis Grand Duc de Toscane...[etc.]
Rubens pinxit. G. Edelinck Eques effigiem Sculp. I.B. Nattier delineavit.
Avec Privilege du Roy. A Paris chez le Sr. Nattier peintre de l'Academie Royale rue Frementeau. [n.d., c.1710.]
Engraving, 505 x 290mm. 20 x 11½". A fine impression.
Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541 - 1587), father of Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France (1573 - 1642). The Grand Duke stands on a balcony, wearing breeches and ermine-trimmed cape, with cross of the Order of St Stephen; his left hand rests on a cane, a draped curtain beyond. Plate 2 from a series of twenty-four portraits 'La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg', by Gérard Edelinck (1640 - 1707) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640); the painting now in Paris, in the Musée du Louvre.
[Ref: 13577] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Don Giovanni de' Medici.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Don Giovanni de' Medici (1567-1621), illegitimate son of Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later legitimised). He moved to Spain to become a soldier: his career included becoming Master of the Field for the Imperial army (1600) and Commander-in-Chief of the army of the Republic of Venice (1616-7). He also served as the Florentine ambassador in Madrid (1598). He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32685] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Maria ab Etruria Cosmi Primi Magni Ducis Etruriae Filia Alphonso II. Duci Ferrariae Desponsata.
Adriano Halluech. Sculp: (after Agnolo Bronzino)
[n.d. 1741.]
Engraving. 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
'Regiae familiae Mediceorum etruriae principum effigies' is the source for this engraving by Adrian Halluech [Adrian Haelwegh] working in Italy in the 1660's. The 'Regiae Familiae' used 54 engravings by Halluech and was published in Florence 1741. Agnolo Bronzino painted the sitter when 11years old. Marie de Medici (1540-1557) was engaged to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, but died at the age of seventeen, before the marriage could take place. She was educated with her brothers and was among the brightest of the children. When her brother Francesco didn't understand his Greek lesson, his tutors called on Maria to explain it to him. Maria kept herself somewhat aloof from her younger brothers and sisters. She grew into an elegant, highly educated, and decorous young woman. Accurate accounts indicate that Maria's cause of death was probably malaria. She died in Livorno. Her father Cosimo I mourned for her deeply and kept her portrait in his bedroom until he died. Her sister Lucrezia di Cosimo de Medici later married Alfonso.
[Ref: 17168] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Giovanni Meli.
Luigi Clemenson del. Fratelli Costanzo Inc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Very rare & fine mezzotint. Sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Giovanni Meli (1740-1815), Sicilian doctor poet.
[Ref: 56656] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Port and City of Messina in the Island of Sicily before the dreadful Earthquake of Feb. 5.th 1783. From a Drawing made on the Spot by T. M. Slade. Esq.
R. Cooper fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 10, 1783 by R. Cooper, Edward Street Cavendish Square.
Aquatint, scarce. Plate: 455 x 315mm (18 x 12½") very large margins. Creasing. Repaired tears.
A view of the Port of Messina showing several boats in the harbour.
[Ref: 42518] £320.00

[Melchiorre Micheli.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Melchior Micheli (d.1570), a Venetian general, shown in ornate armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32663] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Porta nuova a Milano.
Carolina Lose Acqu.tu fec.
Milano presso Ferd. Artari [n.d., c.1825].
Aquatint. 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Thread margins, crease top right corner.
Milan's Porta Nova, designed by Giuseppe Zanoia (1752-1817) in a Neoclassical style inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, completed 1813. In 1807 Zanoia joined the Ornato Commission which was directed to redesign Milan under orders from Napoleon Bonaparte, including the Duomo. From a series of views by German engravers Federico & Carolina Lose.
[Ref: 57947] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Les Blanchisseuses Milanoises.
Vernet pinx.
Se vend à Paris chez Basan et Poignant, rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 237 x 280mm. 9¼ x 11".
Women gathererd along the river bank washing clothing.
[Ref: 15688] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Duomo de Milano.
Filippo Naymiller dis ed incise. Filippo Campi Acquer.
Milano presso Antonio Bossi Negoziante de Stampe Piazza del Duomo N. 4079. [n.d., c.1840.]
Fine aquatint. Sheet 400 x 510mm (15¾ x 20"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, some wear to bottom edge.
A fine impression of Milan Cathedral, begun by Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo in 1386 and officially completed in 1965!
[Ref: 52109] £380.00

Milan. Porte Orientale. [/] Porta Orientale.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par Bachelier. fig par Bayot.
Imp Lemercier a Paris. Paris, Bulla Editeur, Rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A fine and highly detailed view, from the left, of Porta Venezia (formerly known as Porta Orientale) which is one of the historical gates of the city of Milan, Italy. The gate of Porta Venezia consists of two twin neoclassical buildings, that used to house customs offices, located on the opposite sides of the main street that was used to enter Milan from north east. This view depicts a number of figures in front of the buildings, including soldiers on horse back, and horses and carts. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33328] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Milan. Arc de la Baix. [/] Arco della Bace.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par Bachelier. fig par Bayot.
Imp Lemercier. Paris. Paris, Bulla Editeur, Rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A fine view of the Porta Sempione, the city gate of Milan, Italy. Many pedestrians can be seen in the Piazza Sempione in front of a landmark triumphal arch called Arco della Pace (Arch of Peace), dating back to the 19th century, but its origins can be traced back to a gate of the Roman walls of Milan. It was the scene of several prominent events in the Milanese history of the 19th century, including the occasion in 1859, four days after the Battle of Magenta, when Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II of Italy triumphally entered Milan through the gate. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33325] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Milazzo] Actie tussen de Kyserse en Spaanse troupen voor Melazzo [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: Cum priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, tear on bottom edge along folding crease, some spots.
A scene of the Battle of Milazzo fought on 15 October 1713 between Spain and Austria during the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720).
[Ref: 59299] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Salerne. Pont du Diable. Salerno. Ponte del Diavolo.
Dessiné d'après nature et lith par Ph. Benoist. Imp par Lemercier à Paris.
Paris. Bullas éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et (Mon. Aumont) François Delarue, Succ. 10 rue J.J.Rousseau.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 460 x 320mm (18 x 12½"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of the ruins of an ancient aquaduct named 'devil's bridge' near the village of Molina (Vietri sul Mare) on the southern Italian coast near the town of Salerno. The aqueduct was destroyed in flooding in 1954.
[Ref: 41865] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Badia di Monte-Cassino. [Abbey of Monte Cassino.]
[Anon., Italian, c.1820.]
Rare lithograph, sheet 305 x 395mm. 12 x 15½".
Figures, including monks, a woman and a beggar, on the road leading to the impressive Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, a rocky hill about 80 miles southeast of Rome, Italy, to the west of the town of Cassino. St. Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529. It was the site of Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944.
[Ref: 17214] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Mont Cassin.
Dessiné sur les lieux par Mr. de la Salle.
A Paris Chez le Sr. de Fer dans l'Isle du Palais a la Sphere Royale avec privil. du Roy. 1705.
A rare engraving. Plate: 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼") with very large margins.
An early eighteenth century view of the abbey of St Benedict of Nursia at Monte Cassino in Italy in which the mountains, roads, buildings and nearby towns are labelled. The print is taken from a drawing made on the spot by a Mr. de la Salle. A description in French below the image describes the terrain, towns, villages and details of the abbey.
[Ref: 46295] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Il Monte Testaccio à Roma.
Klengel, fa Roma 1798.
Etching rare. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½".
A view of Monte Testaccio, the artificial mound in Rome, made almost entirely of fragments of broken amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire. It has both a religious and military significance, the latter in 1849 as the site of an Italian gun battery, under the command of Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the successful defence of Rome against an attacking French Army.
[Ref: 18754] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Abito dei Contadini di Monte Pulciano. 16.
Ant. Bicci dis. Gius. Canacci inc.
In Firenze presso Giuseppe Bardi Con Real Privilegio [n.d., c.1796].
Aquatint with stipple and etching. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), with large margins, Uncut.
Two women and a boy in the dress of Montepulciano in southern Tuscany. From 'I Contadini della Toscana'.
[Ref: 60935] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Città di Montepucliano.
Ant. Terreni dis. e inc.
Aquatint. Plate: 360 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with very large margins.
A view of the medieval hill-town of Montepulciano in southern Tuscany.
[Ref: 42503] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeu de Morra à Rome.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured etching, title in pencil. Sheet 240 x 170mm, 9½ x 6¾". Trimmed within plate.
Men playing "Morra": each contestant throws up a hand with some fingers out-stretched and calls a guess as to the total number of fingers shown. Known in the U.S. as "Choosies" it is often used to make a decision. Based on a print by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), who provided the figures for Luigi Rossini's "Veduta di Roma".
[Ref: 17499] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Naples Bay & View of Mount Vesuvius.
Hackert del. Wells Sculp.
Publsihed 30th July 1803 by J. Gold 103 Shoe Lane.
Lithograph, sheet 140 x 225mm (5½ x 9").
A view in Naples Bay looking out towards a smoking Mount Vesuvius.
[Ref: 57046] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Spanish Palace at Naples.
Printed for H. Overton at the White horse without Newgate. [n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 200 x 255mm, 8 x 9¾". One crease.
A royal palace in Naples, Italy. From a series of views published by Henry Overton (1676 - 1751).
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 10980] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

2.e Vue des Environs de Naples. Gravé d'Après le Dessein Original tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur l'Empereur
Vernet Delineavit. F. Basan sculpsit.
A Paris ches Basan Graveur et a Amsterdam chez P. Fouquet.
Engraving, platemark 270 x 365mm (10½ x 14½"); very large margins. Staining upper right.
Fine Italian landscape after Joseph Vernet (1714-89). In 1734 Vernet's patron Joseph de Seytres, Marquis de Caumont offered to sponsor Vernet to travel to Italy, where he lived until returning to France in 1753. The larger part of Vernet's Italian output consists of imaginary landscapes, either of pastoral landscapes such as this or coastal scenes of either calm or stormy water.
[Ref: 41415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

No.13. Neapolitan Ball Dress. Dobbs & Co.s Series of Costumes.
H.F.G. lith. Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52, Newman St.
Dobbs & Co., 134 Fleet Street, & 13 Soho Square. Ackermann & Co, Strand, & C. Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, rare. 323 x 260mm. 12¾ x 10¼". Some spotting, corner lost to lower right.
A plate from a series of costume plates; a Neapolitan woman in a tunic dress with various colourful layers and puffy arms to add to the grandeur of the costume. The coloured bows on her shoulders eccentuate the bows in her hair.
[Ref: 22869] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Pillage de la Cocagne, à Naples dans la Place appellée il Largo del Castello. Dessinée par Des Pres Architecte Pensionaire du Roi à l'Académie de France à Rome.
Gravé à l'eau forte par Duplessis Bertaux. Terminé au burin par Nicolet.
[Paris: Clousier, 1781-6.]
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark. 250 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾").
A scene of a carnival in Naples. The festival of the Looting of the Cuccagna (a dialect word for kitchen) took place in the Largo del Castello in Naples every Sunday during the Carnival. A cannon fired from the Castel Nuovo (seen here on the left) gave the signal for the people of Naples to storm the Cuccagna and carry away as much food as they could grab. From Jean Claude Richard Saint Non's monumental 'Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile'.
The original black ink, wash and watercolour on paper is in Waddeston Manor, former home of the Rothschild family, now National Trust (Accession number 1034, Cat No 31). From the Airlie collection, C
[Ref: 57526] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

L'Isole di Tremiti, Aggiacenti al' Regno di Napoli, nel Mare Adriatico.
[Iyaly, c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 400mm (7½ x 15¾").
The Isole Tremiti, off the Gargano Peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. From left to right the islands are: San Domino; the small, uninhabited island of Cretaccio; San Nicola where most of the population resides, with fortified monastery; and Capraia, also uninhabited. In 1938 Mussolini secretly turned San Domino into an internment camp for homosexual men, despite there being no sexuality laws. Contrary to his intentions it allowed the inmates to be openly gay for the first time in their lives: when the camp was closed on the outbreak of WWII many were reluctant to return to the repression on the staunchly-catholic mainland.
[Ref: 34457] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Neopolitan Wedding. 'From the Original Picture in the possession of Edward Willes, Esq.
Painted by T. Uwins, R.A. Engraved by Fredk. A. Heath.
Printed by Mc.Queen. Art Union of London, 1847.
Engraving, 260 x 290mm. 10¼ x 11½".
A young bride standing at centre, wearing a ring on her right hand, followed by a young man, wearing flowers on his hat, surrounded by a group of people; two girls carrying flowers. Stone wall at right, pillar in background at left. After Thomas Uwins (1782 - 1857). With Art Union of London circular blind-stamp showing Britannia to lower margin. Founded in 1837, this was the first of many Art Unions established around Europe and America. The society existed to promote art by distributing specially-commissioned works by means of a lottery among its members. It soon entered print publishing in a large way. Published the journal 'The Art Journal'.
[Ref: 26756] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

No.3. Neapolitan. Vicinity of Cariati & Cantanzaro. from an Original Drawing. Dobbs & Co.s Series of Costumes.
H.F.G. lith. Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52, Newman St.
Dobbs & Co., 134 Fleet Street, & 13 Soho Square. Ackermann & Co, Strand, & C. Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, rare. 319 x 260mm. 12½ x 10¼".
A plate from a series of costume plates; a Neapolitan man in a colourful native tunic holding a staff and wearing a hat.
[Ref: 22854] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Nutrice. [Nurse.]
Gae Dura [signed on stone.]
Napoli. Lit. Gatti e Dura [Italian, n.d., c.1825.]
Hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 225mm. 11 x 9". Small repaired tear from left edge.
A wet-nurse holding a little girl by reins, who in turn holds the puppet Pulcinella (a stock character of the Commedia dell'Arte, anglicised as Punchinello, or Punch for short). From 'Scenes and Costumes of Life in and around Naples'.
[Ref: 26751] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

No.5. Neapolitan.
J. Brandard inv. et lith. Printed by Graf & Soret.
London, Published 1833, by Ackermann & Co No.96 Strand.
Lithograph with gum arabic in splendid original colour, sheet 250 x 320mm. 9¾ x 12½". Pinhole to upper margin, with string tie attached (for display purposes). Mint.
A group of four dancers in southern Italian dress in a garden in a landscape, two leaning on a balustrade. From a series of theatrical costumes by lithographer, engraver and illustrator John Brandard (1812 - 1863).
[Ref: 22597] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Mole and the New Castle at Naples.
Parr Sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 200 x 255mm, 8 x 10". Ink spots to image upper right.
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 10979] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Spanish Palace at Naples. 6.
Debois fecit.
Printed for John Bowles & Son, in Cornhil. [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper Engraving. 204 x 254mm. 8 x 10". Trimmed. Laid down on album page.
The Royal Palace of Naples was not built by the Bourbons but was constructed for King Philip III of Spain, dating from the early 16th century. The palace seen today is the result of numerous additions and changes through the 17th and 18th centuries and the restoration following a fire in 1838 and World War II.
[Ref: 18467] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Naples. Napoles.
Urruty del.t. Lith. de Grosselin rue Perdue n. 1.
Paris chez Maesani Quai aux Fleurs, 7. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 500 x 620mm, 19¾ x 24½". Some repairs.
A view looking across the Bay of Naples, with Vesuvius erupting in the background and the lighthouse on the right. In the Bay is a French warship and in the foreground are seven figures in national dress. By Alphonse Urruty (1800-70).
[Ref: 13178] £950.00

Il Calessino di Napoli.
Lit. Muller
[Naples, 1818.]
Lithograph with fine colour and large margins, rare; Italian watermark. Sheet 240 x 405mm. Paper toned at lateral edges, old ink ownship inscription under image. Slighly tatty.
A fat friar in an ornately-decorated calessino (a two-wheeled chariot cab), driver standing behind, whip over his head. From a series 'Life in Naples', lithographed by Carlo Muller.
[Ref: 33102] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Sampognari che fanno la novena in Natale. Gruppi di Napoli.
[Luigi Pittori.]
Si vende presso Giorgio Glass dirimp.to S. Ferdinando N:54. [n.d. c.1830.]
Etching with gouache; paper watermarked: J Whatman. 298 x 228mm (11¾ x 9"). Time stained and creased.
This print shows a group of musicians, one with a harp, two with brass instruments and a child with a triangle playing at a street-side shrine on the Strada San Carlo, Naples (according to the sign on the wall): the alley off to the left bears another reading 'Vico del ...Chiauce', but not easily identifiable. By the child's feet is an upturned hat. Kneeling by the shrine is a woman holding a rosary, head bowed in prayer. The fort in the background with a flag flying is the medieval Castel Nuovo. The 'novena' is the period of nine days before Chistmas. Uncoloured etching copy in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
See the National Maritime Museum: PAH6213.
[Ref: 52434] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Venditore di Meloni d'Acqua. Gruppi di Napoli.
[Luigi Pittori.]
Si vende presso Giorgio Glass dirimp.to S. Ferdinando N:54. [n.d. c.1830.]
Very fine etching with gouache. 305 x 228mm (12 x 9").
People gather round the watermelon vendor who cuts and prepares fresh watermelon; a store of melons to the left; a sign depicting Harlequins with melons above right; melon skins on the floor around.
[Ref: 52435] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Venditrice di uova.
Dura dis. Lit Gatti e Dura. [Gaetano Dura]
[published Naples, 1839 ]
Coloured lithograph. 317 x 241mm. 12½ x 9½".
A woman sits on the side of a street in Naples. She has two baskets of eggs with her, and a small clutch bag with several more hidden away inside. A woman who has come from the countryside to sell her farm produce in the metropolis. From 'Scenes and Costumes of Life in and around Naples'.
[Ref: 17098] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Napoli.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine lithograph with fine original hand colour. 280 x 890mm (11 x 35"). Framed. Some spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
A prospect looking east across the Bay of Naples, with Vesuvius smoking in the distance.
[Ref: 55120] £1,250.00

A Perspective View of the City of Naples. Vue Perspective de la Ville de Naples.
Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, N.o 53 Fleet Street, London. c. 1810
Engraving with fine original hand colour. 260 x 395mm (10¼ x 15½"), with very large margins. Laid on album paper. A slight mark in the sky.
A birds-eye view of the city and harbour of Naples.
[Ref: 55168] £320.00

Der Himmel Italiens. I. Neapolitanische Fischer. Le ciel l'Italie. I. Pecheurs De Naples. The sky of Italy. I. Fishermen of Naples.
Lith. v. Bulow. Druck v J. Hesse in Berlin.
Verlag v. Brigl & Lobeck in Berlin.
Fine tinted lithograph. Sheet 440 x 560mm (17¼ x 22").
Neapolitan fishermen and women on the quayside with their nets.
[Ref: 56647] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Naples.
[Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.]
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm, 5¼ x 6½".
A chart of the environs of Naples, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13675] £200.00

[Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples.]
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Gouache. Image: 150 x 125mm (6 x 5"). Some marks in sky.
A view overlooking the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius, emitting smoke is depicted in the backgound. Figures in traditional Neapolitan costumes can be seen in the foreground.
[Ref: 39551] £350.00

Naples. (Napoli) Population_345,000. Published under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
W.B. Clarke_Arch: dir: T. Bradley Sc.
Published by Baldwin & Cradock, March 1835.
Engraving. Small tears along bottom edge. Crease to top and bottom right-hand corners.
A town plan of Naples, Italy with two topographical views: one of the Castello Nuovo and the Castello St. Elmo; and the other a view of Naples from the Hill of Posilipo, looking across the bay towards Vesuvius. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge brought inexpensive scientific and similarly high-minded texts to the rapidly-expanding reading public. Founded in 1826 it continued until 1848.
[Ref: 17097] £120.00

Giocatori della Morra. Gruppi di Napoli.
[Luigi Pittori.]
Si vende presso Giorgio Glass dirimp.to S. Ferdinando N:54. [n.d. c.1830.]
Fine etching with gouache. 305 x 228mm (12 x 9"). Slight stain in sky.
Men play Morra in the foreground; fish vendor behind with others drinking and chatting. Morra is a traditional game very popular in Italy, particularly in the regions bordering the Mediterranean. The game consists of guessing the sum of the numbers that are shown by the players' fingers. Simultaneously the two players stretch their arms showing their fist or spreading a number of fingers of their choice, while shouting (as if to intimidate the opponent) a number from two to ten (the "punch" is equivalent to one and ten is also called proper "morra") generally in the local language , sometimes crippled with very colourful expressions that vary from region to region.
[Ref: 52432] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Famiglia di Pulcinella.
Lit. Muller
[Naples, 1818.]
Lithograph with fine colour and large margins. Sheet 240 x 405mm. Paper toned at lateral edges, old ink ownship inscription under image. A Punch caricature pasted on reverse.
A man and his three small sons, all wearing the 'Pulcinella' mask and costume, eating spaghetti from a shallow dish with their hands. To the right is the old Mole lighthouse of Naples. 'Pulcinella' is the Neapolitan antecessor of the 'Punch' puppet. From a series 'Life in Naples', lithographed by Carlo Muller.
[Ref: 33107] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Venditore de' Maccaroni cotti. Gruppi di Napoli.
Luigi Pittori [lower right corner of image.]
Si vende presso Giorgio Glass dirimp.to S. Ferdinando N:54. [n.d. c.1830.]
Fine etching with gouache. 305 x 228mm (12 x 9").
A spaghetti chef and vendor by the coast; people stand around eating from their hands with two beggars to the right. Behind in the background, Vesuvius can be seen.
[Ref: 52433] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the City of Naples.
G. Fossati delin.t. Bowles Sculp.t.
Published according to Act of Parliament. Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 _ in Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver 69, St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1800].
Coloured engraving. 290 x 425mm (11½ x 16¾"), with margins.
A prospect of Naples from the sea, Vesuvius smoking in the background. Giorgio Domenico Fossati ((1705-85), Swiss-born artist and architect.
[Ref: 54657] £340.00 (£408.00 incl.VAT)

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