Grosvenor Prints

Commemorative Diploma of the British Arts & Crafts Exhibition at the Pavillion de Marsan Palais du Louvre Paris 1914 Issued by the Board of Trade.
Isidore Speilman invt. Hugh Thomson del. Emery Walker, engr.
[1914.]
Broadside. Scarce. Sheet: 530 x 730mm (21 x 28¾"). Paper tone, some staining, creasing and tears.
A commemorative diploma for the exhibition of Arts & Crafts at the Louvre in 1914. Designed by the exhibition's director Sir Isidore Speilman (1854-1925) it was drawn by illustrator Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) and engraved by artist and friend of William Morris, Emery Walker (1851-1933). The text is decorated by a border of oak leaves in which are small vignettes showing craftsmen at their various trades including printing, pottery, casting, embroidery, weaving and spinning.
[Ref: 42765] £480.00

Arts & Sciences. Plate III.
[Robert Seymour]
London. Published by Thomas M.cLean. 26. Haymarket. July 1.st 1829.
Fine hand-coloured etching, 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with large margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A series of comic scenes shows Pickle’s brief and disastrous experiments with various fashionable pursuits. First, he becomes an antiquary, seated in a mock-Gothic room cluttered with worthless trinkets. Wearing a dressing gown, he admires a broken medallion portrait offered by a slick salesman who insists he’s giving Pickle a bargain for ''one little dirty pound.'' Next, Pickle takes up music. Relaxing by the fire in his dressing gown, he enthusiastically blows a French horn, unaware of the furious neighbour in a nightshirt standing at the door. The man complains that his entire household has been kept awake for hours by the dreadful noise. Trying something new, Pickle experiments with ballooning, only to fall from the sky into the Thames. A boatman catches hold of the rope dangling from the balloon, while a rustic on the riverbank waits with a pitchfork to assist the unlucky aeronaut. He then turns to painting, depicting a woman who soon recognizes herself in an unflattering caricature. Enraged, she overturns his easel, scatters his paints, and jabs her umbrella into the portrait, shouting that she’ll teach him not to make a joke of her. Next, Pickle tries his hand at poetry. In nightcap and dressing gown, he sits at his desk muttering helplessly over a rhyme for ''azure,'' finally giving up in exasperation. Finally, his attempt at chemistry ends in chaos. An experiment bursts into flames, setting the room and the cat’s tail on fire. As smoke and sparks fill the air, Pickle runs about shouting for help.
Bm Satires 15988.
[Ref: 67477] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Artulley Bridge between Kenmare and Killarney.
T. Walmsley Pinx.t. S. Alken fecit.
Published as the Act directs, by T. Walmsley, N.º 5 Rathbone Place, April 10, 1798.
Rare aquatint. 355 x 460mm (14 x 18"). Narrow margins, staining on edge of plate.
A stone bridge in a mountainous landscape, with men fishing in Roughty river underneath. According to a limestone plaque on the extant but disused bridge: 'This Bridge was Built by Richard/Orpen Esq. at His Own Expence in the Year 1786'.
[Ref: 62670] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Arundel Castle.
B. Ralph del. I. Ryland sculp.
Engraving. Sheet size: 135 x 175mm (5¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed. Hinged to backing sheet.
A view of Arundel Castle, Sussex, first published in 1764. Originally produced for 'England Illustrated, or, a Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil, of England and Wales'.
See 37684 for drawing.
[Ref: 37639] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Arundel Castle.
[B. Ralph del. I. Ryland sculp.]
Pen and ink drawing. Sheet size: 175 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Large margins; hinged to backing sheet.
A view of Arundel Castle, Sussex, within a circle. A pen and ink drawing, possibly by Benjamin Ralph. The image was reproduced as an engraving, first published in 1764. Originally produced for 'England Illustrated, or, a Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil, of England and Wales'.
See 37629 for engraving.
[Ref: 37684] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Source de l'Arveiron. Chamonix.
S. Morel M.d d'estampes à Genève.
Imp. Lemercier, Paris [c.1850]
Tinted lithograph, printed area 105 x 120mm (4 x 4¾").
The source of the Arveiron at Montanvert, near Chamonix. It was visited by the Shelleys and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Probably published in 'Chamonix et Ses Environs', one of Morel's 'Souvenirs de la Suisse' series, which contained 23 tinted lithographic views by Morel, Mottu, Linck and others.
[Ref: 46115] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Largs.
Tom Maxwell [signed in pencil and etched in the plate.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 301 x 470mm. 11¾ x 18½".
A view from the pier of St Colombia's and the attractive seaside town of Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland. Tom Maxwell (d.1937).
[Ref: 20053] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Shakespeare. As you like it. Act II. Scene VII. The Seven Ages. First Age. Jaq. At first the Infant Mewling & puking in the nurse's arms. [&] Second Age. Jaq. And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, Creeping like snail unwillingly to school. [&] Third Age. Jaq.___And then, the lover; Sighin like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eye-brow. [&] Fourth Age. Jaq.___Then a Soldier; Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel: Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannons mouth. [&] Fifth Age. Jaq.___And then, the justice In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part. [&] Sixth Age. Jaq.___The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloo; With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice Turning again toward childish treble, pipes and Whistles in his sound: [&] Seventh Age. Jaq.___Las scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history. Is second childishness, and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Painted by R. Smirke, R.A. Engraved by P.W. Tomkins. Hist.l Engraver to Her Majesty. [&] by I. Ogborn. [&] by R. Thew, Hist.l Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. [&] by J. Ogborn. [&] by I.P. Simon. [&] by W. Leney. [&] by I.P. Simon.
Pubd. June 4, 1801, by J & J Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall; &No. 90, Cheapside, London.
A set of seven stipples. Plate 457 x 541mm (18 x 21¼").
Seven plates illustrating the famous soliloquy by Jaques in Shakespeare's 'As You Like it', in which he described the Seven Ages of Man, from infancy to old age.
[Ref: 25290] £950.00 view all images for this item

Celia.
T. Cheesman inv.t et sculp.t.
published May 1, 1799, by T. Cheesman N.o 40 Oxford Street, London.
Coloured stipple, part printed in colour; sheet 275 x 195mm (10¾ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border.
Half-length portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress with large collar and holding a basket of flowers amongst a countryside landscape. Most likely a representation of Celia from Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'. Thomas Cheesman (c.1760-1834) was a British draughtsman, painter and stipple engraver. He studied under Bartolozzi from the mid 1770s.
[Ref: 60324] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Lavinia.
Painted & Engraved by J. Dean.
Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1791 by J. Dean Bentinck Street Soho.
Fine & rare stipple, 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼") with large margins. Stained and slightly scuffed.
Portrait of a country girl holding a bundle of hay and a pitcher. Possibly a representation of Lavinia from Roman Mythology, however could also be Lavinia from Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus'.
[Ref: 60338] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

As You Like It. Act IV. Orlando and Oliver. To the Honourable Horace Walpole, this Plate is Inscribed, by his most Obliged humble Servant, Sam.l Middiman.
Painted by G.B. Cipriani, G. Barrett & S. Gilpin. The Figures by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraved by S. Middiman.
Published as the Act directs May 1. 1787 by S. Middiman, No 3, Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Stipple. 355 x 380mm (14 x 15"), with large margins.
Orlando rescues Oliver from a lioness.
[Ref: 54067] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[As You Like It] Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man.
Published by J & J Smith King St.t [***] London [n.d., c.1840].
Wood engraving, printed in blue on porcelain card. Sheet 125 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Edges oxidised, with loss to publisher's inscription.
With a vignette scene illustrating each age.
[Ref: 66698] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[As You Like It] The Seven Ages of Man.
Published by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street. [n.d. c.1827]
Very fine hand-coloured etching, 220 x 380mm (8¾ x 15"), with large margins Tears in edges of paper. Surface dirt and light staining in margins.
Satirical scenes illustratrating Shakespeare's famous monologue from 'As You Like It.' The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
[Ref: 67498] £320.00

[As You Like It.] Second Childishness. and meer oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Drawn by Tho.s. Stothard Esq.r. R.A. Engraved by W.m. Bromley. Printed by Collins Shoe Lane.
Publish'd Jan.y. 24. 1799, by W. Bromley, Jessamine House, Hammersmith.
Stipple, rare. Sheet: 215 x 300mm (8½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
Depiction of the seventh and final stage of Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man' from 'As You Like It'. An old man sits in an armchair while a young woman offers him a bowl.
[Ref: 35562] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[As You Like It.] Pantaloon. The sixth stage shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.
Drawn by Tho.s. Stothard Esq.r. R.A. Engraved by W.m. Bromley.
Published Jan.y. 24. 1799 by W. Bromley Jessamine House Hammersmith.
Stipple with very small margins, rare; Plate: 215 x 300mm (8½ x 12"). Creasing in top edge.
Illustration of the sixth stage from Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man' from 'As You Like It'. An old man sits crouched over his book, his spectacles on his nose.
[Ref: 35566] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[As You Like It.] The Justice. In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.
Drawn by Tho.s. Stothard Esq.r. R.A. Engraved by W.m. Bromley.
Publish'd Jan.y. 24. 1799 by W. Bromley, Jessamine House Hammersmith.
Stipple, rare. Plate: 215 x 300mm (8½ x 12"). Trimmed to plate on lower edge. Some staining. Creasing in top edge.
Illustration of the fifth stage of Shakespeare's 'Seven Stages of Man' from 'As You Like It.' A man with a rounded belly sits on a chair smoking a long pipe while a man at a desk takes notes.
[Ref: 35569] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[As You Like It.] Shakespear's Seven Ages of Man.
Published by J.T.Wood, 9 Curriers Hall Court. London Wall. Entd. Stationers Hall. [n.d., c.1850.]
Wood engraving on card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Scenes illustratrating Shakespeare's famous monologue from 'As You Like It', starting "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players". It also contains the word "Shakespeare" made up of a list of his plays and poems. It is interesting that the publisher managed to spell Shakespeare's name two different ways.
[Ref: 15210] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Shakspeare. As You Like It Act II, Scene VII, The Seven Ages. Seventh Age.
Painted by R. Smirke R.A. Engraved by I.P. Simon.
Pub. June 4. 1801, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall; & at No. 90, Cheapside, London.
Stipple, final state, 455 x 545mm. 18 x 21½". Trace of crease through image.
An old man dozes in a chair by the hearth on the right, a woman sitting on the left, resting her head against the back of her chair and watching a little boy, who sits on the floor in front of her, dismayed as his house of cards collapses. Paintings on the walls behind: a view of ruins, the Last Day, a jester enthroned and blowing bubbles, sages either side and cherubs playing with the bubbles. Two lines of quotations either side of title. After Robert Smirke (1752 - 1845) for a series of scenes from Shakespeare plays after paintings in Boydell's 'Shakespeare Gallery', which opened in 1789 in Pall Mall.
[Ref: 12358] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[As You Like It] Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man Illustrated.
Drawn by Tho.s Stothard Esq. R.A. Engraved by Will.m Bromley.
Publish'd Jan.y 24 1799 by W. Bromley, Jessamine House, Hammersmith.
Folio (455 x 305mm, 18 x 12"), original boards; stipple engraved title, engraved text sheet & 7 stipple plates, all printed in sepia; complete with very large margins. Binding distressed, plates with spotting and damp stain.
The complete set of plates illustrating Jaques's monologue in William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', reproduced on the engraved text sheet. The title features two cherubs, one young, the other with a crutch, and an ouroboros (a snake eating its own tail). The plates are: 'Infant', 'School Boy', 'Lover', 'Soldier', 'Justice', 'Pantaloon' and 'Childishness'.
[Ref: 56479] £680.00 view all images for this item

The Island of Ascension, from the Roads.
Drawn by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Drawn on Stone by G. Barnard. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate S.t Linc. Inn F.ds.
London, Published by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Feb.y 1835.
Rare lithograph with hand colour. 125 x 690mm (5 x 27¼"). Creases, stains, laid on thick paper.
Panorama. One of ten plates in Allen's 'Picturesque Views in the Island of Ascension'. He spent eight weeks with the garrison put on Ascension after Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, describing the island as a 'cinder'.
[Ref: 52868] £360.00

Asch-Karmans Kermis-Wensch. Opgedragen aan Heeren Kooplieden, Burgers en verdere Ingezetenen Der Stad Amsterdam. 7 September 1846.
Ued. Dienaar, Hendrik Klaasen, Asch-Karman in Wijk 14.
Wood Engraving, 325 x 180mm. 12¾ x 7". Trimmed to image top and bottom; slight staining in text; creases.
A Dutch songsheet on the annual Amsterdam carnival, dedicated to the inhabitants of the city.
[Ref: 11125] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Asclepius] Esculape, Dieu de la Médecine. Taken from the Ancient Statue deposited in the Museum at Paris and brought rfom Albania by the Emperor Napoleon.
Vauthier del. Mecou sculp.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare stipple. Sheet 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Trimmed witihn plate, laid on album paper. Slight scuffing bottom right.
A bust of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. A state of this French print with an English title added.
[Ref: 67944] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Tower Hill Esculapius.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at N.o.60 in S.t. Paules Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act direct, 25 Sep.r. 1782.
Handcoloured etching. Printed area: 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Frame: 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame. Staining.
A scene by the Tower of London in which a quack stands upon a dias selling his potions to a crowd. A pickpocket rifles through the pockets of a man who is being poked in the eye by a fishing rod.
[Ref: 40336] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Plan and Survey of Ascot Race Course, in the County of Berks; including the Rises and Fall; with Notes Referring to an Appendix; by W.m Kemp. To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty This Plate being No.4. of a Series of Surveys, of the Principal Race Courses in England Is respectfully dedicated by His most obedient Subject & Servant, W.m Kemp [facsimile signature.]
Davies sculp. 34 Compton St. Brunsw.k Sq.e.
London, Published by Sherwood, Jones & Co. Paternoster Row, July, 1824.
Engraved map with hand colour, 210 x 255mm (8¼ x 10"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1823'. Folded as issued. Some light foxing.
A plan of Ascot Race Course with profiles of the elevations of each route.
[Ref: 63728] £120.00

L Amirante General Don Diego Assensio de Vicuña.
Chez N. Bonnart, rue S.t Iacques. à l'aigle avec privil. [n.d. c.1790.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 305 x 202mm. 12 x 8".
Diego Asensio de Vicuña was an admiral during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). On March 9, 1704 two galleons under his command, Santa Teresa and Port Coeli, encountered five English ships led by Sir George Rooke; after a seven hour battle in close action, Admiral Vicuña surrendered. His ships were towed to Lisbon, with his flagship, Santa Teresa, so damaged that she sank at the entrance of Lisbon.
[Ref: 24108] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[North East View of Sir Charles Asgill's Villa.]
[Thomas Malton.]
[1791.]
Aquatint, scarce. Sheet 330 x 430mm (13 x 17"). Trimmed, creased.
Asgill House (formerly Richmond Place), a Grade I-listed Palladian villa built 1757-8 by Sir Robert Taylor for Sir Charles Asgill, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1761-2. Although it was restored to its original appearance in 1970, which involved removing the Victorian extensions, nothing could be done to remove Richmond Railway Bridge which crosses the Thames nearby.
[Ref: 43622] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

General Sir Charles Asgill Bar.t G.C.G.O. &c. &c. &c.
Painted by T. Philips Esq.r. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published April 20th 1822, by C. Turner No 55. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Rare mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 13¾"), with very large margins. Paper slightly toned.
Half-length portrait of Charles Asgill (1762-1823) in his dress uniform. Asgill found fame when, having being taken prisoner at the surrender at Yorktown, he was sentenced to death by George Washington in retaliation for the death of an American captain at Loyalist hands. Asgill's mother appealed to Louis XVI, who sent an ambassador who successfully requested a reprieve. Asgill later wrote a letter to an American newspaper detailing the treatment he received in captivity, including beatings by drunken revellers who had paid money to enter his cell.
Whitman 20.
[Ref: 66486] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

General Sir Charles Asgill Bar.t G.C.G.O. &c. &c. &c.
Painted by T. Philips Esq.r. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published April 20th 1822, by C. Turner No 55. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 13¾"), with very large margins. Paper toned, edges brittle.
Half-length portrait of Charles Asgill (1762-1823) in his dress uniform. Asgill found fame when, having being taken prisoner at the surrender at Yorktown, he was sentenced to death by George Washington in retaliation for the death of an American captain at Loyalist hands. Asgill's mother appealed to Louis XVI, who sent an ambassador who successfully requested a reprieve. Asgill later wrote a letter to an American newspaper detailing the treatment he received in captivity, including beatings by drunken revellers who had paid money to enter his cell.
Whitman 20.
[Ref: 50091] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

General Sir Charles Asgill Bar.t G.C.G.O. &c. &c. &c.
Painted by T. Philips Esq.r. Engraved by C. Turner.
London Published April 20th 1822, by C. Turner No 55. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 13¾") Tear entering plate taped in left margin. Small margins.
Half-length portrait of Charles Asgill (1762-1823) in his dress uniform. Asgill found fame when, having being taken prisoner at the surrender at Yorktown, he was sentenced to death by George Washington in retaliation for the death of an American captain at Loyalist hands. Asgill's mother appealed to Louis XVI, who sent an ambassador who successfully requested a reprieve. Asgill later wrote a letter to an American newspaper detailing the treatment he received in captivity, including beatings by drunken revellers who had paid money to enter his cell.
Whitman 20. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66485] £360.00

Ash Grove in Kent, The Seat of Miss Otways.
Drawn by J.G. Wood Engraved by W.m Green
[n.d., c.1810.]
A very rare coloured aquatint, 400 x 450mm.
Charming countryside scene with cattle on right and house on left
[Ref: 18327] £330.00

John Ash, M.D.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A.", "Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R.A./Historical Engraver to his Majesty"
London Published March 1st. 1791 by E. Walker & Co. No. 7 Cornhill, and J.F. Tomkins, No. 49 New Bond Street.
Very rare stipple with etching in sepia, 640 x 400mm. 25¼ x 15¾". Crease to title area, damage to margin upper right. A fine impression.
Impressive and rare portrait of Dr John Ash FRS (1723 - 1798), physician at Birmingham, wearing robes and holding plans in his right hand; a statue of benevolence to right behind. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.2, IV. Wellcome: 112-1.
[Ref: 12897] £360.00

Der Ashanté in der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wein. L'Ashanté dans l'Académie des beaux arts à Vienne.
Höchle del. F. Wolf lith.
Herausgeber Wolf u. Weissenbach [n.d., c.1840.]
Fine and rare lithograph. Sheet 310 x 390mm (12¼ x 15½"). Some foxing.
A very atmospheric image showing an Ashanti tribesman drawing a bow and a Caucasian flexes his muscles before an audience of artists. From the 'Journal pitoresque'.
[Ref: 59471] £580.00

Lord Ashburton, President of the Royal Geographical Society, requests the honor of Mr Winkworth's [ink] Company on the Evenings of Wednesday May 15th. and June 19th. at Bath House, Piccadilly, at ½ past 9 o'Clock.
[n.d. c.1861.]
Ticket. 95 x 140mm. 3¾ x 5½".
A ticket requesting the company of Mr Winkworth to the parties of 1861 hosted by the President of the Royal Geographical Society, William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton.
[Ref: 25551] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Rob.t Ashby [ms]
Painted by T. Phillips Esq.r R.A. / Engraved by George Clint
London, Published by G. Clint 31 Foley Street, May 1st 1812
Mezzotint, very scarce, platemark 370 x 250mm (14½ x 9¾). False margins added.
Robert Ashby (-1843), engraver. Ashby and his sons inherited the business of his father, Harry Ashby (bap.1744-d.1818), which specialised in engraving maps and banknotes. The firm continued as Ashby & Co until 1886, but Robert Ashby died in obscurity in 1843. Here Ashby holds a specimen of his work inscribed 'Mr R. Ashby London'.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Not in CS
[Ref: 34937] £360.00

The Return from a Course on Lambourn Downs near Ashdown Park, a Hunting Seat of the Right Honourable Fulwar Lord Craven.
J. Seymour Pinx.t. Walker Sculp.t.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1750.]
Very scarce engraving. Framed. Printed area: 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12¼"). Frame size: 455 x 570mm (17¾ x 22½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A scene depicting Lord Fulwar Craven, on horse back, in profile to the right, dressed in hunting costume with a view of Ashdown House in the background. The house was built by William Earl Craven (supposedly for Elizabeth of Bohemia, sister of Charles I, but she died before construction was started). It was gifted by the family to the National Trust in 1956 and is now tenanted by Pete Townsend of 'The Who', who has undertaken a substantial renovation. Another attendant to the hunt is also on a horse, behind to the left. A huntsman with a dead hare is standing before him, with two greyhounds and a smaller horse. Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven, was an English nobleman and sportsman who was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was famously fond of racing and hunting, hunting on his Berkshire estates at Hamstead Marshall and Ashdown Park, keeping his own stud of racehorses and founding a racecourse at Lambourn. He and his brother William founded the Craven Hunt.
Not in Siltzer
[Ref: 38013] £650.00

The Beach at Asculon looking South.
R.C.A. del.t Patent_J.H. Le Keux.
[London, John Weale, 59, High Holborn, 1843.]
Lithograph and etching, rare. 131 x 205mm (5¼ x 8"). Image rubbed.
A view of Ashkelon, the coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coastline; it dates back to the Neolithic Age. From "Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers". 1843.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 30366] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Cropley, Earl of Shaftesbury &c. &c. &c.
Painted by Tho.s Lawrence Esq.r R.A., Principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty. Engraved by C. Turner.
London. Published Sept.r 20, 1812 by C. Turner, No 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Fine mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with very large margins.
Cropley Ashley-Cooper (1768-1851), 6th Earl of Shaftesbury. Being a younger son, he is one of only two earls of Shaftesbury (of twelve) whose first name was not Anthony.
Whitman 517.
[Ref: 51618] £360.00

Ashmole.
from the Original by Faithorne painted in crayons ad Vivum 1673 [captioned in ink below portrait].
[n.d., c. 1820s.]
Pen & ink with watercolour, framed by ink-ruled border, image 95 x 85mm, sheet 206 x 165mm. Some rubbing and staining.
Elias Ashmole (1617-92), antiquary and astrologer. Possibly by George Perfect Harding (1781 - 1853), portrait painter, copyist and antiquary.
[Ref: 7485] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Ashton D.D. late Master of Jesus Coll. Camb. and Prebendary of Ely.
R. Pyle Pinx.t. [J.s McArdell fecit.]
Sold by J. Ryall & R. Withy at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1760].
Mezzotint, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins. On 18th century watermarked paper. Small rust spot, hole lower middle.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Charles Ashton (1665-1752), Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital (1698), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1701) and Vice-Chancellor of the University (1702). McArdell's signature has been erased.
CS 4, unlisted state between i & ii of ii; Russell ii of iii, not mentioning the removal of engraver's signature; Goodwin 143. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68220] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Master Ashton.]
Jos.h Wright Pinx.t. W.m Pether Fecit 1770.
Publish'd as the Act directs Nov.r 26, 1770, by W.m Pether in G.t Russell S.t Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint, fine scratch-letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), large margins, 18th century watermark.
John Ashton, son of Nicholas Ashton, a former High Sheriff of Lancashire; seated in a landscape, dressed in the girlish style of the period, hugging his spaniel. William Pether also engraved some of Joseph Wright of Derby's most famous works, including 'A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery', 'The Farrier's Shop' and 'An Alchymist'.
CS: 1, state i of ii.
[Ref: 53219] £650.00

Thomas Ashton [facsimile signature.]
Painted by W. Bradley. Engraved by J. Thomson.
Published by Thomas Agnew, Printseller to the Queen, Repository of Arts Manchester, March 17, 1847.
A very rare mezzotint. Plate 457 x 355mm. 18 x 14". Fine.
Thomas Ashton (1775-1845) was the owner of a large textile company in the north of England.
[Ref: 17138] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Ashton D.D.
T. Gainsborough Pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Fine mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), with very large margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Thomas Ashton (1716-75), rector of St Botolph's Bishopsgate. McArdell also engraved a portrait of Ashton after Reynolds.
CS 5. Goodwin 180. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68344] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Ashton.] Insto Proepositis oblitus proeteritorum.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
[n.d., 1770.]
Mezzotint. Sheet: 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed.
A portrait of Thomas Ashton (1716-75), rector of St Botolph's Bishopsgate. Published as the frontispiece to his "Sermons on several occasions". 1770.
CS 2.
[Ref: 44422] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Ashton D.D.
T. Gainsborough Pinx.t. J.s M.cArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Plate worn, narrow margins, scrape over engraver's name.
A half-length portrait in oval of Thomas Ashton (1716-75), rector of St Botolph's Bishopsgate. McArdell also engraved a portrait of Ashton after Reynolds.
CS 5. Goodwin 180. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ashwood Dale][in pencil]
Rare lithograph, sheet 345 x 445mm (13½ x 14½"). Trimmed and glued to backing card, as issued.
A view of Ashwood Dale in the Wye Valley in the White Peak of Derbyshire. A man fishes in the river while pedestrians wander up the road and a horse and carriage gallop past.
[Ref: 56568] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Ornament print] L'Asie.
J. Dumont le Rom D. M.V. Blondel. S. 1736. [signed in plate.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1736.]
Etching. Sheet 155 x 300mm (6 x 11¾"). Lacking margins, creasing.
An allegory of the continent of Asia, featuring a female figure wafting burning incense, a camel, and oriental architecture in the background. The design framed in a rococo cartouche. Presumably from a set of designs, after Jacques Dumont (called 'le Romain') (1701 - 1781).
[Ref: 27806] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

L'Asie.
N. Arnoult fecit.
A Paris chez N. Arnoult rue de la Fromagerie à lImage S. Claude aux Halles. Avec Privil. du Roy. [n.d., c.1685.]
Etching, sheet 300 x 230mm. 11¾ x 9". Foxing. Small tear into lower left corner of plate.
An allegorical representation of the continent of Asia. Two women and a man in the foreground, animals including camel and elephant in the background. Engraved and published in Paris by Nicolas Arnoult (1681 - 1689; fl.) for a set of four continents.
[Ref: 11098] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Carte d'Asie 1833.
[Paris c.1833.]
Engraved map. 200 x 240mm, 8 x 9½".
French map of Asia.
[Ref: 13241] £95.00

An Emblem of Asia.
Anon.
London, Published 1st jan.y 1802, by Haines & Son, 19, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Mezzotint. 230 x 175mm (9 x 7").
An allegorical print representing Asia as a woman with an incense burner.
[Ref: 193] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece de l'Asie.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Coloured etching. 155 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), very large margins.
A woman in a turban with ostrich feathers seated by an incense burner.
[Ref: 61472] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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