Grosvenor Prints

A Hibernian Antique, Turn'd modern Macaroni.
Pubd. by MDarly (39) Strand Feby 5 1773.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5". Creasing to upper right-hand corner.
An Irishman stands with his (unusual, perhaps extendable?) walking stick in profile to the right. He appears to have a scar or blemish on his cheek. He wears a bulky coat with a wide collar, and a large neck cloth. Except for his small looped hat there is nothing of the macaroni about his dress. From 'Characters, Macaronies & Caricatures, by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered (faintly) 'V.6' upper left and '5' upper right.
BM Satires: 5152.
[Ref: 14348] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Hibiscus. [in pencil.]
[JB 26?][Signed with chinese character.]
[n.d., c.1805.]
Watercolour. J. Whatman 1805 watermark. Sheet: 370 x 470mm (14½ x 18½"). Some staining around edges.
A painting of a hibiscus flower, probably a chinese export painting made by Chinese artists and exported to Europe, these paintings typically depicted natural history subjects and chinese life.
[Ref: 44813] £650.00

[Benjamin Hick.]
Painted by George Patten, A.R.A. Engraved by Henry Cousins.
Published by J.C. Grundy, Printseller to Her Majesty, 4, Exchange Street, Manchester [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint on chine collé. 460 x 375mm (18 x 14¾"). Some toning and staining, tear in margin taped.
A seated portrait of civil and mechanical engineer Benjamin Hick (1790-1842), maker of steam engines. Among the locomotives were: 'Union' (1830) for the Bolton and Leigh Railway), 'Pioneer' for the Petersburg Railroad in Virginia, and 'Pontchartrain' (1832) for the Pontchartrain Railroad, New Orleans.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67802] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Georgius Hickes S.T.P.
R. White ad viv: delin: et sculp: 1703.
Engraving. 290 x 180mm (11½ x 7"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, laid on album paper at edges.
A portrait of non-juror George Hickes (1642-1715). Having been Dean of Worcester and chaplain to Charles II, he refused to swear allegiance to William & Mary, he lost his deanery.
Sharp 423, ii of ii.
[Ref: 69010] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Engravings of Charles and George Hunt 1820-1880 Racing, Coaching, Hunting, Landscapes & Caricatures.
John Hickman.
Unicorn Press, 2017.

A comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the works of Charles and George Hunt with over 500 colour illustrations.
[Ref: 44464] £60.00

Tom Hickman.
Drawn by G. Sharples. Eng.d by Percy Roberts.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Stipple and etching with large margins. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
Tom Hickman (1785-1822), boxer. In 1821 he was said to have engaged in a fight with Bill Neate. Hickman was a controversial fighter, dubbed 'the gas-light man', because he had been to London to construct the boilers and restorts of the new gas light factories. Plate to Pierce Egan's 'Boxiana'.
For Egan's 'Boxiana' see ref. 23818.
[Ref: 29568] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Gulielmus Hicks Gen. Aetatis Suae 38. Ao. Dom: 1658.
D. Loggan, del: et sculp.
[London, 1661.]
Scarce. Engraving, sheet 230 x 155mm. 9 x 6". Trimmed to plate and laid to album page.
Rare portrait of William Hicks (1621 - 1660), puritan. He was appointed a captain in the trained bands in his native Cornwall during the Civil War, and was noted for his zeal against the royalists. Frontispiece to his 'The Revelation Revealed, being a practical exposition of the Revelation of St. John. Whereunto is annexed a small Essay, entitled Quinto-Monarchiæ, or A Friendly Complyance between Christ's Monarchy and the magistrates'.
[Ref: 13116] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Hide and Seek.
Painted and engraved by James Stewart.
London. Published Jan.y, 1. 1834 by Moon, Boys & Graves, Printsellers to His Majesty. No. 9 Pall Mall.
Engraving. Plate: 320 x 400mm (12½ x 16").
Interior scene. A young girl enters a room and a group of several children rush to hide behind the door and into a curtained bed.
[Ref: 32678] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hide Hall. Pa 81 To the Right Worp.ll S.r Robart Josling of Hide Hall Baronet.
This Draught is humbly Presented by John Drapentier.
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving. 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. Two tiny stains in margin one entering the plate mark. Tear in right margin repaired.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. William the Conqueror granted the estate to Geoffrey de Mandeville. It is named after the Hides who succeeded the Mandeville's. After the death of Sir Thomas Hide it passed onto Thomas Joceline by marriage (Jocelyn) and then stayed within the Joceyln family. Sir Robert Jocelyn, 1st Baronet (1623-1712) owned the estate when this print was made and published.
[Ref: 56221] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

An Hieroglyphic Epistle from a (sailor) on board a (ship) (toe) his Sweet(heart).
[Printed 21st October, 1799, by Laurie & Whittle, N° 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing publication line, laid on album paper, glue stains.
A supposed letter partly written in symbols (a Rhymed Rebuser), for example a wind-head for wind, a bee for the letter 'b', and a 't' and a hat for 'that'. Other graphics are more symbolic, for example an anchor for 'hope', a very popular tattoo for sailors. These symbols were used as tattoos by sailors all over the world and as well as convicts transported to Australia.
BM 9505. Simon Barnard's 'Convict Tattoos: Marked Men & Women of Australia.
[Ref: 55073] £320.00

[Plate from Romeyn de Hooghe, 'Hieroglyphica']
[first edition 1735]
Etching, sheet 175 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet with slight stains.
Etching by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), Dutch artist working in various media, best known for his political caricatures of Louis XIV and his prints glorifying William III. Taken from de Hooghe's 'Hieroglyphica', first published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1735. De Hooghe both etched the plates and wrote the text of this iconographical treatise incorporating the iconography of various myths, cultures and religions from around the world. In the book, de Hooghe gives detailed accounts of the various elements in the image identified by letters.
[Ref: 40858] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Hieroglyphica, of, Merkbeelden der oude volkeren : namentlyk Egyptenaren, Chaldeeuwen, Feniciers, Joden, Grieken, Romeynen, enz. [...] Beschreven en Verbeeld door M.r Romeyn de Hoogue [...[ door Arn. Henr. Westerhovius,
Te Amsterdam, by Joris van der Woude. MDCCXXXV [1735].
First edition. 4to, original half calf with speckled boards; pp. (xvi)+455+(20)(index including plates); eng. title, title in black & red with engr. vignette, engr. dedication, portrait of de Hooghe, 63 etched plates. Large paper copy. Binding worn, inner hinges strained, contents clean.
Extraordinary illustrations. ''The Hieroglyphica of the People of Old''. A collection of allegorical plates about the iconography of early cultures, with classical, Christian, Jewish and Mohammedan. The plates were etched by Romeyn de Hoogue (who had died in 1708), described in an extensive text by Arnoldus Herricus Westerhoff, written before Egyptian hieroglyphics were decyphered. The frontispiece portrait of de Hooghe was engraved by Houbraken after Bos.
Landwehr 108.
[Ref: 53763] £1,650.00 view all images for this item

Hierogliphics [sic].
Lith. by E. Weber & Co. Balto.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 140 x 225mm. 5½ x 9". Foxing, tatty and chipped lower extremity.
A traveller inspects some hieroglyphs carved into rocks, probably in central America. Hieroglyphs are characters made by graphical figures, be it animals or objects. An illustration from a book published in the USA, printed in Baltimore, Maryland.
[Ref: 9549] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[John Higgins] The Lancaster Caleb Quotem, i.e. Jack of all Trades. Vide Sr. Francis Burdett's speech.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d July 1812 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside [faint].
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), paper watermarked 1812. Small tear taped, mount burn.
A design in six compartments, arranged in two rows, with imagined occupations for John Higgins, Governor of Lancaster jail: 'A Jailor', 'A Gardiner' (who says he 'exports Natives and imports Exotics from Botany Bay'), 'A Manufacturer', 'A Farmer', 'An Alderman' & 'A Captain'. On 3 July 1812 reforming MP Sir Francis Burdett (1770 -1844) moved for a commission of inquiry into the state of Lancaster jail, having heard that Higgins was corrupt, employing his own family at the gaol and gaining from the employment of his inmates. Wilbraham Bootle answered, saying he had often inspected the gaol and refuted the remours, after which Burdett withdrew his motion. Rare Australian item.
BM Satires 11892.
[Ref: 54549] £420.00 (£504.00 incl.VAT)

W.m Higgins. Servant to J. Blears, of the Jolly Carter, in Windon cum Barton near Eccles, Lancashire who escaped being Assassinated on Monday 22 May, 1826, by jumping out of Bed, running and hiding himself, in the hedge of the Garden. No 1.
From a sketch by T. Arrowsmith.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 245 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Some surface soiling. Dusty.
Two brothers, Alexander and Michael McKean, attempted to rob the Jolly Carter pub, where the Friendly and Orange Societies held meetings and kept a strongbox with their funds. Renting beds, the brothers attacked during the night, and Alexander cut the throat of Elizabeth Bate, a 41-year-old servant, in front of William Bate, aged 13, who managed to escape. The noise woke landlord Joseph Blears and his wife Martha; Michael stabbed Martha in the face, breaking the blade of his knife, before running off. A reward of fifty guineas was offered for the capture of the McKeans and the pair were arrested in Kirkby Lonsdale, brought back to Lancaster Castle, where they were tried, found guilty of murder and hanged. William Higgins was the main witness.
[Ref: 41301] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The High Compliment. Tregears Flights of Humour No.30.
Published by G. Tregear 123 Cheapside London 1833.
Hand coloured lithograph Fine colour; some creasing top right.
An illustrated pun; a short stout parson introduces a friend of equal stature named 'Collosus' to his very tall son. Published in a series of social satires by Gabriel Shire Tregear (1828 - 1840; fl.).
[Ref: 17335] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The High Force. This Cataract is on the River Teese, which divides th Counties of York and Durham; it falls down a Rock of Granate, about 23 Yards into a Large Circular Bason; The South side belongs to L.d. Carlisle, and Geo. Bowes Esq.r., the North to L.d. Barnard, to whom this View is Inscribed by their most Obed.t. Serv.t. Tho. Smith.
Tho: Smith Pinx. J. Mason Sculp.
Publish'd Dec.r. 1751.
Engraving, early issue. 540 x 390mm (21¼ x 15¼"), with large margins. Slight crease in centre.
A view of the High Force, the famous waterfall in the North Pennines, with a man fishing in the basin, painted by Thomas Smith of Derby.
[Ref: 45384] £480.00

High Harrogate.
Rock & C.o London N.o 2086 March 21st 1853.
Engraving, sheet 100 x 135mm (4 x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in High Harrogate North Yorkshire. People travel to and fro on horseback or in a carriage. A cariole drawn by a goat can be seen in the foreground. Further behind cricketers are playing a match.
[Ref: 56002] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[High Life.]
Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Engraved by C.C. Hollyer.
London Published Oct, 17th 1873 by Henry Graves & Co. Proprietors Publishers to H.M. the Queen, and to H.R.H the Prince & Princess of Wales, 6 Pall Mall Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1873 by WilliamSchaus in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Printsellers Association Blind stamp.
Mezzotint, Limited edition 205 proofs. 590 x 490mm.
The Deerhound image from Landseer's diptych “High Life / Low Life”.
Printsellers:169. Letters but no engraved title.Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3678] £420.00

High Life at Noon. With Touch indelicate his Grace / Approaches that angelic Place...
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Creased, tear in margin taped.
A duke and duchess take tea with a clergyman, although both are distracted. The duke fondles a servant girl as a black page slips the duchess a letter from her lover. A valet keeps a tradesman with a bill away. A monkey sits on the floor reading 'A Dissertation on Winding up the Clock by Tristram Shandy'. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
Not in British Museum.
[Ref: 57776] £360.00

High Life in the Evening. or Quality Dinner Hour. / The Great, in one eternal Round, / Of Folly and Excess are found...
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament July 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Tear in margin taped.
The great and the good gathering for dinner at 5.30. Among those represented are Prime Minister the Duke of Grafton and his mistress Nancy Parsons, and the Earl of Bute intimately touching the arm of Augusta, Princess of Wales. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
BM. 4334.
[Ref: 57774] £360.00

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The High Mettled Racer. The Foal./ In Training./ The Racer./ The Hunter./ The Post Horse./ The Death.
H. Alken Del. H. Alken & T. Sutherland Sculpt.
London, Published March 1. 1821, by S&J Fuller at their Sporting Gallery, 34, Rathbone Place.
Set of six coloured aquatints, each 355 x 430mm (13¾ x 17"), on Whatman paper watermarked 1820. Plate II slightly stained.
A fine first state set of this famous sporting series, depicting the life story of a race horse.
Siltzer: pg.59.
[Ref: 8800] £1,950.00 view all images for this item

The High Mettled Racer. The Foal./ In Training./ The Racer./ The Hunter./ The Post Horse./ The Death.
H. Alken Del. H. Alken & T. Sutherland Sculpt.
London, Published March 1. 1821, by S. & J. Fuller at their Sporting Gallery, 34, Rathbone Place.
Set of six coloured aquatints, each 355 x 430mm. 13¾ x 17".
A fine set of this famous sporting series, depicting the life story of a race horse, on Whatman paper watermarked 1864. Matching colour.
Siltzer: pg.59.
[Ref: 8526] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

[Set of 4] The High Mettled Racer.
Painted by D. Wolstenholme. Engraved by D. Wolstenholme Junr.
London Pub, June 4, 1817 by D. Wolstenholme, 279 Strand.
Four coloured aquatints. 345 x 240mm.
Four plates with title centre and Verses 1-4 left and right of title. Plate I. slight discolouration in paper visible from reverse. Plate II. As per 'I'. Plate III. As previouis, with repaired tear through left margin in to plate top left, Watermark 1825. Plate IV. As with plate 'I' & 'II'.
[Ref: 6687] £1,850.00 view all images for this item

High Noon at Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Philip Kappel. (1901-1981).
Etching, 1928, signed in pencil, 7 x 9". Mint condition.
[Ref: 3524] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The High Street High Wycombe, (Looking West.) [&] High Wycombe from Keep Hill. India Proof.
Painted by E.J. Niemann. Engraved by F. Faithorn.
Published by E. King High Wycombe July 1847.
Two coloured steel engravings, proofs on chine collé. Each 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Narrow margins, pencil ingrained in inscription area.
A very scarce pair of High Wycombe views after Edmund John Niemann (1813-76). The original oil of the High Street is in Wycombe Museum.
[Ref: 60396] £360.00 view all images for this item

This North View of Highbury & Cannonbury Places Is most respectfully Inscribed to the Ladies & Gentlemen Inhabitants by their most obedient Servant R. Dodd. [&] A West View of Highbury Place Most respectfully Inscribed to the Ladies & Gentlemen Subscribers, to this Plate & Its Companion, by their obed.t. Servt.
R. Dodd pinxt. Engrav'd by R. Pollard & F.Jukes. [&] Painted by R. Dodd.
London Pub.d Jan.y 31 1787 by R. Pollard, Spa Fields & F. Jukes, Howland Street.
Pair of aquatints. 430 x 550mm (17 x 21½"). Some restoration.
The new terrace of townhouses built around Highbury Fields. John Dawes had bought the land and he began the residential development of Highbury by leasing out the land for 39 houses on Highbury Place between 1774-9. Designed and built by John Spiller, a speculative builder of Southwark, Highbury Place was completed in 1777. The North View of Highbury has a row of town houses centre right and distant left is a panoramic view of Islington, St. Pauls and the City of London although it is enlivened by a group of haymakers. The foreground of the West View includes a small herd of cattle with Highbury Fields and the terrace of houses making up Highbury Place.
Guildhall: p5378602 [&] p5378619.
[Ref: 20044] £1,400.00 view all images for this item

Highbury College 1826 [ink mss.] The Foundation Stone was laid bt Tho.s Wilson Esq.r June 28, 1825. The Building was Completed September 1826. John Davies Esq.r Architect.
Drawn, Eng.d & Pub.d by J. & H.G. Storer, Pentonville.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 210 x 325mm (8¼ x 12¾"). Trimmed to image, losing title and vignette, laid on album paper.
The dissenting academy Highbury College, founded in Mile End in 1783, before moving to Hoxton in 1791 and then to Highbury in 1826, when this view was published. It was eventually amalgamated into New College London. Published by James Sargant Storer (1771–1853) and his son Henry Sargant Storer (1795–1837).
[Ref: 37889] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Highest Post. See Britains Steward Turn'd Away And Stuart Scot now bearing Sway.
[n.d. c.1762.]
Etching. 128 x 171mm. 5 x 6¾". Paper toning and foxing. Small nicks to the edges. Vertical fold.
Pocket-sized satire. The Highest Post; the dismissal of the Duke of Newcastle, as the Scot Nobleman, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) walks in as the new Prime Minister. Taken frm a larger print by Darly. See ref: 17559 "The Triple Post."
See BM Satires: 3949.
[Ref: 17550] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Southampton's Lodge, at Highgate, Middlesex.
Published 12th Sept.r 1792, by Rob.t Sayer & Co. Fleet Street, London.
Engraving. 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½") large margins.
The seat of the Hon. Colonel Charles Fitzroy (1737-97), 1st Baron Southampton. The estate, also known as Fitzroy Farm and Fitzroy Lodge, is rumoured to have been landscaped by Capability Brown as a ferme ornée. The Morning Chronicle of 21st September 1781 stated: 'The lands about the farm lie with the most waving surfaces, and in the prettiest shapes imaginable: they are laid out by Brown, who has also built the little lodge which adds much to the decoration of the scene'.
[Ref: 39778] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Highgate School [pencil]
W.H. Wallace Hester [pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1912.]
Etching, blind stamped 'Remarque Proof'. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Very large margins.
View of the Science Block of Highgate School from Bishopswood Road. Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School) is an independent school in Highgate, London. The school was established in 1565 by a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I giving permission for Sir Roger Cholmeley to erect a free grammar school for boys. By Wallace Hester, etcher and illustrator responsible for 12 cartoons for Vanity Fair, 1910, 1911, 1913.
[Ref: 38921] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Highgate School [pencil].
Wallace Hester [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1912.]
Etching with 'Artist's Proof' blindstamp number 17 in ink. 260 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Narrow margins, paper toned.
The Chapel of Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School), established by Royal charter in 1565.
[Ref: 55300] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Highgate School [pencil, lower right.]
W.H. Wallace Hester [pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1912.]
Etching, 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½").
View of the Science Block of Highgate School from Bishopswood Road. Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School) is an independent school in Highgate, London. The school was established in 1565 by a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I giving permission for Sir Roger Cholmeley to erect a free grammar school for boys. By Wallace Hester, etcher and illustrator responsible for 12 cartoons for Vanity Fair, 1910, 1911, 1913.
Collection of Maj. J. B. Talbot, M.C.
[Ref: 13404] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Guards, of the Highland Broadsword as taught at Mr..H. Angelo's Academy, on the Ancient Scottish Principles. Introduced by M.r Taylor, Broadsword Master to the L.t Horse Volunteers of London & Westminster.
Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Jan.y 20.th 1799, and Sold at the Academies in Bolton Street Piccadilly & at N.o 88, Gracechurch Street.
Hand coloured etching with aquatint,; 310 x 390mm (12¼ x 15¼"), with very large margins. On paper watermarked 'Russell & Co. 1798'.
Infantry guardsmen demonstrate ten swordplay techniques: Lessons 1–8, shown on either side, each feature a lone Highland guard illustrating positions such as Outside Guard, Inside Guard, St George's Guard, Hanging Guard, Outside Half Hanger, Inside Half Hanger, Medium Guard, and Half Circle. Lessons 9 and 10, depicted at the top, show two figures in combat—one illustrating "The consequence of not shifting the leg," where a hussar is injured, and the other "The advantage of shifting the leg."
Grego 1880 pp.374-375.
[Ref: 66749] £360.00

[Hungarian and Highland Broadsword.] Outside Guard. St.George's Guard. Inside Guard. [&] Outside Half Hanger. Hanging Guard. Inside Half Hanger. [&] Half Circle Guard. Medium Guard. [&] The Consequence of not shifting the Leg. [&] The Advantage of shifting the Leg. [with] The Guards and Lessons of the Highland Broadsword.
[Guards] Designd & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson.
Publish'd Sept.r 1 1798 by H. Angelo No.11 Curzon Street, May-Fair. [Guards] Publish'd as the Act directs, Jan.y 20.th 1799, by Mr. Angelo, No.10, Boulton Row, Berkeley Square.
Scarce 6 etchings with aquatint. Each c. 280 x 335mm (11 x 13¼") plates with very large margins. 'Guards' trimmed inside plate at top.
A separate issue of the '10 Lessons' designed to be displayed as a training poster for the Guards, all drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson from Henry Angelo's 'Hungarian and Highland Broadsword'. The five plates and frontispiece show the '10 lessons', the positions and techniques of the broadsword and sabre when used on foot, as illustrated in the 'Guards & Lessons'. In his memoirs, Angelo claimed to have practised using the broadsword at Newgate prison in 1798 with a Scottish friend and expert swordsman James Perry, the owner of the 'Morning Chronicle', who was then in prison for libelling the House of Lords. Angelo adapted and developed sword techniques into a series of military drills and exercises, which became the standard training for the British army infantry, cavalry and Royal Navy.
Grego pp.374-5. Ogilvy 2382 for 'Guards'. Ogilvy 776 Plates 19, 20, 21, 22, & 23.
[Ref: 38737] £950.00 view all images for this item

The Highland Laddie / A Painted Room and silken Bed~/ May please a Lawland Laird and Lady; /But I can Kiss and be as glad~/Behind a Bush in's Highland Pladdie. [From a favourtie Song. The Highland Laddie]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver. No.69 in St.Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1790.]
Coloured mezzotint. 248 x 345mm.
No 490 in title. This number means it was part of a series probably issued by Bowles and Carver c.1790.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 393] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Highland Piper.
Frederick Taylor lithotint. C. Hullmandel's Patent.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithotint. Sheet: 365 x 540mm (14½ x 21¼") large margins.
A scene in a Scottish home in which a young boy dances the Highland fling while a man plays the bagpipes and children and dogs look on.
[Ref: 47742] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Highland Shooting Pony.
Richard Ansdell. Edward Hacker.
London. Published May 1st 1855 by Lloyd Brothers & Co., 22 Ludgate Hill. Entered according to the Act of Congress by Williams, Stevens, Williams & Co.in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
A fine mixed method engraving on india. Plate 481 x 375mm. 19 x 14¾". Worm hole in the sky above the horse's neck.
A horse chomping at some grass on a verge where the hunter's catch lies out spread across the ground; peering through underneath the horses neck is a lurcher.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18781] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Scottish Soldiers of the Highlands. An Highland Officer and Serjeant. Engraved for Spencer's New History of England.
Published by Alex.r Hogg. Nov.r 30 1793
Engraving, sheet 230 x 370mm (9 x 14½"). Crease through centre.
Plate from George William Spencer's 'A New, Authentic, and Complete History of England', written with the assistance of Alexander Douglas and Hugh Fitzwilliam.
[Ref: 45256] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Highlander. This is the last and only Remains of the Roman Dress that at present exists in Europe. [&] A Highlander - Un Montagnard d'Ecosse.
Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t Sep.r 12th 1771 by M.Darly at No. 39. Strand. [&] Pub'd according to Act of Parl.t by M.Darly Oct 2.d 1771.
Pair of engravings, each 210 x 160mm (8½ x 6½") Trimmed to plate. Some staining.
A highlander wearing kilt & plaid (ie. tartan cloth slung over the shoulders) from front and rear. At the time of publication the anti-Jacobite 1746 Dress Act banning tartans as common wear was still in force. It was repealled in 1782.
[Ref: 53657] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Highwayman.] The true and lively Portraictore of Captaine James Hind.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 90 x 60mm (3½ x 2¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of James Hind (1616-52), highwayman and Royalist rabble-rouser during the English Civil War.
[Ref: 67628] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Hilbers] Very like a Whale.
Drawn Etch.d. & Pub.d. by Rich.d. Dighton.
1818 Feb.y.
Fine coloured etching. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), large margins. Crease in bottom right.
Full-length portrait in profile of a man wearing spectacles, glove and top hat. The British Museum's example has a pencil identification as 'Mr. Vale'. The National Portrait Gallery identifies him as 'Mr Hilbers'. The watercolour in the Royal collection is described as being of 'The Scent-Oil Merchant': this is probably also Mr Hilbers, with the title here alluding to ambergris.
BM 13016.
[Ref: 63791] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr. Hilbers] Very like a Whale.
London. Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket. 1824. Drawn, Etch.d & Pub.d by Rich.d Dighton. 1818 Feb.
Reissue by Thomas Mclean, London, 1824. First published by Dighton 1818.
Hand-coloured etching. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Small margins.
Full-length portrait in profile of a man wearing spectacles, glove and top hat. The British Museum's example has a pencil identification as 'Mr. Vale'. The National Portrait Gallery identifies him as 'Mr Hilbers'. The watercolour in the Royal collection is described as being of 'The Scent-Oil Merchant': this is probably also Mr Hilbers, with the title here alluding to ambergris.
[Ref: 53860] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr. Hilbers] Very like a Whale.
Drawn Etch.d. & Pub.d. by Rich.d. Dighton. 1818 Feb.y.
London, Pub.d. by Tho.s. M.c.Lean, 26 Haymarket. 1824.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Slight staining of right edge. Two creases across top left-hand corner. Damage to left edge.
Full-length portrait in profile of a man wearing spectacles, glove and top hat. The British Museum's example has a pencil identification as 'Mr. Vale'. The National Portrait Gallery identifies him as 'Mr Hilbers'. The watercolour in the Royal collection is described as being of 'The Scent-Oil Merchant': this is probably also Mr Hilbers, with the title here alluding to ambergris.
BM 13016
[Ref: 34400] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Prospekt der Herzoglichen Residenz_Stadt Hildburghausen. Thro Königlichen Hoheit der Frauen Therese Louise und Thro Herzogl. Durchlaucht Charlotte Louise Kronprinzessinn von Bayern etc. etc. regierenden Herzoginn zu Nassau etc. etc. Gebohrne Herzoginnen zu Sachen Hildburghausen Denen erhabenen Gonnerinnen Vaterlandischen Kunste.
Richter gez. Hammer gest.
Im Kunstverlag zu Schlitz u. Dresden. unterthanigst gewidmel von L. von Kleist. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. 580 x 710mm. Laid on board, centrefold repaired.
The ducal palace of Hildburghausen in Thuringia, Germany.
[Ref: 4893] £520.00

Map of High Barn Farm, Hildenborough, Kent. For Sale by Auction by Mess.rs Charles J. Parris, April 1931.
Charles J. Parris, Chartered Surveyors, Tunbridge Wells, and Crowborough.
Colour-printed wood engraving with mss. additions. Wear to binding folds.
A scarce estate plan for a farm in Hildenborough, straddling the B245 (Tonbridge Road & London Road). Landmarks on the map include the Flying Dutchman Inn, Hilden House, Hilden Manor & Hilden Bridge.
[Ref: 21635] £120.00

[Hill Road.]
[H.B. Ker.]
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 120 x 82mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Cut.
View of a hill road with low fence on the left side, tall wall at far left, and trees beyond. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34808] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Clem Hill.
A.Chevallier Tayler. 1905.
Spottiswode & Co. Ltd. Lith. London.
Chromolithograph. 255 x 380mm. Laid on board, minor knicks in outer edges
Clement Hill [1877-1945] along with his near contemporary Victor Trumper, Clem Hill was the mainstay of the Australian batting line-up in the so-called 'golden age' of cricket. Hill was a fixture in the Australian Test team from 1896 to 1912, and was captain in his last two series. ACT:Born in Leytonstone, Essex, in 1862 to a legal family, Albert Chevallier Tayler won a scholarship to the Slade School when he was 17. He prints date from the same period as his commissioned by Kent County Cricket Club to paint what has now become his most famous painting of 'Kent Vs. Lancashire'. In his career he exhibited 49 paintings in total at the Academy, and he was also the Honorary Secretary of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists. Albert Chevallier Tayler died in 1928.
[Ref: 1255] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Hill.]
J. Russell Pinxit. J. Dean Fecit.
Published June the 2d by J. Walker N.º13 Parliament Street 1777.
Rare mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 325 x 405mm (12¾ x 16"). Trimmed just into plate at bottom.
A young Henrietta Maria Hill (d.1831) dressed as a shepherdess, leading a flock out from behind a rock. She married Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury in 1793. A very decorative image.
CS 12. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66956] £480.00

[Sir John Hill] A Polite Artist. on St Lukes day, under the patronage of Dr. Bardana &c. &c
Pub by MDarly 39 Strand Oct. 18 1773.
Etching, 170 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾".
Portrait of Dr Sir John Hill (c.1714 - 1775) standing in profile to the left. Under his arm is a large book inscribed 'Vegetab[le] Syste[m] by D ...' He wears patched old-fashioned clothes and torn stockings, and a short wig which fails to conceal his own hair. His hat is under his right arm, a cane under the left Hill was a quack or charlatan with a diploma of medicine from the University of St. Andrews, but a botanist of some repute. He began the publication of his 'Vegetable System' in 1759, the last of twenty-six folio volumes coming out in 1775. He was said to be ‘in a chariot one month, in jail the next for debt'. One of his remedies was advertised as ‘Elixir of Bardana or Essence of Water Dock'. From 'Characters, Macaronies & Caricatures, by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.6' upper left and '24' upper right.
BM Satires: 5168.
[Ref: 14322] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

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