Grosvenor Prints

The University Amateur Musical Society. At the Music Room, on Thursday, Nov. 17th 1842. To Commence at Half-past Eight precisely.
[1842.]
Letterpress programme. Sheet 225 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼"). Laid on album sheet some spotting.
A playbill for a concert at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, Britain's first concert hall. and believed the oldest purpose-built music room in Europe. The University Amateur Musical Society held its concerts from c.1825 to about 1865, when it probably merged with the Oxford Philharmonic Society.
[Ref: 53985] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Titlepage] Grosser Atlas Uber die Ganze Welt...
Nürnberg, In Berlegung der Homannischen Erbern. Gedrucht bey Jahann Heinrich Gottfried Bieling. MDCCXXXVII [1737].
Titlepage, letterpress printed in red and black, with engraved vignette map. Sheet 540 x 310mm (21¼ x 12¼"). Edges chipped, some spotting.
The title page to a posthumous edition of the atlas of Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), Imperial Geographer to Charles VI. The vignette map shows the northern hemisphere, with California depicted as an island.
[Ref: 67113] £350.00

[Home of the Martins.]
F.P. Barraud [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, with stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild, 205 x 300mm, 8 x 11¾". Slight rippling.
Martins nesting in a chalk quarry, with two men with a horse and cart. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
[Ref: 22320] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

J Home Purves [facsimile signature].
[A. d'Orsay] 5 Mars 1838 - [signed in plate.]
London, Published March 1841 by J. Mitchell, No. 33, Old Bond Street. J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty.
Lithograph with colour added by hand, india paper. 210 x 160mm. (8¼ x 6¼".
Portrait of John Home Purves (c.1816 - 1867), soldier, comptroller of the household to H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge. Nephew of Lady Blessington. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
O'Donoghue p.524. NPG 4026(49).
[Ref: 21869] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Higgledy-Piggledy; or a Domestic Republic. Punch's Pocket book 1862.
John Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1862]
Coloured etching, sheet 125 x 315mm (5 x 12½"). Folded as issued. Title page loose, Tear repaired with tape.
Servants, wife and children revolt against the Master of the house. They carry flags, placards, brooms and other objects forcing the gentleman to back into the fireplace. Illustration for Follies of the Year by John Leech, a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844–1864, published by Bradbury Evans & Co. John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63854] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

John Home Esqr. Author of the Tragedy of Douglas, &c.&c.
H. Raeburn Pinxt. A. Birrell Sculpt.
Pub: according to Act of Parliament, May 9th. 1799, by A: Birrell, No.53, Rosoman Street, Clerkenwell.
Engraving, 435 x 305mm. 17 x 12". A fine impression.
John Home (1722 - 1808), Scottish minister and dramatist. After Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823).
NPG: D35939.
[Ref: 13196] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Homecoming.]
Bernard Carr [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Etching. Plate 217 x 285mm. 8½" x 11¼".
A view of a small sailing boat coming into the dock, where people are awaiting its arrival.
[Ref: 9344] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Homer. Taken from a Gem presented to the British Museum by the Earl of Exeter.
J. Chapman, Sc.
London Published Nov. 11. 1809. by J. Wilkes.
Stipple printed in colours, 175 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
Homer (9th century BC - 8th century BC; fl.c.), epic poet presumed to be the author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. Oval portrait with vignette of his two famous volumes below.
[Ref: 15004] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Homer. Taken from a Gem presented to the British Museum by the Earl of Exeter.
J. Chapman, Sc.
London Published Nov. 11. 1809. by J. Wilkes.
Stipple, 175 x 115mm. 7 x 4½".
Homer (9th century BC - 8th century BC; fl.c.), epic poet presumed to be the author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. Oval portrait with vignette of his two famous volumes below.
[Ref: 15007] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Homerus.
Baron f.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Scarce etching, 18th century watermark. Plate 115 x 95mm (4½ x 3¾"). Sheet 405 x 255mm (16 x 10").
Portrait of Homer (born c. 8th century BC), Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history.
[Ref: 65208] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Homerus So called for his Blindness [...] Ex marmore antiquo. a.
P.P. Rubens Del.t. [engraved by John Faber Sen.r.)
Printed & Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House S.t Pauls Church Yard, and John Bowles & Son in Cornhil [n.d., c.1753].
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Creasing.
A portrait of Greek poet Homer (c.8th century BC), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith. Carington Bowles became partner in his father John's firm c. 1752.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65010] £360.00

[Homer Travestie.] A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In Two Volumes. The Fourth Edition Improved.
[by Thomas Bridges, plates after George Moutard Woodward.]
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1797.
8vo (215 x 140mm, 8½ x 5½"), half calf with contemporary marbled boards; vol 1: pp. (vi)+360; Vol 2: pp. 432; complete with two engr. titles, 24 engraved plates. Spines rebacked, inner hinges taped; spotting throughout. Bookplates of E.F. Bolton on front paste-downs.
The fourth edition of a work written by Thomas Bridges under the pseudonym 'Caustic Barebones', first published 1762. This edition was the first with plates after Woodward, which are said to have been engraved by Francis Grose.
Lowndes, The Bibliographers Manual of English Literature, volume II, p. 1101: ''Best edition, with humorous plates. A work full of humour... which often transgresses the bounds of decency''.
[Ref: 60711] £490.00 view all images for this item

Homerus. De Aereo Capite olim penes illustriss. Comitem Arundellium, nunc in Museo Richardi Mead. M.D.
Wood del. B. Baron sculp.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, 360 x 250mm. 14¼ x 9¾". A fine impression with full margins.
Head of Homer ( 9th century BC - 8th century BC; fl.c.), epic poet; presumed author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. In profile in an oval frame, wearing a circlet; from an antique bas-relief in copper in the collection of Richard Mead and previously in the collection of the Earl of Arundel. Lettered below title with five lines of Latin quotation from Cedrenus's history describing how the head as from an ancient and celebrated statue of Homer said to have been destroyed by fire in Constantinople in the time of Emperor Justinian. After Thomas Wood.
[Ref: 22356] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Head of Homer. From the Collection of Lyde Browne Esqr.
J. B. Cipriani.d. Engrav'd by Js. Basire.
[n.d., c.1775.]
Etching, sheet 240 x 175mm. 9½ x 7". Trimmed within plate; diagonal crease upper right.
Homer (9th century BC - 8th century BC; fl.c.), epic poet presumed to be the author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. Bust profile from a relief plaque.
[Ref: 19925] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Homerus. Apud Fulvium Ursinum in nomismate aereo.
[Antwerp, Plantin, c.1606.]
Copper engraving. 140 x 100mm, 5½ x 4". Tear top right.
A portrait of the poet Homer (active c.850BC), from a gold coin in the collection of antiquities of Fulvius Ursinus (1529–1600), published in his 'Illustrium imagines. Ex antiquis marmoribus, nomismatibus, et gemmis expressae.'
[Ref: 19992] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer.
By Lloyd Goodrich.
Published for The Museum of Graphic Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press. 1968.
Book. 4to (220 x 255mm). pp. 136. 123 b/w images. Cloth binding, gilt title stamped on spine. In original dust cover. Dirty dust cover.
An illustrated narrative of the printed work of American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910).
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36436] £50.00

Part of Homesdale from Madamscourt Hill, Kent.
W.F. Wells del: Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, n.d., c.1810.]
Lithograph, rare, image 165 x 240mm. 6½ x 9½". Stitch holes to upper margin; chipped lower extremities. Pin hole to image.
A prospect of the Kentish countryside from rising ground; three figures to foreground, their backs to the viewer, one on horseback. From a folio of views.
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 24610] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Francois de Malherbe.
Jac. Lubin sculp.
[n.d., c.1700].
Engraving with original eighteenth century gilt border. Trimmed. Dimensions to outer border 320 x 260mm. (12½ x 10¼).
Portrait of French poet, critic and translator Francois de Malherbe (1555 - 1628) in oval frame with coat of arms in lower part. Originally issued in Perrault's 'Les Hommes illustres', a series of biographies written by Perrault with portraits engraved by Edelinck, Jacques Lubin, Louis Simonneau and Van Schuppen.
[Ref: 28343] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Son Altesse Royal Monseigneur le Prince Ferdiand Grand Prieur de l'ordre de St. Jean de Jerusalem Respectueusement Dedié à Son Altesse Royale Madame la Princesse Son Epouse [...]
Peint par Cuningham. Charles Townley Graveur du Roi
Publiée a Berlin 1786. Avec Privilege
Rare mezzotint. 645 x 395mm (25¼ x 15½"), with very large margins. Uncut. Creasing. Top right margin replaced (off platemark).
Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim (1744-1805), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (the Knights of Malta), and the first German to be elected to the office. He held the office from 1797-99. During this period, the French navy invaded Malta en route to Egypt in response to what Napoleon perceived as a provocation by Hompesch, as a result of which Malta's sovereignty was surrendered to the French. In return the French gave Hompesch a pension and helped him to establish a new headquarters for the order in Trieste, Italy. He resigned shortly after, subsequently living in Ljubljana and Montpellier, where he died in penury. Published in Berlin after a portrait by Edward Francis Cunningham (c.1741-1793?), Scottish painter the last part of whose peripatetic career was spent in that city.
Ex: collection of the late Hon C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 36627] £560.00

Henricus Hondius. Engraveur, et tres bon Deseyniateur Natif de Duffel en Brabant l'an 1573 de Nobel Origine il at apris a deseyneier chez Ieronimus Wierix , il excercoit ausi en Orpherie, mais il fut tout iour plus incline a la gravure il at ausi apris la Mathematique, la Geo:metrie, Perspective, Architecture, et Fortification chez le Vieux Iean Vredeman Vrise, et aupres Samuel Marelois homme sans pareil, ou il a tout bien experimentez monstrant per les eures, q'on voit de luy en estampes, maintenant il demeure en la Haye.
Henricus Hondius delineavit. Fredericus Bouttats fecit.
Ioan Meyssens excud. [n.d. c.1622.]
Engraving. 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), with wide margins.
Portrait of Dutch engraver Hendrik Hondius (1573-c.1650), holding tools in left hand, looking at viewer. From Cornelis de Bie's "Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const".
[Ref: 28941] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Combat d'Hondtschoote. (1793 Victoires et Conquetes tom 2. page 19.) Je l'aura ou je perdrai la vie.
F. Grenier. 1818. Lithog. de C. de Last.
au dépot gén.al de Lithog.ie quai voltaire No7.
Lithograph. Printed area: 350 x 300mm (13¾ x 11¾"), with large margins.
A military scene showing the Battle of Hondschoote during the Flanders Campaign in the Napoleonic Wars. A plate from ''The Victories, Conquests, Disasters, Reverses and the Civil War of the French from 1789-1815'' published in 1818.
[Ref: 44808] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Trujillo] A View of Truxillo Bay and City on the Coast of Honduras.
T. Bowen sc.
London, Republished 4th June 1796 by Robert Wilkinson, No 58, Cornhill. c. 1810
Coloured engraving. Printed area 245 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾"). Stuck in mount.
A view of Trujillo, once the capital of Spanish Honduras, but abandoned as being too vulnerable to pirate attacks.
[Ref: 55167] £320.00

A View of Truxillo a City belonging to the Spaniards in the Bay of Honduras. Engraved for Drakes Voyages.
[n.d. c.1768.]
Engraving. Plate 190 x 268mm (7½ x 10½"). Small tear into upper edge of plate.
A view of Trujillo on the northern Caribbean coast of Honduras. From Edward Cavendish Drake's "A new universal collection of authentic...Voyages and Travels from the earliest accounts to the present time".
See Ref: 19209 for a hand-coloured version. RMG: PAD0909.
[Ref: 30438] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Truxillo a City belonging to the Spaniards in the Bay of Honduras.
Engraved for Drakes Voyages. [London, 1768.]
Hand coloured engraving, 185 x 270mm. 7¼ x 8½". Laid down.
Trujillo on the northern Caribbean coast of Honduras, Central America. From Edward Cavendish Drake's 'A new universal collection of authentic... Voyages and Travels from the earliest accounts to the present time'.
BL 000979372.
[Ref: 19209] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Horace Hone] David, a Portrait. - and there came a Lion, and took a Lamb out of the flock: & I went out after him and when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard and smote him & slew him.
Nath.l Hone pinxit James Watson fecit
Printed & Published March 20th 1778 by Ja.s Bretherton No. 134 New Bond Street.
Very scarce mezzotint, platemark 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Very slight creasing and time stained.
Fine mezzotint of the Irish artist Nathaniel Hone's (1718-84) portrait of his son Horace, as the shepherd David, which was first exhibited to acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1771. Horace Hone himself became a notable miniaturist, who found employment at the court of George IV.
[Ref: 40861] £420.00

[John Camillus Hone] The Piping Boy.
Painted by Mr. Hone. Engrav'd by Capt.n Baillie 1771.
Mezzotint. 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9").
Mezzotint after Nathaniel Hone's 1769 portrait of his son John Camillus Hone (now in the National Gallery of Ireland), 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: 60438] £360.00

[John Camillus Hone] The Piping Boy.
Painted by Mr. Hone. Engrav'd by Capt.n Baillie 1771.
Mezzotint. 335 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Laid on album paper at edges. Small margins.
Mezzotint after Nathaniel Hone's 1769 portrait of his son John Camillus Hone (now in the National Gallery of Ireland), 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.
CS 3, only state. Russell iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 60438].
[Ref: 68480] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Laura Honey] [The Sea Nymph.]
[Painted by T. Harper. Eng.d by A.M. Huffman.]
[London, J. & F. Harwood] [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 270 x 205mm, (10½ x 8"), with large margins.
A bathing beauty with a headdress of shells. We have seen another proof example with a pencil identification for Laura Honey (1816?-1843), described by DNB as 'a pleasing and graceful actress and a delightful ballad-singer'. Harper & Huffman worked together on Folker's 'Beauties of Brighton', with women in local settings.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Laura Honey] Mrs Honey (as Psyche).
Lithographed, Printed & Pub.d by G.E. Madeley, 3, Wellington S.t, Strand [n.d., c.1835].
Coloured lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Edges soiled, crease. Bit messy.
Laura Honey (1816-43) as Psyché in the burlesque Cupid, performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, in 1832.
[Ref: 60659] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Laura Honey] The Sea Nymph.
Painted by T. Harper. Eng.d by A.M. Huffman.
London, J. & F. Harwood [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint. 270 x 205mm, (10½ x 8"), with very large margins
A bathing beauty with a headdress of shells. We have seen a proof example with a pencil identification for Laura Honey (1816?-1843), described by DNB as 'a pleasing and graceful actress and a delightful ballad-singer'. Harper & Huffman worked together on Folker's 'Beauties of Brighton', with women in local settings.
[Ref: 54056] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Honey, as Psyche in...[text cut.] Royal Album, No. 21.
Alf.d Carlile, Litho.r London.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph. 269 x 209mm. 10½ x 8¼". Some toning around the edges.
Laura Honey (1816? - 1843), actress and vocalist, with butterfly on head; as Psyche in the burlesque 'Cupid'.
DNB describes her as 'a pleasing and graceful actress and a delightful ballad-singer'.
[Ref: 21524] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Honey, (As Psyche)
Lithographed, Printed, & Published by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St. Strand. [n.d., 1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 360 x 265mm. 14¼ x 10½". Slightly soiled.
Laura Honey (1816? - 1843), actress and vocalist, with butterfly on head and lamp in left hand; as Psyche in the burlesque 'Cupid'. By George Edward Madeley.
Harvard Theatre Collection: pg.249, 21.
[Ref: 13318] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Full of the Honey -Moon.
Painted by F. Wheatley. Engraved by R.Laurie.
Published 1st Sep.r. 1789, by Robert Sayer 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. Platemark: 620 x 450mm (24½ x 17¾"). Glued to baking mount.
Soon after marrying, the bride discovers her groom has been unfaithful by reading a letter while he sleeps. One of a pair of large mezzotints after Francis Wheatley (1747-1801), who produced many paintings subsequently engraved to emphasise the sentimental and moralizing themes also found in the work of his French contemporary J.B. Greuze.
[Ref: 35753] £480.00

The Full of the Honey -Moon. [&] The Wane of the Honey-Moon.
Painted by F. Wheatley. Engraved by R.Laurie.
Published 1st Sep.r 1789, by Robert Sayer 53, Fleet Street, London.
Pair of mezzotints. Each c.605 x 450mm (23¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; repairs.
Soon after marrying, the bride discovers her groom has been unfaithful by reading a letter while he sleeps; she vows to 'punish by retaliation' and takes advantage of an opportunity at a masked ball. Pair of large mezzotints after Francis Wheatley (1747-1801), who produced many paintings subsequently engraved to emphasise the sentimental and moralizing themes also found in the work of his French contemporary J.B. Greuze.
[Ref: 34840] £490.00 view all images for this item

The Full of the Honey -Moon. [&] The Wane of the Honey-Moon.
Painted by F. Wheatley. Engraved by R.Laurie.
Published 1st Sep.r 1789, by Robert Sayer 53, Fleet Street, London.
Pair of mezzotints. Each c.605 x 450mm. Small surface crease on "Wane".
The first plate shows the wife finding out her husband's infidelity by reading his love letter. Intent on her revenge, the second plate shows her attempted assignation at a masquerade only to find she has chosen her own husband.
[Ref: 6574] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

[The Honeymoon.]
E. Blair Leighton [etched in plate and signed in pencil.]
London, Published June 2.nd 1892 by Arthur tooth & Sons 5 & 6 Haymarket S.W. Copyright Registered by the British Art Publishers Union Ltd. New York and Stiefbold & Co, Berlin. Printed in Berlin.
Photogravure, printed in colours on chine collé, proof signed by artist. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 445 x 736
A young couple eating breakfast on a terrace; the table laid; the woman sits holding a music score (?).
PSA: AP 250.
[Ref: 29284] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[7 Views around Honfleur.] Honfleur: Vue de l'Intendance. [&] Ruine d'Ourscamp. No. 2. [&] S.t Jean au Bois. No. 3. [&] Eglise de Criqueboeuf (près Honfleur) No. 5. [&] Honfleur Chapelle de Grace. No 6. [&] Honfleur: Vue des Fossés. No. 7. [&] Honfleur: Vue du Portail St. Léonard.
H. [& J.] Damas. Lith. Hue, Havre.
[on plates 2 & 3] à Honfleur chez l'auteur, rue du d'auphin. [n.d., c.1840.]
Seven lithographs. Printed areas c. 230 x 320mm, 9 x 12½". Wear to edges.
[Ref: 17038] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Hong Kong.
R.E. del et lith. Hullmandel & Watson, Imp
London: Hurst & Blackett Great Marlborough Street [c.1854]
Colour lithograph, printed area 130 x 180mm (5 x 7"), with large margins.
View in Hong Kong soon after it becane a British colony in 1842. From: Robert Elwes Sketches Tour Around The World.
Not in Chater Collection. Abbey: 9
[Ref: 46895] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Chinese Temple Hong-Kong.
From nature by Heine. Fig. by Brown. Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York.
[Washington, 1856.]
Sepia tinted lithograph heightened in white. Sheet 220 x 290mm (8¾ x 11½"). Lower left corner chipped.
An early view of Hong Kong, from Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan', the account of Commodore Matthew Perry's mission to Japan. Wilhelm Heine (1827 - 1885), a German-American, was the official artist to the expedition.
[Ref: 20287] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Tombeau et Village entres Les Baies de Hong-Kong et de Cow-Loon. No.7.
Dessiné d'après nature par Aug. Borget, lith. par Eug. Ciceri.
Imp Lemercier Benard & C.e Paris, Goupil et Vibert édit. [n.d. 1842.]
Tinted lithograph. 280 x 361mm (11 x 14¼"). Some chipping around the edges.
A tomb and village set in the undulating hillside between Kpwloon and Hong Kong; a couple set some incense down by a tombstone and kneel to pray, other people in the village with their livestock. The view was published in Borget's 'Sketches of China and the Chinese' in 1842, the year that the British started leasing Hong Kong.
[Ref: 20394] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

HMS Melampus escorting Sir John Davis the Governor of Hong Kong on his Departure from England [mss. caption in pencil].
[n.d., c.1848.]
Original pencil sketch 218 x 135mm glued into scrap album sheet c.435 x 280mm. Lightly soiled.
View of three British ships with Hong Kong in the background, probably drawn by a former British government official in Hong Kong, and forebear of the compiler of the album from which this sheet has been extracted - one G.S. Windham. Sir John Francis Davis, 1st Baronet KCB (1795 - 1890) was the 2nd Governor of Hong Kong. During his tenure, Davis was very much hated amongst Hong Kong residents and British merchants during his administration because of the establishment of various taxes, which increased the burden of all citizens, and his abrasive treatment of his subordinates. On a much lighter note, weekend racing began during his tenure, which gradually evolved as a Hong Kong institution. Also, during his tenure, Davis organized the first Hong Kong Census, and it indicated that at that time, there were 23,988 people living in Hong Kong. On 21st March 1848, his row with the local British merchants increased, and Davis resigned his commission and left Hong Kong. Also glued to scrap sheet are two steel engravings of Folkestone and watercolour sketches of a castle by a lake and flowers. Includes also a postcard and 'Lettercard' of eight bound views of Canterbury addressed to his descendent postmarked 1918. HMS Melampus: A mid-Victorian RN Vessel. Commanded by Captain John Norman Campbell, south-east coast of America, then East Indies (until Campbell invalided himself at Bombay at the end of 1848) - 12 March 1845 - 1848.
[Ref: 7620] £680.00

China. Hongkong. Macâo.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½").
Vignette views of the harbours of Hong Kong and Macao
[Ref: 49627] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Hong Kong.]
Chang Kö.
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist in pencil, also with Chinese script.
Junks in the waters before Hong Kong.
[Ref: 1226] £850.00

View of Hong-Kong from East Point.
From nature by Heine. Figures by Brown. Lith. of Sarony & Cº New York.
[New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 215 x 290mm (8½ x 11½").
From Francis Hawk's 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan', the account of Commodore Matthew Perry's mission to Japan. Wilhelm Heine (1827 - 1885), a German-American, was the official artist to the expedition.
[Ref: 64712] £350.00

The Bay and Island of Hong-Kong.
Drawn by B. Clayton from a Painting by Piqua. On Stone by Gilks.
London, Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. [n.d., 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9").
A view of Hong Kong shortly after the British leased the island in 1842. From Julia Corner's 'The History of India & China'.
[Ref: 49632] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

View of Victoria Town _ Island of Hong-Kong.
Drawn by B. Clayton from a Painting by Piqua. On Stone by Dean & Co.
London, Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. [n.d., 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 165 x 230mm (6½ x 9").
A view of Hong Kong shortly after the British leased the island in 1842. From Julia Corner's 'The History of India & China'.
[Ref: 49631] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Professor of Hong Kong.
T.E.T 1886.
Ink and watercolour. Circular, 80mm (3¼"). Time stained.
A dishevelled cello player.
[Ref: 53253] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Victoria, Hong Kong
[Anon., c.1850]
Steel engraving, sheet 135 x 195mm (5¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Victoria or Victoria City (originally known as Queenstown), one of the first urban settlements in Hong Kong after it became a British colony in 1842. It was the de facto capital of Hong Kong from then until the 1997 handover.
Not in Chater Collection
[Ref: 37026] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Hong Kong China from the Bend.]
[1890.]
Watercolour. Sheet: 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14'').
A view of Hong Kong from the sea.
[Ref: 48764] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[An album of watercolours of Hong Kong Chinese subjects.]
[Artist and compiler unidentified.]
[c.1843.]
Stitched album, oblong 4to, containing 14 watercolours with bodycolour, 13 on rice paper. Tears and holes to rice paper paintings. Frayed and peeling linen over card wrappers.
Ten vibrant costume illustrations and three pictures of different types of boat by a Chinese hand. This collection was compiled, perhaps by a British naval or military officer, very shortly after Hong Kong became a dependent territory of the United Kingdom in 1842. Into the first leaf is glued a sketch of a Chinese junk by the western traveller and amateur artist captioned: ''Hong Kong' Shore Boat taken while laying alongside H.M. Hospital Ship 'Minden' in 'Victoria' Harbour Hong Kong This 10th August 1843'' The signature that follows is unfortunately illegible. Toward the end of her career Minden saw duty as a hospital ship in Hong Kong from 1842 because a naval hospital on the shore was destroyed in a typhoon. It served those who suffered from malaria in the early colonial years. The boats on the following leaves are captioned in ink by the same hand. Several inserts between the first two pages including annotated and signed receipt dated 1868 for a donation to the 'China Inland Mission'. Some scraps and several blank leaves towards the end of the album.
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