Grosvenor Prints

John Lewis of Richmond.
[Painted by T. Stewart. Engraved by R. Field.]
[n.d., c.1793.]
Rare mezzotint. Image 310 x 260mm (12¼ x 10¼" Trimmed to image, title pasted underneath.
Portrait of John Lewis (1713-1792), Richmond resident who owned a brewery near the Thames close to where Terrace Gardens now are. Seated facing the viewer, he holds a stick in his right hand, wearing a dark coat open over a pale double-breasted waistcoat, white cravat and broad-brimmed hat over a chin-length wig. In 1758 Lewis became a celebrity when he re-established the freedom for public to walk through Richmond Park, through a legal case against Princess Amelia. . The Park reopened on 12th May 1758 when ladder style gates were fixed to Ham & Sheen gates in front of a vast gathering of local people. The painting by Stewart, a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, currently hangs in the Reference Library at the Old Town Hall, Richmond. This was Field's only mezzotint.
Chaloner Smith 1, I of II; in the second state the chair disappears and the name is replaced by a text starting 'Be It Remembered'.
[Ref: 42444] £360.00

Be it Remembered, That by Steady Perserverance John Lewis, Brewer, at Richmond Surry, the Right to a Free Passage through Richmond Park was recovered & established by the Laws of his Country (not withstanding very strongly opposed) after being upwards of twenty Years withheld from the People.
Painted by T. Stewart. Engraved by R. Field.
Published Jan.y 18 1793 by Henry Stanley, Richmond. & M.r Bell's Bookseller. N.º 148 Oxford Street.
Rare mezzotint. 380 x 265mm (15 x 10½"), large margins.
A half-length ortrait of John Lewis (1713-1792), Richmond resident who owned a brewery near the Thames close to where Terrace Gardens now are. Seated facing the viewer, he holds a stick in his right hand, wearing a dark coat open over a pale double-breasted waistcoat, white cravat and broad-brimmed hat over a chin-length wig. In 1758 Lewis became a celebrity when he re-established the freedom for public to walk through Richmond Park, through a legal case against Princess Amelia. The Park reopened on 12th May 1758 when ladder style gates were fixed to Ham & Sheen gates in front of a vast gathering of local people. The painting by Stewart, a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, currently hangs in the Reference Library at the Old Town Hall, Richmond; it was also the basis for the plaque of Lewis that stands at Sheen Gate. This was Field's only mezzotint.
Chaloner Smith 1, ii of ii, without a chair and new title.
[Ref: 65841] £360.00

John Lewis. [Signature facsimile.]
G Black 1847 [signed and dated in plate.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 360 x 290mm. 14¼ x 11½".
John Frederick Lewis (1804 - 1876), painter.
[Ref: 16247] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lewisham.
Drawn by I.C.Barrow F.S.A. Engraved by G.I. Parkyns. Printed by I.Pushee.
London, Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1795 by T. Simpson St Paul's Church Yard, and Darling & Thompson, G.t Newport Str.t.
Aquatint. 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14½"), a large paper example. Trimmed into plate at top.
From Joseph Charles Barrow's 'Picturesque Views of Churches'. Originally issued by subscription 1791-2, only three of the intended six parts were published, a total of 12 views. This comes from a collected edition, not listed in Abbey.
See Abbey Scenery 2 for the subscription edition, this edition not listed.
[Ref: 15031] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to James Howell, 'Lexicon tetraglotton'] Associatio Linguarum. La Ligue des Langues
W Faithorne Fc. [c.1660]
Engraving, platemark 260 x 165mm (10¼ x 6½").
Frontispiece to a later edition of 'Lexicon tetraglotton' (first edition 1660) by James Howell (1594?-1666), a dictionary in four languages. The four women are emblematic of the English, French, Spanish and Italian languages. The publication of this work was supported by Bulstrode Whitelock (for whom see ref. 21594). Engraving by William Faithorne (c.1620-91), printmaker who was apprenticed to the printseller William Peake, with whom he served in the royalist army during the civil war. At the Restoration Faithorne was appointed engraver in copper to the king, doubtless as reward for his devotion to the Stuart cause. The finest native British engraver born before the eighteenth century, Faithorne was highly esteemed by Pepys (who recorded many visits to his shop) while enthusiasts such as Horace Walpole ensured his posthumous reputation, which led to fine proofs of his work fetching extraordinary prices in the late Georgian period.
Fagan p.86.
[Ref: 43674] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Gulielmi Leybourn, Philom. anno Aetatis 30.
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Leybourn (1626 - 1716), English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller.
Wellcome 1760-2.
[Ref: 64156] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[William Leybourn] Vera Effigies Gulielmi Leybourn, Philom. amo AEtatis 30.
[Richard Gaywood, 1656]
Etching, sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾").
William Leybourn (1626-1716), mathematician and land surveyor. This plate was etched by Richard Gaywood in 1653 (at which time the inscription read 'AEtatis 27') as the frontispiece to his 'The Compleat Surveyor'. The inscription was later changed (as here) and the plate was reused as the frontispiece to 'Arithmetick: Vulgar, Decimal, Instrumental' (1657).
[Ref: 44823] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[William Leybourn.] Effigies Authoris.
[Anon., c.1669.]
Very rare engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed to image, name added in old ink mss., laid on album paper.
William Leybourn (1626-1716), mathematician and land surveyor. Frontispiece to either his 'Art of Dialling' (1669) or 'Panorganon' (1672).
NPG: D21356. Wellcome: 1760-3.
[Ref: 59869] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[William Leybourn.] [Effigies Authoris.]
[Anon., 1669.]
Engraving. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed to image, losing title, name added in old ink mss., and tipped into album page.
William Leybourn (1626 - 1716), mathematician and land surveyor. Frontispiece to his 'Art of Dialling'.
NPG: D21356. Wellcome: 1760-3.
[Ref: 13981] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Potala Palace, Lhassa] The Castle Bietalia wherin the great Lama Inhabitets.
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving. 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed from a larger sheet. Loss to bottom left corner.
A view from Father Athanasius Kircher's description of China, as published in Ogilby's English edition; Capital of Tibet.
[Ref: 56170] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Subscription issue of plates 51-60 of Volume III of Claude Lorraine's 'Liber Veritatis'.]
Claude Lorraine del.t. Rich.d Earlom, sculp.t.
Pub. June 1, 1807, by Boydell & C.o 90 Cheapside London.
10 mezzotints with etching, printed in bistre, various sizes, with large margins. Sheets 295 x 460mm (11½ x 18"), original stitching on top edge. Two plates watermarked 'J Whatman 1808', six '1809', two not marked. Plates spotted
Ten landscapes after Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorraine, copied in mezzotint by Richard Earlom from the Duke of Devonshire's copy of Claude Lorrain's 'Book of Truth', which contained Claude's sketches of his works for authentication purposes.
Abbey: Life 200. See Ref: 60828
[Ref: 60827] £450.00 view all images for this item

[Eleven bound plates of Lorraine's 'Liber Veritatis'.]
Claude le Lorraine delin.t. R. Earlom fecit.
Published Jan: 1.st 1774 [to Jan.y 1.st 1776] by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
Oblong folio, later cloth; 11 mezzotints with etching, printed in bistre, various sizes. Each plate c. 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). First plate with surface soiling, wear to edges.
Ten landscapes after Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorraine, five from the collection of Earl Spencer and five from Charles Lambert's. They were issued as part of the Subscription Edition of the third volume of John Boydell's highly successful 'Liber Veritatis'. The first two volumes were published in 1774 and 1777, and contained mezzotint copies by Richard Earlom of Claude Lorrain's 'Book of Truth', owned by the Duke of Devonshire, which contained Claude's sketches of his works for authentication purposes. This third volume, also by Earlom, contained 100 plates of paintings in other collections. Engraving the plates of this additional volume began in January 1802 and the completed book was published 1819. The plates are numbers 140, 128, 109, 110, 99, 91, 87, 42, 3 & 16, evidence of removal of plates.
Abbey: Life 200. See Ref: 60829.
[Ref: 60828] £480.00 view all images for this item

Beauties of Claude Lorraine Consisting of Twenty Four Landscapes, Selected from the Liber Veritatis; And Engraved on Steel By Eminent Engravers, from a Brilliant Copy in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
London, Published by W.B. Cooke, 9, Soho Square. 1825.
2º, later half morocco gilt with marbled boards and endpapers; frontispiece portrait, title, 4pp., 24 numbered mezzotints on steel, printed in sepia. Block loose from covers; plates spotted.
24 plates printed from mezzotints engraved on steel, copied from plates in John Boydell's 'Liber Veritatis' engraved by Richard Earlom. Bookplate of Arthur Perigal 1784-1847.
See Ref: 60827 & 60828
[Ref: 60829] £720.00 view all images for this item

Painting
Printed for Carington Bowles, in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into image, notch in bottom edge.
Elegently-dressed people relax in a pleasure garden with classical ruins and statues. One woman sits at an easel painting the portrait of another. One plate of seven depicting the 'Seven Liberal Arts'.
[Ref: 60416] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Poetry.
Printed for Carington Bowles, in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into image.
Elegently-dressed people relax in a pleasure garden with classical ruins and a monument to William Shakespeare. One man is writing in a notebook. One plate of seven depicting the 'Seven Liberal Arts'.
[Ref: 60415] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Liberality and Modesty. From the Original Painting of Guido Rheni in the Collection of Henry Furnese Esq.r.
Guido Rheni pinx.t. Rome. Rob.t. Strange delin.t et sculp.t Londini.
Sold by Rob.t Strange Engraver, at the Golden Head, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. 1755. [1790.]
Engraving. 510 x 345mm (20 x 13"), large margins.
The female allegorical figure of Liberality passes a plate of jewels to Modesty, a winged cherub flying above. From a collected edition of the engravings by Sir Robert Strange (1721-92) after famous paintings, in this case one by Guido Reni. Shortly after this engraving, the painting was sold to the first Earl Spencer who hung it in the Great Room at Spencer House, where it remained until it was sold by Raine Spencer, step-mother of the Princess of Wales.
[Ref: 46531] £320.00

[Coastal profiles of Liberia with Monrovia.] Rio Galinhas, from the N.E. [...] Rio Corso al.s Cors the Tree A at N. 1½ League.
J. Kip Sculp.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10") very large margins. Original binding folds.
Coastal profiles of Liberia, including 'Cape Mesurado', modern Monrovia. Top left are two insets of the kola nut. From 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58619] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

La Liberté Perdue ou l'Amour Couronné. Dédié a Mr le Vicomte de Molien. Par son tres Humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Mondhare.
Le Brun Inv. Del. Dambrun Sculp.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 400 x 281mm. 15¾ x 11". Trimmed inside platemark.
On an enveloped chaise-longue sit two lovers, brought together by cupid who stands in front of the woman.
[Ref: 27695] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus Liberti. Groeningensis Cathed Ecclesiae Antverp Organista.
Anton. van Dyck pinxit Petrus de Jode Sculpsit [c.1650]
Engraving, 17th century watermark; platemark 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to plate. Small damage to upper left corner,
Henricus Liberti (c.1610-69), Dutch composer and organist at Antwerp Cathedral, holding sheet music. Engraving after a portrait by Anthony van Dyck, c.1630, which exists in at least eight copies.
[Ref: 53822] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

La Liberte Caractere du genie de Collins ne en 1676 mort en 1729.
C. Eisen del. François sc. et ex. C.P.R.
[Paris: Brunet, c.1760.]
Crayon manner printed in reddish-brown ink, sheet 295 x 220mm. 11½ x 8¾". A couple of rust spots.
Allegorical tribute to British philosopher Anthony Collins (1676 - 1729) who defended the cause of rational theology. A female figure, winged and semi-draped above clouds, with flame burning above her head; she holds a quill in her right hand. Collins was author of 'Essay concerning the Use of Reason ' (1707), 'A Discourse of Freethinking' (1713), 'Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty' (1715), and 'Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion' (1724). After Charles Eisen (1720 - 1778), by Jean Charles François (1717 - 1769), inventor the crayon manner technique of etching in 1757. Numbered 'XI metha' upper left. For Alexandre Savérien's 'Histoire des Philosophes modernes', published in eight 4to volumes from 1760-1767. 79 plates (and eight frontispieces) were engraved for the book.
[Ref: 22215] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Liberty.
London, Publish'd Oct.r.1;1786 by C.Taylor N.o.10 near Castle Street, Holborn.
Stipple. Printed in sanguine. Sheet: 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½").
Portrait of the figure of Liberty in an oval, standing, ringing a bell.
[Ref: 35574] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Liberty & Captivity. Proof.
Painted by Fanny Mc.Ian. Engraved by C.W. Wass.
London Published Feb.y 1st 1852 by T. Boys, 467 Oxford Street. _ Paris E, Gambart & Co., 9 rue d'Orleans ay Marais deposé.
Mezzotint. 680 x 550mm (26¾ x 21¾"). Some spotting and creasing, crack in bottom platemark.
A family in a prison cell, a suckling mother looking enviously at the house martins that have built a nest in the window. As the artist specialised in Scottish historical scenes it is likely that this depicts the family of a Jacobite. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy. Frances Matilda "Fanny" McIan (c.1814-1897) was the first superintendent of London's Female School of Design, which was launched in 1842 to train women for industrial roles like porcelain painters. McIan expanded the curriculum to include more fine arts subjects, like oil painting and wood engraving, and was chastised for allowing her students to draw nude models.
[Ref: 51975] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

September. Ariadne and Faun carrying Libra.
E.F. Burney delt. Thos Williamson sc.
London Pub. Feb. 1. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand [but c.1815].
Hand-coloured stipple and etching, reissue on Whatman paper, partly printed in colour. 195 x 260mm, 7¾ x 10¼". Some staining and soiling; two creases in plate. Uncut.
Libra reclining in a carriage, playing a tambourine, while a putto with scales containing bunches of grapes over his shoulders balances on one foot beside her. The chariot is pulled by two tiger-like animals. Upper right: "Price 2s/. plain 4/s. Cold.". After Edward Francis Burney (1760 - 1848), from a series of allegories of the months.
[Ref: 22587] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

This Book Belongs to Garner's Circulating Library, Margate. When read, is earnestly requested to be immediately returned for the general accomodation of the Subscribers.
[1798?]
Two identical bookplates, letterpress with woodcut borders, each sheet c.105 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"). Old ink deaccession mss. on both, laid on paper together. '1798' in pencil.
William Garner, a former actor, opened his 'Marine Library' on the harbour at the bottom of Margate high street in 1789. Despite his shop being wrecked in a storm of 1808, he stayed in business for 44 years.
[Ref: 63517] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The New Gallery of the Vatican Library at Rome. With the Cornishes Ornamented with Etrusian Vases. La Galarie Nouvelle de la Bibliotheque Vatincane a Rome... 9.
B. Vasi delin. Bowles Sculp.
London Printed for R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. [n.d. c.1800]
Framed engraving with hand colouring , plate 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"). Frame size 480 x 630mm (19 x 24¾"). Unexamined out of frame. A few small time spots near the plate mark.
An interior view of the gallery at the Vatican library in Rome. After Giuseppe Vasi (1710–1782) however attributed incorrectly within the print.
[Ref: 61277] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Public Library. Melbourne.
J. Reed Architect. R. Shepherd Lith.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 160 x 185mm. 6¼ x 7¼". Sheet trimmed. Vertical centre crease. Slightly soiled.
The State Library of Victoria. In 1853 the decision to build a state library was made at the instigation of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe and Sir Redmond Barry. A competition was held to decide who would design the new building; local architect Joseph Reed (1823? - 1890), who later designed the Melbourne Town Hall and the Royal Exhibition Building, won the commission. On 3 July 1854, the recently inaugurated Governor Sir Charles Hotham laid the foundation stone of both the new library and the University of Melbourne. The library opened in 1856, with a collection of 3,800 books chosen by Sir Redmond, the President of Trustees. Rare.
[Ref: 10799] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Licensed Victuallers Annual Dinner. Held at White Conduit Gardens, Pentonville, on Wednesday, June 26th. 1839, under the superintendence of Messrs. Breach & Compy.
[Indistinct artist's monogram in plate. R.K.T.]
[British, c.1839.]
Rare lithograph, sheet 275 x 380mm. 10¾ x 15". One vertical fold crease (as issued?) on right. Damage to top of plate; top right cut.
A grand trade association banquet under a huge marquee decorated with flags, chandeliers, and foliage. Also architecture, such as pagodas, rotundas, and even a theatre with an orchestra to entertain the diners far right. White Conduit House and Gardens has long association with the Middlesex Cricket Club and the field was played upon for many years with the tea gardens where the players would retire for tea. The Society of Licensed Victuallers was founded by a Royal Charter of 3 May 1836; it adopted the working name Licensed Trade Charity in 2004 as a registered charity for publicans and other people in the licensed drink trade and their dependents.
[Ref: 22368] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To the Illustrious Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, K.G. &c. this Print of The Licensed Victuallers Asylum, Is by permission respectfully dedicated to His Royal Highness the Patron of the Institution, by His Royal Highness's most devoted & humble Servants, the Governors.
Engraved by W.F. Starling.
[n.d., c.1827.]
Coloured engraving. Sight size 395 x 700mm, 15¾ x 27½". Unexamined out of frame.
A view of the façade of the asylum founded in 1803 in the Old Kent Road to provide shelter to the families of staff who, after a long and loyal service to the brewing industry, had fallen on hard times. This view shows the enlarged building, with the additional wings.
[Ref: 26605] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

To the Rev. Henry White M.A. Sacristan of Litchfield Cathedral, This View of Johnson's Willow is inscribed by his obliged humble Servant John Hewitt.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. From a Sketch made in 1828.
Lichfield Aug. 1829.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14¼ x 11").
A view of an elderly willow by Stowe Pool, with the spire of Lichfield Cathedral behind. Planted c.1700, the willow was a favourite of Samuel Johnson, who described it as ''the delight of his early and waning life''. This print was published the year that it blew down, after which it was replaced by a cutting. In November 2021 a fifth replacement tree, all from cuttings, was planted.
[Ref: 58835] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Market Place Lichfield, The Birth-Place of D.r Johnson.
Drawn, Lith.g and Published by N. Whittock, 39, Rathbone Place.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. 150 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed close to image, laid on album paper at edges.
St. Mary's Church on the left, the Town Hall at the top of the street in the centre, and Samuel Johnson's birthplace on the right.
[Ref: 62532] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

H. Lichtenstein (Zoologiste), Professeur à l'Université de Berlin et Membre de l'Académie de cette Ville.
Dessiné d'apres Buchhorn et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 216 x 152mm (8½ x 6"). Cut to platemark.
Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (1780-1857) the German physician, explorer, botanist, zoologist and herpetologist. Between 1802 and 1806 he travelled in southern Africa, and was appointed personal physician to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1810 he published 'Reisen im sudlichen Afrika'. which gained the position of Professor of Zoology at the University of Berlin a year later, and 1813 he was appointed director of the Berlin Zoological Museum. He was responsible for the creation of Berlin's Zoological Gardens in 1841.
W: 1765-2.
[Ref: 29626] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Ex Libris. Richard C Lichtenstein. Mass Boston.
L.Y. Van Tiffelen. Geo. Moore Eng.
1893.
Photo engraving. 127 x 90mm. 5 x 3½".
A library interior: two boys stand behind a third who is copying a drawing from a book. Richard Lichtenstein was Vice-President of the Ex Libris Society.
Allen: p.160: 346.
[Ref: 16853] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Anne Liddell. Duchess of Grafton and Countess of Upper Ossory. From a Crayon Drawingin the Possession of the R.t Hon. B. Vernon Smith, M.P.
Engraved by Davis Lucas.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 225 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed, stains, top left.
Anne Liddell (1736-1804), first wife of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who divorced her while serving as prime minister. Within days she married John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory. She began corresponding with Horace Walpole in 1761, who called her 'one of our first great ladies'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66388] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Parry Liddon.]
[after George Richmond] Cha.s John Tomkins [pencil sigature of the engraver.]
London, Published Feb.y 2nd 1894 by Henry Graves & Co., 6, Pall Mall, for and on behalf of the Proprietor, Carl Beauchamp.
Mezzotint on chine collé, proof. 440 x 360mm (17¼ x 14¼"), with very large margins.
A portrait of Henry Parry Liddon (1829-90), theologian: canon and later chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral; vice-principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford; and Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford. He was a friend of Lewis Carroll, who accompanied him to Moscow on his attempt to seek closer links between the Church of England and the Russian Orthodox Church. The original painting, by George Richmond (1809-96) is owned by Keble College, Oxford.
[Ref: 47515] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Leipzig] 'Brother the Lord is with us.' The Emperor of Russia, King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Austria, Spontaneously returning thanks in the Field of Battle after the Great Victory at Leipsic, in 1813.
London, Pub. by Thomas Kelly, No. 53 Paternoster row, Feb. 4 1815.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 195 x 240mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
From Christopher Kelly's 'The Memorable Battle of Waterloo'.
[Ref: 37118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

La queue luy pend au petit bon homme.
J. Frosne sc.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Rare engraving, rich impression. Sheet 360 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on card at top.
An allegory of life in four scenes, running left to right. On the left is a young boy holding up the skirts of a young woman, being walked by a man marked as being aged 25; next are couples aged 40 and 60, and ending with a seated couple, aged 80.
[Ref: 54714] £680.00

A 11. La Vie. [&] A 12. La Mort.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760].
A pair of rare etchings, pt 18th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½") very large margins. Mint.
A pair of rococo designs representing Life and Death, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58940] £300.00 view all images for this item

Lamb & Whites Patent Life Boats. Clench-built Life Boats for the Revenue Service, Yachts, and Quarter Boats for Emigrant Ships, Steamers, &c.
Day & Son, Lith.rs to The Queen.
[Isle of Wight, 1863.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Laid on blue album paper at edges.
Two illustrations on one sheet: a lifeboat in choppy seas with oarsmen and a cox, and a beached boat tilted to show the interior. From a pamphlet advertising Lamb & White's boats.
[Ref: 55725] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

An Officer of the 2.d. Regiment of Life Guards. in full Dress.
C. H. S. Aquatinted by I. C. Stadler.
London Pub.d. 1.st. July 1812 by Colnaghi & C.o. 23 Cockspur Street.
Very fine coloured aquatint with large margins. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½").
Battle scene depicting a mounted officer of the 2nd Regiment of the Life Guards leading the charge; ranks of mounted cavalrymen can be seen behind. From 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations of 1812'.
Ogilvy 870.
[Ref: 33546] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Life-Guardsman.
H. Hunbury Esq.r del.t. F.D. Soirson sculp.t.
London, Published July 20, 1791 by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Stipple. Sheet 415 x 290mm (16¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate. Slight stain bottom left.
Full-length portrait of a guardsman standing in uniform.
[Ref: 48133] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Officers of the British Army, No. 43. 1st Life Guards. Dedicated by Permission to the Adjatant General of his Majesty's Forces.
L. Mansion & S.t Eschauzier inv. & del. Printed by Lefevre & Co.
London, Published by W. Spooner 253, Regent St. Coloured by C.H. Martin. [n.d., c.1830.]
Rare & fine coloured lithograph. Framed. Printed area: 360 x 280mm (14 x 11''). Frame: 520 x 440mm (20½ x 17¼''). Unexamined out of frame.
A mounted portrait of an officer in the Life Guards which forms part of the Household Cavalry. The officer wears the ceremonial uniform with the cuirass and helmet.
[Ref: 48960] £320.00

Royal Horse Guards_Blue. R. Ackermann's Chobham Scenes. Plate 11.
Hy. Martens delt. ['HM' monogram in image.] J. Harris, sculpt.
London, Published Jany. 1-1854, by Rudolph Ackermann, at his Eclipse Sporting & Military Gallery, 191, Regent St.
Hand coloured aquatint, 165 x 240mm. 6½ x 9½".
The Royal Horse Guards (RHG) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. Founded August 1650 in Newcastle Upon Tyne by Sir Arthur Haselrig on the orders of Oliver Cromwell as the Regiment of Cuirassiers, the regiment became the Earl of Oxford's Regiment during the reign of King Charles II. As the regiment's uniform was blue in colour at the time, it was nicknamed "the Oxford Blues", from which was derived the nickname the "Blues." In 1750 the regiment became the Royal Horse Guards Blue and eventually, in 1877, the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). The RHG was amalgamated with the Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) to form the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) in 1969.
[Ref: 17790] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Fencing. Jerry's Admiration of Tom, in an ''Assault'' with M.r O'Shaunessy, at the Rooms in S.t James's St.t.
Drawn & Eng.d by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub'd by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, Feb.y 1, 1821.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 145 x 240mm (5¾ x 9½"). Repaired tear on right top.
Fencing scene from Pierce Egan's "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis".
[Ref: 62023] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Political Dinner, Tom & Bob taking a lesson on the Constitution & not neglecting their own.
London, Published by Jones & Co, Sep.r 8th 1821.
Coloured aquatint. 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Holes in margins, some staining to edges.
A dinner, with wine being spilt and poured on the floor. From Peirce Egan's 'Real Life in London'.
[Ref: 55720] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Tom, Jerry, Logic, and the ''uncommonly big gentleman'' among the ''Shew Folks'' at Bartholomew Fair. One man in his time plays many parts.
Drawn & Eng.d by R. Cruikshank.
Published by Geo. Virtue Oct. 1 1828, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet 145 x 240mm (5¾ x 9½"). Some surface dirt in the margins.
The trio attend a Shakespearean-style play with a ghost, presented in a tent theatre. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis".
[Ref: 53378] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Tom, Jerry and Logic, in character at the Grand Carnival.
Drawn & Eng.d by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, March 1, 1821.
Hand-coloured aquatint with etching, pt watermark 1817. Sheet 140 x 225mm (5½ x 9"). Creasing through publishers' inscription.
Costumed revellers and masqueraders dancing and merry-making, with an acrobat on a tightrope. Bottom right Tom seduces a woman dressed as a nun while Jerry, dressed as a monk, talks to Logic. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis".
[Ref: 53381] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Life in Philadelphia. Have you any Flesh coloured Silk Stockings, young Man? Oui Madame! Her is voen pair of the first qualité!
Engd. by Chas Hunt [after Edward William Clay].
London. Pub. by Harrison Isaacs. Charles Street, Soho Sq.re. [n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Sheet has been trimmed to plate. Slight discolouring in the margins.
A large black woman asks the man at the counter for flesh coloured stockings, for which he offers her a pair of black stockings. Clay, inspired by Edward Cruikshank's 'Life in London' series, published his 'Life in Philadelpia' series from 1828-1830. Of the fourteen aquatints ten were satires on the black populace (who were freed when Pennsylvania banned slavery in 1780), which did much to enforce the negative stereotypes held even in the free North. Very popular, they inspired these copies, published in London.
[Ref: 53569] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 3. ''How you find yourself dis hot Weader Miss Chloe?'' / ''Pretty well I tank you Mr Cesar only I aspire too much.
Eng.d by Cha.s Hunt [after Edward William Clay].
London, Pub. by Harrison Isaacs, Charles St Soho Sq.re. [n.d., c.1832.]
Fine coloured aquatint, very large margins. 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½").
A satire from an English edition of Edward William Clay's 'Life in Philadelphia', with two black Philadelphians, both over-dressed à la mode, discuss the weather. Clay, inspired by Edward Cruikshank's 'Life in London' series, published his 'Life in Philadelpia' series from 1828-1830. Of the fourteen aquatints ten were satires on the black populace (who were freed when Pennsylvania banned slavery in 1780), which did much to enforce the negative stereotypes held even in the free North. Very popular, they inspired these copies, published in London.
[Ref: 55386] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Black Ball. La Pastorelle. Life in Philadelphia No. 10
W. Summers Del. C. Hunt Sc.
T.C. Lewis & Co. 96 Cheapside London [c1850]
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 220 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed. Very slight staining in middle.
The 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population were first published by Edward William Clay in the United States in the 1820s. Shortly after the London publisher W. Harrison Isaacs published a set of copies drawn by William Summers and engraved by Charles Hunt, augmenting them with new caricatures in the same vein but set in London. Isaacs' plates subsequently passed to Gabriel Shire Tregear, and then to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this impression. Hickman notes that Lewis's reissue of Tregear's set of 20 'Life in Philadelphia' prints is dated to 1860 by the Library Company of Philadelphia, but suggests 'it was probably earlier'.
Hickman p.126
[Ref: 47093] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Life is short and art is long, Man finds his chiefest joy in song. L'Uomo e discorde, e l'armonia gli piace; E cercando il piacer non ha mai pace.
Domienico Maiotto Pin. Ex Calcographia I. Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S
Fine engraving. Plate: 340 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"), with very large margins. Later impression. Some creasing and light foxing.
A concert scene in which a woman sings from a sheet of music while a man to her right plays the violin and a woman behind plays a lute.
[Ref: 41814] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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