Grosvenor Prints

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)

[Eldred fights a duel with pistols.]
[after William Heath.]
London Pub by W. Sams, 1823.
Coloured aquatint. 140 x 240mm (5½ x 9½"), with very large margins. Small area of foxing.
A scene from William Heath's 'Life of a Soldier': the hero, Eldred, fights a duel (in civvies) at Coombe Wood, near Croydon. Elsewhere in the text Eldred fights in India and the Peninsula War. The author, William Heath (1794-1840), is well known for his satires published under the pseudonym 'Paul Pry'.
Abbey Life 361.
[Ref: 41961] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Eight Scenes Showing the Life of Christ.]
B.T.A.
[n.d., c.1630.]
16 woodcuts. Sheet: 90 x 65mm (3¾ x 2½''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. One has hand colour.
Fifteen woodcuts showing scenes from the life of Christ, including the Annunciation, the Visitation, the birth in the stable, Christ teaching in the Synagogue and his arrest. The first scene is engraved IHS for Christ. A woodcut cut by the monogrammist BTA, probably cut for a Carmelite order in Venice in the first half of the 17th century.
[Ref: 49649] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Life on the Water _ The Grand Rowing Match, for Mr. Kean's Prize Wherry. Red House, Battersea. [&] Pierce Egan's Anecdotes Of The Turf, The Chase, The Ring, And The Stage
[Knight & Lacey. London, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint with two pages of double sided text. Sheet 125 x 220mm (5 x 8¾"). Time stained.
View of an annual waterman's race, funded by Edmund Kean, the actor. One heat was from Westminster Bridge to the 'Red House', a tavern famous for pigeon shoots.
[Ref: 62022] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

An Exact Representation of Mr. F. C. Daniels, Life Preserver, as exhibited on the 21st of July 1806, passing through London Bridge, To Gun Dock Wapping.
J. Bellamy Delin & Sculp.
[Published by J. Bellamy No. 90 Borough Road.] [n.d., 1806.]
Rare etching. Sheet 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Framed. Trimmed, losing publication line. Unexamined out of frame.
Six figures swimming in the River Thames near London Bridge, demonstrating an early life preserver design by F.C.Daniels, surrounded by spectators in boats. In 1807 Daniels won a gold medal from the Royal Society of Arts for his design, an air-tight leather bag.
[Ref: 52734] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Chromolithograph of a man overboard with a life-saving buoy with a signal fire.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 255 x 410mm (10 x 16"). Cut as issued.
A sailor, overboard from a warship, clings to a buoy with two flotation spheres and a thin chimney with a smoking flame. A longboat approches, guided by men in the rigging of the ship. Perhaps an artist's impression of the use of a new invention.
[Ref: 58708] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

No. 55. [Lifeboat.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street, Jan.y 1. 1805.
Coloured aquatint. 342 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
A lifeboat with men rowing away from ships sinking and being taken by the waves in the background. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 23302] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Lifeboat rescuing a steamer] The Sea and Gale had lost none of their force; and until they got well round the North Foreland, the struggle to get back was just as hard as it had been to get there.
[c.1874]
Lithograph printed in colour, sheet 125 x 195mm (5 x 7¾").
Probably an illustration to an edition of 'History of the Lifeboat and its work' by Richard Lewis (1874), a passage from which is quoted below the image.
[Ref: 43616] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Wreck'd and Saved. Descriptive Ballad Sung by M.r C. Bernard, in his Entertainment, ''La Bagatelle''.
Packer, & Griffin Lith. Stannard & Dixon.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 250 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed into inscriptions.
A music sheet cover depicting a lifeboat being launched from a beach and rowed through rough seas towards a striken ship.
[Ref: 60738] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lifton Park. South Front.
Drawn by Gendall. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published by Cole & Gendall, Artist's Repository, Exeter. [n.d. c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph. 311 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Tear into upper image area. Tears to edges Cut and laid on paper.
Lifton Park, built c.1815 for William Arundell of Kenegie in Cornwall, in 1857 it was partly remodelled in a more archaeological but still Gothic style.
[Ref: 56069] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cubs Bred Between a Lion and Tigress, Three Months Old.
London, Published by G.B. Whittaker, Feb.y 1825.
Engraving. Sheet 135 x 220mm (5¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A pair of 'Ligers'. From 'The Animal Kingdom' by Georges Léopold, Baron de Cuvier, published 1827-35.
[Ref: 53691] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Light Dragoon This Regiment was Created in 1759 & Commanded by Col. Geo. Augustus Elliott.
J. June sc.
[Printed for Jn. Smith, Cheapside, n.d., c. 1785]
Coloured engraving, 170 x 150mm. 6¾ x 6". Paper discoloration.
One of a series of ten military costume prints engraved by June and published by Smith.
Ogilby 872.2
[Ref: 11186] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Light Dragoon [16th] This Regiment was Created 1759 and Commanded by Colo. John Burgoyn.
J. June sculp.
[Printed for Jn. Smith, in Cheapside. N.d., c. 1762]
Coloured engraving, 170 x 150mm. 6¾ x 6". Some damage to surface of paper.
One of a series of ten military costume prints engraved by June and published by Smith.
Ogilby 872.3
[Ref: 11183] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Private of the 18.th. Light Dragoons. (Hussars.)
C. H. S. delin.t. Aquatinted by I. C. Stadler.
London Pub.d. 1.st. May 1812 by Colnaghi & C.o. 23 Cockspur Street.
Very fine coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½").
Exterior scene in which a mounted soldier of the 18th Light Dragoons or 18th (Kings Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars), now 18th Royal Hussars, rides across a plain. From 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations of 1812'.
Ogilvy 870
[Ref: 33547] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Private of the 13.th. Light Dragoons.
Drawn & Etched by C. H. S. Aquatinted by J. C. Stadler.
London Pub.d. April 1.st. 1812 by Colnahgi & C.o. 23 Cockspur Street.
Very fine coloured aquatint with large margins. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½").
Exterior scene depicting a mounted private of the 13th Light Dragoons (now Light Dragoons) galloping across the landscape, brandishing a sword. A mounted soldier is depicted behind, exiting the scene. The 13th Light Dragoons were engaged in the Peninsular War in 1812 and went on to participate in the Battle of Waterloo and the Crimean War. From 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations of 1812'.
Ogilvy 870.
[Ref: 33554] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Light Dragoons Serving in the East Indies.
C. H. S. Aquatinted by J. C. Stadler.
London. Pub.d. 2.nd. July 1812 by Colnaghi & C.o. 23 Cockspur Street.
Very fine coloured aquatint, with large margins. Plate: 255 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Three small holes in left-hand margin from binding. Staining on lover edge of lower margin.
Exterior scene depicting three mounted soldiers from three Light Dragoon cavalry regiments galloping across the landscape, brandishing weapons. A small temple-like building and a man driving an elephant and camel can be seen in the distance. The 22nd Dragoons (disbanded in 1945), the 8th Dragoons (now 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars) and the 24th Dragoons (disbanded in 1819) all served in India at the turn of the nineteenth-century. From 'Costumes of the army of the British Empire, according to the last regulation of 1812'.
Ogilvy 870.
[Ref: 33489] £360.00

The Light Guinea or Cap:t: Flash Detected.
Pubd Augt: 17 1774 by MDarly, 39 Strand.
Coloured etching. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed into image at top. Small margins on 3 sides.
Social satire: a prostitute weighs a coin paid to her by a military officer and finds it below weight, probably 'clipped'
[Ref: 54341] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Light Guinea or Cap:t Flash Detected.
Pubd Augt: 17 1774 by MDarly, 39 Strand.
Etching, 255 x 175mm (10 x 7"). Some staining and offsetting.
Social satire: a prostitute weighs a coin paid to her by a military officer and finds it below weight, probably 'clipped' From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '5' upper right.
[Ref: 14517] £320.00

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