Grosvenor Prints

Light Horse...Created 1757 Intended to Act as Hussars,
J. June sculpt. 1762
[Printed for Jn. Smith, in Cheapside]
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 872.1
[Ref: 11182] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Light Infantry. V.5. 4.
Pub - Decr - 18 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching. Plate 183 x 129mm (7¼ x 5").
An obese man in military dress marching in profile to the right. In his left hand he carries a musket with bayonet. His hat has a feather plume and he wears spatterdashes.
BM Satires: 5041.
[Ref: 38219] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An Officer in the Light Infantry, driven by his Lady to Cox-Heath. 391.
From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possesion of Carington Bowles.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.o 69 S.t Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 9.th Nov.r 1778.
Extremely rare and fine mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), large margins. Trimmed to plate at the bottom. paper toned. Mount burn. Light creasing.
A scene depicting the road 'To Cox Heath', as indicated on the sign post on the left, behind which is a wagon carrying three figures, with a sign inscribed, 'Maidstone Stage Wagon', on the side. In the foreground, a young woman in a quasi military costume is standing up in a small horse drawn cart, flourishing a whip in her right hand, driving two small ponies, both of which have head plumes. A stout officer sleeps at her side, with his hands locked in front of him, as a small dog sits beside him.
[Ref: 67695] £480.00

Artillerie légère de la garde Royale. Position du I.r Servant de droite au commandement (Charger).
Marshall I.er Lieut.t d'artillerie Del. Lith de Demanne rue d'Enghien No. 39.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet size: 360 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½"). Light foxing.
A French soldier of the light infantry of the Guard, loading a field cannon behind a tree stump to the right.
[Ref: 36191] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Light of Other Days.
W. Clark lith. 202 High Holborn.
Published by F. Glover, Water Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8") Slight soiling, small tear in edge.
A woman in a fancy-dress costume mixing medieval-revival with an early Victorian bustle, standing on a terrace. Behind a guitar leans against the balestrade.
[Ref: 53240] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[John Lightfoot] Vera Effigies Reverendi & Doctissimi Viri Iohannis Lightfoot S.T.P. Aulæ S. Catherinæ apud Cantabrigienses Præfecti, nec non Ecclesiæ Eliensis Canonici.
R. White Sculpsit.
Printed for R. Scot. T. Bassett, J. Wright, & R. Chiswell.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 295 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½") very large margins. Some staining.
Oval portrait of John Lightfoot (1602-72), rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College. It was engraved by Robert White as the frontispiece portrait to Lightfoot's 'Works'.
[Ref: 60927] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To Robert Stevenson Esq.r F.R.S.E Civil Engineer who with distinguished credit to himself and advantage to his country held the office of engineer to the commisioners of the northern light houses for nearly half a century and has now retired from that honorable station: the officers and light keepers who served under him, have presented this piece of plate as a mark of thier respect for his strict and impatial exaction of duty as their Chief Officer and aslso their high esteem for all the private virtues which distunguish him as a man.
June 1843.
Very rare engraving with letterpress, sheet 320 x 245mm (12¾ x 9½"). Creases where previously folded. Some cockling and time staining.
An image of a dish with sea monster legs; wave handles and a lighthouse handle on the lid plus letterpress. Robert Stevenson (1772 –1850) was a Scottish engineer and famed architect of lighthouses. Most famous for the construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
[Ref: 56994] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sketch book of Sir John Arrow Kempe during the Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Lighthouses and Light Vessels, 1892-1897.]
Unique album containing a photograph and 28 watercolours.
Sir John Arrow Kempe KCB (1846-1928) was a Member of Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Lighthouses and Light Vessels, 1892-1897, joining a voyage around British waters aboard HMS Enchantress to test wireless equipment . This album contains a photograph of the ship and 28 sketches of coastlines, many with lighhouses, including views of Holyhead, Wexford, the Scillys, Milford Haven, Orford Ness, the Firth of Forth and Solway Firth.
[Ref: 52629] £580.00 view all images for this item

1. The Edystone. 2. Leghorn. 3. Tour de Cordouan, N.E. 4. Chesseron Light & Signals House, E. b N. 5. Genova. 6. Balaino Light & Signal House, East.
[Engraved by J.C. Stadler after John Thomas Serres.]
Engrav'd for I.T. Serres's Little Sea Torch, & Publish'd by him, London, 1801.
Aquatint, printed in blue and hand finished. 240 x 390mm, 9½ x 15¼". Occasional spots.
Six finely-coloured views of lighthouses. Published in Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13478] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Albert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon.] Le Duc d'Arenberg. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Tho.s Will.m Coke Esq.r at Holkham in the County of Norfolk.
Vandyke Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Publish'd August 12.th 1783, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, on verso in pencil "Achetez a Paris Juin 1910"; 630 x 460mm (24¾ x 18"), with large margins. Tear in bottom margin taped.
A magnificent equestrian portrait of Albert de Ligne (1600-74), Prince of Barbançon and Arenberg, a commander in the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. A reversed copy of the painting still at Holkham Hall.
CS 2, state ii of ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64611] £420.00

[Albert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon.] [Le Duc d'Arenberg. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Tho.s Will.m Coke Esq.r at Holkham in the County of Norfolk.]
Vandyke Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Publish'd August 12.th 1783, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 630 x 460mm (24¾ x 18"). Trimmed just into plate, remargined on three sides.
A magnificent equestrian portrait of Albert de Ligne (1600-74), Prince of Barbançon and Arenberg, a commander in the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. A reversed copy of the painting still at Holkham Hall.
CS 2, state i of ii. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64612] £420.00

[Hebe Watson & Earl Ligonier] No X. The Youthful Hebe. No. XI. The Old Soldier.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Cut.
A double portrait of Miss Hebe Watson and Earl Ligonier, Watson was a servant in the Earl's house. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 4461.
[Ref: 45416] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble John Lord Viscount Ligonier, One of His Majesty's most Hon.ble Privy Council, Knight of the most Hon.ble Order of Bath. Colonel of His Majesty's First Regm.t of Foot Guards, Field Marshall & Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces & Master General of the Ordnance.
J. Reynolds pinx.t. E. Fisher fec.t.
Sold by E. Fisher at the Golden Head in Leicester Square price 10.s. 6.d. [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare mezzotint Sheet: 470 x 645mm (18½ x 25½"). Trimmed on left inside platemark.
A mounted portrait of John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (1680-1770), leading official of the Pitt-Newcastle ministery and officer in the British army and Commander-in-Chief during the Seven Years War. Ligonier is depicted upon a rearing horse, in the midst of battle, while the battle goes on behind him in the background.
Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40633] £550.00

[John Lewis Ligonier. Earl of Ligonier 1766.] [Sir John Ligonier.] [Knight of the Bath Lieutenant General of His Majestys Forces, & of ye Ordnance, &c.
Worsdale pinxt. 1756. Price two Shillings
[n.d. c.1770.]
A very scarce mezzotint, proof before all letters. 343 x 246mm. 13½ x 9¾". Cut to image and inset into sheet.
John Ligonier, Earl Ligonier (1680-1770), the French-born British Field Marshal who later became a leading official of the Pitt-Newcastle Ministry that led Britain during the Seven Years' War, exercising extensive control over Britain's army as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.
Not recorded in CS.
[Ref: 26158] £480.00

Capture of the Liguria, Aug.t. 7.th. 1798.
Painted by T. Whitcombe. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1. 1816, at 48 Strand for J. Jenkins's Naval Achievements.
Handcoloured aquatint. Plate: 300 x 215mm, (11¾ x 8½"). Very large margins.
Naval scene showing the capture of the Genoese pirate Liguria by the Espoir under the command of L.O. Bland near Gibraltar. From 'The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793-1817' by J.Jenkins.
[Ref: 39027] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A Likely Cast.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 200 x 265mm (8 x 10¼")
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 56107] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A Likely Cast.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 201 x 264mm. Glued to mount card at extremities.
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 7663] £420.00

Mr. John Lilborne. 53.
from an original Painting. M. V.de Gucht fecit:
[n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving with large margins. 171 x 102mm (6¾ x 4").
John Lilburne (1614-1657) the English political Leveller, known as Freeborn John. He coined the term 'freeborn rights'.
[Ref: 29693] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Lilburne, Heir of the ancient Family of Lilburne of Thickley Puncherdon in the Bishoprick of Durham...]
[S. Cooper pinx.t. C. Watson sculp.]
[London, Published 1st May 1807 by R.t Wilkinson, No. 58 Cornhill.]
[Stipple and etching, proof before all letters. Sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). A little surface soiling.
Colonel Robert Lilburne (1613-65), a signatory to the death warrant of King Charles I in 1649 and forty-seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners. After the restoration he was found guilty of high treason: his sentence of being hung, drawn and quartered was commuted to life in prison. His younger brother was John Lilburne, the well known Leveller. According to Alexander this print was published to meet the demand from extra-illustrators, particularly those who wanted to enlarge Clarendon's 'History of the Great Rebellion'.
Alexander 89.
[Ref: 56660] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Lilford, the Seat of Thomas Powys Esq.r
T. Jeffrys Sculp:
[n.d. c.1791; but later.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 221 x 305mm. 8¾ x 12".
From John Bridges' "History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire".
[Ref: 27602] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Lilliputians.] Il Regalo. 9. Mira Marsisa bella il nobil dono, che trasportato fù già dalla senna: Spresso torna a guardar qiali ore sono, e altrui con grazia, e con stupor l'accenna.
[Italian, c.1780.]
Rare etching with hand colour. 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"), with margins. Repaired tear not visible.
A Lilliputian scene: a dwarfish man in wig and frockcoat gives a similar-sized woman a pocket watch while her parents look on. A servant struggles to bring in a boudoir chair as big as he is.
See 54694
[Ref: 54036] £360.00

[Lilliputians.] Accademia. Ecco spiega Marsisa il suo valore, E che sola beltà non è il suo vanto; Scioglie il libro leggiadro al dolee carito, Che le Insegnò di Maggio il gran Cantore.
[Firenze presso Lorenzo Bardi [n.d.1780.]
Rare etching with hand colour. 295 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"), with small margins. Repaired tear not visible.
A Lilliputian scene in a salon: a dwarfish woman sings accompanied by a violin and cello. The cellist, staning on a box to play his instrument, wears spectacles.
See 54036 for similar.
[Ref: 54694] £360.00

Lilla.
[Designed by Fanny Corbaux. Drawn on Stone by Louisa Corbaux.] F. Corbaux.
[London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. 1837.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins. 380 x 279mm (15 x 11"). Chips to lower corners.
Lilla, a veiled prophet, a character from 'Lalla Rookh', the oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Published in the 'Pearls of the East. Beauties from Lallarookh'. Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Her sister, Louisa (c.1808-1889), lithographed this print.
[Ref: 31079] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Bombardement de Lille, Par les Austriens, au Mois de Septemb. 1792.]
Peint par Watteau Pere à Lille. Gravé par Masquelier le J.ne à Paris.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching. proof before title. 505 x 675mm (20 x 26½"), with large margins. Repairs at original centre fold.
A large scene of the Austrian army bombarding Lille in 1792, defended by a Republican garrison during the War of the First Coalition. The figure mounted on a whte horse in the foreground is probably Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738-1822), the Habsburg commander. After firing 60,000 shots into the city, the Austrians eventually withdrew to avoid being encircled by a French relief army.
[Ref: 59323] £420.00

[Lille] The Siege of Lisle in 1708.
A. Benoist del. C. Du Bosc fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. 1735 [by Claude Du Bosc].
Engraving. 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), with large margins.
A scene in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), with Eugene of Savoy and the Duke Marlborough on horseback before a view of the citty of Lille under bombardment. A plate from 'The Military History of the Late Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of the Late John Duke of Marlborough: Including a Particular Description of the Several Battles, Sieges, &c. in which Either or Both Those Generals Commanded'. The scene is surrounded by a decorative frame.
[Ref: 64723] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A. Lilley.
A. Chevallier Tayler 1905 [facsimile signature.]
Gilbt. Whitehead & Co., Ltd., Lith. New Eltham, S.E.
Chromolithograph, 381 x 254mm (15 x 10").
Arthur Frederick Augustus Lilley (1866-1929), English cricketer who played 35 Test matches from 1896 to 1909, more than any other England wicket-keeper in the first sixty years of Test Cricket. Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925), the English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting. From 'The Empire's Cricketers'.
[Ref: 27632] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Lilliputian Auction.
Woodward del. Cruikshank st.
Pub.d by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London [c.1804].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 25 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame.
Satire on ignorant collectors. In an auction, two pictures are on display, a landscape ('Lot 32 a Beutifull Claude in the highest preservation') and a portrait, which the auctioneer is opening the bidding for ('Lot 20- Cleopatra an undoubted Corregio'). A prospective buyer examines the latter through a looking glass while his advisor assures him of its authenticity ('I saw it myself in Egypt'). On the far left a man pays a deposit for the chinese figure he holds under his arm, while a bespactacled man in the centre reads a sales catalogue offering a piece of Noah's Ark, Alexander the Great's knee buckle, and Julius Caesar's wig.
Not in BM Satires, but BM 1990,1109.28.
[Ref: 68223] £360.00

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] April. Don Diego Surly-Phyz and his boy Dumplin. Tis not in April showers alone. Wrapt in his cloark, you'll see the Don. His cloak and grave affected face. His haughty air and solemn pace. He wears as marks of Wisdom - whether, Tis hot or cold, dry or rainy weather.
Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. 254 x 146mm (10 x 5¾"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
Scene in April, a dwarf and his son, the man dressed with cloak and large tricorne to cover himself from the April rain. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 15955] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] August. Sr. Tony Watch-waters and Dame Grizell his beautiful wife. Hah Madam, have I caught ye napping, How luckily, for me things happen: This letter, then to one discovers, Some Assignation of your lovers, And should that prove the case to be, Expect a horse whip, lock and key.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving. 255 x 147mm (10 x 5¾"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
Scene in August, a dwarf catches his wife taking a nap. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in, in this case including a girl ducking a man's head under the water of a pond. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 15959] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] December. Sir Machiavel Nietherside a Coffee house Politician and Nick Sitr-it-up the Coffee boy, Boy, bring my Osborn Fog and Danvers, and Walsingham - that I may canvas. The state of Billingsgate and know, Which does most dirt and scandal throw. Who gives the lie with the best grace, And who can best call names apace.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving. 248 x 148mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
Scene in December, a dwarf is served coffee as he sits smoking. Below: a man kneels on top of a wild pig to cut it open.
[Ref: 15961] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] February. The Great Princess Pollichinella in Masquerade, &c Seignior Heidigger.
[London: Dicey & Co?, n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving, scarce. Sheet 195 x 180mm (7¾ x 7"). Very trimmed, losing verse and decorative border. Damaged.
A dwarfish couple in elaborate costume with masks. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 48150] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures. January. Sr. Jeffrey Jumble and my lady Grave-airs. Dear Duck, while thus abroad...and bid defiance to the Weather.
Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. 260 x 151mm. (10¼ x 6"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
An affluent dwarfish couple, richly-dressed to keep out the January cold. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
see O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England' pp.159-60.
[Ref: 15953] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] July. Mr Item Dunwell my Lords Steward, and Gaffer Clodhopper a Tenant. The Steward by his spendthrift Lord is sent, To dun poor Hopp for some arrears of rent, The Farmer prays that he'll vouchsafe to say, Till he can thrash his corn, or sell his hay, The Steward swears his angry Lord is poor, And must have present Cash to game & whore.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. 260 x 146mm (10¼ x 5¾"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
Scene in July, a dwarf steward discusses rent and tenancy with a farmer holding a pitch fork. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 15958] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] June. Sir Peregrine Soft-head and my Lady Gad-abroad. So sweet you look my honey suckle, Who would not to your beauty bruckle, And which ee'r way you please to turn ye, Dance after you a whole days Journey, Booted and spur'd in midst of June, Regardless of the scorching Sun.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. 260 x 153mm (10¼ x 6"). Cut and laid on album sheet. Slight staining.
Scene in June, a couple of dwarfs taking a stroll in the early summer weather. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 15957] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] March. Sir Timothy Carefull and Dicky Digwell ye Gardener So often Dick you take a pot. that half your business is forgot. However___as tis time of year, For planting, and for brewing beer. Tho you in other things are sinful, Mind these and you shall drink your skinful.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. 254 x 146mm (10 x 5¾"). Cut and laid on album sheet.
Scene in March, the dwarf to the right shows off a tree root ready to plant; gardeners working in the background. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 15954] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] November Justice Woodcock a Great Sportsman and Tom Conie his Clerk.
[London: Dicey & Co?, n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving, scarce. Sheet 295 x 185mm (11¾ x 7½"). Trimmed to image. Loss bottom left. Backed with another print.
Portraits of a dwarfish couple, with boy. At the bottom another dwarf picks fruit from the ground. At top men with hunting horns. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 48152] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] October. Beau Noodle and Mistress Simper ye Bar-keeper. Thus with a Mistress and a Glass, How merrily the moments pass, Happy I think my self with either, But doubly so with love together, Then let us drink and laugh and toy, Nor wish for any other joy.
[Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1740.]
Rare engraving. 255 x 150mm. (10 x 6"). Slight crease from centre, thread margins.
Scene in October, a dwarfish couple sit at a table drinking. The main scene is within an ornate border with little vignettes worked in, in this case including a man slumped on the floor drinking. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 36533] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Twelve Months Represented by Lilliputian Figures.] September Bob Wren the bird catcher, and Bett Squatt the Fruitress.
[London: Dicey & Co?, n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving, scarce. Sheet 295 x 185mm (11¾ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate, loss in top right corner, hole in printed border at bottom. Damaged
Portraits of a dwarfish couple, with boy and girl dwarfs climbing the elaborate printed border. At the bottom another dwarf picks fruit from the ground. According to O'Connell: 'A genre of humorous dwarf figures appeared in Germany about 1604 in the first of several versions of 'Il Callotto resuscitato''. This series bears some resemblence to Jacques Callot's grotesque 'Gobbi' series, but linked to Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by the title on 'January'. Thomas Bowles's 1754 catalogue included this set, 'Eleven Prints of Lilliputian Humours', 'Lilliputian Figures', 'Lilliputian Riding School twelve prints' & 'Lilliputian Dancing School twelve prints', showing the popularity of the genre.
[Ref: 48151] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Timothy Rack-Rent, an Old Miserable Landlord & his Neighbour Lease-hold, a Country Attorney.
Printed for John Spilsbury, Engraver Map and Printseller, in Russel-Court Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1760]
Rare etching 250 x 275mm (9¾ x 10¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Small margins. Small tears in margins repaired with tape.
From "The Lilliputian Humorists Drawn as Big as the Life" a series of 10 etchings with grotesque figures in the manner of Callot, humourously personifying national and professional types, each surrounded by figurative strapwork borders and accompanied by verses.
[Ref: 61923] £380.00

Terrible Standall an Irish Rapparee and Fardinando Dreadnought a Swiss Officer.
Printed for John Spilsbury, Engraver Map and Printseller, in Russel-Court Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1760]
Rare etching 250 x 275mm (9¾ x 10¾"), with 18th century watermark.. Small tatty margins. Tears repaired with tape.
From "The Lilliputian Humorists Drawn as Big as the Life" a series of 10 etchings with grotesque figures in the manner of Callot, humourously personifying national and professional types, each surrounded by figurative strapwork borders and accompanied by verses.
[Ref: 61924] £380.00

Hot spice Gingerbread. Smoking hot!
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 95 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾").
A burlesque of the 'Cries of London', with the vendor of gingerbread and his customer depicted as 'Lilliputian' figures (small body and big head). The vendor is pushing a wheelbarrow with a small furnace.
[Ref: 63493] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Holla Sawney where are you travelling so fast? Stop a bit I want to speak to you --- Hoot awa man. I am travelling south for preferment and t'is mickle bad luck for s scotsman to look behimd him once he has got clear of Edinburgh.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and watercolour, pt watermark P J [T]urners. Sheet 95 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾").
Emigration to England.
[Ref: 63494] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

William Lilly.
[after William Marshall]
[n.d., c.1817].
Engraving, sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate on left, small margins top and bottom.
Half length portrait of the astrologer William Lilly seated at table; right hand on globe, left hand on paper; wearing black doublet, cloak, and white collar; with shoulder length curled hair; landscape and curtain in background. Possibly the print after Marshall by G P Wainwright and published by Charles Baldwyn. William Lilly (1602 –1681) was an English astrologer who had significant impact on the future course of Western astrological tradition, despite his socioeconomic position early in life.
Wellcome: 1772
[Ref: 57156] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[William Lilly.] Gulielmus Lillius. Astrologus Natus Comitat: Liect: 1st May 1602.
Guil. Marshall sculpsit.
[1647.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer. Frontispiece to his work 'Christian astrology' 1647/59.
[Ref: 67687] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[William Lilly.]
Guil. Marshall sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1822.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer. Frontispiece to 'History of his Lig published in 1822.
[Ref: 67689] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Gulielmus Lillius Astrologus Natus Comitat: Leicest: 1o Maij 1602.
Guliel: Marshall sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1647.]
Engraving. 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"). Tear taped. With small margins.
William Lilly (1602-81), the most important English astrologer of his time, was a great influence on modern fortune telling. He published an annual almanac that sold 30,000 in 1659. In 1652 he published images of a city on fire; he was later called in for questioning by the Parliamentary committee investigating the causes of the Great Fire of London. This portrait was the frontispiece to his 'Christian Astrology' of 1647.
Wellcome: 1772
[Ref: 52560] £55.00 (£66.00 incl.VAT)

Nouveau Rejetton d'un Lis.[New Offspring of a Lily]
Peint Par Madame de Fleury. M.Gauci lith.
Pr.d by Graf & Soret. [n.d. c.1820]
Lithograph sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), large margins.
Celebratory portrait of the "the miracle child" Prince Henri, Count of Chambord and Duke of Bordeaux (1820–1883) being born from a lily symbolic of the heraldry of France (fleur-de-lis). The House of Bourbon was on the verge of extinction when Henri d'Artois was born, this was a major setback for the Duke of Orleans' ambitions to ascend the French throne.
[Ref: 55929] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Lily Trotter.]
EJD [monogram]. E. J. Detmold [signed in pencil].
[n.d., 1924.]
Etching, signed in pencil, 230 x 230mm, 9 x 9". Slight creasing.
A jacanas chick on a lily pad. Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) and his twin Charles Maurice Detmold (1883-1908) were twins and child protegés who worked very closely together until C.M. Detmold committed suicide in 1908. Traumatised, Edward produced only one etching in the next fifteen years, returning to the art only in 1923.
Guichard: p. 35, 'as exquisitely detailed as any'.
[Ref: 21417] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Lima.
R. E. del et lith. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
London: Hurst & Blackett, Great Marlborough Street. [n.d., c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 235 x 150mm, (9¼ x 6").
A view of the town of Lima in Peru at night showing the Puente de Piedra, the bridge over the River Rimac.
[Ref: 40771] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Limburgi expugnatio Io. Austriaco Gubernatore. 1578.
[Maintz, 1651.]
Etching, 220 x 280mm, 8¾ x 11". Paper toned, some wear.
The city of Limburg in Wallonia in Belgium, under seige by the Austrians under Alexander Farnese, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (and Duke of Parma from 1586), in May 1578, with latin key identifying locations A plate from Famiano Strada's 'De Bello Belgico'.
[Ref: 19526] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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