Grosvenor Prints

[William Nowell.]
C. Maucourt Pinx.t er Fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Scarce & rare mezzotint proof before letters. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed to image and laid on paper at corners.
A three-quarter length portrait of an affluent man in fur-lined coat and brocade waistcoat, holding a glass, a bottle of hock on the table next to him. The subject was originally identified as Thomas Nowell (1710-80), a coffin plate chaser (a maker and engraver of coffin ornaments), but the Challoner Smith Corrections has amended this to William Novell (d.1761), publican of the Jerusalem Tavern, 55 Britton Street, Clerkenwell.
CS: 3. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 55304]
[Ref: 69345] £460.00

Oedipus. Act II. Scene I. Oedip. _ hear me, hear me, gods!
Fuseli pinx.t. Holloway sc.
London, Printed for J. Bell, British Library, Strand, Feb.y 11, 1792.
Etching & engraving. 175 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼").
An illustration to 'Oedipus: A Tragedy', John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee's adaptation of Sophocles' ''Oedipus Rex'', as published in 'Bell's British Theatre'. The original painting, by Henry Fuseli, is now lost.
Weinglass 128.
[Ref: 69421] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Georgina George Oldmixon] Miss George.
Miss Howell pinx.t. Orme sculp.t.
London, Publish'd 20.th Aug.st 1787, by Billington & Freeman, Carvers, Gilders & Printsellers, 234 Strand, Temple Bar.
Scarce stipple, printed in brown. 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6"), large margins
A half-length portrait in oval of singer & actress Georgina George (c.1745-1835). She was born in Oxford, where she made her debut at the Holywell Music Room in 1779. In 1783 she moved to Covent Garden then Haymarket and Drury Lane. She married a Bath beau, Sir John Morella Oldmixon, after which they moved to America. In 1794 she performed at Thomas Wignell's theatre in Philadelphia as 'Mrs Oldmixon' (rather than Lady Oldmixon). The pair split up but she remained in Philadelphia, eventually retiring from the stage in 1814 and becoming the principal of a girls' seminary.
https://www.earlyamericanactresses.com/first-stars/georgina-george-oldmixon/
[Ref: 69285] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sam.l. Orton. (Clerk of the Court of Requests in the Borough of Southwark) committing Forgery, on the Bank of England.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 175 x 110 (7 x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides.
Portrait of Samuel Orton, a Clerk to the Court of Requests, who was executed on the 14th January 1767 for forging Two Letters of Attorney, in the Name of Captain Bishop, by means of which he received One Thousand Pounds from the Bank of England.
[Ref: 68763] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Overland Alphabet, from Sketches taken ''en route'' by Isabel D_ with 28 Illustrations Coloured.
Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lithog.rs 36, Walbrook, London.
London. William Tegg & C.º, 85 Queen Street, Cheapside, and Sold by Joseph Myers & C.º, Leadenhall Street [n.d., c.1853].
4º, recent stiff wrapper with marbled cover; illustrated title and nine plates, all tinted lithographs finished with fine hand colour. Scarce. Title and two plates with small tears repaired, a few spots.
An account of a voyage from Southampton to Egypt aboard S.S. Bentinck, via Gibraltar and Valletta, then across Suez, via Aden and Madras to Calcutta. Each letter of the alphabet (three to a page) is given a vignette scene and two lines of verse (described as 'execrable rhyming couplets' in a 2007 Sothebys sale). The author was unable to find a 'Z' word.
[Ref: 69280] £890.00 view all images for this item

The Owl Face. In dull Solemnity there winks the Owl / With Hideous Laugh here shakes the grinning Fool / Laughing he beholds the grave & Solemn Phiz / Nor thins his own Resemblace there he sees.
J. Molin [Jan Miense Molenaer] Pinx.t. W. Bockman Fecit.
[John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhil] [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, losing publication line at bottom, laid on card.
A very fine image of a grinning fool with an owl teathered to a perch.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69255] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Her Grace the Dutchess of Bolton. &c.
G.Kneller S.R.Imp et Angl Eques Aur Pinx. I.Smith fec.
[n.d., c.1700.] Sold by I.Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, 415 x 265mm (16¼ x 10½"). Small margins and laid on album paper at edges. Foxing.
Portrait of Henrietta Paulet, Duchess of Bolton (c. 162 - 1730), the third wife of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton. She was one of several aristocratic female signatories who petitioned the king for the creation of a Foundling Hospital in the late 1720s, but she did not live long enough to see its creation. She spent part of her life in Dublin, and the city's Henrietta Street is reputedly named after her.
CS19 II or III of III. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 69430] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Peinture. A Madame de Pompafour Dame du Palais de La Reine Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Fessard.
Carle Vanloo pinxit. St. Fessard Sculp 1756.
AParis chez l''Auteur, graveur du Roi et de sa Bibliothèque rue St Thomas du Louvre.
Rare etching with engraving. 345 x 290mm (13½ x 11½"). Restoration in left of inscription area and margin top right. Small margins.
A small boy paints a near naked young girl. The plate is dedicated to Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), favourite mistress and confidant of Louis XV. Van Loo's portrait of the previous year, 'La Marquise de Pompadour en jardinière' still hangs in Versailles.
[Ref: 69479] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Penelope.
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. Dumée Sculp.
London Pub. Jn 1795 by J. Read, N.º 133 Pall Mall. [But later]
Stipple, printed in sepia. 330 x 355mm (13 x 14"), with large margins.
Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, sitting on a terrace with her attendants, unravelling the burial shroud she is weaving for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes. She had promised to pick a new husband when she finished it. A scene from near the end of Homer's 'Odyssey'.
[Ref: 69393] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Execution of Perrott in Smithfield for defrauding his Creditors under a Commision of Bankrupt.
Valois sc.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins on 3 sides.
A scene depicting the execution of John Perrott, a Bankrupt, who refused to make Full Disclosures of his Effects, and was executed in Smithfield, 11th of November, 1761.
[Ref: 68755] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

First View of the Khasne. Petra.
L.T. [Louisa Tenison] Dickinson & Son Lith.
[London: Dickinson and Son, 1846.]
Rare tinted lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 420 x 270mm (16½ x 10¾") with very large margins.
The famous view of the Al-Khazneh (Treasury) of Petra, as seen approaching through the 'Siq' a narrow gorge that is the main entrance to the ancient city. From the rare 'Sketches in the East by Lady Louisa Tenison. Drawn on stone by Dickinson & Son', which contaained 30 plates. Lady Louisa Mary Anne Tenison (c.1820-82), the daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, married Edward King Tenison of Kilronan Castle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1856) in 1838 visited Egypt, Syria and Palestine with him in 1843.
Not in Abbey Travel.
[Ref: 69500] £380.00

Entrance to Petra.
L. Tenison. Dickinson & Son Lith.
[London: Dickinson and Son, 1846.]
Rare tinted lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 420 x 270mm (16½ x 10¾") very large margins.
A view looking up at an ancient stone bridge over a ravine. From the rare 'Sketches in the East by Lady Louisa Tenison. Drawn on stone by Dickinson & Son', which contaained 30 plates. Lady Louisa Mary Anne Tenison (c.1820-82), the daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, married Edward King Tenison of Kilronan Castle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1856) in 1838 visited Egypt, Syria and Palestine with him in 1843.
Not in Abbey Travel.
[Ref: 69501] £380.00

Philæ.
L.T. [Lady Louisa Tenison]. Dickinson & Son Lith.
[London: Dickinson and Son, 1846.]
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 300 x 390mm (11¾ x 15¼") very large margins.
A view of the island temple complex on Philae, which was dismantled and moved to the Agilkia Island because of the construction of the Aswan Dam. From the rare 'Sketches in the East by Lady Louisa Tenison. Drawn on stone by Dickinson & Son', which contaained 30 plates. Lady Louisa Mary Anne Tenison (c.1820-82), the daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, married Edward King Tenison of Kilronan Castle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1856) in 1838 visited Egypt, Syria and Palestine with him in 1843.
Not in Abbey Travel.
[Ref: 69509] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Pirate hanged at Execution Dock.
Dodd delin. Page sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Thread margins.
A scene depicting the hanging of a pirate at the Execution Dock in Wapping. It has been suggested that the pirate is Captain James Lowry, hanged in 1762. The man on horseback to the left holds the silver oar-mace of the Court of Admiralty, under whose jurisdiction the crime of piracy was tried and those convicted usually hanged. In London this was traditionally at Execution Dock, Wapping, where the gallows stood between the high and low watermarks on the Thames foreshore and the body was left hanging until three tides had at least partially submerged it. The corpse was then either often sent for anatomical dissection (ostensibly for medical training purposes) or in the case of notorious pirates coated in tar to preserve it as long as possible and hung in an iron gibbet framework at a prominent point on the Thames as a warning to others, until it rotted away.
[Ref: 68746] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Macarthy As Pretty Poll Of Putney. in Poll & Partner Joe. New Series N.o 122.
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale print Warehouse 111 Fleet Street & by Turner & Fisher New York & Philadelphia. [n.d. c.1835]
Stipple engraving, sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Full-length portrait of a woman holding a gazette in her left hand and waving with another. Likely actress Maria Honner (nee Macarthy 1812–1870) in 'My Poll and My Partner Joe' a nautical drama in three acts, produced at the Surrey Theatre on 7th September 1835, a popular play by J.T. Haines.
[Ref: 69489] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland. [Engraved for the Register of the Times.]
W. Ridley, Sculp.
[Publish'd as the Act directs August 11, 1794 by B. Crosby, 4 Stationers Court.]
Stipple. Sheet 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate, losing sur-title and publication line. Offset.
A half-length portrait in oval of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1732-98), last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-95). Published in ''The Register of the Times'', a short-lived (1794-6) but influencial political newspaper.
[Ref: 69398] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

General Post Office, S.t Martin's Le Grand.
W. Simpson, del. _ T. Picken, Lith. Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published May 1.st 1852, by Mess.rs Lloyd Brothers & C.o Ludgate Hill.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, sheet 340 x 435mm (13½ x 17").
A street scene with the post office on the left and St Paul’s Cathedral rising in the distance to the right; in the right foreground is the shop of “F. Litton, Tobacco and Snuff.” A carriage passes a heavily laden wagon, while a man stands carrying a board on his back, surrounded by street traders and pedestrians. Before becoming a war artist, William Simpson (1823–1899), he had apprenticeships with lithographic firms Macfarlane and Allan & Ferguson in Glasgow. Alongside his work, he developed his drawing skills by sketching from nature and attended evening classes at the Government School of Design (now the Glasgow School of Art). In 1851, he joined the London lithographic firm Day & Son, where this print was produced.
[Ref: 68985] £680.00

General Post Office, S.t Martin's Le Grand.
W. Simpson, del. _ T. Picken, Lith. Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published May 1.st 1852, by Mess.rs Lloyd Brothers & C.o Ludgate Hill.
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour, sheet 375 x 480mm (14¾ x 18¾"), very large margins.
A street scene with the post office on the left and St Paul’s Cathedral rising in the distance to the right; in the right foreground is the shop of “F. Litton, Tobacco and Snuff.” A carriage passes a heavily laden wagon, while a man stands carrying a board on his back, surrounded by street traders and pedestrians. Before becoming a war artist, William Simpson (1823–1899), he had apprenticeships with lithographic firms Macfarlane and Allan & Ferguson in Glasgow. Alongside his work, he developed his drawing skills by sketching from nature and attended evening classes at the Government School of Design (now the Glasgow School of Art). In 1851, he joined the London lithographic firm Day & Son, where this print was produced.
[Ref: 68979] £680.00

Lady Catherine Powlet. Daughter of his Grace the Duke of Bolton.
R. Cosway R.A. Delin.t C.W. White Sculp.t.
Publish'd November the 22nd 1782 by C.W. White Stafford Row Pimlico.
Stipple, printed in brown. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"), large margins. Publication line weakly inked
Lady Catherine Powlet (1766-1807), daughter of the sixth and last Duke of Bolton; married 1787 to William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington and Duke of Cleveland.
Daniell [Cosway]: 117. See Ref: 24407 for altered publication line.
[Ref: 69294] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Prodigal Son returned Home Reclaimed. S.t Luke Ch. XV. v.16.
Pub. April 9, 1805, by J. Hinton, 44, Well Str.t Oxford Str.t London.
Mezzotint with strong hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, creasing, small tear in bottom edge.
The biblical scene updated to contemporary times, with the father greeting his son outside a Palladian villa.
[Ref: 69251] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Prosperity.
G.B. Cipriani, Del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pub.d as the Act directs December 19.th 1783, by G. Bartolozzi N.º 5 John Street Oxford Street.
Rare stipple printed in brown. 220 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, crease between title and publication line.
An allegory of prosperity, with a woman and two children amongst emblems of natural and material wealth. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and published by his son Gaetano.
De Vesme 697 iii of v.
[Ref: 69471] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Puss in Boots. Or General Junot taken by surprise.
Rowlandson Del.
[1811 (date erased)] by Thos. Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Crease bottom left, laid on album paper.
The French general Jean-Andoche Junot (1771 - 1813) wakes to find a grinning woman marching around wearing his cocked hat, jack-boots, gloves and sword-belt, flourishing his sword. Junot commanded the eighth army corps under Massena during the Peninsular War in 1810-11, having been Governor-General of Portugal. The woman is probably Juliana Luisa Maria de Almeida e Oyenhausen, a Portuguese noble and Junot's mistress, who used her position to exert influence over him. By Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827).
BM Satires: 11720. Grego II Page 204.
[Ref: 69376] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Back of George Hibberts Esqr House at Putney Sepr 12th 1812.
[Drawing by John Claude Nattes.]
[n.d., c.1812.]
Fine ink and graphite sketch. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13"). Laid on card at sides.
The back of a large house, seen through massive double gates, to a yard with several water barrels. John Claude Nattes (c.1765–1839) was a watercolourist and topographical draughtsman of either French or English origin. In 1789, Joseph Banks commissioned Nattes to record the architecture of Lincolnshire, resulting in more than 700 drawings and watercolours produced between 1789 and 1797. This remarkable body of work remains an important record of pre-Victorian topography. He later accompanied John Stoddart on tours of Scotland, providing illustrations for Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland (1801). Nattes was among the earliest practitioners of watercolour painting in Britain and was associated with the founding of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804. Although expelled two years later, for exhibiting other people's work as his own, he continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1814.
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69312] £480.00

[An Old Building at Putney, Sept 12 1826.] [and another watercolour by Emslie]
[by George Shepherd.]
[1826]
A preparatory pencil sketch and the completed watercolour. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½") & 170 x 225mm (7 x 9"). Laid on card together.
A ramshackle house with a willow.
From the Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69314] £350.00

Tudor House Putney.
Percy Thomas, Sept 1895.
Rare etching signed by the artist, 135 x 160mm (5½ x 6¼"), with very large margins
Percy Thomas R.E. (c.1846 - 1922) was a painter and etcher of landscapes, genre scenes and portraits. He was born in London in 1846 and studied at the Royal Academy Schools as well as under James Abbott McNeill Whistler as his first pupil. Whistler taught him to etch, and in 1874 he etched a portrait of his master for inclusion in Ralph Thomas's Catalogue of Whistler's Etchings. Percy Thomas exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1867 and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1881. He lived in London and later in Hove, Sussex.
[Ref: 69490] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Putney ad Ripam Tamesis.
E.f [monogram of John Evelyn]
[n.d. c.1649] [But later]
Very rare etching, 105 x 150mm (4¼ x 5¾"). Small margins. Tipped into album sheet.
In his famous Diary, Evelyn documents taking a barge up the Thames in April 1649 to visit young ladies' schools in Putney, where he mentions sketching the landscape. An impression of this exact print was corrected in pencil by Evelyn himself to read Battersea . John Evelyn (1620–1706) was a diarist, virtuoso, and amateur etcher. Nearly all of his own etchings were produced in 1649. His treatise Sculptura was published in 1662, although his interest in printmaking diminished in later life.
[Ref: 69493] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Putney.
Tho. Preist Pinx, et Sculp.
Publish' according to Act of Parliament September 25. 1738. [T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies]
Very rare engraving, 18th century watermark, sheet 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed on three sides with thread margin at top. Light foxing.
View on the Thames at Putney, with people boating and bathing in the foreground and Putney Bridge in the background.
[Ref: 69495] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Putney Bridge.
Drawn by John O'Connor R.I. Engraved by John Saddler.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Engraving on steel, printed on chine collé. 265 x 455mm (10½ x 18"). Laid on card at corners, small margins.
A view of Putney Bridge from the Putney shoreline, with All Saints Church, Fulham, on the opposite bank.
From the Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Five views of Putney Bridge.]
[1779-1842]
Two copper engravings, two on steel, one wood-engraving. Largest 180 x 290mm (7 x 11½"). Trimmed and laid on card & 3 small engravings of the bridge.
The largest is from 'The Modern Universal British Traveller".
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69315] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Putney Bridge.]
[c.1886.]
Two wood-engraved views and four wood-engraved contract drawings. Largest 185 x 285mm (7¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed and laid on card.
Two scenes of the Prince & Princess of Wales at the opening of the new Putney Bridge and four architectural plans.
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69316] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Three views of Putney Bridge.]
[1779-1842]
Sepia aquatint & two etchings. Aquatint 145 x 205mm (5¾ x 8"). Trimmed and laid on card.
Three views of the first Putney Bridge, all with the Church of St. Mary the Virgin.
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69319] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Six Views of the River Thames &c: No.1. A View of Fulham Bridge and Putney. London Sold by T. Major at the Golden Head in West Street.
Published May 2:d 1750. accord.g to Act of Parliament.
Rare engraving, sheet 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate. Very slight foxing.
A distant view of Putney with Fulham bridge. From a set which were originally issued on a single leaf, however most frequently trimmed and split up.
See [Ref: 4028] for a set.
[Ref: 69488] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Fulham-Bridge and Putney.
Chatelain delin. J. Roberts Sculp.
[n.d. c.1750]
Engraving, sheet 80 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
View of the entrance to the bridge, looking across the river towards Putney, with figures passing through the foreground. The bridge was the second bridge built over the Thames in London (after London Bridge). It was constructed of wood and opened in 1729.
[Ref: 69492] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Church of St. Mary the Virgin] Putney Church, S.W.
C. Burton del.t. Printed by P. Simonau.
Pub: by C.T. Craicklow, Surveyor, 1 Crane Court Fleet Street.
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Laid on card at edges with a page of text about the church.
A view of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Putney, predating the substantial reconstruction of 1836 to the designs of Edward Lapidge and, of course, the fire of 1973.
From the Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69302] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Five views of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Putney]
[Various dates, c.1780-1880.]
An ink & wash sketch, two engravings on copper, a steel plate engraving (1832) and a postcard. Largest sheet 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼). Laid on card together.
Five views of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Putney, predating the substantial reconstruction of 1836 to the designs of Edward Lapidge and, of course, the fire of 1973.
From the Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69313] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Putney Church, 1830.
Paint'd & M.Jones. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d. c.1830]
Uncommon & rare lithograph on india. Sheet 275 x 205mm (10¾ x 8"), large margins.
A view of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Putney, predating the substantial reconstruction of 1836 to the designs of Edward Lapidge and, of course, the fire of 1973.
.
[Ref: 69494] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Putney Church from the White lion.
Dillon pinx. Knoell Sculps.
Publishd: by Fietta & Comp: [n.d. c.1800]
Very scarce aquatint, 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Printer's crease on left.
View of a brick church with a square battlemented tower, set within a walled churchyard on the right. A carter sits on the churchyard wall, conversing with another man and gesturing towards his horse and cart on the road to the left. In the background, a bridge spans the river, while two figures walk at the far left. The composition is enclosed within a rectangular border. Seems to be an Italian copy of one engraved by Robert Laurie and published in 1783 by John Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, London.
[Ref: 69496] £320.00

[Chatfield House. Old Mansion, opposite Fairfax House, No High St Putney 1887] [&] [Old Jacobean Residences Nos 72 & 74 High Street Putney]
J.P. Emslie 1887.[signed]
Two watercolours, titled in a later hand on the mount. Each c. 160 x 240mm (6¼ x 9½"). Mounted on card at corners
Two buildings in Putney High Street, now the site of the Putney Exchange. John Philipps Emslie (1839–1913) was a British topographical artist and folklorist. The son of the engraver John Emslie, he studied at the Working Men's College under Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1854. Emslie became known for his topographical drawings, illustrating The Illustrated Topical Record of London (1900) and writing and illustrating New Canterbury Tales (c. 1887). An original member and later council member of the Folklore Society, he also documented local folklore throughout England, combining written observations with topographical sketches.
Ex Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69305] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[''Bull & Star'' High Street, Putney.]
J.P. Emslie 1887. [signed]
Sketch, ink and watercolour. 155 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Mounted on card.
A historic public house, demolished 1971, now under TK Max. John Philipps Emslie (1839–1913) was a British topographical artist and folklorist. The son of the engraver John Emslie, he studied at the Working Men's College under Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1854. Emslie became known for his topographical drawings, illustrating The Illustrated Topical Record of London (1900) and writing and illustrating New Canterbury Tales (c. 1887). An original member and later council member of the Folklore Society, he also documented local folklore throughout England, combining written observations with topographical sketches.
Ex Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69318] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Entrance Hall of Fairfax House, High Street, Putney, 1887. [&] [The Continuation of Staircase. From the Hall to the Upper Floors oF Fairfax House, High St. Putney 1887. About to be Destroyed.
J.P. Emslie 1887.
Two pencil sketches. 160 x 240mm (6¼ x 9½") & 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6"). Mounted on card at corners.
Two pencil scetches of the features of the interior of Fairfax House. Built c.1600, it was the residence of General Thomas Fairfax during the Putney Debates (1647). It was demolished to create the junction of Putney High Street and Montserrat Road. John Philipps Emslie (1839–1913) was a British topographical artist and folklorist. The son of the engraver John Emslie, he studied at the Working Men's College under Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1854. Emslie became known for his topographical drawings, illustrating The Illustrated Topical Record of London (1900) and writing and illustrating New Canterbury Tales (c. 1887). An original member and later council member of the Folklore Society, he also documented local folklore throughout England, combining written observations with topographical sketches.
Ex Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69306] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Front View of Fairfax House, High Street, Putney. Formerley the Residence of Gen. Fairfax.
J.P. Emslie 1887. [Signed]
Ink and watercolour sketch. 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼"). Mounted on card at sides
The ivy-covered facade of Fairfax House. Built c.1600, it was the residence of General Thomas Fairfax during the Putney Debates (1647). It was demolished to create the junction of Putney High Street and Montserrat Road. John Philipps Emslie (1839–1913) was a British topographical artist and folklorist. The son of the engraver John Emslie, he studied at the Working Men's College under Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1854. Emslie became known for his topographical drawings, illustrating The Illustrated Topical Record of London (1900) and writing and illustrating New Canterbury Tales (c. 1887). An original member and later council member of the Folklore Society, he also documented local folklore throughout England, combining written observations with topographical sketches.
Ex Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection. Hollebone Collection Sothebys 1955 Lot 174.
[Ref: 69308] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Carved Fireplace in Back Room _ on the Ground Floor Overlooking garden in Fairfax House, High Street, Putney, 1887. [&] The Kitchen at Fairfax House, High St Putney, 1887. Residence of the Cromwellian Genl.
J.P. Emslie 1887.
Two pencil sketches. 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼") & 160 x 240mm (6¼ x 9½"). Mounted on cardat sides
Two pencil scetches of the features of the interior of Fairfax House. Built c.1600, it was the residence of General Thomas Fairfax during the Putney Debates (1647). It was demolished to create the junction of Putney High Street and Montserrat Road. John Philipps Emslie (1839–1913) was a British topographical artist and folklorist. The son of the engraver John Emslie, he studied at the Working Men's College under Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1854. Emslie became known for his topographical drawings, illustrating The Illustrated Topical Record of London (1900) and writing and illustrating New Canterbury Tales (c. 1887). An original member and later council member of the Folklore Society, he also documented local folklore throughout England, combining written observations with topographical sketches.
Ex Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69309] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Rear View of Fairfax House, Formerly the Residence of Genl Fairfax. High Street, Putney - 1887. To be Demolished. [&] The Stables of Genl Fairfax's House (About to be Demolished) Situate , High St Putney. Sketched 1887.
J.P. Emslie 1887. [Signed]
Two sketches, ink and watercolour. 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½") & 160 x 240mm (6¼ x 9½"). Mounted on card at sides.
Two pencil scetches of Fairfax House. Built c.1600, it was the residence of General Thomas Fairfax during the Putney Debates (1647). It was demolished to create the junction of Putney High Street and Montserrat Road. John Philipps Emslie (1839–1913) was a British topographical artist and folklorist. The son of the engraver John Emslie, he studied at the Working Men's College under Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1854. Emslie became known for his topographical drawings, illustrating The Illustrated Topical Record of London (1900) and writing and illustrating New Canterbury Tales (c. 1887). An original member and later council member of the Folklore Society, he also documented local folklore throughout England, combining written observations with topographical sketches.
Ex Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69311] £360.00

Passage at Putney Park.
[Drawing by John Claude Nattes.]
[n.d., c.1812.]
Ink and wash. Sheet 220 x 330mm (8¾ x 13"). Laid on card at corners.
A servants' passage and back staircase, with call bells on the walls. Probably the Putney Park House in Pleasance Road, Rowhampton, demolished and replaced by a new house by Decimus Burton (1837-8). John Claude Nattes (c.1765–1839) was a watercolourist and topographical draughtsman of either French or English origin. In 1789, Joseph Banks commissioned Nattes to record the architecture of Lincolnshire, resulting in more than 700 drawings and watercolours produced between 1789 and 1797. This remarkable body of work remains an important record of pre-Victorian topography. He later accompanied John Stoddart on tours of Scotland, providing illustrations for Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland (1801). Nattes was among the earliest practitioners of watercolour painting in Britain and was associated with the founding of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804. Although expelled two years later, for exhibiting other people's work as his own, he continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1814.
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69304] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Scullary at Putney Park Sept 13th 1812.
[Drawing by John Claude Nattes.]
[n.d., c.1812.]
Ink sketch. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Laid on card at corners.
An antiquated scullery, with a maid at work at a sink. Probably the Putney Park House in Pleasance Road, Rowhampton, demolished and replaced by a new house by Decimus Burton (1837-8). John Claude Nattes (c.1765–1839) was a watercolourist and topographical draughtsman of either French or English origin. In 1789, Joseph Banks commissioned Nattes to record the architecture of Lincolnshire, resulting in more than 700 drawings and watercolours produced between 1789 and 1797. This remarkable body of work remains an important record of pre-Victorian topography. He later accompanied John Stoddart on tours of Scotland, providing illustrations for Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland (1801). Nattes was among the earliest practitioners of watercolour painting in Britain and was associated with the founding of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804. Although expelled two years later, for exhibiting other people's work as his own, he continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1814.
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69307] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Putney Park June 12th 1812.
[Drawing by John Claude Nattes.]
[n.d., c.1812.]
Ink sketch with grey wash. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Laid on card at sides
A house and gardens, with a child playing with a wooden horse. Probably the Putney Park House in Pleasance Road, Rowhampton, demolished and replaced by a new house by Decimus Burton (1837-8). John Claude Nattes (c.1765–1839) was a watercolourist and topographical draughtsman of either French or English origin. In 1789, Joseph Banks commissioned Nattes to record the architecture of Lincolnshire, resulting in more than 700 drawings and watercolours produced between 1789 and 1797. This remarkable body of work remains an important record of pre-Victorian topography. He later accompanied John Stoddart on tours of Scotland, providing illustrations for Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland (1801). Nattes was among the earliest practitioners of watercolour painting in Britain and was associated with the founding of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804. Although expelled two years later, for exhibiting other people's work as his own, he continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1814.
From the Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69310] £320.00

Putney School. [&] [Putney School]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Two rare aquatints, printed in brown. 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½") & 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed, losing inscriptions, laid on card with newspaper article illustrated with these prints.
Two views of a school, the titled one with a group of boys playing cricket. According to the newspaper (Putney's 'Borough News') the building was in Carmalt Road, named after Rev. William Carmalt, headmaster of the school, whose signature is on the untitled plate.
From the Peter Jackson Collection & Gardiner Collection.
[Ref: 69317] £390.00

On The Thames, Near Putney.
Drawn by T. Maisey. On Stone by W. Gauci.
[n.d. c.1840]
Lithograph, sheet 305 x 415mm (12 x 16¼"). Trimmed near to image.
A picturesque view of the River Thames at Putney, featuring a large ancient tree in the foreground.
[Ref: 69497] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Statue of Rhameses at Metraheny.
L. Tenison. Dickinson & Son Lith.
[London: Dickinson and Son, 1846.]
Tinted lithograph with fine hand colour. Printed area 325 x 425mm (12¾ x 16¾") very large margins.
An 11-metre tall statue of Rameses II lying face-down in a ditch in Mit Rahina, where it was discovered in 1820. It is now in the entrance hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum. From the rare 'Sketches in the East by Lady Louisa Tenison. Drawn on stone by Dickinson & Son', which contaained 30 plates. Lady Louisa Mary Anne Tenison (c.1820-82), the daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, married Edward King Tenison of Kilronan Castle (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1856) in 1838 visited Egypt, Syria and Palestine with him in 1843.
Not in Abbey Travel.
[Ref: 69505] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Seven Famous Cartons of Raphael Urbin, Drawn at the Command of Pope Leo the 10th as Patterns for Tapesty: They were bought by K. Charles the first (at the Persuasion of Sr. P. P. Rubens) and brought from Flanders into England: afterwards K. William fix'd them in his Palace of Hampton-Court in the Gallery here Represented. In 1707 they were drawn and Engraven by Sim: Gribelin and by him most humbly Dedicated to Her Late Majesty.
S.G. Inv.t et Sculp.t & excudit 1720.
Frontispiece and seven plates. Each c. 185 x 220mm (7¼ x 8¾"). Frontispiece with paper tone, frontis laid on album paper, nicks and tears to all plates.
The seven plates were first published in 1707; the frontispiece accompanied their re-issue in 1720.
[Ref: 69389] £550.00 view all images for this item

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