Grosvenor Prints

[Paul et Virginie] L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie. [&] L'Adolescence de Paul et Virginie. [&] Le Triomphe de la Vertu. [&] Virginie au Tombeau.
Peint par Schall. Gravé par Augustin le Grand.
A Paris chez Augustin le Grand Rue St. Julien-le-Pauvre No 3 [illegible] [n.d. c.1800.]
Four stipples printed in colours, sheet 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Trimmed to platemark on two sides; pinhole in centre. Small tear in margin that just touches plate.
Four scenes from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Set on Mauritius, it is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 38688] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Vreugde over de Vrede geslooten tusschen de Bataafsche Republiek en Engeland, te Amiens den 27 Maart A.o 1802. Proefdruck.
C. Meijer, inv. et del. J.E. Marcus sculp. 1802.
[Amsterdam c.1802.]
Proof impression of a very scarce engraving with etching. Sheet 630 x 490mm (24¾ x 19¼"). Trimmed to image. Creasing, bit messy.
A Dutch allegory of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. The people dance around a plinth on which Britannia and a female allegory of the Batavian Republic stand together. To the left a female 'War' is knocked from the sky by a lightning bolt. After Holland had become a sister-republic of France after the fall of the Dutch Republic in 1795, she and her colonies became targets of the British. The Dutch had suffered considerable losses and thus the return of Cape Colony and their colonies in the West Indies (but not Ceylon) was something to be celebrated. However the ensuing peace only lasted a year and Cape colony was lost permanently in 1806. A preparatory sketch of the bottom right corner is in the Rijksmuseum.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1888-A-1430. See 36855 for good impression.
[Ref: 40385] £350.00

[Peace of Algiers] Het afkondigen der Vreede in Algiers, zynde op den 8 Sept: 1726 [...] [parallel texi in Latin]
Pet:Schenk exc: Amst: Cum priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 180mm (6¼ x 7"). Trimmed to plate, folding creases as normal, small tear and wormhole on top edge, some spots.
A scene showing the proclamation of the Peace of Algiers signed between the Regency of Algiers and the Dutch Republic on 8 September 1726, which ended the Dutch-Algerian War (1715-1726).
[Ref: 59274] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[George III sacks William Pitt the Younger] Géorge se Dépitte et Signe Enfin la Paix Générale.
[n.d., c.1801.]
Rare etching. Sheet 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear entering printed border at top.
George III hits Pitt on his shoulder with his sceptre and kicks him in the backside, causing the crown to topple from his head. The king sits at a table, on which is a paper he is signing, supposedly the Treaty of Amiens. A French satire making political capital by misrepresenting Pitt's leaving office as being sacked by George for opposing any peace negotiations with France, rather than him resigning for failing to achieve Catholic Emancipation. Pitt resigned on February 16th, 1801, during an episode of the king's madness; a preliminary agreement was signed in London on September 30th; the full Treaty of Amiens was signed at 3 a.m. on March 25th, 1802. George (BM Satire 9780) posits a publication date of May 1802; however the BM website states that 1801, during the negotiations, is more likely.
BM Satires 9870.
[Ref: 59166] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Peace of Utrecht] Den 29 Ianuary, is tot Uytrecht op het Stadhuys het Congres geopent [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: C.Pr. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, some spots, small tear on bottom edge.
A scene showing the opening of the Congress of Utrecht on 29 January 1712, the peace conference called to end the hostilities of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Representatives of Great Britain, France, Savoy and the Dutch Republic sit around the table, while representatives of the Holy Roman Empire appear to be late on the right, as they only joined the congress on 10 February 1712.
[Ref: 59233] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Peace of Utrecht] Vredehandel tusschen den Koning van Vrankryk, en de Algemeene Staten [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: Cum Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, some spots.
A scene showing the public proclamation of the Peace of Utrecht, signed on 11 April 1713. The peace ended the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).
[Ref: 59301] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Pedestrian Hobbyhorse. Exhibiting at 40, Brewer Street, Golden Square. M.r Johnson, Patentee, 75, Long Acre.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. Feb.y 1819.
Aquatint with very fine colour. Sheet 135 x 180mm (5¼ x 7"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper.
A 'dandy horse', a primative bicycle on which the rider proceeded by pushing forward on the ground. Originally patented in 1818 in Germany by Baron Karl Drais, this is the ‘pedestrian curricle' of Denis Johnson (c.1760-1833), a coachbuilder of Long Acre who made at least 320 during the short craze for velocipedes in 1819. Like many crazes it was killed by a health warning. A variation of the print published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts
[Ref: 59404] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Most Noble Prince Thomas Holles. Duke of Newcastle.
G. Kneller S.R.I. et Mag. Brit. Baronet pinx.
Sold by I. Smith at y.e Lyon & Crown in Russell-Street Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1750.]
Mezzotint, sheet 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet on three sides at edges. Slightly scuffed. Small margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768). Looking towards the viewer, wearing a long wig, robes, with a wand in his right hand. Below a crest with the mottoes 'Vicit Amor Patria' and 'Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense'. In 1711 inherited the enormous wealth of his uncle John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle whose surname he took. Created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1715 as a reward for his support of the Hanoverian cause at the time of the first Jacobite rebellion. Held political office almost continuously from 1724. First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister), 1754-56 and 1757-62, and Lord Privy Seal 1765-66.
CS 255.III of IV. Russell 255.V.
[Ref: 59398] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Philips. Heroici Carminis Ad Antiquitatis imaginem conformati Inter Anglos Author Egregius: Uni, in hoc laudis genere, Miltono secundus Primoq[ue] pæne par. ob. 1709 ot 32.
[After G. Kneller] M: V.dr Gucht Sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Very rare engraving, 18th century watermark, sheet 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed to image losing publication line, glued on album sheet at edges.
Half-length portrait of poet John Philips (1676-1709), in an oval. Wearing open collar and robe. The portrait was the frontispiece to 'Poems by Mr John Philips, late of Christ-Church, Oxon' (London, 1715).
[Ref: 59382] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pitt the elder] Guilmus Pitt. The Man Who Having Saved the Parent Pleaded With Success For Her Children.
Hall sculp.
[n.d., c.1766.]
Etching with engraving. 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Trimmed to plate on right.
The two sides of a bronze medal by Thomas Pingo, celebrating the 1766 repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765, after Pitt argued that it was unconstitutional to impose taxes upon the colonies and the Act would cause the separation of the American Colonies from the mother country. He became Earl of Chatham later that year.
[Ref: 59281] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Poesie. G.3.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly scuffed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing poetry, with a harp, mask, birds and books.
[Ref: 59312] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eisbarenjagd. White Bear-Hunting. Chasse aux Ours Blancs. 11094.
Th. Breidwiser.
Printed in Germany [n.d., c.1900].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 330 x 425mm (13 x 16¾").
Crewmen in two ship's boats shoot at polar bears. Theodor Breitwieser (1847-1930), Austrian painter whose patrons included Kaiser Franz Joseph I.
[Ref: 59117] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Alexander Pope. Aet.s 28.
G. Kneller S.R.Imp. et Mag. Brit. Baronet.s Pinx. 1716. J. Smith fec. et ex. 1717.
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Repaired tear on right edge. Time stained.
Half length portrait of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Looking towards the right, wearing a cap, coat and open collar, with an open book in his hands and landscape of trees in the background.
CS 203.II of III.
[Ref: 59381] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Muses Crowning the Bust of Pope.
Ang. Kauffman inv.t. P W Tomkins sculp.t Pupil of F. Bartolozzi.
Publish'd as the Act directs 1st of March 1783 by S.Watts Featherstone Buildings Holborn.
Stipple, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly foxed.
Three female figures in a park, one of whom holds a crown of laurels to be placed on a bust of the Augustan poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The other two read from a volume at right with a lyre resting at the foot of the pedestal.
Alexander 150. See Ref: 39844 for copy.
[Ref: 59384] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Alexander Pope, Poeta Anglus, Ob: A.o 1744 Aetat: 57.
[After Joseph Van Loo] Johannes Faber.
[P]rice 2 Shill Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [n.d. c.1750.]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 355 x 235mm (14 x 9¼"). Trimmed to plate losing part of the inscription and publication line, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly damaged on image on left centre.
Three-quarter portrait of poet and writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Looking towards the right, with paper in his right hand and his left hand slightly pushing his wig back from his head.
CS 294. II of II.
[Ref: 59391] £390.00

To the King's most excellent Majesty, This plate, The Death of General Wolfe, is with His gracious Permission humbly dedicated by his Majesty's most dutiful Subject, William Woollett. From the original Picture in the Collection of the Right honourable Lord Grosvenor.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by W.m Woollett, Engraver to his Majesty.
Published as the Act directs January 1.st 1776. by Mess.rs Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, London.
Engraving. 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24¼"), with narrow margins.
Large engraving of Benjamin West's famous painting of 1770 (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada) representing the death of the British General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. Despite Wolfe's death, the result of the battle was a decisive British victory. West's composition deliberately evokes the Lamentation of Christ, a subject frequently depicted in religious painting.
Fagan XCIII x/x.
[Ref: 33190] £780.00

Miseries of Reading and Writing _ 8 Dialogue. As you are writing drowsily by the fire, on rousing and recollecting yourself, find your Guardian in possession of your secret thoughts, which he never ceases to upbraid you of.
Rowlandson del et sculp.
Pub. Jan.y 1. 1807 by R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 108 Strand.
Coloured etching. 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾") very large margins.
A young woman sleeps in a chair in a library, her hand still holding a pen on a sheet of paper. An elderly man holding an eye-glass to his eye leans over the back of her chair to inspect a paper inscribed 'My dear'.
See Ref: 54618 for a complete copy of volume.
[Ref: 59200] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Le Repos.
Le Prince 1771.
Se vend à Paris chéz l'auteur, Cour du Vieux Louvre.
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 450 x 350mm (17¾ x 13¾"), with small margins. Damp stains in left margin.
A young girl sleeps in a makeshift bed in a barn, leaving a basket of eggs to fall over and break. Her aged peasant parents look on in disgust.
[Ref: 52972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Robinson Crusoe's Island.]
Clark & Pine Sc. 1719.
[n.d., c.1908.]
Photo-etching. 230 x 350mm (9 x 13½"), watermarked 'Michallet'.
A pictorial map of Crusoe's island, also known as the 'Island of Despair', showing various incidents from Daniel Defoe's novel. A copy of the plate originally published in the third edition of Defoe's series titled, 'Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', London printed by W. Taylor.
[Ref: 59235] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Baptista Rousseau, Natus Anno 1670. Certior in nostro carmine vultus erit. Mart. L.7. Ep.84.
J. Aved pinxit. G.F. Schmidt Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Very scarce engraving, sheet 300 x 210mm (11¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet. 18th century watermark.
Three-quarter length portrait of Jean Baptiste Rousseau (1670-1741), French playwright and poet. Very atmospheric & fine portrait of Rousseau sitting in an armchair, looking to the right with a quill in his left hand and sheets in his right hand. Rousseau was particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.
[Ref: 59378] £650.00

English Agricultural Societies' Dinner, in Queen's College Quadrangle, Oxford, July 17th 1839. To the Right Hon.ble John Charles, Earl Spencer, President, the Trustees, Vice Presidents, Committee of Management, and Members, This Print is most respectfully dedicated.
G. Scharf, lith: from a drawing by W.A. Delamotte.
Published by J. & R. Dewe, Broad St. Oxford; and Sold by R. Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street: and T.M. McLean, 26, Haymarket, London [c.1839].
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Crease top right, outside image, damp stain on left.
The English Agricultural Society, founded in 1838, becoming the Royal Agricultural Society of England the following year when it was granted its Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
[Ref: 59169] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Paulus Rubens
[S. Saverÿ Exc.]
[n.d. c.1670.]
Rare engraving, sheet 245 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate losing engraver's name, glued on album sheet at edges. Slightly damaged on image.
Bust portrait of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), wearing wide-brimmed hat and cloak. After the self-portrait by Rubens in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, signed and dated 1623, which was painted for the future Charles I.
Schneevoogt 157.8. Hollstein 128.
[Ref: 59390] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford] French Habits. No 4. Membre du Directoire Exécutif.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins.
Francis Russell wearing the uniform of a Director, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). His head has ostrich feathers and he wears a cloak over a tunic, with a sabre. Behind a curtain marked 'Egalite' half-covers the Bedfors arms and motto of 'Che sara sara'. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9199.
[Ref: 59144] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Henricus Sacheverell S.T.P. Collegÿ Magdalen: Oxõn Socius.
A. Russell pinx. 1710. I. Smith fec.
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges. 18th century watermark. Some creases on inscription area.
Half-length portrait of Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724), in an oval. He was an English High Church clergyman and politician. He came to fame when preacher at St Saviour's, Southwark. His famous sermons on the church in danger from the neglect of the Whig ministry to keep guard over its interests were preached, the one at Derby on 15 August 1709, the other at St Paul's Cathedral on 5 November 1709. They were immediately reprinted, the latter being dedicated to the lord mayor and the former to the author's kinsman, George Sacheverell who was high sheriff of Derbyshire that year, and, as the passions of the whole British population were at this period keenly exercised between the rival factions of Whig and Tory; Sacheverell's arguments on behalf of the church which supplied the Tories with most of their support made him their idol.
CS 219.II. See Ref: 12936 for duplicate.
[Ref: 59377] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Eilean Glas Lighthouse, Scalpay] Light House on the Isle of Scalpa, Harris.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. Oct.r, 1, 1819.
Coloured aquatint with original hand colour, printed on card as issued. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), large margins.
A view of Eilean Glas Lighthouse, built by Thomas Smith in 1789, the first Hebridean lighthouse. It was replaced in 1824 by one designed by Smith's stepson Robert Stevenson, five years after this print was published, which is now a Category A listed building. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 59198] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Secret. R.1.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing secrecy, with a sphinx and a pair of keys.
[Ref: 59342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Shadwell]
[After Johannes Karsebbom][Engraved by William Faithorne junior]
[n.d. c.1700.]
Mezzotint, scarce proof before letters, sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate losing artist and engraver's names, glued on album sheet on three sides. Some creases and stains on image.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Shadwell (c.1642-1692). Wearing a wig, lace cravat, and robe, with pillar, trees and buildings in the background. Shadwell was an English poet and playwright who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689.
CS 36.I. See Ref: 10816 & 58575 for lettered impressions.
[Ref: 59395] £320.00

Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Miss Curran Del.t. C.W. Sharpe Sculp.t.
Published March 1st 1860 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London.
Stipple and engraving on steel. 385 x 325mm (15¼ x 12¾"), with large margins.
A portrait of Shelley after the oil by Amelia Curran (d.1847), once in the possession of Mary Shelley and now in the National Portrait Gallery. It was painted in Rome in 1819 when Curran was an art student, three years before his death. His widow begged Curran for the portrait, one of the few done in his lifetime, although it was not much liked by his friends.
See NPG: 1234 for the oil.
[Ref: 59135] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Maj. Gen. W.m T. Sherman.
Max Rosenthal Del. Engr.d by L.N. Rosenthal, 327 Walnut St Philad.a
Published by William Smith, Printseller, No 702. South Third St. Phil:a. Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1865 by W.m Smith, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 670 x 480mm (26¼ x 19"), with large margins. Tears in edges, some slight spotting.
A head and shoulders portrait of Union General William Sherman within a triumphal border. Originally a frame maker, William Smith ran a print shop in Philadelphia from c.1860 to c.1891, specialising in lithographic portraits and historical scenes. He moved to 702 South Third Street in 1863.
[Ref: 59227] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Shrewbury Portfolio. Seven Etchings by Edward J. Barrow. 1, School from Quarry. 2. School from Ferry. 3. School from Lawn. 4. Chapel. 5. Severn from School. 6. Archway of Old Grammar School. 7. Old Market House, Shrewsbury.
W.H. Beynon & Co., Fine Art Publishers, Cheltenham [n.d., c.1901].
Oblong folio, (340 x 440mm, 13½ x 17¼"), original lettered cloth; letterpress title and seven plates on chine collé mounted on card, each signed in pencil by the artist. Covers soiled, tissue guards browned, tear in endpaper.
One plate has the engraved date 1901.
[Ref: 59348] £260.00 view all images for this item

[George Shuckburgh-Evelyn] French Habits No. 8. Membre de la Haute Cour de Justice.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 15th 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', date lost. Narrow margins.
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1751-1804), M.P. for Warwickshire, in the white cap and robe with tricolour border (not obvious in this uncoloured impression) of a Judge of the High Court. The cushioned bench behind indicates the setting as the House of Commons. He never took part in debates, but by voting in the minority against the 'Assessed Taxes Bill' of 1798 (introduced by Pitt to pay for the Napoleonic War) earned this caricature: he is shown in the costume of a High Court judge, for which he obviously does not have the stature.
BM Satires 9209.
[Ref: 59149] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

De overgaave van het Eyland Sicilien in de Middellandse Zee, door den Spaanse Generaal de Marquis de Leede [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Pr. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, slightly stained on bottom left corner.
A scene showing the formal handover of power over Sicily from Spain to Austria on May 1720. The handover was a consequence of The War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) and the Treaty of The Hague (February 1720), in which Spain agreed to renounce the claims to their former Italian possessions.
[Ref: 59287] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A Maæata and Caledonian.
C.H.S.[Charles Hamilton Smith] del.t. Aquatinted by R.Havell.
Published June 1st, 1815 by R.Havell, 3 Chapel Street, London.
Fine coloured aquatint. 245 x 340mm. Trimmed into plate top and bottom.
Two tribesmen of ancient Scotland showing off their tattoos, standing before a monument of standing stones and a lintel. In the title area is a vignette of an archaeological artifact. The Maeatae lived around the Firth of Forth and were regularly paid off by the Romans to keep the peace. The Caledonians lived further north, around Loch Ness. Published in the 'Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands', the first attempt to to use archaeological evidence to help create visual images of an imagined prehistoric past.
Abbey Life 427.
[Ref: 59202] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

British Fishing, and Husbandry.
C.H.S.[Charles Hamilton Smith] del.t. Aquatinted by R.Havell.
Published June 1st, 1815 by R.Havell, 3 Chapel Street, London.
Fine coloured aquatint. 245 x 340mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom.
Ancient Britons fishing from coracles and ploughing using ox. In the title area is a vignette of a plough, based on an archaeological artifact. Published in the 'Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands', the first attempt to to use archaeological evidence to help create visual images of an imagined prehistoric past.
Abbey Life 427.
[Ref: 59201] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[William Smyth] A Petty-Professor of Modern-History, brought to the light.
Cambridge del.t. London Sculp.t [James Gillray].
Publishd March 20th. 1810. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of William Smyth (1765-1849), a poet and historian who became Regius Professor at Cambridge in 1807. He is shown lecturing to sleeping or yawning students.
BM Satires 11590.
[Ref: 59375] £750.00

[The Death of Solinzeb.]
J. Northcote delin. T. Gaugain fecit.
Publish'd March 1786, by T. Gaugain No.4 Little Compton Street, Soho, London.
Fine stipple in brown ink with very large margins. Plate 394 x 346mm (15½ x 13½"). Proof before title; laid on album sheet.
In a roundel, a man in oriental dress lays on a leopard skin and expires in the arms of his daughter, after being wounded in the chest. On the right, a European officer attends the wounded man, while a battle rages in the background. In the final state lines from the French author Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) are added below the image to represent the last words of the wounded man: he does not fear death, welcomed as a gentle sleep, but he fears for his daughter's future.
From the Northcote Albums, Christie's South Kensington.
[Ref: 28380] £350.00

The R.t Hon.ble John Lord Sommers.
J. Richardson pinx. 1713. I. Smith fec.
Sold by J. Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden.
Mezzotint, sheet 345 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, glued on album sheet at edges.
Half-length portrait of John Somers, Baron Somers (1651-1716), in an oval. Wearing a long wig, neckcloth and coat. Somers was called to the Bar in 1676, and he combined his work as a barrister with involvement with Whig politics. He was at the centre of the Whig party in the twenty-five years following the revolution of 1688 as chief minister to King William III of England from 1696 to 1700, and a leader of the group of influential Whigs known as the Junto from 1696 to 1716.
CS 234. II of III. See Ref: 12870.
[Ref: 59386] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[The Spanish Armada Tapestries - The English sending in the fireships at Calais.] IX.
C. Lempriere delin. J. Pine Sculp.
Publish'd by John Pine, June 24 1739. according to Act of Parliament. T. Bowles, in St Paul's Church Yard, & J. Bowles & Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [1753.]
Engraving printed from two plates, the scene printed in blue, the frame in black. Outer plate mark 380 x 610 (15 x 24").
A scene depicting the English fleet sending in the eight fireships among the Spanish Armada, anchored off Calais in 1588. Petrified that these would explode in their midst, most of the Spanish cut their anchor cables to escape quickly, leaving themselves at the mercy of heavy winds that drove them north. The scene is bordered by an engraved frame decorated with trophies and medallion portraits of the English Lord Admiral (Lord Howard of Effingham) and his captains, including Martin Frobisher. In 1591 Charles Howard commissioned ten tapestries celebrating the victory over the Armada from the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom, which were hung in the House of Lords at Westminster. Over a century later John Pine, fearing that 'Time, or Accident, or moths may deface these valuable shadows', commissioned Charles Lempriere and Hubert-François Gravelot to make copies, published as 'The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords'. Pine's fears were well founded: the tapestries were lost when Parliament was destroyed by fire in 1834. This example is from the second and final edition.
Map Collectors' Circle 4.
[Ref: 28304] £520.00

Explanation of the North Coast of Spitzbergen, exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square.
[London: Henry Aston Barker, n.d., 1819.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 265 x 450mm (10½ x 17¾"). Tears, repairs to folds, spotting.
A keyplate from the brochure for a panorama exhibited 1819-20 in Barkers's Panorama in Leicester Square, painted by Henry Aston Barker after drawings by Lieutenant Frederick William Beechey. It was the first panoramic image of the Arctic. Beechey (1796-1856, son of painter Sir William Beechey, later Rear Admiral and President of the Royal Society), was part of John Franklin and David Buchan's 1818 expedition to Spitzbergen (Svalbad). This scene shows the Dorothea and Trent at anchor, with the crew making repairs to storm damage. In the foreground of the lower half are Franklin and Buchan.
See: Ref: 56281, 58762 & 53539
[Ref: 59116] £380.00

L'Espion. Q.8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing spying, with a dog sniffing around and several eyes and ears on a sheet hanging on a tree.
[Ref: 59343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Intersection Bridge on the Line of the St Helens & Rucorn Gap Railway, Crossing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway near the Foot of the Sutton Inclined Plane. Erected by Charles Vignoles, Esq.re C.E., F.R.A.S., Mice. Dedicated by Permission to Edward Greenall, Eq.re of Wilderspool, Cheshire.
S.G. Hughes, Aquat.a.
London, Published 1832, _ by R. Ackermann, No 96 Strand, and J. & J. Mawdsley, Liverpool.
Coloured aquatint with fine hand colour, J. Whatman 1831 watermark. 330 x 470mm (13 x 18½"). Centre fold, creasing.
An extremely fine & rare view of an iron bridge built by Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793-1875) to carry the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first bridge to carry one railway over another.
[Ref: 59273] £580.00

Barbara, Countess of Coventry.
J. Reynolds pinxit.
[London: Carington Bowles?, c.1770.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line.
The Hon. Barbara, daughter of John St John, 11th Baron St John of Bletso, who married George William Coventry (1722-1809), 6th Earl of Coventry, in 1764. She died in 1804.
Hamilton p.180.
[Ref: 59429] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Staffordshire Courtship!!.
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank st-.
T Tegg 111 Cheapside - NB Folios of Caractures Lent.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, damp stain on left.
A rustic couple in a cottage interior: a woman leans towards the man's dog and exclaims, ''Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got''; the man replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex".
[Ref: 59218] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Midnight Scene, at the Head Quarters Bivouac, of the Brierly Hill, 15th Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers, After the Grand Review at Warwick, 24th July, 1861.
W.E. Wood, del.t.
[n.d., c.1861.]
Fine & rare tinted lithograph. In pencil left margin "R.S. Casson". Printed area 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"). Repaired tears, one through title.
Officers relaxing in a tent.
[Ref: 59128] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope; Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale; Michael Angelo Taylor; and Charles Grey] French Habits. No 3. Les Membres du Conseil des des Cinq Cents.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins, stain in background on right.
Stanhope, Derby, Lauderdale, Taylor and Grey wearing the dress of the Council of Five Hundred, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9198.
[Ref: 59143] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair of views of Strawberry Hill House.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Two drawings with sepia wash. Each sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"), on laid paper, watermark J. Villedary who was active in Holland from 1758-1812. Mounted on album paper at edges.
Two well-executed views of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham, one with the Obelisk.
[Ref: 59372] £950.00 view all images for this item

William Stukeley. Isaac Whood drew this, may 10. 1727, at Grantham, when the Duke of Bedford breakfasted with me.
P.G. 1853.
Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich.
Rare zincograph. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Some slight spotting.
A bust portrait of antiquarian & cleric William Stukeley (1687-1765), with a wreath in his hair. He is most remembered for his pioneering scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire, identifying both the Stonehenge Avenue and Stonehenge Cursus.
[Ref: 59365] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Prospect of Tangier from S. West.
W Hollar delineavit et sculp:
[Published by John Overton, 1673.]
Fine etching. 160 x 455mm (6¼ x 18"), with LVG 17th century watermark. Pinhole in image, vertical centre fold, creasing top right corner. Bit messy right margin.
A view of Tangier, with an 18-point key, one of the largest of a series of views by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77) showing the city when it was an English possession (1671-84). The watermark is that of Lubertus van Gerrevink, a paper mill in Egmond a/d Hoef, a major Dutch paper manufacturer in the C18th. Tangier came into English possession as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry when she married Charles II in 1662, although attempts to develop it strategically and commercially were unsuccessful. In 1688 Hollar, in his capacity of 'Scenographus Regus', went there as part of a mission sent to deal with problems with hostile natives. Hollar made many sketches of the city (some now in the British Museum), depicting the fortifications that were demolished in 1684 when the English abandoned Tangier.
Pennington 1199, only state.
[Ref: 59120] £550.00

Shakspeare. Tempest. Act IV. Scene I. Prospero's cell . _ Propsero, Miranda, &c. &c.
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark, open letter proof before quote from play. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"), with large margins. Tears in bottom margin repaired, faint damp stains on left.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59329 for normal state.
[Ref: 59327] £320.00

Shakspeare. Tempest. Act IV. Scene I. Prospero's cell . _ Propsero, Miranda, &c. &c.
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, very fine impression, 1794 watermark. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"). Repairs to margins and edges of plate. Small margins.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59327 for Open letter Proof.
[Ref: 59329] £320.00

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