Grosvenor Prints

A View of Baldock in Hertfordshire. [&] The Mill at Baldock in Herts.
From a Drawing by Master Chapman. The Figures by R. Pollard. Engrav'd by F.Jukes.
London. Pub.d as the Act directs, May 1 1787 by F. Jukes No.3 Howland Street.
Pair of coloured aquatints with stipple. Each 380 x 495mm (15 x 19½"). Framed. Paper toned; artist's imscription badly printed. Unexamined out of frame.
A pair of fine rustic views of Baldock, both with agricultural themes.
[Ref: 50460] £650.00 view all images for this item

A View of a Farm Yard, on the side of the Road, near Baldock, Hertford-shire.
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver. No 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London.
Etching. Sheet 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, to image at sides, crease, repair in image.
A village with people holding conversations.
[Ref: 61245] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Baldock in Hertfordshire. Drawn Oct.r 20th 1786. [&] The Mill at Baldock in Herts.
['The Mill'] From a Drawing by Master Chapman. The Figures by R. Pollard. Engrav'd by F.Jukes.
London. Pub.d as the Act directs, May 1 1787 by F. Jukes No.3 Howland Street.
Pair of aquatints with stipple. Each 380 x 495mm (15 x 19½"). Crack in the platemark of 'Mill', worm holes in the margins of both plates, one hole in the title area of 'Mill'.
A pair of fine rustic views of Baldock, both with agricultural themes.
[Ref: 4683] £950.00 view all images for this item

Baldwin's view over the City of Chester from Lunardi's balloon [&] Lunardi's [balloon].
[n.d., c.1796.]
Two engraved coloured scraps, the aerial view with stipple and green aquatint, glued to album page with excised captions, sheet c.147 x 212mm.
Excised from engravings by Barlow for the 'Encylopaedia Londinensis' published by J Wilkes. The full plate originally showed four early hot-air balloons arranged around the view over Chester. In addition to Lunardi's, they included Montgolfier's balloon, Blanchard's balloon, and Charles and Robert's balloon. Extremely rare.
[Ref: 7777] £360.00

Caleb Baldwin.
Published by John McGowan, G.t Windmill S.t [1826].
Stipple. 190 x 110mm (7½ x 4¼"). Stained.
Caleb Ramsbottom (1769-1827), aka Caleb Baldwin, lightweight bare-knuckle boxer. From John Badcock's 'The Fancy; or The True Sportsman’s Guide: Being Authentic Memoirs of the Lives, Actions, Prowess, and Battles of the Leading Pugilists, from the Days of Figg and Broughton, to the Championship of Ward. By an Operator'.
[Ref: 50616] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Franciscus Baldwinus.
N. L'armessin sculp.
[n.d., 1682.]
Engraving, 190 x 140mm, 7½ x 5½". Trimmed.
Francis Baldwin (1520-1573), a jurist prominent as first a friend and then opponent of John Calvin. Published in Isaac Bullart's 'Académie des Sciences et des Arts'.
[Ref: 16998] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mister Baldwin. Supplement to the New Statesman and Nation, November 4, 1933 (3).
Low.
Photo-lithograph. Sheet size: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Slight paper toning.
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (1867 - 1947) was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars. Three times Prime Minister, he is the only premier to have served under three monarchs (George V, Edward VIII and George VI). By New Zealand born artist, Sir David Low (1891 - 1963). Unhappy with the political leadership of the British establishment David Low created his cartoon character, Colonel Blimp in 1934.
[Ref: 37146] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

William Charles Baldwin.
J E Mayall Photo. Joseph Brown sc.
[London, Richard Bentley 1862.]
Rare stipple & etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed, spotted.
Full-length portrait of William Charles Baldwin. (1826-1903), frontispiece to his 'African Hunting: from Natal to the Zambezi' (1863). In 1851 Baldwin sailed for South Africa, taking seven deerhounds. He hunted mainly mounted on horseback, but found the deerhounds little use, so used local dogs, He claimed to be the second white man to set eyes on the Victoria Falls in 1860. He returned to England in 1861.
[Ref: 58532] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Balaeus. Haec est Balaei facies generosa Britanni, Cuius dicuntur Bibliotheca libri, Haec fraudes aperit multas, scelera impia multa Papae, quem dicit nequitiae esse Patrem.
Hh [etched in plate at top right.]
Cum privil. [n.d. c.1599, but later?.]
Engraving. 172 x 120mm. 6¾ x 4¾".
Portrait of John Bale, half length to left, long beard, wearing cap and gown; Dutch letterpress on verso. Illustration to Jacob Verheiden's "Praestantium aliquot theologorum ... effigies" (The Hague: 1602). John Bale, Bishop of Ossory (1495-1563) was a Protestant controversialist. From a series of fifty-one book-illustrations showing portraits by Hendrik Hondius I (Hollstein 156-208). The set was first published in 1599 by the artist and re-published between 1602 and 1604 by Nieulandt and Janssen.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25201] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Johannes Van Balen Bon Painctre en petit et en grand [...] ouil ce tient mentinant,
Johannes van Balen pinxit. W: Hollar fecit.
J: Meyssens excudit [1649]
Etching, platemark 164 x 113mm (6? x 4?"). Laid onto album sheet.
Portrait of the Flemish artist Jan Van Balen (1611-54) etched after a self-portrait (now lost) by Wenceslaus Hollar. This is one of nine portraits etched by Hollar, when in Antwerp, for a collection of portraits published there by Meyssens in 1649 under the title 'Image de divers hommes desprit sublime'. Below the portrait is a biographical note, as Pennington notes, 'in execrable French'.
Pennington: 1356 iii/v. For a later state see ref. 4223.
[Ref: 23793] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur Balfour.]
[Painted by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema] Minnie Cormack [pencil signature.]
[British, c.1890.]
Mezzotint on india laid paper, a rare signed engraver's proof, 520 x 390mm (20½ x 15¼"). Crease to image lower right; some loss of india surface below image.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848 - 1930), Prime Minister and philosopher. Balfour first made his mark as a philosopher, publishing A Defence of Philosophic Doubt in 1879. He entered politics in 1874 through the patronage of his uncle, Lord Salisbury. He succeeded Salisbury as prime minister in 1902 but was unable to keep together a party divided by issues of Free Trade and Protectionism. He resigned in December 1905. During the First World War, he worked as First Lord of the Admiralty and, from 1916 to 1919, as Foreign Secretary. The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 gave British support to 'the establishment in Palestine of a home for the Jewish people'. Balfour continued in politics until the age of eighty: he had served for twenty-seven years as a member of the cabinet. The oil painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912), exhibited 1891, is on display in the Dining Room at Bodelwyddan Castle n Denbighshire, North Wales.
See NPG: 2949.
[Ref: 17460] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Arthur James Balfour [facsimile signature].
Fiddes Watt 1919 [?] Fiddes Watt A.R.S.A. pinxit. Emery Walker ph. sc.
[?1919 in image]
Photogravure on chine collé. 635 x 405mm (25 x 16"), with large margins.
A three-quarter lenth portrait of Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), hands on lapels of his jacket. He read moral sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge (1866-9).
[Ref: 48493] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Hon.ble A.J. Balfour, M.P.]
L. Alma-Tadema. M. Cormack. [pencil signatures]
London Published 25th May, 1832, by P & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, S.W.
Proof mezzotint on chine collé, one of 225 signed by the artist and engraver. Sheet size: 520 x 390mm (20¼ x 15¼"). Printsellers' Association blindstamp. Some spotting of backing card.
Seated portrait of Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, Prime Minister from July 1902 to December 1905. He read moral sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge (1866-9).
[Ref: 48496] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Arthur James Balfour] Foreign Policy. Bay H.A by Successful - True as Steel.
Signed Nap.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Watercolour and gouache, sheet 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Heightened with white on buff paper.
A caricature of a bay horse with the head of Arthur James Balfour, British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905. In 1917 as foreign secretary he issued "the Balfour Declarations".
See V & A.
[Ref: 62966] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt Hon. Arthur James Balfour [with signature]
[Dessines Specialement par Noel Dorville.] [G. Gounouilhou]
G. Gounouilhou, Imprimeur-Editeur Paris-Bordeaux 1909
Lithograph. 430 x 290mm.
[From 'Les Pomoteurs De L'Entente Cordiale. Album Comprenant Cinquante portraits Dessines Specialement par Noel Dorville] Balfour, Arthur James, first Earl of Balfour 1848-1930, philosopher and statesman.
[Ref: 1867] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble A.J. Balfour, M.P.
Painted by L. Alma-Tadema. R.A. Engraved by M. Cormack.
London Published 25th May, 1832, by P & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, S.W.
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 510 x 390mm (20 x 15¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. Scuff marks to surface. Tear in right edge of sheet. Damaged.
A portrait of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848 - 1930), a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905 when he succeeded Lord Salisbury, coming into power practically at the same moment as the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and the end of the second Boer War.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37158] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dame Hellen Balfour, S.r George Hamilton of Binnie and Barton's Lady. Anno Dom: 1694.
J.B. de Medine pinx. J. Smith fec:
[n.d., c.1699.] [later]
Rare & fine mezzotint, 17th century watermark 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of Helen Balfour, wife of Sir George Hamilton (1643-1726) of Binne & Barton, a pair to a portrait of her husband also by John Baptist de Medina (c.1659-1710)
CS 124. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See [Ref: 69431] for her husband.
[Ref: 69084] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jabez Spencer Balfour] Work for the Girl Flogger. Truth Christmas Number, December 25, 1893.
FCG.
Rare colour-printed wood-engraving. Sheet 320 x 210mm (12½ x 8¼").
A satire on the fall of the Liberator Building Society due to massive fraud, with the main perpetrator, Jabez Spencer Balfour (M.P. for Burnley), being flogged with a cat o' nine tails. Two of his conspirators, solicitor H.G. Wright and contractor J.W. Hobbs, watch from prison cells. Balfour (1843-1916) built up the largest building society in the country, with mostly non-conformist investors. However he was lending society funds to property companies to buy properties owned by him. When the swindle was discovered his businesses collapsed owing over £7 million (about £500 million today). However at the time of this satire he was not in custody, but in hiding in Argentina with his mistress. However in just over a year he was tracked down by Inspector Frank Froest of Scotland Yard, kidnapped, brought back to England and sentenced to 14 years hard labour, most of which he served in Portland Prison. 'The Truth' was a newspaper
[Ref: 51943] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

James Balfour Esq.r. Secretary & Treasurer of the Edinburgh Company of Golfers. 1795. By desire of the Company.
Henry Raeburn pinx.t. J. Jones sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs by Will.m Murray, Bookseller, Parliament Close Edin.gh October 1796.
Mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Contemporary double frame. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of James Balfour (1705-95), Scottish advocate, author of three philosophical books and keen golfer, seated and gesturing as if in conversation. On his desk are books titled 'Record of the Gent. Golfers' and 'Bet Book'. As Secretary to the Edinburgh Company of Golfers he would have been involved in compiling the original rules of golf in 1777. His great-great-grandson was Robert Louis Stevenson, who was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. The Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh held the first recorded open golf championship on 2nd April 1744.
CS: 4
[Ref: 56714] £1,500.00

[Balinese slave in riding costume] Une esclave balienne
[after Cornelis de Bruyn, published c.1737]
Engraving, platemark 310 x 200mm (11½ x 7¾").
Plate from the Dutch artist and writer Cornelis de Bruyn's (1652-1727) 'Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies', as the 1737 English translation was titled. Visiting an estate near Batavia (modern Jakarta), de Bruyn writes: 'I drew two Baliers, who were slaves to Mr. Kastelein, with the dress they wore in this as well as in their own country ... the 203d plate represents them in the habit they wear on horseback; a black mantle being cast over their body, and their head covered with flowered linnen, and a red hat. They have likewise a handkerchief in their hand, on this as well as on other occasions'.
[Ref: 41203] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Balinese slave] Une esclave balienne
[after Cornelis de Bruyn, published c.1737]
Engraving, platemark 310 x 200mm (11½ x 7¾").
Plate from the Dutch artist and writer Cornelis de Bruyn's (1652-1727) 'Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies', as the 1737 English translation was titled. Visiting an estate near Batavia (modern Jakarta), de Bruyn writes: 'I drew two Baliers, who were slaves to Mr. Kastelein, with the dress they wore in this as well as in their own country. They fold part of their habit, which is usually made of striped stuff, round their waist to which they fasten it by one end, and suffer the rest to flow down to their feet. The upper part of their attire, which is of a different colour, covers their breast, and then descends to their knees. They generally have a handkerchief in their hand, and their hair is plaited into a point on the upper part of their head. Their arms and feet are naked'.
[Ref: 41202] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of eight scenes] The Baliff's Hunt. Going Out in the Morning. [&] Plate 2. In Full Scent. [&] Plate 3. Breaking Cover. [&] Plate 4. The Pursuit. [&] Plate 5. At Fault. [&] Plate 6. The Second Escape. [&] Plate 7. Double and Squat. [&] Plate 8. The Seizure.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Eight coloured etchings. Each sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper in a strip, concertinaed into a leather pouch with facsimile of Rowlandson's signature.
A work of bailiffs chasing a debtor through the streets satirised as a fox hunt.
[Ref: 60674] £700.00 view all images for this item

Dressing for the Ball in 1857. Punch's Pocket book for 1857.
John Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1857.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
An illustration depicting a satirical scene of women getting ready for a ball. One of the ladies is being dressed in an inflatable crinoline, with a maidservant pumping air to inflate the petticoat. By John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63846] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Victoria preparing for the Ball.
J. Roberts delin.t. J. Jones Fecit.
[n.d., c.1791.]
Stipple. Sheet: 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾''). Cut to platemark
A scene showing a young woman dressing for a ball. Frontispiece to 'The Rambler' 1791.
[Ref: 50297] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[1775.]
Etching with engraving in black ink, fine impression. 241 x 216mm. 9½ x 8½". Trimmed.
Ticket. A young woman is seated with her upper body bear and crowned with flowers, in the right hand she holds a caduceus. Three putti dance on the floor; two fly above holding grapes and a basket of flowers. The host is politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv. See Ref 14666 for same state in red/brown ink & 14667 for earlier state, & 21223 for same state.
[Ref: 20524] £340.00

The Ball at The Mansion House. April XVII. MDCCLXXV. The Right Hon.ble Iohn Wilkes, Lord Mayor.
G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[1775.]
Etching with engraving in black ink. A very fine impression, mint. Plate 241 x 216mm. 9½ x 8½". Foxed. Very large margins.
Ticket. A young woman is seated with her upper body bear and crowned with flowers, in the right hand she holds a caduceus. Three putti dance on the floor; two fly above holding grapes and a basket of flowers. The host is politician and agitator John Wilkes (1725 - 1797), elected Lord Mayor of London in 1774.
De Vesme: 1963; iii/iv. See Ref 14666 for same state in red/brown ink & 14667 for earlier state. See Ref: 20524 for same state.
[Ref: 21223] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ball at the Mansion House, April 23. 1821. The Right Honourable J. T. Thorp, Lord Mayor. No admittance til /2 past 9. Wm. Borradach. [Ink signature.] [Red Seal of the Lord Mayor.]
Engraving. 275 x 218mm. 10¾ x 8½". Wax Seal peeled away around edges.
During 1817–1835, J.T. Thorp was mercer for alderman and livery companies. This being an invitation to a Ball hosted by the Lord Mayor.
[Ref: 13014] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Ball Game]
91-100 [illegible signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, printed in colours, signed by the artist. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½").
Two men playing a game against a wall in a Spanish village.
[Ref: 60925] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Ball jun.
Lib. [Liborio Prosperi.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith.
Vanity Fair. March 5 1892.
Chomolithograph. Printed area 330 x 190mm (13 x 7½"). Tear in right margin. Slight offset.
John Ball, Jr. (1861-1940), golfer, the first of only three amateurs to win an Open Championship. He won the Open Championship and the Amateur the same year, 1890.
[Ref: 40692] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Ball [facsimile signature].
T.H. Maguire.
M. & N. Hanhard Imp. [n.d., 1851.]
Lithograph on india. Printed area 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11). Surface soiling.
Robert Ball (1802-57), Irish naturalist who served as the Director of the Dublin University Museum and inventor of 'Ball's Dredge', for the collection of marine organisms.
Wellcome 159.
[Ref: 51182] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Stawall Ball] "popular Astronomy" Jehu Junior. Vanity Fair Supplement.
Spy [engraved in the image.]
[April 13th 1905.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. Lith.
Chromolithograph. 394 x 272mm (15½ x 10¾"). Slight mark above head.
Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) was an Irish astronomer who worked for Lord Rosse from 1865 for two years. In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin and in 1874 he was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin at Dunsink Observatory. He also published books on mathematical astronomy such as "A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy". In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University and also accepted the post as Director of the Cambridge Observatory.
[Ref: 18036] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

["popular Astronomy" Jehu Junior"]
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]. [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.]
[Vanity Fair. Jan.y 21.st 1904]
Chromolithograph proof, with text, sheet 405 x 275mm (16 x 10¾"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Irish astronomer, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913).
See also reference 18036.
[Ref: 63690] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A ballad singer]
L: Castro pinxit.
I. smith excud. [n.d. c.1670.]
Very fine mezzotint, 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"), with very large margins. Collector's stamp of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.
A three-quarters length portrait of a ballad singer, holding the sheets out in front of her with both hands and others in her apron. Russell identifies her as Mrs Parker, a ballad singer from c.1700.
Le Blanc 414. Wessely 410. Russell 197a.
[Ref: 59545] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[View of Ballasore Roads] Rade, de la Balasore
[by Balthazar Solvyns]
[published Paris, 1811]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 490 x 355mm (19¼ x 13¾"). Central fold as issued; uncut sheet.
View from the harbour in Balasore, which 'offers nothing but the sea to the view'. The letterpress published with the print explains how the sea is 'frequented by different sorts of vessels', including 'large ships from Bombay, Surate, and other parts of the western coasts', schooners from the Ganges From the third volume of Balthazar Solvyns' 'Les Hindoûs'. Solvyns (1760-1824), a Flemish artist who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to 1803, etched a collection of 250 plates documenting various aspects of Calcutta life. The set was first published in Calcutta, where it proved a financial failure, and Solvyns produced another set which he published in Paris after returning to Europe, although again the venture was unsuccessful, probably in part due to its publication at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Solvyns later returned to Antwerp, where William I appointed him Captain of the Port.
[Ref: 33640] £480.00

[Ensemble de 14 Planche Danse Opera.] No.1. M.elle Taglioni, Dans la Sylphide. [&] No.2. M.me Rosati, Ballet du Corsaire. [&] No.3. M.me Ferraris, dan le Ballet des Elfes. [&] No.4. M.lle Zina Richard, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.5. M.elle Marquet, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.6. M.elle Marquet, dans le Ballet du Dieu et la Bayadère. [&] No.7. M.lle Fiocre, dans l'Amour de Pierre de Médicis. [&] No.8. M.elle Cassegrain, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.9. M.elle Emarot, dans Guillaume Tell. [&] No.10. M.elle Emma Livry, dans Herculanum. [&] No.11. M.elle Caroline, dans Marco Spada. [&] No.12. M.elle Plunkett, dans La Mañola de La Favorite. [&] No.13 M.elle Vibon, dans le Ballet de Vert-Vert. [&] No.14.M.elle Lefèvre, dans Orfa.
Alophe del. Et lith. Imp. Auguste Bry, r. du Bac, 114, Paris.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Rare complete set of 14 hand-coloured lithographs, bound together. 330 x 255mm (13 x 10").
From Alophe's 'Les Danseuses de l'Opéra' at the Paris Opera, c.1860. Maria Taglioni, the greatest ballerina of the 19th century as the Sylph in La Sylphide her most famous role. She was teaching at the Paris opera in 1860. [&] Carolina Rosati, one of the great dramatic dancers of the mid-19th century, she was the highest paid dancer ever at the Paris Opera. [&] Amalia Ferraris, one of Paris Opera Ballet's main stars. [&] Zina Richard, in Marco Spada, performed at the Paris Opera in 1857, chosen because it provided two strong female roles for the Paris Opera Ballet's main stars. Carolina Rosati and Amalia Ferraris. [&] Louise Marquet, also in Marco Spada, as a minor soloist. [&]Louise Marquet as an Indian temple dancer. [&] Louise Fiocre, as Cupid, in the opera Pierre de Médicis at the Paris Opera in 1860. [&] Julie Cassegrain, performing also in the Paris Opera Ballet production of Marco Spada. [&] Célestine Emarot, mother to Emma Livry. [&] Emma Livry in the opera by Félicien David, produced at the Paris Opera in 1858; tragically in 1862, she died from burns received when her flimsy ballet dress caught fire during a rehearsal. [&] Caroline Lassiat, a minor soloist in the 1857 Paris Opera production of Marco Spada. [&] Adelina Plunklett, following in the footsteps of Fanny Essler; versions of La Mañola were also danced by Fanny Cerrito. [&] Mlle Vibon as a minor dancer at the Paris Opera in the 1850s. By the 1860s, most male roles in ballets in Paris and later in London were played by girls en travesti. [&] Mme Lefèvre in peasant costume from Reykjavik. The Paris Opera was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra. This collection features artists from the time it was under the title of Académie Impériale de Musique and thus featured music that highlighted events and challenges faced by the Second Empire, led by Napoleon III. Marco Spada, for example was a splendid piece of French Second Empire nonsense, featuring bandits, kidnapped heroines, lovers' misunderstandings, a rejected suitor who in a fit of pique agrees to marry someone he doesn't love and a bandit chief's daughter, freed to marry her lover when it transpires she was adopted.
Harvard: [Vol.P.state.] [1] No. [2] III.439.iv/iv. [3]II.23.ii/iii. [4]III.412.i/i. [5] No. [6] III.138.i/ii. [7] II.26.ii/ii. [8] I.216.i/i. [9] No. [10] III.88.i/iv. [11] No. [12] III.343.iii/vii. [
[Ref: 21615] £2,200.00 view all images for this item

[Pet of the Ballet. No. 8.]
[R. Gallon pinx. et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.]
[R. Ackermann 14th Feb. 1844.]
Aquatint in india. 310 x 230mm (12¼ x 9"). Staining on backing paper.
A portrait of a ballerina from a series of eight plates portraying annoymous dancers who made up the decorative background during a performance.
[Ref: 15653] £580.00

Ballet dansé au Théatre de l'Opera, dans le Carnaval du Parnasse. Acte Ier. Dedié, è Monseigneur, le Duc de la Valiere; Pair et Grand Fauconnier de France, Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, Brigadier de ses Armées, Gouverneur et Grand Senechal de la Province de Bourbonnois et Capitaoine des Chasses de la Capitainerie Royale de la Varenne du Louvre, Par son très humble et très obéissant serviteur, Basan.
G. De St. Aubin Pinxit F. Basan Sc.
A Paris, ches Basan, Graveur, rue St. Jacques. [c.1760]
Etching and engraving, platemark 320 x 370mm (12½ x 14½"). Repaired tear, trimmed close to plate. Very scarce.
Scene from the 'Carnaval de Parnasse', a ballet composed by Fuzelier and Mondonville. It was issued as a pair to 'La Guinguette', depicting a scene from the pantomime of that name by created by de Hesse.
[Ref: 23105] £360.00

[Ballet Scene.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare hand-coloured etching with tinsel decoration. Sheet: 150 x 185mm (6 x 7¼''). Laid on card, central vertical crease.
A theatre scene showing five ballerinas in costume, the print has been decorated with glitter.
[Ref: 50634] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ballet.]
J. Brandard.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 315 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Framed. Staining. Unexamined out of frame.
A couple dancing, wearing Central European dress.
[Ref: 57272] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of four Ballet scenes.]
[German/Austrian, n.d., c.1780.]
Four coloured etchings. Ech 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"), with large margins. A few signs of wear.
Four ballet scenes, numbered X.1 to 4, each with a central dancer (a king, queen, shepherd and shepherdess) flanked by musicians in a rustic landscape.
[Ref: 45059] £650.00

Ballet 1946-1947.
Covent Garden Books - Number One. Editor: Anthony Gishford.
Printed by Jarrold and Sons Ltd. Norwich and Published by The Covent Garden Opera Trust. [n.d. c.1947.]
Book, 4to; 63 pages. Coloured cover of the stage from a right-wing box.
An illustrated sixty-three page book on the Royal Ballet. It includes contributions by Philip Page "The Royal Opera House", Anthony Gishford "The Covent Garden Opera Trust" and "Frederick Ashton" (with a portrait by Cecil Beaton), David Webster "Lord Keynes", Frances Harris "Ninette de Valois", Sacheverell Sitwell "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Giselle", and Michael Benthall "The Creation of a Ballet". This volume is superbly illustrated with portraits of the dancers and notables, including Ninette de Valois, Constant Lambert, Frederick Ashton, Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Harold Turner, Pamela May, June Brae, Robert Helpmann, David Paltenghi, Alexis Rassine, Beryl Grey, Michael Somes, and so on, together with photographs of performances and stagings. Among the photographs are works by Cecil Beaton, Germaine Kanova, Baron, Frank Sharman, Gordon Anthony, etc. Other illustrations include a colour plate depicting "William Chappell's backcloth design for the first act of Coppelia", and color photographs of performances of "The Sleeping Beauty" featuring Margot Fonteyn .Among the ballets featured in this, number one of the Covent Garden books, are "The Sleeping Beauty", "Giselle", "Adam Zero", "Les Sirenes".
[Ref: 23324] £140.00

The Chinese Lantern [pencil].
E. Gordon Carter [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, numbered 12 of 100. 200 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"), with large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A ballet dancer standing under a Chinese lantern.
[Ref: 49154] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Classe du premier quadrille [in pencil.]
P. Rd [pencil signature; Paul Renouard.]
[n.d. c.1892.]
Etching with very large margins, signed in pencil. Plate 229 x 280mm (9 x 11").
Inside a dance studio, the maestro plays a violin, the teacher directs four dancers on the floor; the rest sit behind the musician on a window ledge. No. 25 from a series published as 'A l'Opera 30 Eaux-Fortes par P. Renouard preface de Ludovic Halivy'.
[Ref: 34645] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Ballet Costume.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Watercolour with pen outline and detail. Image 310 x 135mm. 12¼ x 5¼". Laid on board.
A lady standing in an arabesque posture, without the hand positioning. In a long drape floral dress, with pink floral detail down the pleats. She wears a small jacket with pink and blue frills on the sides and collar. In her right hand she daintly leans on a parasol and in her left hand she holds a hand bag with a pink bow. On her head she wears a pink ribboned bow.
Ex Collection: Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 22715] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

In the Limelight [pencil].
E. Gordon Carter [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, numbered 4 of 100. 125 x 170mm (5 x 6¾") very large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A ballet dancer on pointe, in tutu, hair bobbed.
[Ref: 49151] £350.00

The little dancer [pencil].
E. Gordon Carter [pencil].
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist, numbered 5 of 100. 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), with large margins. In original mount with printed gallery label with artist's name and publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
A ballet dancer, on pointe with back arched.
[Ref: 49153] £350.00

[Scrapsheet with Drawings of Ballet Dancers.]
Scrapsheet. Sheet: 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8¾''). Tears.
A scrapsheet with various scenes including amateur portraits of Taglioni, Grisi, Cerrito and Lucile Grahn dancing.
[Ref: 50597] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ballets de l’Opéra de Paris. Ballets dans les Opéras-Nouveaux Ballets.
Par Léandre Vaillat. Dessins de Jean-Charles Duval.
Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques. MCMXLVII [1947].
4to, with original protective tissue cover. pp. 187. Profusely illustrated with colour and b/w images. Tissue slightly torn along spine and corners.
A survey of the major dance productions of the Paris Opera during the first half of the 20th century, including Castor et Pollux, Aida, Roméo et Juliette and Impressions de Music-Hall, indexes, profusely illustrated by Jean-Charles Duval.
[Ref: 22089] £260.00

Quadrangle of Balliol College.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour, J. Whatman 1812 watermark; 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
The exterior of the Quadrangle of Balliol College. Founded in 1263, Balliol is one of Oxford’s oldest colleges; the oldest academic institution in the English-speaking world still on its original site; and almost certainly the oldest co-founded by a woman anywhere.
[Ref: 62942] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dervorguilla Mater. J.Balliol Scot: Regs. Fund. Coll Balliolensis. A.D.1266. Hanc Effisiem a Tabula in Bibl. Bodleiana factum Reverando viro Theoph. Leigh S.T.P et istius Coll. Magistro.
Summa cum Humil & Observantia. D.D.D. H.Parker.
[n.d., c.1740.] Printed for H.Parker. Print and Bookseller, at No.82 in Cornhill, London.
Mezzotint, pt 18th century watermark, 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait of Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 - 1290), "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland, the wife of John de Balliol co-founder of Balliol College, Oxford, and mother of John I, future King of Scotland.
CS 34 IV of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65125] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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