Grosvenor Prints

Maria. Stuart. Reg. Fran. Et. Scot. Francisci. II. Regis Uxor. Marie Stuart Espouse du Roy François II.
[n.d.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 135mm (8 x 5¼'').
A portrait of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) who was married to Francis II from 1558 until 1560.
[Ref: 48635] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Nata IIII Die Novemb. MDCXXXI. Illustrissima D. Maria Principissa Magnae Britanniae. Etc.
Ant: van Dyck Eques pinxit: 1641. Henr: hondius Sculp: et excudit.
[n.d. c.1650.]
Rare engraving, 17th century watermark. 260 x 203mm (10¼ x 8"). Cut, damaged.
Portrait of Princess Mary as a child, half-length turned towards left but looking at the viewer, with curled hair, pearl necklace, gown with broad collar edged with lace; in lettered oval; after Anthony van Dyck. Mary, Princess of Orange (1631-1660); Daughter of Charles I (q.v.) and Henrietta Maria (q.v.); 1641 married William II, Prince of Orange (q.v.); mother of William III (q.v.) King of England.
Collector's Stamp: L.1304: Henry de Triqueti (1802-1847; painter and sculptor).
[Ref: 52510] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Baltimore. 6. City Spring.
Drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner. Lith by Deroy _ Printed by Cattier.
New-York & Paris; published by Goupil, Vilbert & Co. Entered according to act of congress, in the year 1848, by Aug. Köllner, in the clerk's office of the district court for the southern district of New-York.
Rare tinted lithograph. Printed area 250 x 295mm (9¾ x 11½"), with publisher's blindstamp, very large margins. Foxing in margins at top.
Lithographed by Isidore-Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) after August Köllner (1813-1906). Köllner, born in Württemberg and emigrated to America in 1839, made over a hundred drawings of American and Canadian cities, sending them to Paris to be lithographed. 54 were published, between 1848 and 1851.
[Ref: 64019] £420.00

A View of St. Mary le Bone from the Bason.
[After Jean Baptiste Chatalain.]
[n.d., c.1756.]
Very rare etching. 260 x 145mm (10¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper at edges.
View looking across the bason at the west end of Portland Place, towards Marylebone; elegantly dressed figures in foreground resting by the side of the water, a few figures swimming.
[Ref: 63203] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Watch House, S.t Mary Lee Bone. Plate 91.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculpt. J. Bluck aquat.
London. Pub Sep.t 1.st 1809. at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101. Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 235 x 275mm (9¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
Interior view; watchmen assembling for their nocturnal rounds, wearing heay brown coats, black caps and holding lanterns. A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity and architectual accuracy.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.91
[Ref: 62746] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Mary-La-Bonne.
Drawn by I.C.Barrow F.S.A. Engraved by G.I. Parkyns. Printed by I.Pushee.
London, Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1795 by T. Simpson St Paul's Church Yard, and Darling & Thompson, G.t Newport Str.t.
Aquatint. 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14½"), a large paper example. Some spotting, crease.
From Joseph Charles Barrow's 'Picturesque Views of Churches'. Originally issued by subscription 1791-2, only three of the intended six parts were published, a total of 12 views. This comes from a collected edition, not listed in Abbey.
See Abbey Scenery 2 for the subscription edition, this edition not listed.
[Ref: 15029] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

View principally comprising Marylebone Manor House, gardens, park and Environs, as they probably stood in the time of Q. Elizabeth, when her Majesty entertained the Russian ambassadors with hunting in the said park. From an original drawing made by Gasselin in 1700. See Pennant's London 3. edit. and Lyson's Middx.___ In this House a considerable School was kept many years by Mr. De la place, and after by Mr. Fountaine; on whose Succession the building was demolished in 1791. This Plate is Dedicated to the Noblemen and Gentlemen Educated at the Said School By Their Very Humble Servant John Thomas Smith.
[Published by J.T. Smith, 1800.]
Etching and aquatint, sheet 145 x 510mm. 5¾ x 20". Trimmed within plate and into aquatint frame left and right. Laid into album page.
View of the St. Marylebone Manor House with its park and gardens in Elizabethan times. The manor house was demolished in 1791, and was close to the first site of the Marylebone Cricket Club, founded by Thomas Lord (1755 - 1832) in 1787. Published by John Thomas Smith (1766 - 1833), known as 'Antiquity' Smith. He was Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum 1816-1833, and wrote a number of books on London and its history, including 'Antiquities of London and Environs'.
Guildhall Library: p5386381.
[Ref: 9750] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

View principally comprising Marylebone Manor House, gardens, park and Environs, as they probably stood in the time of Q. Elizabeth, when her Majesty entertained the Russian ambassadors with hunting in the said park. From an original drawing made by Gasselin in 1700. See Pennant's London 3. edit. and Lyson's Middx.___ In this House a considerable School was kept many years by Mr. De la place, and after by Mr. Fountaine; on whose Seccession the building was demolished in 1791. This Plate is Dedicated to the Noblemen and Gentlemen Educated at the Said School By Their Very Humble Servant John Thomas Smith.
Pubd. Sepr. 20th. 1800, by I.T. Smith No.1 Great Portland Street.
Hand coloured etching and aquatint, 150 x 560mm. 5¾ x 20". Repaired centre fold, with loss. Large chip/tear into plate/dedication lower right. General soiling.
View of the St. Marylebone Manor House with its park and gardens in Elizabethan times. The manor house was demolished in 1791, and was close to the first site of the Marylebone Cricket Club, founded by Thomas Lord (1755 - 1832) in 1787. Published by John Thomas Smith (1766 - 1833), known as 'Antiquity' Smith. He was Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum 1816-1833, and wrote a number of books on London and its history, including 'Antiquities of London and Environs'.
Guildhall Library: p5386381.
[Ref: 9751] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Cricket & William Blake] [Marylebone & St Pancras.]
Horwood Delin.t. Spear, Sculp.t Star Alley Fenchurch St.
Published as the Act directs Feb.ry 17 [& Oct.r 25th] 1793 [but 1799].
Engraved map on two sheets conjoined, total 580 x 1010mm (22¾ x 43¼"). Some old colour.
The two top left sheets of a 32-sheet map of London, covering the areas of Marylebone & St Pancras at the end of the 18th century, with the 'New Road' (Euston Road), Fitzroy Square, Warren Street, Harley Street & Baker Street. Of interest is the 'Cricket Ground', the first site of Lord's, and Willans Farm and Jews Harp House, both mentioned in Willliam Blake's poem 'Jerusalem'.
[Ref: 67565] £900.00

A View of Marybone Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk, and the Orchestra, with the Musick a Playing. [French translation to right.]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, N.o 69 S.t Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d. c.1780.]
Coloured etching, 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½"). Tipped into album sheet.
Marylebone or Marybone Gardens was a London pleasure garden, officially opened as a venue for concerts and other entertainments in 1738 by Daniel Gough, the proprietor of the Rose of Normandy tavern on the east side of Marylebone High Street. Originally consisting of two bowling greens adjoining the tavern, its size was increased by acquisition of land from Marylebone Manor House. The Gardens were mentioned by John Gay in "The Beggar's Opera" as a haunt of its 'hero', MacHeath and were used for, amongst other entertainments, gambling, cock-fighting, bull-baiting and boxing matches (with both male and female contestants). From a series of reduced views in London, numbered '12a' upper right. After John Donowell (1753 - 1786; fl.).
[Ref: 61998] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Night of an Illumination.
[After Augustus Pugin.]
Published by Edwd. Orme, Bond Street, 1806.
Etching and aquatint in colour, one sheet of two. 350 x 500mm. Trimmed to plate mark top and bottom. Paper edges tatty, with small tears. Tear into plate at left, just short of image. Light foxing/staining in title area. Pin hole in centre of sky area.
The right plate of two of the 'Illumination For Peace', a view of figures gathered at the residence of the French envoy, L. G. Otto, in Portman Square to watch an illumination celebrating the Peace of Amiens, 1802, between Britain and France. A single-sheet version engraved by Stadler was published by Orme in 1802.
[Ref: 4496] £480.00

[Portrait of a young man, possibly a self-portrait.]
Masaccio pinx. N. Strixner del:
[Munich: J. Stuntz, c.1825.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 520 x 390mm (20½ x 15½").
Self-portrait of Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, 1401-28), the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. As one of the first artists to use linear perspective he was hugely influential. This print was published in 'Les Oeuvres Lithographiques', a huge series of reproductive plates of paintings in German collections, by Johann Nepomuk Strixner (1782 - 1855) and Ferdinand Piloty (1786-1844). Their work did much to popularise lithography, as they showed the technique could achieve all the same effects as other engraving techniques.
BM: 1870,1008.1085; for Masaccio see also ref. 12078
[Ref: 31789] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward Mascall] Effigies Edvardi Mascall Pictoris sculpta ab Exemplari propria manu depicto
James Gammon sculpsit [c.1653-70]
Engraving, scarce, platemark 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼")
Edward Mascall (c.1650, fl.), little-known painter, after a self-portrait. The engraver James Gammon, active between 1653 and 1670 produced few works, most of which were copies of better-known engravings.
O'D 1
[Ref: 46382] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] Abroad You're Quite the Masher and Smoke Your Cigarette! At Home You Are a Puppy Whom No One Cares to Pet!
[n.d., c.1850.]
Photo lithograph, printed in black and red. Sheet (unfolded) 375 x 130mm (14½ x 5"). Very slight toning of edges.
A portrait of a dandy with monocle, cigarette and cane, unfolds to reveal a bulldog on a chain lunging at a cat. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 61325] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A Ghost. L'Apparition.
Painted by R. Westall. Engrav'd by Schiavonetti.
London, Pub.d March 1. 1791, by T Simpson St. Paul's Church Yard.
Stipple, printed in colours. Framed, sight size 230 x 255mm (9 x 10". Unexamined out of frame.
Two girls huddle, one points, in fear of a "ghost", which is in fact a young boy playing around with a sheet over his head. As the pair, 'The Mask' after Joshua Reynolds, depicted two of the daughters of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (who owned the painting), it is likely these are also his children.
See also reference 60316.
[Ref: 60369] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Mask. [&] The Ghost.
[Mask after Joshua Reynolds, Ghost after Richard Westall.]
Dublin Publish'd by W. Allen, 32 Dame Street.
Pair of stipples. Each c. 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½") large margins A few repairs.
A pair of scenes of children playing games, close copies of stipples by Luigi and Niccolo Schiavonetti. 'Mask' depicts two of the daughters of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, who owned the painting: Charlotte (1769-1802), holding a Graecian theatrical mask, and Anne (1773-1865).
[Ref: 54223] £480.00 (£576.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

A Ghost. L'Apparition. From the Original Picture in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxit. A. Zaffonato sculp.t.
Publish'd November 30th.1792 by A. Suntach.
Rare stipple. 228 x 254mm (9 x 10").
Two girls huddle, one points, in fear of a "ghost", which is in fact a young boy playing around with a sheet over his head. This is a close copy in reverse of a plate engraved by Niccolo Schiavonetti after Richard Westall, showing the children of the Duke of Marlborough. The pair, 'The Mask', was by Reynolds.
[Ref: 17023] £320.00

[Horn turner.] Wildrüffünd horn=drehe...
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼"), with very large margins.
A horn-turner working on a cow's horn held in a vice. Behind are samples of his products, including musical instruments An illustration from 'Abbildung der Gemain-Nutzlichen Haupt-Stande'.
[Ref: 41740] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Mask Maker] Dockenmache von ßappenseuch...
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼"). Small margins. Foxed.
A scene inside a mask-maker's workshop. An illustration from 'Abbildung der Gemain-Nutzlichen Haupt-Stande'.
[Ref: 41739] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Nevil Maskelyne. Königl. Grosbrit. Astronom. zu Greenwich. Geb. 1732 zu Purton in Wiltshire.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple. Plate 139 x 89mm (5½ x 3½"). Very slight crease.
The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS (1732-1811), the fifth English Astronomer Royal; an office he held from 1765 until his death. His interest in astronomy began whilst at school at Westminster School, shortly after the eclipse of 25 July 1748.
Kivell & Spence: Pg. 197 - not in.
[Ref: 29480] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Grotesque Masks] Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.
[by Aloisio Giovannoli.]
In Roma MDCCLXXXI [1781] Presso Venanzio Monaldini al Corso.
Folio, rebound in half treed calf with marbled boards, morocco title label, marbled endpapers; 33 of 38 etched plates. Scarce, but incomplete.
A fine collection of etchings of classical Roman theatrical masks etched by Aloisio Giovannoli (ca.1550–1618), and originally published c.1600 with book and plate numbers under the image, here cut from the plate. Giovannoli has copied prints designed by Cornelis Floris, engraved by Frans Huys and published by Hans Liefrinck I between 1539-1560.
See BM 1932,0217.37 for the original issue and description.
[Ref: 59203] £4,000.00 view all images for this item

[Landscape by river with town in distance]
[?James Mason, c.1770]
Etching, platemark 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Staining. Very large margins.
Landscape etching probably by James Mason (c.1723-1805), talented landscape engraver with a European reputation, based largely on engravings after artists including Sandby, Gainsborough and Wilson.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 38630] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape by with bridge, castle and man fishing in river]
[?James Mason, c.1770]
Etching, 18th century watermark; platemark 155 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Staining. Very large margins.
Landscape etching probably by James Mason (c.1723-1805), talented landscape engraver with a European reputation, based largely on engravings after artists including Sandby, Gainsborough and Wilson.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 38631] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Edmd. Mason.
F. Jukes Sculpt.
Pubd. Augt. 8. 1788 by I. Holl, Printseller, High Street, Worcester.
Aquatint printed in colours. Plate 241 x 190mm. 9½ x 7½".
Sir Edmund Mason (d.1801), "Knight of the Poker," a lunatic.
[Ref: 15912] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Edm.d Mason.
Record Pinx.t. F. Jukes Sculp.t.
Pub.d Aug.t 8 1788 by I. Holl, Printseller, High Street, Worcester.
Aquatint with large margins; printed in sepia. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½").
'Sir Edmund Mason, or the Knight Poker; a lunatic of Cheltenham'. Mason (d.1801) has been called the 'English Quixote', being convinced that he was the greatest general of the age, with honours heaped on him by all the royalty of Europe, especially Frederick the Great of Prussia, as displayed in this portrait. He owned the fastest race horse in the land and was in love with a princess from some far off land. He was always penniless because of the problems of cashing bills of exchange for millions. Although he always bore arms he was regarded as harmless and his manners were so impeccable that he was humoured locally. However in his later years to had to be confined for his own safety; he reconciled this in his mind by taking his confinement as the governorship of a castle.
[Ref: 33238] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

M.r J.R. Mason. Supplement to "The World."
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]
Gill.t Whitehead & C.o L.td New Eltham. S.E. [Published May 3, 1910.]
Rare chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½") large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of English amateur cricketer John Richard ‘Jack’ Mason (1874–1958), who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1893 and 1914, captaining the team between 1898 and 1902. He played for England in five Test matches on A. E. Stoddart's 1897–98 tour of Australia.
[Ref: 63668] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled Masonic Broadsheet.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, 570 x 445mm. Laid on linen but lifting, three burn holes through paper and linen, other signs of use.
A masonic esoteric broadsheet, with vignette scenes around a central pentagram.
[Ref: 4137] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch of the Superb Masonic Jewel presented by the Brethern of the Grand Stewards Lodge to their Past Master the R.W. William Williams Grand Master for Dorset.
Engraved by H. Meyer from an original drawing by J.C. Burckhardt.
London, Published by J. Asperne, 32 Cornhill, May 1st 1818.
Engraving, 125 x 180mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed; glue stains to edges.
Engraving of both sides of a masonic medal, replicating full inscriptions.
[Ref: 34860] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Jewel worn by the P,M. of the Lodge of Symbolic Mason's.
aft Cipriani Leney fc.
London, Printed for G. Cawthorn, British Library, Strand, Sept.r 1 1796.
Stipple and etching, platemark 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") very large margins.
The P.M. jewel of the Lodge of Symbolic Masons, precisely similar to the jewels of the Lodge of the Nine Muses. Published in volume seven of the 'Freemasons' Magazine'
[Ref: 41709] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Masonic allegory of the Seven Sciences.] Septemplex Sororum Vitae.
E. Spry M.D. inv. & del. I. Jehner fecit. F.A. c:A: & S:P.Di.
Artium & Scientiaru, Plimuthi-dock Academiam Institit & fundavit Cal: An: MDCCLXXXV [1785].
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Narrow margins, some creasing and surface wear, laid on album paper.
An extremely rare masonic plate, with a central image of Minerva and a cockerel, a portrait of Dr Edward Spry (the artist), a list of the masonic Seven Sciences (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy & Music) under the Eye of Providence, the rising sun, Adam and Eve, and a classical temple. On the title page of his 1785 book 'A masonic ode, prayer and grace, consecrated to the firmly and friendly united brotherhood of free-masons (thro'out the world)', Spry described himself as 'Knight Templar, and of the Eastern Star, &c'. The engraver, Isaac Jehner (or Jenner) of Exeter engraved portraits of Spry, his son (also Edward) and nephew John. The BM biography notes 'Probably a Freemason'.
Alexander: English and Irish Engravers, biography of Jenner, p.502-5. BM1864.0813.212
[Ref: 60966] £490.00

[Ticket] Masqued Ball New Club Soho Feby. XXIV. MDCCLXXV [lettered on tablet in image.]
I.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
[British, 1775.]
Etched ball invitation, printed in brown ink. In ink verso 42. State before plate reworked and Bartolozzi's name erased. Image 265 x 185mm. 10½ x 7¼". Lacking lower margin. Fold creases as to put in a pocket.
A bacchanal women holding up a tragic mask with a her left hand and lifting her veil with her right. A putto seated to the right holds up the inscribed plaque, seated next to a bunch of grapes; two dramatic masks on the ground in left foreground. This plate has been altered; the putto originally held aloft a basket of fruit and flowers.
See item Ref: 20425 for an early issue of the plate. De Vesme 1959, I of II.
[Ref: 27691] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Masqued Ball New Club Soho Feby. XXIV. MDCCLXXV.
I.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi Sculp. 1775.
Stipple, very fine image. Plate 321 x 233mm. 12¾ x 9¼". Trimmed to the plate, slight foxing.
A ticket; a bacchanal women holding up a mask with a her left hand a cloth in her right. A putto seated to the right holding up a basket of flowers, a bunch of grapes next to him; two masks on the ground in left foreground.
De Vesme: 1959; I of II.
[Ref: 20425] £360.00

[Woman in a ball gown.] Anderst von aussen als von innen; / Schwarz und maskiert, von innen weis und schön / Ach! manchen sieht man schwarz in weisser Marke gehn / Aliud extra, aliud intus. / Personam facies mentitus candida nigram, / Saepe animum nigrum candida larva tegit.
J. El. Rindinger excud. A.V. [n.d., c.1770.]
Mezzotint, very fine impression. 480 x 345mm (18¾ x 13½"). Top left corner repaired with loss, tear in left edge, remains of album paper on reverse. Small margins.
A woman in an exquisite ball gown, holding a mask. A reworked state, with the face altered and the original border reworked.
See BM 1867,0713.91 for an example before the reworking.
[Ref: 59915] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Plate from 'The Masquerades']
IDGeyn Inven et excu [1595-6]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
One of a set of ten plates published by Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629) after his own designs. De Gheyn trained with Hendrik Goltzius in Haarlem before settling in Amsterdam in the 1590s. After 1600 he gave up printmaking and publishing to paint, like Goltzius before him.
[Ref: 47783] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The R-l Masquerarde. Letter of the Black Dwarf in London to the Yellow Bonze in Japan [...]
[By George Cruikshank; published by John Fairburn c.1818.]
Etching with hand-colouring, rare, sheet 215 x 260mm (8½ x 10¼"). Trimmed, losing long letterpress text below image.
Comprehensive satire on the prince Regent, his brothers and his ministers (as made explicit in the long letterpress text originally accompanying this text). The 'Black Dwarf' in the image is the short black man on the right. Etched by George Cruikshank (1792-1878). The son of a notable satirist (who died following a drinking match when George was only 19, leaving him as the family breadwinner), Cruikshank was a prolific and celebrated caricaturist from an early age. Alongside contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray, he ridiculed the excesses of the Regent and his circle with devastating effectiveness (George IV eventually paid him 'not to caricature His Majesty in any immoral situation').
BM Satires 12994
[Ref: 45884] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Masquerade.
London Pub. As the act directs May 20 1822 by John Marshall 140 Fleet S.t.
Fine coloured etching, sheet 130 x 250mm (5¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Creasing on left. Laid on album sheet.
A masquerade party; people wear outlandish costumes and converse. Costumes/people include: Grimaldi/a clown, Bottom, a cat, a solider, a tight roper, a monk and a dwarf.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58419] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Masquerade. 148.
Published 4.th April, 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Fine coloured etching. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Slight creasing near flag.
A fancy dress party, including guests dressed as Selene, Falstaff, a cleric, a devil, a Jew, a Turk and a black man in a jester costume.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 55645] £360.00

Masquerade Scene Kensington Gardens. Jack on a Cruise. A Missey in y.e Offing.
Sam: Sharp-Eye del. ad vivum. [Bunbury ?] J.Bretherton fec.
Publish'd as the Act directs [2nd July 1772 by J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.]
Coloured engraving. 180 x 205mm. Second half of publication line erased.
BM Satire 5083.
[Ref: 12206] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Return from a Masquerade._ A morning scene.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [June 1792].
Mezzotint. Platemark: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Light creasing and damage to sheet.
Two grinning chairmen, walking diagonally right to left carry a sedan-chair, from the side window of which hangs the head and shoulders of a lady, asleep or drunk, with her left arm hanging down outside the chair. She is dressed as a shepherdess, with a garland of flowers in her hair. In her right hand is a crook which also projects through the window. Beside the chair walks a little grinning chimney-sweep with a soot-bag and brush, but with a striped turban or cloth on his head and holding up a smiling mask. The chair is crossing an open space or wide street, probably Covent Garden, with houses in the background.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33948] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Masquerade, Bayswater, Jan.y 1818. No. 162 Admit Mr. Renton[?], Bayswater Jan.y 20 1820 / Masquerade Ticket / Not Transferable.
Johnson Esq delin.
Etching and aquatint with ms., scarce; sheet 105 x 145mm (4 x 5¾"). Ink marks at top; box with user's name has been cut out, with a new piece of paper stuck behind.
Ticket for a masquerade with a scene showing revellers at the masquerade two years earlier, many of whom are dressed up in costumes of Native Americans, Wizards etc. The British Museum suggest the print was made by S.W. Reynolds, although we have found no further confirmation of this.
see BM 1867,0309.1798
[Ref: 32276] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Masquerading.
Rowlandson Del. Price One Shilling Coloured.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed into image top left and within plate, laid on album paper.
Tightly packed masqueraders in a rotunda, the men old and coarse, the women young and beautiful, shows Madame Catalani. First published in 1811, this example has Tegg's publication line erased.
BM Satires 11808.
[Ref: 58363] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lynn, Mass. West View from near High Rock. No.2, Album of New England Scenery. To the Citizens of Lynn, this picture is most respectfully dedicated by the Publisher, Jn. B. Balchelder.
Painted by J.B. Bachelder from a Daguerreotype by C.G.Hill. Lith. of Endicott & Co., N.Y.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1856 by J.B.Bachelder in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
Tinted lithograph, printed area 330 x 400mm. A few small tears.
John Badger Bachelder (1825-1894). The city of Boston can be seen on the horizon.
[Ref: 476] £390.00

Exterior View of Coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee. Boston Mass. June 15.-16.-17.-18.-19.-th. 1869. Contractors for Materials Geo.B. James & Co. Lumber Dealers. 14 State St. Boston. Contractors for Building Judah Sears & Son. Builders. So. Boston.
New England Lith. Co. 109 Summer St. Boston.
Entered, According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1869, by The New England Lithographic Co. In the Clerks Office of the District Court of Mass.
Tinted lithograph. 356 x 482mm (14 x 19"). Mount burn. Some tears and creasing.
A view of the National Peace Jubilee Coliseum located near Copley Square, Boston. A crowd of people are shown arriving at the festival on foot and in carriage; soldiers marching on the right. The National Peace Jubilee was a celebration featuring an orchestra, a chorus and many soloists.
In the Library of Congress.
[Ref: 29991] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Homestead of Wendell Holmes.
[n.d. c.1895.]
Etching in brown ink. Plate 215 x 418
The home of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) the American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author. He is often regarded as one of the best writers of the 19th century, and considered a member of the Fireside Poets.
[Ref: 31031] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Elmwood: Residence of James Russell Lowell, Cambridge, Mass.
H. Billings. W.L. Ormsby.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving, sheet 130 x 185mm. 5 x 7¼".
Elmwood is a registered historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, known for its several prominent former residents, including: Andrew Oliver (1706 – 1774), royal Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Elbridge Gerry (1744 – 1814), signer of the US Declaration of Independence whose political tactics earned the term gerrymandering and Vice President of the United States; and James Russell Lowell (1819 – 1891), noted American writer, poet, and foreign diplomat. It is now the residence of the President of Harvard University.
[Ref: 11805] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[The Massacre of the Innocents] Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise Men, was exceeding wroth; and sent forth, and slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem…
Sartor fecit Londini. [after Rubens]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 270 x 355mm. 10½ x 14". Stained in title area.
A dramatic and terrible scene depicting the Massacre of the Innocents, an episode of mass infanticide by the King of Judea, Herod the Great, that appears in the Gospel of Matthew 2:16-18. The author, traditionally believed to be Matthew the Evangelist, reports that Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the village of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi. The infants, known in the Church as the Holy Innocents, have been claimed as the first Christian martyrs. Engraved by German engraver Johann Jakob Sartor (1706 - 1737 fl.), who worked in London. The source image is Rubens' painting, c.1636-8 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek), which had itself been the subject of an engraving by Pontius in the 1640s.
[Ref: 13461] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Massacre of the Innocents.] Innocentes pro Christo Infantes occisi sunt.
Raphal Urbino invenit.
Si Venono in Roma Vicho a Pasquno da Nicolo Billy. [n.d., c.1665.]
Engraving. Unidentified collectors mark on verso. Plate: 500 x 280mm (19¾ x 11"), with large margins. Creasing.
A biblical scene showing the massacre of the innocents, a dynamic scene in which mothers struggle to protect their children from the knives of several men. Engraved by Michel Corneille II after Raphael.
[Ref: 47571] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Massacre of the Innocents.] Almo.to Ill.re e prone oss.mo il sig.r Cesari Leoncelli Sec.rio dell'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Don Philippo Collonagram Conte Stabile dei Regno di Napoli. Per mostrare in parte it dessi.o chi' ho di far cosagrata a V.S. finsieme per offerirmeli servitore asse.mo ho'uolto dedicare la presente Imagine et mestesso A V.S 1627.
F. Villamena F.
Gio. Marco Paluzzi Formis Romae.
Engraving. Sheet: 390 x 250mm (15½ x 9¾''). Trimmed, damaged. Central crease.
A biblical scene showing the massacre of babies ordered by Herod following the birth of Christ. Engraved by Francesco Villamena (1565-1624).
[Ref: 49730] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Massaniello haranguing the Populace of Naples.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. 95 x 134mm (3¾ x 5¼").
Massaniello seen here on a platform, attired in his fisherman's garb, administering justice from a wooden scaffolding outside his house. Tommaso Aniello, known as Massaniello (1622-1647), the Italian fisherman, who became leader of the revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain in Naples in 1647. Massaniello succeeded, and on 13 July 1674, the Duke of Acros signed a convention where rebels were pardoned, more oppressive taxes removed, and the citizens granted certain rights.
[Ref: 34700] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Massaroni [ink mss.]
[Anon., c.1840.]
Pen and ink drawing on coarse wove paper, sheet 220 x 185mm. 8¾ x 7¼".
Italian Brigand Chief Alessandro Massaroni (1790 - 1821). His exploits were immortalised in the 1823 book 'Events of the life of Massaroni, an Italian bandit' by Bartolomeo Pinelli, illustrated by his plates. By a competent hand, probably from a 19th century sketch book.
[Ref: 16090] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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