Grosvenor Prints

St. Barbara.
Sold by Tho: Bakewell next the Horn Tavern Fleet Street [n.d., c.1700].
Mezzotint, sheet 125 x 90mm. 5 x 3½". Trimmed to plate.
Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara (3rd century - December 4, 306), was a Christian saint and martyr. Although there is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings, nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology, veneration of her was common from the seventh century. Supposedly shut in a tower by her father Dioscurus in order to discourage suitors, she was eventually executed by his sword. Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was removed from the official Catholic calendar in 1969. However, she continues to be a popular saint in modern times, perhaps best known as the patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers, miners and others who work with explosives because of her legend's association with lightning. Published by Thomas Bakewell (1670 - 1764; fl.). Very rare.
[Ref: 10493] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sancta Barbara Der Hochgebornen Reichsgraefin Luise von Wallmoden Gimborn unterthaenigst gewidmet von J Gerh Huck. as Orginal befindet sich in der Gallerie des H Feldmarshall Reichsgrafen von Wallmoden Gimborn.
Parmegianino pinx.t J: Gerh Huck Sculp
Hannover 1803.
Rare mezzotint, 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"), with large margins. Paper aged. Tipped into album sheet at sides.
Depiction of Saint Barbara holding her tower and a quill.
[Ref: 61604] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Barbara.]
HHolbein inv. Whollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, 1647.
Etching. Scarce; Sheet: 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Time stained.
A portrait of a woman, wearing long robes, holding a chalice and wafer and standing by a lake. Pennington identifies her as Saint Barbara on account of her resemblance to a portrait of the saint in the stained glass at Bale. The Strawberry Hill Catalogue 1842 lists this as Ann Boleyn.
Pennington 176.
[Ref: 43708] £380.00

Algierische Seerauber.
Adam Z [signed in plate lower left.] Lith. v. Honegger.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph, sheet 245 x 340mm. 9¾ x 13½".
Barbary Pirates or Corsairs in the Mediterranean, abducting a European woman, probably to be sold as a slave in North Africa. Their ship out to sea in the background to left. Illustration to a German book, numbered '59' upper right.
[Ref: 14207] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[The Barbary Sheep] The Aoudad. Ovis Tragelaphus.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 355 x 245mm (14 x 9½"), with very large margins.
The Barbary Sheep of North Africa. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 50357] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de l'isle Barbe à une lieue de Lyon.
Grobon del et sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 205 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The Roman church of Notre-Dame on Île Barbe, on the Saone near Lyon. Drawn and etched by Jean Michel Grobon (1770-1853). According to the BM 'all his prints bar one precede 1800'.
[Ref: 59405] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Barbedor.] Lodoicus Barbedor e Stato Regii [...]
J. Boulanger delin. et sculpsit
1650
Engraving, very scarce; 17th century watermark of a crown; 315 x 220mm (12¼ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark; crease through centre.
Louis Barbedor (1589-1670), writing master. Anagrams of his name in Latin below. Published in 'Les Escritures financière et italienne bastarde dans leur naiveté'. Engraved by Jean Boulanger (1608-c.1680).
[Ref: 31128] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Barber]
G.B. O'Neill 30 [c.1880]
Etching on india, platemark 80 x 85 (3¼ x 3¼"), with large margins.
Etching by George Bernard O'Neill (1828-1917),
[Ref: 47660] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Barber.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 225mm, 5½ x 9". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a barber shaving a client with a straight-edge razor.
[Ref: 16437] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Barber. London.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 45 x 65mm (1¾ x 2½"). Trimmed.
A trade label, probably for a draper.
[Ref: 61350] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Goody-Two-Shoes Turned Barber or Colonial Concilation. HB Sketches 208.
HB [John Doyle]. A. Ducote's Lithography. 70 St. Martins Lane.
Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, June 28th 1832.
Lithograph. Size: 370 x 280mm. (14½ x 11").
This appears to be an attack on the pending measure of emancipation, demanded by public opinion and the Abolitionists, which was to be a leading issue at the general election, when the country was placarded with the Abolitionists' bill. Goderich, Colonial Secretary, was under the influence of Howick his Under-Secretary: both were in favour of immediate emancipation. When Goderich was removed from the Colonial Office on account of opposition (said to be Brougham's) to the Bill which he had in preparation, Howick resigned.
BM satires: 17158
[Ref: 31416] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

J.T. Barber Beaumont.
Drawn on Stone (from the bust by E.H. Bailey, R.A.) by J..H. Lynch No 50 Upper Seymour St. Euston Sq.r. J. Graf Printer to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph on india, with large margins. Printed area 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½").
John Thomas Barber Beaumont (1774-1841), army officer, painter, author, and philanthropist, member of the Society of Antiquaries & Geological Society. He was miniature painter to the Duke of Clarence, the future king William IV of Great Britain. In 1803 he raised a rifle corps named The Duke of Cumberland's Sharp Shooters, which later became Queen Victoria's Rifles. As a businessman Beaumont founded the Provident Institution and Savings Bank in 1806 and the County Fire and the Provident Life insurance offices in 1807.
[Ref: 31270] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Covent Garden Market in the Year 1815.
Drawn on Stone by David Barber, from an original Picture in the possession of Mr. Butler of Covent Garden. Printd by Engelmann & Co.
Published by John Kendrick No. 54 Leicester Square. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 250 x 310mm.
[Ref: 7444] £380.00

The Barber of Seville.
Publish'd Mar 15. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8½ "). Trimmed, losing letterpress song, with foxing.
An illustration to a ten-verse poem (not present) satirising Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville. A woman with cross-eyes and a hairy chin sits under a grape-trellis and an orange-tree; a barber kneels at her feet. In the song the amour promises to shave her every morning if she will marry him.
BM Satire 11195.
[Ref: 46482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Barber of Seville. Extracted from the Monthly Mirror - New Series No. XIV.
Publish'd Mar 15. 1808 by Lauire & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand-coloured etching. 190 x 225mm (7½ x 8¾"), with letterpress underneath, sheet 290 x 225mm (11½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
An illustration and ten-verse poem satirising Gioachino Rossini's 'Barber of Seville. A woman with cross-eyes and a hairy chin sits under a grape-trellis and an orange-tree; a barber kneels at her feet. In the song the amour promises to shave her every morning if she will marry him.
BM Satire 11195.
[Ref: 54351] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Is this 'Barber Ross A'? (New Reading) vide Tragedy of Barbarossa.
Etch'd & Publish'd by Peeping Tom. Coventry St.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Etching with hand colour, 349 x 247mm. Occasional spotting.
Alexander Ross the barber and perfumer who published a 'Treatise on Bear's Grease, with observations...to preserve the head of hair..' in 1795. He was also an O.P. ('old prices') rioter, with 'OP' inscribed on his hat. When the new Covent Garden theatre was opened in 1809, the charges of admission were increased; but night after night for three months a throng crowded the pit, shouting “O P!” Much damage was done, and the manager was obliged at last to give way.
BM Satires: 11435. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes. From the Minto Wilson Collection.
[Ref: 7799] £420.00

The Barber's Nuptials. A True Tale.
W. Day, Printer, 17, Goswell Street. [n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress. Sheet 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼").
A broadsheet songsheet, with a poem by Rev. George Huddesford (1749-1809), a painter and a satirical poet of Oxford. This verse was first published in 'Salmagundi: a Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry', 1791
[Ref: 42358] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Barbers-Shop in Assize Time. _ from a Picture painted by H.W. Bunbury Esq.r.
The Last Work of the Late James Gillray _ 582
Now first Published May 15th 1818 By G. Humphrey nephew and successor ro the late M.rs Humphrey _ 27 S.t James's Street [but H.G. Bohn, 1852].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 425 x 585mm (16¾ x 23¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene of the interior of a country barber's shop, with men being shaved and wigs on stands. Gillray seems to have worked on this plate during lucid moments in his madness, but it might have been completed by Cruikshank.
BM Satires 11779.
[Ref: 68221] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Iohn Barber Esqr. Lord Mayor of London in ye: year 1733.
[London: T. Cooper, 1741?]
Copper engraving, scarce frontispiece to 'The Life & Character of John Barber, Esq; late Lord-Mayor of London, deceased'. Sheet 210 x 150mm, 8¼ x 6". Trimmed to image.
The Prime Minister Robert Walpole was concerned to reduce the burden of the land tax and shift government revenues to other sources. "The excise scheme of 1733 promised revenues which would permit a permanent reduction of the land tax. The measure involved converting the customs duties on tobacco and wine into inland duties. It followed on other fiscal measures that moved in this direction, tea, chocolate, and coffee and then the year before salt. The opposition was intense and effective against the measure. Opponents revived longstanding criticisms of such measures: "Excise duties involved giving extensive powers of search to revenue officers, and a wide jurisdiction to magistrates and excise commissioners. Moreover, merchants and traders--both those engaged in circumventing the existing customs duties and those who paid them--disliked the prospect of dealing with "officious excisemen". When the City of London [John Barber] formally presented its petition against the excise on 10 April, 1733, Walpole's majority fell to seventeen. A Revolt in the Lords looked likely and on the following day Walpole announced the withdrawal of the excise scheme. John Barber (1676 - 1741), Lord Mayor of London, wearing a shoulder-length curly wig, white cravat, chain of office and a coat trimmed with fur. With his April 9th 1733 speech to the Common Council of Alderman inscribed below portrait. Reduced copy in reverse of the portrait engraved by Gerard Vandergucht (see 16630). After Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c.1754).
[Ref: 16652] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm, 14 x 9¾". Tight margins on three sides.
Originally a printer, Barber made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state)
[Ref: 10484] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Barber Esq.r. Lord Mayor of the City of London in the Memorable Year 1733.
B. Dandridge pinx.t. 1737. J.Faber fecit 1740.
Price 2.d & Sold by I.Faber at the Golden-Head Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins on three sides. Paper lightly toned. Creases in margins.
Originally a printer, Barber (1676-1741) made a fortune in the South Sea Company, from which he had the acumen to extricate himself before the crash.
CS: 21, state ii of ii (CS could find only three of the first state). Sharpe 303.Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64700] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Cardinal Barberini]
R. Nanteuil ad vivum pin. et Sculpebat 1663.
Cum privilegio Regis.
Engraving, 17th century watermark. 350 x 275mm (13¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed.
A half portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1608-1671) in an oval garland of oak leaves atop a plinth decorated with a coat of arms. He wears typical clerical dress with skull cap and the isignia of the Order of the Saint-Eprit. Antonio was an influential figure of the House of Barberini, which helped shape the politics, religion art and music of 17th century Italy. His uncle was appointed Pope Urban VIII in 1623 and elevated Antonio and his brothers to Cardinal.
PW 10.
[Ref: 57423] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pop In & Popt Out. A noted Wag on frolic bent / Once on a time did stop / Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd / Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop [...]
[Alfred Mills]
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Rare etching with hand-colouring, sheet 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Creasing, repaired tear.
Comic song set at a barber's shop.
BM Satires 10652. See [Ref: 41574] for one with slighlty different colouring.
[Ref: 67891] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A barbers shop a medley shews, of monsters, wigs, drawn-teeth and news, while one is shav’d another bleeds, a third the Grub Street Journal reads. The master full of Whig and Tory, talks politics and tells a story, and swears he is not such a sot, but that he knows full well, what’s what.
[Drawn by Egbert van Heemskerck.]
[n.d,. engraved c.1730, but printed c.1800.)
Engraving. 290 x 250mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Paper brittle, backed on thin tissue.
A satire about a barber's shop, with the characters with animal heads. One cat is being shaved, another, a female, is being bled. Painted by Egbert van Heemskerck II (c.1674 - 1744.)
[Ref: 19725] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pop In & Popt Out. A noted Wag on frolic bent / Once on a time did stop / Where blocks & wigs in window plac'd / Bedeck'd a Barber's Shop [...]
[Alfred Mills]
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yard 2 Jan. 1806.
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 190 x 220mm (7½ x 8½"). Small margins.
Comic song set at a barber's shop.
BM Satires 10652. See [Ref: 67891] for one with slighlty different colouring.
[Ref: 41574] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona.]
Axel H. Haig [signed in pencil].
London Published 1919 by W.R. Howell & Co, The Gallery, Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright Registered. Printed by Chas. Welch.
Etching 470 x 315mm (18½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Axel Herman Haig (1835-1921), Swedish printmaker, painter and architect. While studying architecture with William Burgess in London Haig became interested in Gothic architecture and became known as the 'Piranesi of the Gothic Revival' for his evocations of the medieval world.
[Ref: 41254] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Barcelona, 1714] Aggressio duorum propugnaculorum, a fossore cuniculario labe facta. Attaque de deux Bastions les breches faits par le Mineur. Median fol.º No. 75.
Georg Matthaüs Probst del. et sculp.
Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Mounted.
A vue d'optique of the siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession, based one of the set of six views of the siege by Jacques Rigaud for Belidor's 'La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile'. This plate shows soldiers entering the city through the three breaches made in the walls my miners. The image has been reversed for viewing through a zograscope, a device of lenses and mirrors designed to give a sense of depth, which transposed the image, resulting in the need for a title in reverse above the print.
[Ref: 62548] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Representation of the most Considerable Actions in the Seige of a Place. The Opening of the Trenches...
Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1750.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 215 x 430mm (8½ x 17''). Trimmed, title excised and glued on back, stained. Edge in black for Vue d'Optique machine.
A scene showing the town of Barcelona during the Siege of Barcelona (1713-14). Ranks of soldiers march across the fields towards the city.
[Ref: 49206] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Place given up to Plunder. Tis very seldom that a Place will expose and abandon it self to the fury of the Soldiers...
Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1750.]
Fine hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 215 x 430mm (8½ x 17''). Trimmed, title excised and glued on back. Edge in black for Vue d'Optique machine.
A scene showing the town of Barcelona during the Siege of Barcelona (1713-14). Soldiers run across the ruins while the city burns behind.
[Ref: 49205] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Città e del Porto di Barcellona, Capitale della Catalogna in Spagna.
[Engraved by Francesco Sesone.]
[Naples, c.1740.]
Engraving. 165 x 330mm (6½ x 13"). Binding folds and creases as normal.
A prospect of Barcelona, engraved by Sesone, showing the Lighthouse, Santa Maria del Mar and the castle of Montjuic.
[Ref: 49986] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Six plates of the Siege of Barcelona.] Twelve of the most remarkable Sieges and Battles in Europe. 1. Views, representing the most considerable Transactions in the Siege of a Place. Opening the Trenches. [&] 2. Of making Sallies and the method of repulsing them. [&] 3. [&] 4. An Attack of two Bastions, at Breaches made by springing Mines. [&] 5. A General Assault. [&] 6. The Place taken by Storm and Plunder'd.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1775.]
Album of six numbered engravings, each c. 170 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"), trimmed to plate and laid on album paper, stitched with silk. Ink ownership inscription 'John Wolley' on album paper of first plate.
The complete run of six plates illustrating the Siege of Barcelona (14 September - 19 October 1705, during the War of the Spanish Succession, in which an Allied army, led by Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (1658 - 1735), captured the city of Barcelona from its Franco-Spanish defenders. The plates were published as the first six in the 'Twelve of the most remarkable sieges' series; the other six were of named actions elsewhere in Europe (except for one plate of Louisbourg in Canada). Often booklets like this were done for the entertainment of officers serving abroad.
[Ref: 49779] £600.00 view all images for this item

[Siege of Barcelona.] Nachdem in dem Franzosische Kreigs...
Georg. Phil. Rugenda del. Paul Decker Archit: inv: et del. Ioh: August: Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Priv: Sac: Caes: Maj. Ieremias Wolff excudit Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 440 x 415mm (17¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to image. Vertical crease.
A scene showing the city of Barcelona during the siege which took place from 1713-1714. The scene shows figures setting up camp while ranks of men head toward the city. The scene is framed in a decorative border with a plan of the city in an oval above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42952] £320.00

Barcelona.
H. Swinburne Delin.t. Ellis sculp.t.
[London: Printed for P. Elmsly, 1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 200mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, text sheet (in English & French) pasted as overlay.
A view of Barcelona, published in 'Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776 in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot' by Henry Swinburne (1743-1803), an account of his travels with Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Spain was relatively unknown land. It was the first antiquarian book on Spain to be published in England, describing early Roman and Moorish architecture with historical background.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33309] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The assault on Barcelona, 1714.) An Attack & Lodgement on the Covert Way: i.e. the part which lies between the Ditch and the Glacis.
[Engraved by Jean Baptiste Rigaud after Jacques Rigaud.]
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraving with strong original colour; Whatman 1794 watermark. 245 x 425mm (9¾ x 16¾"). Tears in large margins.
A view of the assault on Barcelona by the Bourbons on the 11th September 1714, led by the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II, during the War of the Spanish Succession. As plate 3 of 'Twelve of the most remarkable sieges and battles in Europe', originally published by Carington Bowles c.1760, it illustrates the art of siege warfare, with the use of sappers to get troops and guns closer to the walls. Other plates in the series depict Culloden (1746) and Minden (1759).
[Ref: 45037] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Barcelona: Santa Maria del Mar.]
Axel H. Haig [pencil].
London. Published 1913, by W.R. Howell & Co, The Gallery, Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright. Printed by Chas. Welch.
Etching, signed by the artist. 420 x 280mm (16½ x 11"), with wide margins. Mint.
A street scene outside a church. Originally published in 1889 as a limited edition of 150, priced at 3 guineas.
Nordaught Crook & Lennox-Boyd: Axel Haig 87.
[Ref: 51731] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Barclay's Dictionary word Top-Heavy.
Craig del. Wallis sculp.
Published by T. Kinnersley Nov, 1. 1813.
Engraving and etching. 255 x 204mm. 10 x 8".
Reverend James Barclay was the compiler of an over-heavy, on the word front, dictionary of complete and universal English.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18517] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Barclay's Dictonary, word Conjurer.
W. M. Craig delin. J. Brown sculp. Published as the Act directs by T. Kinnersley May 1.st 1813.
London, 1813.
Engraving. 260 x 210mm (10Â¼ x 8Â¼").
A scene depicting a man in wizards robes waving a wand over a book, on a table next to a smoking cauldron. Two devil figures, one crouched, one with arms extended upward, stand behind the table. A man crouches next to the wizard clutching his face. The image pressumably illustrates the definition for the word 'conjurer'.
[Ref: 54120] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Dr John Barclay] The Craft in Danger. An uproar among the Craftsmen at Ephesus. opposing a new Species of Knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver.23 &c.
[John Kay.]
[n.d., Edinburgh 1817.]
Etching. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with large margins. Slight creasing. Repaired tears in borders.
Caricature of Dr. Barclay riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion. By John Kay (1742 - 1826), Edinburgh etcher of portrait caricatures. Image lettered with speech bubbles.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 56989] £320.00

[Dr John Barclay] The Craft in Danger. An uproar among the Craftsmen at Ephesus. opposing a new Species of Knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver.23 &c.
[John Kay.]
[n.d., Edinburgh 1817.]
Etching, sheet 197 x 280mm. Trimmed to plate and glued to scrap sheet.
Caricature of a man (Dr Barclay) riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion. By John Kay (1742 - 1826), Edinburgh etcher of portrait caricatures. Image lettered with speech bubbles.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 7514] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Bard.
S. Shelley pin.t. C. Taylor sculp.y.
London, Publish'd May 1. 1788], by C. Taylor. No 10 near Castle Street, Holborn
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
An oval portrait of a bard holding a harp. An illustration to Thomas Gray's poem, 'The Bard. A Pindaric Ode', 1757. From the first volume of 'The Cabinet of Genius containing frontispieces and characters adapted to the most popular poems', which contained thirty stipples by Charles Taylor after Samuel Shelley of characters from famours poems by various authors
[Ref: 54200] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Bardic Museum, of primitive British Literature; and other admirable rarities; forming the Second Volume of the Musical, Poetical and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids ... containing the Bardic Triads; Historic Odes; Eulogies; Songs; Elegies ... with English translations and historic illustrations: likewise the ancient War-tunes of the Bards ... To these national melodies are added new Basses; with Variations, for the Harp, or Harpsichord; Violin, or Flute;
By Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall.
Book; small folio (340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾"), text and sheet music with lyrics complete as issued. With hand coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Ibbetson and J. Smith, of figures gathered around a harpist playing on a hillside. Unmarked blue paper-covered binding with calf spine. Binding chipped, scuffed and rubbed; paper covers tearing. Spine largely worn away, front cover disbound. Sheets slightly foxed, some offsetting to music sheets.
Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,’ London, folio, in 2 parts; republished with additions in 1794. This companion volume was issued in 1802. These works, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe. A scarce Rowlandson image.
British Library: 004439254.
[Ref: 10521] £500.00

S.A. Bardsley, M.D. Late Senior Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and formerly Vice President of the Manchester Library and Philosophical Society.
C.A. Duval pinx.t J. Thomson sculp.t
Published by Thos. Agnew Repository of Arts, Manchester, & Messrs. Ackermann & Co. Strand, London 1848.
Rare mezzotint and etching; Thomas Agnew publisher stamp on edge of lower plate.. Plate 451 x 355mm (17¾ x 14") with very large margins.
Portrait of Samuel Argent Bardsley; nearly whole length, seated in chair, to the right, holding closed book in lap, with legs crossed; books and ink pots on table to his left; in octagon. Dr Samuel Argent Bardsley (1764-1851), the English physician. He was elected physician to the Manchester Infirmary, a position he retained until August 1823, gaining during the thirty-three years great esteem as ‘the very model of an hospital physician.’ Dr. Bardsley published in 1800 ‘Critical Remarks on the Tragedy of Pizarro, with Observations on the subject of the Drama;’ and in 1807 a volume of ‘Medical Reports of Cases and Experiments, with Observations chiefly derived from Hospital practice; also an Enquiry into the Origin of Canine Madness, which detailed research and study on rabies.’ To the ‘Memoirs’ of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, of which he was a vice-president, he contributed in 1798 a paper on ‘Party Prejudice,’ and in 1803 one on ‘The Use and Abuse of Popular Sports and Exercises.’ An expert on rabies.
Wellcome 170
[Ref: 52501] £360.00

[Willem Barentsz in the Arctic] The Ice Bear attack'd & Killed w.th Lances. 7.
S. V. de Melen delin. E. Kirkhall fecit.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Fine mezzotint. 175 x 200mm (7 x 8") with very large margins. Repaired tear leaving crease in title.
A scene from the second voyage of Willem Barentsz (c. 1550-97) into the Arctic in search of a Northeast Passage in 1595. A polar bear attacked a shore party, killing two crewmen before being killed itself. On their third expedition (1596) Barentsz and his crew were stranded on Nova Zembla Island for the winter. Needing to hunt polar bears for food, they were the first to record that the bears' livers were toxic (due to the high concentratin of vitamin A).
[Ref: 55648] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy.
Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Hardy sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple, scratched letters, printed in brown. Sheet 270 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides
A half-length seated portait of Turinese writer Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719-89), reading a book held close to his face. After leaving Italy after facing censorship, he moved to London where he was welcomed by the literati: when he was tried for murder in 1769, character witnesses included Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. He was acquitted and soon after became Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, as referenced here.
Hamilton p.5.
[Ref: 67965] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy.
Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Hardy sculp.t.
Pub.d March 6th 1794 by W. Richardson Castle S.t Leicester Square.
Stipple. 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Narrow margins, top left corner lost.
A half-length seated portait of Turinese writer Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719-89), reading a book held close to his face. After leaving Italy after facing censorship, he moved to London where he was welcomed by the literati: when he was tried for murder in 1769, character witnesses included Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. He was acquitted and soon after became Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, as referenced here.
Hamilton p.5. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67964] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Thames Barges.]
D.I. Smart [signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1935.]
Etching, 200 x 300mm.
Barges moored on the Thames with warehouses in the background. By Douglas Ian Smart RE (1879 - 1970), watercolourist and etcher and pupil of Short noted for his Thames scenes featuring shipping.
Guichard British Etchers: pg. 59.
[Ref: 7383] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

No. 35. [Barges.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805. [but c.1820.]
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet 260 x 365mm, 10½ x 14¼".
A view of workers on barges, published in 'The Costume of Great Britain', a work notable for portraying British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430, 35.
[Ref: 27026] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Barham Rectory - Suffolk. The Residence of the Rev.d W. Kirby.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by E.A.B.
[n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph. Sheet size: 225 x 157mm. (8¾ x 6¼"). Slight tear off image on right.
The Suffolk home of William Kirby (1759 - 1850), botanist and entomologist; President of the Ipswich Museum. For Kirby's portrait see Ref: 4014.
[Ref: 31400] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Barham Parsonage. The Residence of the Revd. Wm. Kirby MA, FRS, LS, &c. &c.
Mrs. Lathbury delin. 1828. W. Day lithog, 17 Gate Street.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph on india paper, very rare, image 175 x 320mm. 7 x 12½". Wide margins slightly soiled.
The Suffolk home of William Kirby (1759 - 1850), botanist and entomologist; President of the Ipswich Museum. For Kirby's portrait see Ref: 4014.
For Kirby's portrait see item Ref: 4014.
[Ref: 22306] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Countryman in London.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1816.]
Etching. 170 x 235mm (6¾ x 9¼").
A satire on the bewilderment of a rustic in the metropolis: a barker offers him a bill, 'Milse's Wild Beasts', pointing to a sign inscribed 'Royal Tiger'. The Yale Center for British Art suggests this is an exhbition of George Stubbs' painting. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
YCBA PN6173 .C68.
[Ref: 55381] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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