Grosvenor Prints

L'Harmonie. G.4.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. Plate 200 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing harmony, with several musical instruments; bagpipes,drums, harps, a horn, a triangle, a violin and a clarinet.
[Ref: 59311] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Music.]
Lairesse pinxit A.Blooteling ex.Cum Privilegio
Mezzotint, rare proof before title. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾")..
Two women with a song sheet, within a round border.
[Ref: 3651] £360.00

[Figures done after the Grecian Manner: Girl with Lyre.]
[Engraved by George Townly Stubbs.]
London, Pub.d 1. Aug.t 1796, by G.T. Stubbs, at the Turf Gallery, Conduit Street.
Stipple, scarce. 450 x 325mm (17½ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Slight creasing not visible from front.
A classical figure, a woman standing with a lyre held on her hip.
Lennox-Boyd, Stubbs GTS 75.
[Ref: 45226] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Charme de la Musique. D'Après le Tableau Original qui est dans le Cabinet de M. De Damery, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal Militaire de S. Louis.
Peint par de la Hyre. Gravé par Chevillet.
A Paris chez Wille, Graveur du Roi, Quai des Augustines.
Engraving. 420 x 310mm (16½ x 12¼") A little surface wear on edges, faint crease.
A woman playing a lute, sheet music on the table before her. Probably after Laurent de la Hyre (1606-58).
[Ref: 55717] £360.00

Die Music. La Musique.
Jacob Wangner Sculp. [after Jacques de Lajoue].
[Augsburg c.1740.]
Engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, tear with loss reinstated with mss. at top.
Musicians on a baroque balcony. This is a German edition of one of a series of allegorical prints of the arts and sciences after Jacques de Lajoue (1686 - 1761), a French decorative rococo painter, engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin and published by the verve Chéreau in Paris during the 1730s.
[Ref: 51292] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Musick.
P. da Cortona Inv.t. R. Marcuard Sc.t.
[Mango Exc.t. Publish'd According to Act of Parl.m 1st Sep.r 1777 for the Proprietor No. 150 Strand.]
Stipple. Sheet 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
A female figure, wearing a turban, a roll of sheet music in her left hand, her right resting on a violin. The British Museum suggests that the publisher is Jakob Mangot.
[Ref: 53692] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Music.
G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.
A very fine stipple engraving. Plate 203 x 286mm. 8 x 11¼". Glued to backing sheet. Corners damaged.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Euterpe with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation,Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
De Vesme: 686; v/vi. See Ref: 21212 for first state, proof before all letters.
[Ref: 14685] £320.00

[Music.]
[G.B. Cipriani inv.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t]
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 20. 1786, by W. Dickinson Engraver, Bond Street.]
A very scarce and very fine stipple engraving, printed in red/brown ink. Proof before all letters, with small margins. Plate 198 x 286mm. 7¾ x 11¼". Some foxing.
Neoclassical representation of the Muse Euterpe with accompanying putti, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence 1727- London 1785). A founder member of the Royal Academy and one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his generation, Cipriani produced decorative schemes, drawings for medallions, and concert tickets in a neo-classical style. His fame was partly due to his partnership with his fellow Italian, engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi engraved many of Cipriani's works and also designed Cipriani's tomb in the Old Chelsea Burial Ground.
De Vesme: 686; i/vi. See Ref: 14685 for later state.
[Ref: 21212] £480.00

Cantabo Domino in vita mea. Psal. 103. v.33.
Ant. Coypel pinx. G. Duchange sculp.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"), with large margins. Uncut.
'I will sing to God as long as I live.' A young woman tilts her head back as she sings, holding a small music book open in her lap.
[Ref: 57924] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ars-Musica.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Aquatint. Plate: 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"), with large margins. Paper tone.
A comic scene showing three figures playing music, in the centre a woman plays the harpsichord, to her left a man plays the violin and to the right another plays the cello. Based on a print by James Gillray of the same subject.
[Ref: 42625] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

This is a photograph, taken from life, / OF a lady of musical taste; / And I think the Old One is wanting a wife, And here is affections are placed.
No 48. Gage and Gray, Glasgow. [n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 250 x 190mm, very large margins.
A hatchet-faced woman, hairs sprouting from nose and chin, playing piano.
[Ref: 44362] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

My Heart and Lute, 'I gave the all, I see no more / Tho poor the offering be, / My Heart and lute are all the store / that I can bring to thee''
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 155 x 125mm (6¼ x 5"). Trimmed, paper wrinkled; slightly messy.
A suitor gets down on one knee.
[Ref: 44359] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Piano and cello players.]
Seymour Lucas. Willie Heydemann [pencil signatures].
Copyright 1901. Published by Virtue & Company Limited, London.
Etching, signed by artist and engraver. 400 x 460mm (15¾ x 18"), with very large margins. Mint.
A period scene, the participants in 17th century Dutch dress.
[Ref: 52189] £360.00

Music.
J. Chapman, sc.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Sitpple. 268 x 202mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Allegorical print: Music stood on a cloud in centre of the image holding a lyre in his left hand, the sun shining behind his head. To the right is a winged putto holding a flute and panpipes; to the left, five putti sat in front of an organ playing on a harp, violin, cello, flute and oboe. To the lower right is Pegasus, and to the lower left are a group of revellers. Around the sun are the planets; constellations seen into the top two corners.
[Ref: 34621] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Before Marriage? & After Marriage?]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Pair of fine coloured engravings. Each sheet c. 90 x 140mm (3½ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate.
The suitor(?) is attentive to the young lady sitting at a piano; the husband argues.
[Ref: 44358] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Messieurs les Présidens & Membres Des Societés Royals de Botanique et des Concerts du Casino, A Gand, pour la Presente Année 1843, Par leurs trèshumbles Serviteurs, Ch. Syts. P.re Hollevoet.
Lith. G. Jacqmain, r. basse, à Gand.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Chromolithograph on porcelain card. 100 x 140mm (4 x 5¼).
A concert ticket.
[Ref: 41756] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Beulah Spa, Norwood. Programme of Music, to be performed by the Celebrated Ban dof Herr Johann Strauss, on Friday, July 13th, 1838, At the Fete in Aid of the Distressed Polish Refugees. At Intervals, Between Two and Seven O'Clock.
1838. Brewster, Printer, Hand Court, Dowgate Hill.
Printed letterpress. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at sides.
A programme for the performance on July 13, 1838, at the Royal Beulah Spa in Norwood which saw Johann Strauss I and his orchestra perform a spectacular "Grand Fete" to raise funds for Distressed Polish Refugees.
[Ref: 69113] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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Music for the Million.
London, J.T. Wood, 9 Curriers Hall C.t, London Wall [n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce steel engraving on porcelain card. 125 x 165mm (5 x 6½").
A pair of ragged urchins sit, one playing a trumpet, the other holding a music book 'The Light of Other Days has Faded'.
[Ref: 62830] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

LXXXVII. 295.
I.R. Schellenberg delin. I.R. Holzhall Sculps.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 165 x 130mm. 6½ x 5". Slight paper discoloration. Three spots to margin.
A putto sits on a wall, his arm around an urn, above a boy sitting next to a collection of instruments and reading a sheet of music. A book illustration or frontispiece. By Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (1740 - 1806), Swiss painter, etcher and author.
[Ref: 10541] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Harmonie..
Peint par A. Weisz. Gravé par Paul Giradet.
Berlin - Verlag von Goupil & Co. Imprimé et Publié par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre 1878 - Paris - Londres - La Haye. New York - Published by M. Knoedler.
Mixed-method engraving. 550 x 440mm (21¾ x 17¼"). Tear in margin taped. Brown stain just enters plate mark top left.
A man stands by an open window, in 18th century embroidered waist coat, playing a violin as his mother sits listening with hands clasped. A caged bird hangs in the window. A spinning wheel sits by the mother's side.
[Ref: 54283] £350.00

Moet and Chandon. Written by H.Hurille, composed, and sung with the greatest success by George Leybourne.
Alfred Concanen. Conganen, Lith. Stannard & Son, 7, Poland St.
[Hopwood & Crew, 42, New Bond Street, W. ][n.d., c.1881.]
Music sheet printed covers with a coloured lithograph, 5pp. music, advert on back. Edges worn, cover trimmed at bottom.
"Moet and Chandon for Me", sequel to the famous "Champagne Charlie", also written by Leybourne . This was an early celebrity endorsement: he was paid by Moet to compose the songs and would appear on stage waving a bottle of vintage Moet & Chandon. A rival, Alfred Vance, had the same arrangement with Cliquot [See item 17925]. Alfred Concanen (1835-1886) was one of the leading lithographers of the Victorian period, best remembered for his illustrated sheet music covers.
[Ref: 17920] £65.00

Verse II. 'Twas not for its splendour, That dwelling was dear, 'Twas not that the gay, or The noble was there; O'er the porch the wild rose, And the woodbine entwined, And the sweet scented jessamine, Wav'd in the wind; Yet dearer to me Than proud turret or dome, Were the halls of my fathers, The old house at home. [&] Verse the Third. But now the old house, Is no dwelling for me, The home of the stranger, Henceforth it shall be; And ne'er will I view it, Nor rove as a guest, O'er the evergreen fields, Which my father possess'd Yet still in my slumber, Sweet visions will come, Of the days that are passed, And the old house at home.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Pen and ink music and sketches with added hand-colour; two sheets laid on board. Board 342 x 280mm (13½ x 11"). Laid on board.
Verse two and three of 'The Old House at Home', the 19th century ballad written by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839). The song came to the public attention after being set to music by Edward Loder and first appeared in his 1838 opera 'Francis the First'. The music has been handwritten and beautifully decorated.
[Ref: 30450] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Music.
G.B.Cipriani invt. F.Bartolozzi Sculp.
London Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 15th 1783 by A.Torre, No. 44 Mark Lane.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. Plate: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Slight surface abrasion near title. Light foxing.
The allegorical figure of Music, in Grecian dress, plays a harp and looks to the heavens.
[Ref: 1289] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Melchisedec Bristle. Written by J.G. Maxwell.
Publish'd 1.st Sep.t 1798, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Etched music sheet with hand colours, sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
A songsheet for 'Melchisedec Bristle' written by J.G. Maxwell. A man standing on a chair holding forth to five others in the interior of a barber's shop. Jewish interest.
[Ref: 60508] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Maitre de Musique. Dédié a Monsieur le Comte de Steni Par son très Humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Mondhare.
Peint a Gouasse par L. Le Brun. J. Cocquerel Sculp.
A Paris chéz Mondhare rue S.t Jacques pres S.t Severin [n.d., c.1760.]
Scarce & fine engraving. 285 x 205mm (11¼ x 8"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
A music teacher embraces his extravaganty-dressed pupil as she tries to play the harp.
[Ref: 68122] £360.00

[Music teacher.] Cours Musical de van de Wiele Eykens. Témoignage d'Application.
Lith de J. Van Brie rue des Epingles No 6-8 a Gand.
[Ghent, c.1845.]
Lithograph on card. 65 x 95mm (2½ x 9¾").
A trade card with a border featuring music sheets.
[Ref: 41764] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Music teacher.] Jean De Bleye fils. Elevé du Conservatoire.
Lith. de G. Jacqmain, Gand.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Chromolithograph on porcelain card. 45 x 85mm (1¾ x 3¼").
Visiting card of a music teacher.
See Ref: 41757 & 41752
[Ref: 41758] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[For The Benefit Of Mr. Salpietro.] Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm [etched in image.]
F. Vieira Portuensis inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Concert ticket, proof etching, sheet 116 x 150mm. Trimmed inside plate.
Proof before cartouche lettered. Refers to a Giovanni Salpietro, violinist. Designed by Francisco Vieira 'Portuense' (1765 - 1805), Portuguese painter born in Oporto, where he trained in studio of Jean Pillement.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7842] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Monthly Banquet of Apollo. Containing, Songs, Duets, Trios, Rondeaus, Canzonets, Catches, Glees, &c. All Composed by Mr. Hook. And Never Before Published.
Jones. script. et sculpsit.
London: Printed for Harrison & Co. No.18, Paternoster Row. MDCC XCVI [1796]. Published as the Act directs Decr. 1, 1795.
Engraved titlepage with etching, 200 x 150mm. 8 x 6".
The etched vignette shows two classical female figures, one playing a lyre, inscribed 'Rothwell, sculpsit'.
British Library: 004419944.
[Ref: 9773] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Six solos for a Violin & Bass Humbly Dedicated to Crisp. Molineux Esq.r Composed by By Lewis Borghi.]
Pub.d Janry 20th 1783 by M.r Borghi No 5 John Street Oxford Street.
Rare etching, scratched letter proof before title. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9") Small margins.
The title page for a book of music by Luigi Borghi (c.1745-c.1806), an Italian violinist and composer who lived in London from the 1770s. He played in the orchestra of the King's Theatre from 1783 to 1785, and was leader of the second violins in the Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey in 1784.
De Vesme: 1868; ii/iv.
[Ref: 51271] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Six Overtes In Four Parts, With Hautboys And French Horns Ad Libitum, Calculated For Small Or Great Concerts; Most Humbly Dedicated To His Grace The Duke Of Dorset, Ambassador From His Britannic Majesty To The Court Of Versailles, By Lewis Borghi.
London. Printed for the Author, and sold at his House, No.5, John Street, Great Portland Street, (where may be had all his former Works.) at T. Skillern's No.17, St. Martin's Lane, & all the Music Shops.
Publish'd as the Act directs, by Lewis Borghi, April 16. 1787.
Etched titlepage in sepia. In ink on verso: -1- nov 1790. Light soiling.
Title-page of music book of six overtures; four winged figures, seated on clouds, playing music: on the left, one playing the cello; in the centre, another playing the violin; on the right, one playing the organ and the other singing; illustration to 'Six overtures in four parts' by Lewis (Louis) Borghi (London: 1787). Borghi (1772 - 1794; fl.) was a composer and violinist; Bartolozzi made prints for his music books. Numbered and priced lower left and right: 'Opa. VI.' and 'Price 15s.'
British Library: 004229937. De Vesme: 1869; iv/iv.
[Ref: 9729] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Music Voluntary.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Rare etching. Plate 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Laid on board, title weakly inked.
A man playing the church organ. Probably Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-78).
[Ref: 14421] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Vignette illustration; Music and five other female figures with an old man.] See page 324. Vol: III.
E. F. Burney delt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
Publish'd as the Act directs April 30th. 1789.
Etching on india paper, final state, 200 x 175mm. 8 x 7". A fine impression with full margins.
Music standing on the right, with a laurel crown on her head and holding a lyre; next to her (far right) an old man seated and an allegorical female figure. On the left of the composition, four allegorical female figures; the whole within an octagonal enveloped by leafy oak tree branches. Illustration to 'History of Music' (London: 1776) by Charles Burney. After Edward Francis Burney (1760 - 1848).
De Vesme 1945, III of III, see 20542.
[Ref: 21193] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A Musical Assembly] Drawn by J. Farrer from the Original Picture by Hogarth.
Etched by G.Cruikshank [after Marcellus Laroon the Younger].
[n.d., 1819.]
Etching. Sheet 175 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper with letterpress title and description underneath.
The keyplate of a painting once believed to be by William Hogarth but is now attributed to Marcellus Laroon the Younger. It shows a fashionable salon during a 'musical assembly', with a key of 24 personages of whom only 12 are identified, with the central figure, '15', named as Lord Castlemain and '16' as Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of George III), with other members of the Royal Family. The letterpress describes how Hogarth painted the scene for Castlemain's house at Wanstead but was still in the painter's possession when he died. The painting, now in the Tate (T13316), is now attributed to Laroon (1679-1772) and the main figure identified as Charles Mordaunt (1658-1735), 3rd Earl of Peterborough, at a soirée at his house in Fulham. The only other identification the Tate suggests is the woman next to Mordaunt (14 here), ''possibly Anastasia Robinson, a distinguished singer then at the outset of her operatic career'', whom Mordaunt secretly married in 1722.
Reid 844.
[Ref: 61444] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

A Musical Bore.
Painted by R.W. Buss. Engraved by Robert Graves. Printed by Lloyd & Hennings.
London Published June 2nd 1834, by Hodgson Boys and Graves 6. Pall Mall; Sold by F.G. Moon, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Chine-collé stipple and etching. 280 x 335mm (11 x 13¼"), with very large margins. Some spotting in margins.
A man playing the trombone at 2.30 in the morning, to the consternation of the neighbouring family who have come in to complain.
[Ref: 54293] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Musical Boy. Done from the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Mountstuart.
Frans Halls pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published July 24,,th 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Thread margins, laid on collector's monogram in image.
A young Dutchman playing a violin in an interior, a lute hanging on the wall behind. On the table is a small loaf of bread and a jug. The monogram, that of Thomas Blayds (1795-1849), a banker of Surrey, was identified in 1977. The British Museum has antiquities and drawings from his collection.
CS 159, ii of ii. Goodwin 181, ii of ii. Lugt L.416a. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66282] £380.00

[Musical emblem; billhead/trade card?]
Pub by W Darling N.3 Gt Newport Stt [London, c.1775].
Etched vignette, a cluster of musical instruments behind an open book of music, surmounted by the head of Apollo(?), with laurel crown. Perhaps for a tradesman's advertising stationary. Watermarked laid paper, sheet 110 x 95mm, 4¼ x 3¾". Crease through upper part; trimmed within plate (a fragment of a larger design?).
William Darling was an engraver working alone from 1771-1790 and then in partnership with John Peter Thompson after 1790. He published for which may be the origins of this musical vignette.
[Ref: 21367] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

English Minstrels.
Miss L. Adams delt. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. lithog. On Stone by W.P. Sherlock
London: Published for H. Woods, by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. 14, Newman St Aug 1829.
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 245 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Some surface dust.
A musical family, with mouth organ, drum, tambourines and guitar.
See reference 45762 for uncoloured pair.
[Ref: 61995] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Le concert de famille.]
[Painted by Godfried Schalcken. Engraved by Jean Wille.]
[Paris, c.1768.]
Engraving, proof before all letters, 490 x 375mm. 19¼ x 14¾".
A family of five sitting around a table in an interior, singing from song books to the accompaniment of a violin. Coat of arms to lower margin. Engraved by Johann Georg Wille (1714-1808) after Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 1706).
[Ref: 14707] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

New Musical Fund.
J. Ibbetson del. J. Thornthwaite sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, rare subscriber's copy. Sheet 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing venue & date, foxed.
Apollo stands on a cloud before an organ, lyre in hand, pouring coins from a cornucopia into a widow's apron, her two children clinging to her dress. Behind is a group of musicians. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786. The British Museum has examples of this image dated from 1788 to 1796.
See BM 1969,0130.4 for the earliest example. Subscriber In ink verso "Edmund Warren-Horne". See Ref: 62793 for one printed in sepia.
[Ref: 62794] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

New Musical Fund, Established 1786.
R. Cosway R.A. del.t J.Mitan sculp.t
Engraving. 164 x 177mm. 6½ x 7". Trimmed and stained.
Ticket for the New Musical Fund. An angel is seated on a cloud, playing a lyre. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786 and consisted of numerous concerts all held at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus. Daniell: 206. BM: 1981 ,U.475.
[Ref: 17269] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

New Musical Fund. King's Theatre. [Thursday, March 27, 1788.]
J. Ibbetson del. J. Thornthwaite sculp.
[1788.]
Rare stipple, printed in sepia., subscriber's copy; Sheet 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed, losing date, stains.
Apollo stands on a cloud before an organ, lyre in hand, pouring coins from a cornucopia into a widow's apron, her two children clinging to her dress. Behind is a group of musicians. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786.
BM 1969,0130.4. Subscriber in ink verso "Edmund Warren-Horne" See Refs: 62794 & 62795 for ones printed in black.
[Ref: 62793] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

New Musical Fund.
J. Ibbetson del. J. Thornthwaite sculp.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, rare subscriber's copy. Sheet 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Trimmed, losing venue & date, tear in left edge, spotted.
Apollo stands on a cloud before an organ, lyre in hand, pouring coins from a cornucopia into a widow's apron, her two children clinging to her dress. Behind is a group of musicians. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786. The British Museum has examples of this image dated from 1788 to 1796.
See BM 1969,0130.4 for the earliest example. Subscriber In ink verso "Edmund Warren-Horne". See Ref: 62793 for one printed in sepia.
[Ref: 62795] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

New Musical Fund, Established 1786.
R. Cosway R.A. del.t J.Mitan sculp.t
Very rare engraving, sheet 195 x 220mm (7¾ x 8½"). Slightly trimmed to plate at bottom slightly. Foxed.
Ticket for the New Musical Fund. An angel is seated on a cloud, playing a lyre. Performance by C. B. Incledod. The New Musical Fund was established 16 April 1786 and consisted of numerous concerts all held at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.
Daniell: 206. BM: 1981 ,U.475.
[Ref: 61993] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Musical Illustrations; N.º 1. Penseroso. [&] No 2. Allegro.
Designed & Etched by Theodore Lane.
Published by C.S. Arnold, 21. Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. 1828.
Extremely fine & scarce pair of coloured etchings. Each 295 x 425mm (11½ x 16¾"), with large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1824.' Uncut. Very slight cockling to the paper. Few very small patches of staining.
A pair of plates giving satirical meanings to musical terms. Plate 1 is set in Fleet Debtors' Prison, with a 33-point key, including Pomposo, Hornpipe, Falsetto & Lamentations; Plate 2 is in Vauxhall Gardens, with the bandstand, a 34-point key listing 'Fingering the Notes' for a pickpocket.
Not in BM
[Ref: 69108] £850.00 view all images for this item

[Bill-head.] No.t. of Longman & Broderip. No.26, Cheapside, London: Music-Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Musical Instrument Makers. The greatest choice of Instruments, with the best Italian & Roman Strings, Wire of all sizes. Rules Books & Paper of all sorts, Crow & Raven Quills &c, Musical Publications both Ancient & Modern, with every other Article in the Musical Way, Wholesale and Retail on the most reasonable Terms.
[15 June 1781.]
Engraved billhead. Sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Some creasing.
A bill-head for Longman & Broderip, musical instrument makers, issued in 1781, for the total of £9.5..
[Ref: 64252] £490.00

Musical Instruments.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1812.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 100 x 175mm (4 x 7"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Musical instruments including a fish drum, from Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 53250] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Musical Instruments.
A. Freschi sculpsit.
[London: John Stockdale, 1812.]
Stipple and line engraving, with original hand colour. Sheet 100 x 175mm (4 x 7"). Trimmed, laid on album paper, old ink mss. plate number at side.
Including drums and stringed instruments. From Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton De La Martinière's four-volume ''China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. Edited Principally from the Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: With Observations Explanatory, Historical, and Literary''.
Abbey Travel 536.
[Ref: 53242] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

White's Music and Musical Instrument Warehouses, Nº 3 George Street, Bath. Patent Upright, Grand and Square Piano Fortes of Superior Workmanship, with the latesat Improvements by the Marks to His Majesty, and the Prince of Wales. A Capital assortment of Piano Fortes to let on hire.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Etched trade card. Sheet 125 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed, overwritten in old ink mss with a second address at 'Nº 1 Milsom St'
John White, previously a musician himself, opened his instrument shop in George Street in 1805. By 1816 he had opened premises at the more prestigious 1 Milsom Street: the manuscript amendments here suggest the label was printed before then.
[Ref: 61351] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Tire du cabinet de Monsieur Moriaux a gand.
Hendrik Martens Sorgh Pinxt. P. Spruyt Sc.p.
1790.
Scarce & rare etching with large margins. Platemark: 130 x 170mm (5¼ x 6¾").
In a spacious, yet rustic interior, a group of five elegantly dressed figures are shown making music, watched by a servant boy washing wine glasses on the right and by a woman up on a balcony beyond. A young man plays the theorbo, while another plays the violin. A a young man and woman to the left listen on attentively. After Dutch painter and draughtsman, Hendrik Martensz Sorgh (1611 - 1670).
[Ref: 32116] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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