Grosvenor Prints

[Nanking from the Porcelain Tower.]
[Drawn by Thomas Allom.]
[Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. n.d., c.1843.]
Proof engraving on india. 210 x 280mm (8 x 11"), backing sheet with wide margins. Some foxing.
A view looking down on Nanking (Nanjing) from the famous Porcelain Tower. In 1856 the Taiping destroyed the pagoda to stop their enemies using it to guide the shelling of the city. From Thomas Allon's 'China Illustrated'
[Ref: 26724] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Porcelain Tower, Nanking.]
.
[n.d., c.1843].
Engraving, 230 x 295mm. A very fine proof before letters on large paper, of 8387. Some foxing around image.
A procession of people passing the tower in Nanking (Nanjing).
[Ref: 8388] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

China Taf. II. Kaiserliches Lustschloss bei Nanking.
[Leipzig, verlag von Dürffling und Frante, n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½").
A collection of vignette scenes of Chinese life arranged around a central view of the Emperor's Palace in Nanking, includes a tea image. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 49761] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Nanking.
[Anon., c.1700]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 195 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾") very large margins. Central fold as issued.
The city of Nanjing, China.
[Ref: 45175] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Nankin and the Porcelain Tower, approached by the Creek from the Yang-tse Keang River.
From a sketch by Capt.n J. Clark Kennedy, 18th. Royal Irish, Sept. 1842. Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published by Ackermann & Co. Strand, 20th July, 1844.
Rare lithograph. Printed area 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Repaired tears in borders.
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, located on the bank of the Yangtze River, China, built in the 15th century during the Ming Dynasty. John Clark Kennedy (1817-67) served with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in the China War of 1840-42 and was on the staff in the operations in the Canton River in 1847. He also served in the Punjab campaign (1848-9) and Crimea, where he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1855, and was present at the final assault on Sebastopol.
[Ref: 64020] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Iamcesu. Jamcesu. Vue de Iamcesu [reversed above image].
Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.
Se vend a Augsbourg au Negoce comm de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majeste Imperiale et avec Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendere les Copies. [n.d., c.1770.]
Hand coloured engraving. 310 x 405mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Some creasing, marginal repairs, repaired tear through lower right corner of plate. Old ink Dutch mss in lower margin.
A vüe-d'optique view of a city in Nanking province, China, engraved in reverse to be viewed through an optical viewer called a zograscope, which gave added perspective. From a 'Collection des Prospects' by Franz Xaver Habermann (1721 - 1796), engraver and publisher in Augsburg, Germany.
[Ref: 55448] £350.00

China Taf. III. Der Potzellanthurm zu Nanking.
[Leipzig, verlag von Dürffling und Frante, n.d., c.1850.]
Engraving. 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½").
A collection of vignette scenes of Chinese life arranged around a central view of the Porcelain Tower in Kanking, including views of Whampoa and Macao. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 49759] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Within the Trunk of this Venerable Oak (according to Welch tradition) the body of Howel Sele, a Powerful Chieftain, residing at Nannau, in Merionethshire, was immured, by order of his rival Owen Glyndwr.-See Pennant, Vol.I. p.348. See Pennant, Vol.I. p.348. The Original Sketch from which this etching is made, was drawn from nature on the 27th. Day of July, 1813, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. And on the same night, this aged tree fell to the ground. It was situated within the kitchen garden walls of Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, Bart. At Nannau, near Dolgelle.
G. Cuitt 1817.
Engraving with large margins, etching on india with separate title plate Image plate 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½"), with very large margins, title 75 x 265mm (3 x 10½").
The Nannau Oak in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd). According to legend, Howel Sele, Lord of Nannau, attempted to kill his cousin, Owen Glyndwr. Saved by armour under his clothes, Owen had Howel killed and secretly hidden in the hollow of the oak, where his skeleton was found forty years later. The tree had a bad reputation and was known as 'The Hollow Oak of the Demons' (Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll). According to Pennant it was 400 years old and twenty-eight feet in circumference. A sundial with an inscription marks the spot it once stood at Nannau House.
[Ref: 46407] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Feu d'Artifice Tire a Nantes sur les Decorations Dessinees et Peintes par Antoine Henon, Architecte et Peintre dela Ditte Ville.
Avec priv du Roy ches Francois. de la Bertonniere Sc.
ce Vend a Nantes ches Tanqueray M.d Grande rue.
Engraving 215 x 330mm (8½ x 13"). Some light foxing.
A fireworks display in Nantes, France, on the Loire. The firework structure was designed and painted by 'architect and designer of the city of Nantes' Antoine Henon (1748-1789).
[Ref: 57421] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Nap in the Country,
Rowlandson [**]85.
[London Pub.d by S.Alken, No.3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho.] [c.1785.]
Etching, with some grey wash, pt 18th century watermark. Sheet 170 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed, losing publication line; part of year missing.
A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next to her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep. One of two images on the same plate, with 'Nap in Town'.
BM Satires 6868.
[Ref: 57788] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Nap in the Country,
Rowlandson 1785.
London Pub.d by S.Alken, No.3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 177 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next to her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep. One of two images on the same plate, with 'Nap in Town'.
BM Satires 6868.
[Ref: 67911] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Imperial Barge.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Laid on album paper, some staining.
The funerary barge for the 'Retour des Cendres (Return of the Ashes)', the reburial of Napoleon's remains in Paris, 1840. In 'The Second Funeral of Napoleon', William Makepeace Thackeray quotes M. Guizot, an eye-witness: 'The vessel is of a very elegant antique form, and I can give you on the Thames no better idea of it than by requesting you to fancy an immense wherry, of which the stern has been cut straight off, and on which a temple on steps has been elevated. At the figure-head is an immense gold eagle, and at the stern is a little terrace, filled with evergreens and a profusion of banners. Upon pedestals along the sides of the vessel are tripods in which incense was burned, and underneath them are garlands of flowers called here "immortals." Four eagles surmount the temple, and a great scroll or garland, held in their beaks, surrounds it. It is hung with velvet and gold; four gold caryatides support the entry of it; and in the midst, upon a large platform hung with velvet, and bearing the imperial arms, stood the coffin'.
[Ref: 55896] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Napier Esq.r.
J. Sommer Pinx. J. Smith fec: et ex:
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Sir Charles Napier (c.1673-1743), second Baronet, in armour, his hand resting on his helmet carried by a black page. A battle rages behind. The portrait was apparently painted to celebrate his acquisition of his title; despite the allusions to military greatness he is best remembered for selling the family estate at Puncknowle, held by the Napier family for three centuries, and disappearing into obscurity. It is not known if he had an heir to the baronetcy. Slavery interest.
CS 189, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66052] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Napier Esq.r.
J. Sommer Pinx. J. Smith fec: et ex:
[n.d., c.1700.]
Fine mezzotint, 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Small margins.
Sir Charles Napier (d.1743), second Baronet, in armour, his hand resting on his helmet carried by a black page. A battle rages behind. The portrait was apparently painted to celebrate his acquisition of his title; despite the allusions to military greatness he is best remembered for selling the family estate at Puncknowle, held by the Napier family for three centuries, and disappearing into obscurity. It is not known if he had an heir to the baronetcy Slavery item.
CS 189, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66053] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

His Excellency Major General Sir C. Napier K.C.B. Governor of Sinde.
Eliza Jones Pinx.t. J.H. Lynch Lith. Day & Hague Lith.rs to the Queen.
Pub.d at 14 Pall Mall East by Paul & Dominic & C.º, Publishers to the Queen, June 23rd 1843.
Lithograph. Printed area 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"), with large margins.
An informal portrait of Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853) in uniform, his right leg folded onto his left knee. Despite being wounded and left for dead at the Battle of Corunna in 1809, Napier survived the Napoleonic Wars and the American War of 1812 and was given command of the British Indian Army within the Bombay Presidency in 1842. There he fought a hard war to quellg the insurrection of the Muslim rulers of Sindh Province.
[Ref: 62493] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

General Sir Chas. J. Napier G.C.B. This lithograph from a Daguerreotype taken on the 14th. March 1849 by Mr. W.E.Kilburn also assisted by a sitting from the Gallant General on the 23rd. of March, is presented gratuitously to the sub-scribers to the forthcoming Engraving which will form a companion to the portrait of His Grace the Duke of Wellington from a Daguerreotype; engraved by Mr. Royall. By their Humble Obed.t Servants Hering & Remington.
Mr. W.E. Kilburn Photographer to the Queen. 234, Regent St. Lithographed by C. Baugniet. M & N. Hanhart, Lith Printers.
London, Published By Hering & Remington 24th March, 1849. Baugniet 1849 [facsimile in the image.]
Lithograph. 764 x 555mm. 30 x 21¾". Some tears and creases around the edges of the sheet.
Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853), Army officer and Conqueror of Sind. He won a reputation as a fierce and indomitable soldier in the Napoleonic war; accepted Indian commission, 1841, and after several hard-fought battles conquered Sind, 1843. Napier subdued the northern hill tribes, 1844-5, and began preparations for the first Sikh war. He was recalled in 1849 during second Sikh war but unfortunately he arrived too late to take part.
[Ref: 12730] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

C Napier General [facsimile]. General Sir C.J. Napier, G.C.B. Late Governor of Scinde. Commander in Chief of the British Army in India. Proof.
From an Oil Painting by the Count Pierlas _ Drawn on Stone by R.J. Lane A.R.A. [In plate:] Esquisse Nice 1848 C.te De Pierlas f.
M & N Hanhart Lith. Printing. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph on india, rare with facsimile signature; open lettered proof. Sheet 317 x 248mm. 12½ x 9¾". Repaired scratch in image area, tear in title.
Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853), the Army officer and Conqueror of Sind who won a reputation as a fierce and indomitable soldier in the Napoleonic war. In 1841 he accepted Indian commission and after several hard-fought battles he conquered Sind in 1843. Between 1844 and 1845 he subdued the northern hill tribes and began preparations for the first Sikh War.
NPG: D22260.
[Ref: 25750] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
[after John Simpson.]
London: Published March 1st 1854, by Somers & Isaacs, 67 Houndsditch.
Mezzotint. 370 x 285mm (14½ x 11¼"), with large margins.
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier (1786-1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the Napoleonic Wars, the American War and the 'Hundred Days' War. the Syrian War and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars. This portrait was published just as he was given command of the fleet in Baltic campaign of the Crimean War, which turned out to be a poisoned chalice: his Navy career ended when the Admiralty made him the scapegoat when the press raged about the lack of results. An innovator concerned with the development of iron ships, and an advocate of humane reform in the Royal Navy, he was also active in politics as a Liberal Member of Parliament and was probably the naval officer most widely known to the public in the early Victorian Era.
See Ref: 12605 for lithograph.
[Ref: 52188] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Reception of Sir Charles Napier by the People, in the Hall of the Palace, Stockholm. Dolby's Sketches on the Baltic, Plate 6.
Sketched from Nature by E.T. Dolby. J. Brandard lith. M. & N. Hanhart Lith. Printers.
Published July 29th 1854 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co 13 14 15 Pall Mall East Publishers to her Majesty.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 390mm (13½ x 15¼"). Tear into inscription at bottom. Slight crease bottom right.
Sir Charles Napier (1786-1860), Commander of the Baltic Fleet, the largest the Royal Navy had assembled since the Napoleonic Wars, being warmly welcomed by the Swedes when he arrived in Stockholm. A lesser known theatre of the Crimean War, the Baltic Campaign was an attempt at attacking St Petersburg, undertaken by a combined British and French fleet. Napier, Britain's most experienced officer (having fought in the War of 1812) was given command, but proved to be too cautious for British public opinion. For failing to attack either the Russian naval base at Sveaborg or the fortress of Kronstadt (which the Russians were hoping he was rash enough to do), he was removed from his cammand on his return at the end of the season. Edwin Thomas Dolby's 'Sketches on the Baltic' illustrated the campaign in the same style at William Simpson's view of the Crimea.
[Ref: 39707] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. Vice Admiral of the Blue, & Command in Chief of the Baltic Fleet.
Drawn bt C. Baugniet. Printed by M & N Hanhart.
London, Published April, 5th. 1854 by Ackermann & Co. 96, Strand.
Lithograph. 472 x 381mm.
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier KCB GOTE RN (1786-1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the Napoleonic Wars, the American War and the 'Hundred Days' War, the Syrian War and the Crimean War, and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars. An innovator concerned with the development of iron ships, and an advocate of humane reform in the Royal Navy, he was also active in politics as a Liberal Member of Parliament and was probably the naval officer most widely known to the public in the early Victorian Era.
Parker: 629.
[Ref: 12605] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Charles Napier, C.B. Count of Cabo St. Vicente, One of the council of Her MOst Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal, Knight Grand Cross, of the most Ancient and Military Order of the Tower and Sword, Admiral and Major General of all Her Most Faithful Majesty's Naval Forces &c. &c. &c.
Lithographed by Mr Gauci from the Original Drawing in the Possession of the Countess of Cabo de San Vincente.
London 1834, Published by Colnaghi & Co, No 23, Cockspur Street Charing Cross. Printsellers in Ordinary to His Majesty and to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent.
Rare lithograph on india. Sheet 455 x 330mm (17¾ x 13").
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier KCB GOTE RN (1786-1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the Napoleonic Wars, the American War and the 'Hundred Days' War, the Syrian War and the Crimean War, and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars. An innovator concerned with the development of iron ships, and an advocate of humane reform in the Royal Navy, he was also active in politics as a Liberal Member of Parliament and was probably the naval officer most widely known to the public in the early Victorian Era.
[Ref: 43783] £350.00

Captain Napier. R.N.C.B Admiral in the Service of Donna Maria. Queen of Portugal.
W.Houstoun. lith.
[n.d. c.1835]
Lithograph. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾").
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier KCB RN (1786-1860), whose 60 years in the Royal Navy saw from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War, with a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars (1828-34).
[Ref: 3321] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Commodore Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. Count & Viscount Cabo St. Vicente, _Admiral of Portugal; Knight Grand Cross of the Tower & Sword;_Knight of the Order of St. George of Russia, Maria Theresa of Austria, & the Royal Red Eagle of Prussia; Member of Parliament for Marylebone.
Painted by John Simpson: Portrait Painter to Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal &c. &c. Engraved by John Porter.
London: Published July 26th. 1841 by Messrs. Colnaghi & Puckle, Printsellers to the Queen, the Queen Dowager, H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent, &c. &c. 23, Cockspur Street. Printed by Brooke & Harrison.
A fine mezzotint. Plate 367 x 281mm. Sheet 421 x 351mm.
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier KCB RN (17860-1860), whose 60 years in the Royal Navy saw from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War, with a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars (1828 to 1834). He distinguished himself in expeditions against Alexandria and Baltimore in 1814. He took command of the Portuguese fleet in 1833, defeating Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent in the same year. He received his K.C.B. in 1840, and was made M.P. for Marylebone in 1841 and later for Southwark in 1855. He commanded in the Baltic during the Crimea in 1855 and was also A.D.C. to Queen Victoria.
Parker: 631. From the Collection of Viscount Hood.
[Ref: 12399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Greenway.
J. Reynolds pinx.t C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at No.53 in Fleet Street, London. [n.d. c.1765.]
Mezzotint. Paper watermarked. Plate 355 x 255mm. 14 x 10". Tear top right.
Elizabeth Napier, nee Greenway (fl.1765) was wife of Francis, 3rd Son of Francis Scott, 6th Baron Napier. This print was engraved by Richard Purcell, using Corbutt as one of his many pseudonyms, as his prints were mainly piracies of other mezzotints. Both he and Sayer managed to avoid prosecution for copyright infringement.
NPG: D34916. CS: 34: ii of ii. Hamilton: p.174.
[Ref: 17112] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Napier of Merchiston. "The famous inventor of the Logarithms, the Person to whom the title of a Great Man is more justly due, than to any other, whom his country ever produced." Hume's Hist. Vol. VII. p.35 8.th edit. 1775.
Engraved from a drawing by M.r Brown in the possession of the Earl of Buchan.
Stipple, plate 185 x 125mm (7¼ x 5"), large margins top and bottom. Small left margin and trimmed within plate on right. Some foxing
Oval portrait of John Napier surrounded by a wreath of thistle, below him a coat of arms and above him an eye in the sun above. John Napier of Merchiston (Ioannes Neper, Marvellous Merchiston, 1550 –1617) was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics.
Wellcome: 2121-2
[Ref: 57149] £360.00

M.r John Napier. A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod; ~ An Honest Man's the noblest Work of God. Pope.
J. Millar pinx.t. J. Lodge sculp.t.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 10.th June 1774, by John Lodge Red Lion Court, next N.o 43 Shoe Lane Holborn. London.
Rare stipple and line engraving. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Some creasing in both left and bottom right corners. Creasing throught the title area.
A half length portrait of John Napier, Master of St Andrew's Workhouse, Holborn.
[Ref: 54128] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Titlepage signed by Sir John Napier.] The Peerage of Scotland... [with ink mss signed by Robert John Milliken-Napier and his wife.]
Edinburgh: Printed for the Author: Sold by George Stewart, at the Book and Angel in the Parliament-Close. 1717. [Signed by John Napier c.1730, Robert in 1853, Anne in 1874.
Letterpress title, 245 x 145mm, with a.l.s. 180 x 170mm. Laid on album paper.
Sir John Napier, de jure 5th Baronet of Napier of Merchistoun (1686-1735), great-grandson of the John Napier who invented logarithms. Sir Robert John Milliken-Napier, 9th Baronet (1818-1884), great-great-grandson of Sir John Napier.
[Ref: 7075] £420.00

The Right Hon. Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., D.C.L., F.R.S. The Pictorial World. Supplement to the New Series.
February 3rd. 1883. From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. Riddle & Couchman, Lith. 22, Southwark Bridge Road S.E.
Coloured lithograph. 622 x 425mm. 24½ x 16¾". Laid on linen scrap sheet.
Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890) was a British soldier who served during the First and Second Anglo-Sikh War, the Indian Mutiny, the Second Anglo-Chinese War and the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia. He also held the post of Governor of Gibraltar from 1876 to 1886. In 1887 he was appointed Constable of the Tower of London and after his death he received a state funeral and was later buried at St Paul's Cathedral.
[Ref: 19777] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Spanish Palace at Naples. 6.
Debois fecit.
Printed for John Bowles & Son, in Cornhil. [n.d. c.1740.]
Copper Engraving. 204 x 254mm. 8 x 10". Trimmed. Laid down on album page.
The Royal Palace of Naples was not built by the Bourbons but was constructed for King Philip III of Spain, dating from the early 16th century. The palace seen today is the result of numerous additions and changes through the 17th and 18th centuries and the restoration following a fire in 1838 and World War II.
[Ref: 18467] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Nutrice. [Nurse.]
Gae Dura [signed on stone.]
Napoli. Lit. Gatti e Dura [Italian, n.d., c.1825.]
Hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 225mm. 11 x 9". Small repaired tear from left edge.
A wet-nurse holding a little girl by reins, who in turn holds the puppet Pulcinella (a stock character of the Commedia dell'Arte, anglicised as Punchinello, or Punch for short). From 'Scenes and Costumes of Life in and around Naples'.
[Ref: 26751] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

No.3. Neapolitan. Vicinity of Cariati & Cantanzaro. from an Original Drawing. Dobbs & Co.s Series of Costumes.
H.F.G. lith. Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52, Newman St.
Dobbs & Co., 134 Fleet Street, & 13 Soho Square. Ackermann & Co, Strand, & C. Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, rare. 319 x 260mm. 12½ x 10¼".
A plate from a series of costume plates; a Neapolitan man in a colourful native tunic holding a staff and wearing a hat.
[Ref: 22854] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

No.13. Neapolitan Ball Dress. Dobbs & Co.s Series of Costumes.
H.F.G. lith. Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52, Newman St.
Dobbs & Co., 134 Fleet Street, & 13 Soho Square. Ackermann & Co, Strand, & C. Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, rare. 323 x 260mm. 12¾ x 10¼". Some spotting, corner lost to lower right.
A plate from a series of costume plates; a Neapolitan woman in a tunic dress with various colourful layers and puffy arms to add to the grandeur of the costume. The coloured bows on her shoulders eccentuate the bows in her hair.
[Ref: 22869] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Naples. (Napoli) Population_345,000. Published under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
W.B. Clarke_Arch: dir: T. Bradley Sc.
Published by Baldwin & Cradock, March 1835.
Engraving. Small tears along bottom edge. Crease to top and bottom right-hand corners.
A town plan of Naples, Italy with two topographical views: one of the Castello Nuovo and the Castello St. Elmo; and the other a view of Naples from the Hill of Posilipo, looking across the bay towards Vesuvius. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge brought inexpensive scientific and similarly high-minded texts to the rapidly-expanding reading public. Founded in 1826 it continued until 1848.
[Ref: 17097] £120.00

Venditrice di uova.
Dura dis. Lit Gatti e Dura. [Gaetano Dura]
[published Naples, 1839 ]
Coloured lithograph. 317 x 241mm. 12½ x 9½".
A woman sits on the side of a street in Naples. She has two baskets of eggs with her, and a small clutch bag with several more hidden away inside. A woman who has come from the countryside to sell her farm produce in the metropolis. From 'Scenes and Costumes of Life in and around Naples'.
[Ref: 17098] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Attack and Capture of Naples, by the French, after a Most Obstinate Resistance.
Engraved by Mr. George Cruikshank, from the original design of C. Vernet, executed at Paris, by I. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published December 27, 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Hand-coloured aquatint. 210 x 306mm. 8¼ x 12". Folds as published. Some creasing and soiling.
Part of the Neopolitan War as fought between the Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire. It started on 15 March 1815 when Joachim Murat declared war on Austria and ended on 20 May 1815 with the signing of the Treaty of Casalanza. From "The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte".
Cohn: 435.
[Ref: 26483] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Naples.
[Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.]
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm, 5¼ x 6½".
A chart of the environs of Naples, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13675] £200.00

Il Calessino di Napoli.
Lit. Muller
[Naples, 1818.]
Lithograph with fine colour and large margins, rare; Italian watermark. Sheet 240 x 405mm. Paper toned at lateral edges, old ink ownship inscription under image. Slighly tatty.
A fat friar in an ornately-decorated calessino (a two-wheeled chariot cab), driver standing behind, whip over his head. From a series 'Life in Naples', lithographed by Carlo Muller.
[Ref: 33102] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

No.5. Neapolitan.
J. Brandard inv. et lith. Printed by Graf & Soret.
London, Published 1833, by Ackermann & Co No.96 Strand.
Lithograph with gum arabic in splendid original colour, sheet 250 x 320mm. 9¾ x 12½". Pinhole to upper margin, with string tie attached (for display purposes). Mint.
A group of four dancers in southern Italian dress in a garden in a landscape, two leaning on a balustrade. From a series of theatrical costumes by lithographer, engraver and illustrator John Brandard (1812 - 1863).
[Ref: 22597] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Mole and the New Castle at Naples.
Parr Sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 200 x 255mm, 8 x 10". Ink spots to image upper right.
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 10979] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Spanish Palace at Naples.
Printed for H. Overton at the White horse without Newgate. [n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 200 x 255mm, 8 x 9¾". One crease.
A royal palace in Naples, Italy. From a series of views published by Henry Overton (1676 - 1751).
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 10980] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Naples. Napoles.
Urruty del.t. Lith. de Grosselin rue Perdue n. 1.
Paris chez Maesani Quai aux Fleurs, 7. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 500 x 620mm, 19¾ x 24½". Some repairs.
A view looking across the Bay of Naples, with Vesuvius erupting in the background and the lighthouse on the right. In the Bay is a French warship and in the foreground are seven figures in national dress. By Alphonse Urruty (1800-70).
[Ref: 13178] £950.00

A Neopolitan Wedding. 'From the Original Picture in the possession of Edward Willes, Esq.
Painted by T. Uwins, R.A. Engraved by Fredk. A. Heath.
Printed by Mc.Queen. Art Union of London, 1847.
Engraving, 260 x 290mm. 10¼ x 11½".
A young bride standing at centre, wearing a ring on her right hand, followed by a young man, wearing flowers on his hat, surrounded by a group of people; two girls carrying flowers. Stone wall at right, pillar in background at left. After Thomas Uwins (1782 - 1857). With Art Union of London circular blind-stamp showing Britannia to lower margin. Founded in 1837, this was the first of many Art Unions established around Europe and America. The society existed to promote art by distributing specially-commissioned works by means of a lottery among its members. It soon entered print publishing in a large way. Published the journal 'The Art Journal'.
[Ref: 26756] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

L'Isole di Tremiti, Aggiacenti al' Regno di Napoli, nel Mare Adriatico.
[Iyaly, c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 400mm (7½ x 15¾").
The Isole Tremiti, off the Gargano Peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. From left to right the islands are: San Domino; the small, uninhabited island of Cretaccio; San Nicola where most of the population resides, with fortified monastery; and Capraia, also uninhabited. In 1938 Mussolini secretly turned San Domino into an internment camp for homosexual men, despite there being no sexuality laws. Contrary to his intentions it allowed the inmates to be openly gay for the first time in their lives: when the camp was closed on the outbreak of WWII many were reluctant to return to the repression on the staunchly-catholic mainland.
[Ref: 34457] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Vue du Pillage de la Cocagne, à Naples dans la Place appellée il Largo del Castello. Dessinée par Des Pres Architecte Pensionaire du Roi à l'Académie de France à Rome.
Gravé à l'eau forte par Duplessis Bertaux. Terminé au burin par Nicolet.
[Paris: Clousier, 1781-6.]
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark. 250 x 375mm (9¾ x 14¾").
A scene of a carnival in Naples. The festival of the Looting of the Cuccagna (a dialect word for kitchen) took place in the Largo del Castello in Naples every Sunday during the Carnival. A cannon fired from the Castel Nuovo (seen here on the left) gave the signal for the people of Naples to storm the Cuccagna and carry away as much food as they could grab. From Jean Claude Richard Saint Non's monumental 'Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile'.
The original black ink, wash and watercolour on paper is in Waddeston Manor, former home of the Rothschild family, now National Trust (Accession number 1034, Cat No 31). From the Airlie collection, C
[Ref: 57526] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

2.e Vue des Environs de Naples. Gravé d'Après le Dessein Original tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur l'Empereur
Vernet Delineavit. F. Basan sculpsit.
A Paris ches Basan Graveur et a Amsterdam chez P. Fouquet.
Engraving, platemark 270 x 365mm (10½ x 14½"); very large margins. Staining upper right.
Fine Italian landscape after Joseph Vernet (1714-89). In 1734 Vernet's patron Joseph de Seytres, Marquis de Caumont offered to sponsor Vernet to travel to Italy, where he lived until returning to France in 1753. The larger part of Vernet's Italian output consists of imaginary landscapes, either of pastoral landscapes such as this or coastal scenes of either calm or stormy water.
[Ref: 41415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Attack and Capture of Naples, by the French, after a Most Obstinate Resistance.
Engraved by Mr George Cruikshank from the original design of C. Vernet. executed at Paris by L. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published December 27, 1823 by John Cumberland, No 19, Ludgate Hill.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"), watermarked 1822. Folded twice as issued, small split, album paper stuck over left edge.
The capture of Naples in 1806, shortly after the evacuation of Anglo-Russian forces sent to suppress the pro-French Parthenopaean Republic. From W.H. Ireland's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte', 1828.
Tooley 278.
[Ref: 53355] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Der Himmel Italiens. I. Neapolitanische Fischer. Le ciel l'Italie. I. Pecheurs De Naples. The sky of Italy. I. Fishermen of Naples.
Lith. v. Bulow. Druck v J. Hesse in Berlin.
Verlag v. Brigl & Lobeck in Berlin.
Fine tinted lithograph. Sheet 440 x 560mm (17¼ x 22").
Neapolitan fishermen and women on the quayside with their nets.
[Ref: 56647] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Giocatori della Morra. Gruppi di Napoli.
[Luigi Pittori.]
Si vende presso Giorgio Glass dirimp.to S. Ferdinando N:54. [n.d. c.1830.]
Fine etching with gouache. 305 x 228mm (12 x 9"). Slight stain in sky.
Men play Morra in the foreground; fish vendor behind with others drinking and chatting. Morra is a traditional game very popular in Italy, particularly in the regions bordering the Mediterranean. The game consists of guessing the sum of the numbers that are shown by the players' fingers. Simultaneously the two players stretch their arms showing their fist or spreading a number of fingers of their choice, while shouting (as if to intimidate the opponent) a number from two to ten (the "punch" is equivalent to one and ten is also called proper "morra") generally in the local language , sometimes crippled with very colourful expressions that vary from region to region.
[Ref: 52432] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Venditore di Meloni d'Acqua. Gruppi di Napoli.
[Luigi Pittori.]
Si vende presso Giorgio Glass dirimp.to S. Ferdinando N:54. [n.d. c.1830.]
Very fine etching with gouache. 305 x 228mm (12 x 9").
People gather round the watermelon vendor who cuts and prepares fresh watermelon; a store of melons to the left; a sign depicting Harlequins with melons above right; melon skins on the floor around.
[Ref: 52435] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Entrée des Français dans Naples, le 4 Pluviose an 7.e No. 138.
Duplessi-Bertaux, inv. & del. Desaulx Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. 241 x 310mm (9½ x 12¼"), with large margins
The arrival of the French in Naples. In January 1799. Napoleon Bonaparte, in the name of the French Republic, captured Naples and proclaimed the Parthenopaean Republic. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 28290] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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