Grosvenor Prints

Sr. Isaac Newton. In the Possesion of John Conduit Esqr.
J. Houbraken sculpsit. G. Kneller pinx.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving. 370 x 235mm (14½ x 9¼"), with very large margins. Very slight toning.
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (1643-1727), English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (1687) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. Engraved for Thomas Birch's 'Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain'.
W: 2140 - 5; in the NPG. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. Wellcome: 2140-5.
[Ref: 53824] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Portrait of Isaac Newton] A Description of England.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 260 x 150mm (10¼ x 6"). Tear in bottom margin.
An engraved text describing England, surmounted with a vignette with a medallion portrait of Newton.
[Ref: 41453] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Monument Erected to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey.
Byley del. Fittler sculp.
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall _ May 20, 1794.
Engraving, sheet 460 x 290mm (18 x 11½"). Trimmed to plate.
Obelisk shaped monument with relief sculpture, Newton reclining on top of a casket or sarcophagus decorated with frieze; he gestures towards a scroll held by two cherubs to right, a female figure relining on a globe above at top. Sir Isaac Newton FRS (1643 - 1727) was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential men in history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the scientific revolution. In mechanics, Newton enunciated the conservation principles of momentum and angular momentum. In optics, he built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the generalised binomial theorem, developed the so-called "Newton's method" for approximating the zeroes of a function, and contributed to the study of power series. From Bowyer's edition of David Hume's 'History of England'.
W: 2140. in the NPG. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18486] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

James Newton M.D. Ætatis Suæ 78.
[ .]
Engraving. Sheet: 180 x 105mm (7 x 4"). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of doctor James Newton aged 78 set within an oval.
Not in Welcome.
[Ref: 47349] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sr: Michl: Newton.
Humphrey Fect.
Published May 26 1774 by W. Humphrey.
Mezzotint. 110 x 150mm. Glued to scrap sheet top and bottom.
Sir Michael Newton, 4th Bt. [1695? - 1743].
CS: 14. II of II.
[Ref: 3381] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Newton and English Caricature in 1790s.
David Alexander.
Published by the Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, in association with Manchester University Press. 1998.
Book: 4to (240 x 170mm). pp. vi-x + 178. Illustrated with 37 b/w and 64 colour images. Binding worn, spine dirty and tearing away.
An illustrated narrative and catalogue of images compiled to examine English caricature by Richard Newton and during that era.
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication data applied for. [Catalog Card Number: 98-164412].
[Ref: 10109] £45.00

Dr. Thos. Newton.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Fine Engraving, with large paper copy. Plate 197 x 152mm. 7¾ x 6".
Thomas Newton (1704-1782) was an English cleric, biblical scholar and author. He served as the Bishop of Bristol from 1761 until his death. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently elected a fellow of Trinity, he continued his scholarly pursuits and is remembered for his annotated edition of Paradise Lost.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 19126] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Right Reverend Thomas Newton D.D. Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St Pauls.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Thos: Watson.
Publish'd May 1st 1775 for Thos: Watson No 142 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 455 x 330mm. 18 x 13". Small margins.
Portrait of Thomas Newton (1704 - 1782), Bishop of Bristol from 1761; standing holding mortar board cap in left hand, wearing bishop's robes and short wig; curtain behind partially drawn to reveal St Paul's Cathedral at left. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Chaloner Smith 27, ii. Hamilton p.53, ii. Whitman: 23, ii/iii.
[Ref: 22370] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Next Pair Out.]
1st T.P. Frank Gillett [pencil inscription].
[n.d., c.1925.]
Drypoint, 1st trial proof, signed in pencil. 220 x 180mm.
Edward Frank Gillett (1874-1927), illustrator for the 'Daily Graphic' 1898-1908. He also worked as a book illustrator, for example for Henty's 'Lion of the North', 1900. Gillett created fewer than fifty drypoints during his career, the majority untitled. Both the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum have comprehensive collections.
Guichard p.39.
[Ref: 6896] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Maréchal Ney. Duc d'Elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa. Paiv de France.
F. Gerard pinx.t. Alex.dre Tardieu del et Sculp.t.
1814.
Engraving. Sheet: 175 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A half-length portrait of Michel Ney (1769-1815) a military commander in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, one of 18 men to be made Marshal by Napoleon. With the restoration of the Monarchy in 1815, Ney was tried and executed by firing squad though he refused to be blindfolded and gave the command himself.
[Ref: 42158] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Marshal Ney. Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskwa, Peer of France. Who was Shot for Treason, Dec.r 8, 1815.
Gerard pinx.t. A. Easton Sculp.t.
Published April 9th 1816 by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, London.
Stipple, with very large margins. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8").
François Gérard's famous portrait of Marshal Michel Ney (17690815), in ceremonial uniform. He fought for Napoleon from begining to end: after his command of French rear-guard on the Retreat from Moscow in 1812 he was jokingly referred to as 'the last Frenchman on Russian soil. Although he persuaded the emperor to abdicate and accept his first exile in 1814 and prepared a force to stop Napoleon reaching Paris during the Hundred Days, Ney joined with Napoleon in 1815. At the Battle of Waterloo, seeing the day was lost, Ney led a final charge, shouting to his men 'Come see how a marshal of France dies!'. However he survived, only to be shot for treason, one of very few of Napoleon's generals not to be exonerated by the restored Bourbon monarchy.
Gérard's oil remained in the family until the death of the 6th (and last) Prince of Moskow and his daughter, selling at auction for $242,500 in New York, 2013.
[Ref: 36029] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[A view and description of Niagara Falls.] A Map of the United States of North America Drawn from a number of Critical Researches. By A. Arrowsmith, Geographer. Charles Street Soho.
[London: Arrowsmith c.1800.]
Engraved scrap. Sheet 310 x 340mm (14¼ x 13¼"). Trimmed from a much larger sheet, creased and torn, laid on album paper.
The decorative title cartouche from Aaron's important wall map of the United States, first published in 1798 with further editions in 1802 and 1808. Underneath is an extensive engraved text titled 'Falls of Niagara'. Arrowemith's map is famous as the one used by Lewis & Clark to plan their landmark transcontinental trip.
[Ref: 52212] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Map of the Straits of Niagara from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
H. Mutlow, Sculp.
[London: William James, 1818.]
Engraved map. Sheet 405 x 220mm (16 x 8¾"). Watermarked 'J & M 1817'. Original bind folds, one split.
A near-contemporary map of the War of 1812, published as the frontispiece to William James' 'A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States'. It marks the Forts Erie, George and Niagara, as well as Buffalo, the Falls, connecting roads, British troop locations and topographical features. An inset shows a cross-section of the Falls.
[Ref: 37391] £320.00

[The Great Fall, Niagara.]
Mrs. Stenhouse, a memento of her old friend W. Forrest H.R.S.A. [In pencil below image to the right.]
Published by M. Knoedler & Co. New York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1875, by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian at Washington.
Engraving on India paper. Printed area: 255 x 555mm (8¾ x 21¾"). Sheet size: 490 x 765mm (19¼ x 30") large margins. Nicks and creasing to margins. Tear in right margin that stops just outside of the plate.
View of Niagara Falls with a faint rainbow seen at left. A lighthouse and houses can be seen on the shore in the background. Dark clouds are in the sky to the right. After American painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900), a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters,.
[Ref: 39549] £480.00

Gorgon Villa, with a view of Grey Town, March, 1860.
H. Sewell, Esq. R.N. del. Vincent Brooks, lith.
[c.1860.]
Chromolithograph. 140 x 217mm. 5½ x 8½".
A view of the Gorgon Villa looking over to Greytown, Nicaragua; know as San Juan del Norte. In 1762, the settlement was captured by an alliance of the Miskitos, Zambos and English, however control passed to the Spanish to control the trade and commercial treaties. In 1821, with the independence of Central America, the town was left free, but in 1841, the Miskitos took control with British assistance and in 1848 the town was occupied directly by the British. In 1860 the town was legally placed under the sovereignty of Nicaragua and removed from Miskito control, but remained de facto under British protection through until the end of century.
[Ref: 20411] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Nice from Villa Gastaud. [&] Villa Gastaud - Nice.
[both] done by Carny Mudge - August 1860.
Pair of watercolours, each 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14"), mounted on album paper.
Two views of Nice, from the house of banker Honoré Gastaud, to the west of the town. He filled the gardens with exotic plants, making it an attraction for visitors including Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, Napoleon III and Eugene in 1858 (two years before these views). In 1871 the house was rebuilt in Italianate style, and after passing through various owners and at one time serving as a luxury brothel, in was bought by the city in 1960. Now known as the 'Palais de Marbre' it houses the municipal archives within a park and is a listed historic building.
[Ref: 39288] £320.00 view all images for this item

[Nice.]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 190 x 375mm (7½ x 14¾"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild. Crease in image on right. Creases and small tears to margins.
A view along the waterfront of Nice, France. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62630] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Nice.]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 370mm (8¾ x 14½"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild. Crease in image on right. Creases and small tears to margins.
A view of the waterfront of Nice from a high point. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62631] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Nice Apples. 233.
Publish'd 20th Jan.y 1794 by Rob.t Sayer, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 155 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Very large margins.
A child sitting on a stool, working her way through a basket of apples.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32964] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas 1. Emperor of Russia. O.B. 1855.
[Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph?]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Nicholas I (1796-1855), Emperor of Russia from 1825 until his death towards the end of the Crimean War.
[Ref: 37993] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Armee Russe. No.35. Niclolas, Empereur. Galerie Militaire. No.246.
Dero-Becker, editeur a Paris. Lith. Paul Petit et C.ie 3, Place du Doyenne. [n.d. c.1852.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 240 x 201mm. 9½ x 8".
Nicholas I, (1796-1855) Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, was one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs, and on the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historical zenith spanning over 20 million square kilometres. From "Galerie Militaire, ou collection complete des uniformes de la garde impériale russe".
In the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
[Ref: 27749] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Nicholas 1, Late Emperor of all the Russians.
Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. Vincent Brooks Lith.
London: Published, March 7th 1855, by J. Hogarth 5, Haymarket.
Rare lithograph, printed on india. Printed area: 350 x 220mm (13¾ x 8¾"), with large margins. Foxing in margins.
A portrait of Nicholas I (1796-1855) King of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland.
Provenance: Edge Hall Library, Cheshire.
[Ref: 46711] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

His Imperial Majesty Nicolas the First.
Lonsdale Pinxit. Engraved by W. Say.
Published March 1826, by W. Sams, Royal Subscription Library, No 1 St James's Street.
Rare mezzotint, proof, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Wear to small margins, laid on archival paper.
A portrait of Nicholas I (1796-1855) King of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland.
[Ref: 52702] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Zusammenkunft Jhrer Majestaten... Entrevue De Leurs Majestes...[Francis I of Austria and Nicholas I of Russia] Munchengratz 10 September 1833.
F. Wolf lith.
Journal pitoresque. Eigenthum der Herausgeber Wolf und Weissenbach [n.d., c.1850].
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 330 x 440mm. 13 x 17¼".
Münchengrätz, now in the Czech Republic, saw Prussia, Austria and Russia sign the Munchengratz Agreement in September 1833. This established a three-power alliance to 'support conservative causes' in Europe and the wider world. To counter the Munchengratz Agreement, Britain, France, Spain and Portugal signed the Quadruple Treaty in April 1834. This established the idea of two opposing power blocs in European politics for the first time. The first major event in which the two sides opposed each other was the Portuguese throne crisis of 1833-39. Francis II (1768 - 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1804 he had founded the Austrian Empire and became Francis I of Austria (Franz I.), the first Emperor of Austria, ruling from 1804 to 1835. Nicholas I (1796 - 1855), was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855. Fine original colour. Publisher's blindstamp lower centre.
[Ref: 9044] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Als from Edward Nicholas to Montagu Bertie, Baron Willoughby de Eresby.]
Whitehall 11 May 1640.
1pp. als in ink, folded with wax seal, addressed in the same hand, scarce. Later ink mss. description.
A manuscript letter from Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669) at the time a clerk in ordinary to Charles I's Privy Council. As one of Charles's most trusted advisors he helped negotiate the Treaty of Uxbridge (1645), Charles's surrender to the Scots and the Surrender of Oxford (both 1646). He continued to serve Charles II in exile, becoming secretary of state in 1654, a role he kept after the Restoration. The letter is written to Montagu Bertie (1608-66), the year he became Baron Willoughby de Eresby, probably for raising 'The King's Life Guard of Foot' for service in the First Bishops' War of 1639. He fought at the First Battle of Newbury, Cropredy Bridge, Lostwithiel, Second Battle of Newbury and was wounded at Naseby. At the Restoration he officiated as Lord Great Chamberlain at the coronation of Charles II on 23 April 1661.
[Ref: 42120] £850.00

The Grand Duke Nicholas. The Whitehall Review 23rd November 1878.
Judd & Co. Lith. Doctors Commons London.
Lithograph with tintstone, sheet 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Foxing.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831-91), third son of Tsar Nicholas I and brother of Alexander II. Trained for the military, as a Field Marshal he commanded the Russian army of the Danube in the Russo-Turkish War of 1777-8, which concluded shortly before this print was made. He did not distinguish himself in the war, however, and was removed from command following a series of reverses and unsuccessful attacks. Furthermore, he was charged with financial irregularities, of receiving bribes and embezzling money from the government. Following the assassination of Alexander II and succession of Alexander III (who had little respect for his uncle), Nicholas Nicholaevich was deprived of all influence.
[Ref: 43507] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Nicholl, Judge. Colonel of St. Giles and Bloomsbury Volunteers [written below the image in pencil.]
Shee. Tomkins [written below the image in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Aquatint printed in colour. Image 321 x 249mm. 11¾ x 9¾". Sheet 504 x 339mm. 19¾ x13¼".
Sir John Nicholl (1759-1838) was a Welsh Member of Parliament and judge. As a judge he was noted 'for inflexible impartiality and great strength and soundness of judgement'. Nicholl built an extensive practice and on the 6 November 1798 he succeeded Sir William Scott as King's Advocate and was knighted as was custom for the position. Within this role, Nicholl would often brief the Privy Council and Secretary of State on international law. In 1802, Nicholl was elected to Parliament holding the seat of Penryn in Cornwall. After a brief period as Member of Parliament of Hastings from 1806 to 1807, he was elected to the seat of Great Bedwyn, and remained the member of the constituency until the Reform Act of 1832, upon which time he retired. Nicholl was a staunch Tory throughout his political career and steadily opposed parliamentary reform and Roman Catholic emancipation. In 1809 he was appointed Dean of the Arches, was admitted to the Privy Council and became a judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. In 1833 Nicholl was appointed as a judge to the High Court of Admiralty and held the post until his death in 1838; though he resigned his offices of Dean of Arches and to the Prerogative Court, after he was made vicar-general to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1834. For his work during the Napoleonic War, as a member of the volunteer movement, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.
[Ref: 12723] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir John Nicholl M.P. D.C.L. Kings Advocate General, &c.&c.&c. Colonel of the St. Giles & St. George's, Bloomsbury, Loyal Volunteers. Dedicated to the Commissioned, Non-commissioned Officers, & Urivates of the Corps. by their Humble Servant, Serjeant Michaut. Pro Reger, Aris, et Focis.
Painted by M.A. Shee R.A. Engraved by PW Tomkins Engraver to Her Majesty.
Pub. 28. July 1806, by Michaut & Davies, 19, Plumbtree St. Bloomsbury.
Stipple with very large margins. Plate 369 x 292mm. 14½ x 11½".
Sir John Nicholl (1759-1838) entered parliament as an MP in 1802 and spent thirty years serving in various constituencies. He had trained in the law but had not gone one to become a barrister. In 1798 he succeeded Sir William Scott as King's advocate and was later appointed as a judge with a seat on the Privy Council. Within this role as king's advocate, he regularly briefed the Council and Secretaries of State on international law and maritime matters. In parliament, he was a staunch defender of the established Church and the Admiralty, and Ecclesiastical courts.
[Ref: 27522] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nicholls] French Habits No. 10. Juge de Paix.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.t.
Pub.d May 15st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', date lost. Narrow margins.
John Nicholls (c.1745-1832), MP for Tregony, in the dress of the French Republican Juge de Paix., as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). Notoriously ugly, Nicholls is shown with his left eye closed, a projecting lower jaw and his upper lip drawn up in a permanent snarl. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9211.
[Ref: 59153] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

George Nichols.
Published by J. McGowan, G.t Windmill S.t [1826].
Stipple. Sheet 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate at sides.
George Nichols, a butcher from Bristol, George Nichols, was the only boxer to defeat Tom Cribb, after 52 rounds in 1805. He returned to his original trade and many accounts expunge his victory, describing Cribb as undefeated. From John Badcock's 'The Fancy; or The True Sportsman’s Guide: Being Authentic Memoirs of the Lives, Actions, Prowess, and Battles of the Leading Pugilists, from the Days of Figg and Broughton, to the Championship of Ward. By an Operator'.
[Ref: 50615] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nichols, Esq. F.S.A. of Lon. Edin. & Perth. Born at Islington Feb.y 2 1744-5. Author of te History & Antiquities of the Count y of Leicester, in 7 Vols fol. 1795...]
J. Jackson Pinxit 1811 H. Meyer Sculpt. Proof.
Rare mezzotint, proof before publication; platemark 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½").
John Nichols (1745-1826), printer and writer. Beginning as an apprentice at Stationers' Hall, Nichols become proprietor of one of the largest printing houses in London when in 1777 his master William Bowyer died. Nichols' own reputation as an editor, biographer and antiquary grew with the expansion of his printing business: he published numerous historical and antiquarian volumes and was an eminent chronicler of the book trade. His reputation as an antiquarian and county historian rests largely on his 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester', while he was admired by contemporaries such as Boswell, Gibbon and Walpole for his intelligence and wit.
[Ref: 41418] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Marg.t Nicholson attempting to Assassinate the King,
Engraved for the Lady's Magazine.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 171 x 108mm. 6¾ x 4¼".
Margaret Nicholson (c.1750-1828) was an Englishwoman who assaulted King George III. On 2 August 1786 she approached the King as he alighted from a carriage at St James's Palace on the pretext of presenting him with a petition. She then made two lunges at his chest with an ivory-handled dessert knife before she was brought under contol. The King is reported to have taken pity on her and claimed she was mad.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25441] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[General John Nicholson. Killed before Delhi,1857.]
[Painted by T.F. Dicksee. Engraved by A.N. Sanders.]
London, Published June 1.st 1867 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales. 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint, scarce proof title and artist and engraver's inscriptions, printed on chine collé with Printseller's Association blindstamp, limited to 75. 470 x 390mm (18½ x 15¼").
Portrait of John Nicholson (1821-57). Nicholson served in Afghanistan from 1840-2 (notably in the 1841 defence of Ghazni), and in the Punjab from 1843-7. He was subsequently 'invaluable' in the second Anglo-Sikh war. Nicholson commanded the main storming party at Delhi in September 1857, during which action he was shot through the chest, causing his death a few days later.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67809] £420.00

[General John Nicholson. Killed before Delhi,1857.]
[Painted by T.F. Dicksee. Engraved by A.N. Sanders.]
London, Published June 1.st 1867 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales. 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint, scarce proof title and artist and engraver's inscriptions, printed on chine collé with Printseller's Association blindstamp, limited to 75. 470 x 390mm (18½ x 15¼").
Portrait of John Nicholson (1821-57). Nicholson served in Afghanistan from 1840-2 (notably in the 1841 defence of Ghazni), and in the Punjab from 1843-7. He was subsequently 'invaluable' in the second Anglo-Sikh war. Nicholson commanded the main storming party at Delhi in September 1857, during which action he was shot through the chest, causing his death a few days later.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67810] £420.00

[John Nicholson.]
Painted by T.F. Dicksee. Engraved by A.N. Sanders
London, Published June 1.st 1867 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales. 6 Pall Mall. Copyright Registered.
Mezzotint, scarce proof before letters, limited to 75. 470 x 390mm (18½ x 15¼"). Slight foxing around image.
Portrait of John Nicholson (1821-57). Nicholson served in Afghanistan from 1840-2 (notably in the 1841 defence of Ghazni), and in the Punjab from 1843-7. He was subsequently 'invaluable' in the second Anglo-Sikh war. Nicholson commanded the main storming party at Delhi in September 1857, during which action he was shot through the chest, causing his death a few days later.
R. H. Vetch, ‘Nicholson, John (1821–1857)’, rev. Ainslie T. Embree, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
[Ref: 12337] £320.00

M.rs Margaret Nicholson who attempted to Stab the King of Great Britain Aug.t 2 1786, and being judged Insane was sent to Bedlam Aug,t 9 1786, where it is supposed she will reamin for life.
Taylor sculp.
[London: Alexander Hogg, 1786.]
Etching. Sheet 130 x 105mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed to plate.
Oval portrait of Margaret Nicholson (c.1750-1828), a former servant who believed she was heir to the throne, attacked George III with a dessert knife. Knowing the attack was feeble, Nicholson was committed to Bethlem Royal Hospital as insane rather than charged with treason. She died there over 40 years later. From the 'New Lady's Magazine'.
[Ref: 58665] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Peter Nicholson, Author of the Builder and Workman's New Director, &c. &c. &c. Engraved for the fourth Volume of the Mechanics Magazine, From and original Painting in his own Possession.
Engd. on Steel by H. Adlard. Printed by W.O. Knight.
London, Published by Knight & Lacey, Pater Noster Row, Novr.1.1825.
Stipple. 218 x 142mm.
Peter Nicholson (1765-1844), mathematician, architect. "The builder's and workman's new director, comprising explanations of the general principles of architecture, of the practice of building, and of the several mechanical arts connected therewith; also the elements and practice of geometry in its application to the building art".
[Ref: 12646] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Peter Nicholson, the Practical Builder and Mathematician.
W. Derby pinx.t. Eng.d. on Steel by T. Cochran. Printed by R. Fenner.
London Published by T. Kelly, 17. Paternoster Row. Feby. 19. 1825.
Engraving. 282 x 210mm.
Peter Nicholson (1765-1844), mathematician, architect. "The builder's and workman's new director, comprising explanations of the general principles of architecture, of the practice of building, and of the several mechanical arts connected therewith; also the elements and practice of geometry in its application to the building art".
[Ref: 12648] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Peter Nicholson, the Practical Builder and Mathematician.
W: Derby, pinxt. Engd. on Steel by I. Cooper.
London, Thomas Kelly & Co. [n.d., c.1820.]
Stipple, sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Tatty and chipped extremities.
Peter Nicholson (1765 - 1844), mathematician and architect. After William Derby (1786 - 1847), watercolour and miniature painter.
[Ref: 12370] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Nicodeme. [&] Babichon.
L Vigee Pinx. Simon Duflos Sculp.
[French, n.d., c.1750s.]
Pair of etchings, each c.290 x 200mm. 11½ x 8". Several small filled holes.
Actor and actress dressed as characters from the Opéra Comique; in villagers' clothes, standing in a rural landscape. Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the tradition of popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne), which combined popular tunes with spoken sections. Four columns of verse in French as spoken by the character beneath each image. After portrait painter Louis Vigée (French, 1715 - 1767). Vigee presented three small paintings representing characters from the Opéra Comique at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1751.
Not in Harvard.
[Ref: 19868] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Nicodemos.
Hanfstaengl ft. [signed in plate.] Nach der Natur gez. v. Krazeisen. Gedr. v. Ios. Selb.
[Munich, 1828-31.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, gently laid on Album paper, sheet 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9". Slight lifting on india paper.
A leader during the Greek War of Independence. From the rare folio 'Bildnisse ausgezeichneter Griechen und Philhellenen/Portraits des Grecs et des Philhelle`nes les plus ce´le`bres...' by Carl or Karl Krazeisen, published in Munich, Germany, with text in German and French. Published in parts between 1828 and 1831, the work contains 21 portraits and seven views or scenes. Krazeisen accompanied von Heideck and the Bavarian philhellenes to Greece in 1826 where he served as a junior officer. The portraits are amongst the best-known of the leaders of the War of Independence and are frequently reproduced. The original drawings are preserved in the National Gallery, Athens.
British Library: 002020473. From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 14915] £450.00

Looking out for a safe investment. What shall I buy?
Painted by Erskine Nicol, A.R.A. Engraved by W.H. Simmons.
London: Published 1st February 1878 by Pilgeram & Lefevre, 1A King Street St. James's, copyright registered. New York, Wm. Schaus, entered according to act of Congress in the year 1878, by Wm. Schaus, in the office of the librarian of Congress in Washington.
Mixed-method engraving, very rare, 760 x 590mm (30 x 23¼") to platemark. Lefevre blindstamp bottom left. Repaired tears inside platemark above image.
Two boys wearing Scottish berets looking through the window of a sweet shop. A woman feeds birds in the background. After Scottish painter Erskine Nicol born in Leith (1825-1904).
[Ref: 22462] £420.00

Andrew Nicol Midden Stead. [Within image]
I Kay 1802.
Etching and aquatint, early printing, 135 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Small margins.
Half-length portrait of Andrew Nicol, wearing a broad beret and a tartan cravat, smiling at the viewer. He leans forward with his elbows resting on a table, gesturing toward a paper held in his left hand, inscribed “Andrew Nicol Midden Stead.” Legal interest. Nicol (fl. 1802-1817), was a weaver from Edinburgh, who was engaged in a lawsuit against a gentleman for twenty years, concerning the situation of a dung-hill.
[Ref: 66916] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Chr. Fried. Nicolai. Dr. der Philos. u. Mitglied der Konigl. Akademis der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Geb. zu Berlin d.18 Mrt. 1733. Gestorb. daselbst d.8 Jan. 1811.
F. Lehman sc.
[n.d. c.1811.]
Stipple. Plate 133 x 95mm. 5¼ x 3¾".
Dr Christian Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811) was a German writer, publisher, bookseller and critic. He wrote many satirical novels and travelogues. He was a prominent figure during the Berlin Enlightenment and was friends of Lessing, Zelter and Mendelssohn.
[Ref: 25998] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolas 1.er. Empereur de Russie
A. Maurin 1832 [in image]. Lith. de Lemercier rue du Four S.G. No.35
Paris chez Chaillou Editeur rue St Honoré No. 140
Lithograph, image 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Wove paper; uncut sheet; publisher's blindstamp.
Nicholas I (1796-1855), Emperor of Russia from 1825 until his death. Although he led the Imperial Russian Army in the unsuccessful Crimean War, Nicholas helped to create an independent Greek state and seized several territories in the Caucasus, defeating the Ottoman and Persian Empires in the wars of the 1820s. Under his rule, the Russian Empire reached its greatest extent of over 20 million square kilometres. From a series of portraits by lithographer Antoine Maurin dit l'aîné (1793 - 1860).
For Nicholas triumphant in battle see ref. 29832; for satirical representations of Nicholas see refs. 22270 and 30550.
[Ref: 34514] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Nicolas 1st. Empereur de toutes les Russies.
Engraved by W. Alais.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving on india paper with very large margins. Platemark: 245 x 155mm (9¾ x6").
A portrait of Nicholas I (1796 - 1855) full length, on horseback facing the left. Nicolas I was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855. He was also the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland.
[Ref: 35657] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Carmino Nicoletti Cicerone
13th July 1816 Paestum LEG [Ludwig Emil Grimm]
Etching, rare, platemark 130 x 90mm (5 x 3½"), with very large margins.
Portrait of an Italian cicerone (a learned guide who conducted tourists to museums and other sights of historical interest). Etched by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863), German artist. Probably taken from the book of etchings Grimm produced documenting his travels in Italy in 1816.
[Ref: 47416] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nicoll] Johannes Nicol D:D: Eccllesiæ Westmonasteriensis Prebendarius, Scholæ per Annos XX. Archidadascalus. Ædis Christi Canonicus. A.D. MDCCLV. Ætat: LXXI.
R. Taylor pinx.t. J. McArdell fecit.
[n.d., c.1755.]
Fine mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
Dr. Nicholls, Prebendary of Westminster and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
CS 139, only state; Russell ii of iii. Goodwin 45, iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68352] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nicoll] [Johannes Nicol D:D: Eccllesiæ Westmonasteriensis Prebendarius, Scholæ per Annos XX. Archidadascalus. Ædis Christi Canonicus. A.D. MDCCLV. Ætat: LXXI.]
[R. Taylor pinx.t. J. McArdell fecit.]
[n.d., c.1755.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters, inscription area partially uncleaned. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Old ink mss. in inscription area.
Dr. Nicholls, Prebendary of Westminster and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
CS 139, predating only state; Russell i of iii. Goodwin 45, i of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68353] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverend Doc.r Nicoll.
T.W. [Thomas Worlidge] Fecit 1756
Oval etching, platemark (at most) 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Small margins; paper tone and foxing.
Dr. Nicholls, Prebendary of Westminster and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Portrait printed from an oval plate, by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression before Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with the number '124' added upper centre to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
State i/ii; W124; D174.
[Ref: 32928] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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