Grosvenor Prints

The Oil Press.
[n.d., 1763.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 195mm (6¾ x 7¾"), with a letterpress sheet with key. Original folds, slight offset from text.
An illustration of a press for olive oil. From 'Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses On such Particulars of Natural History As were thought most proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth'.
[Ref: 60857] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Okinawa] Garden of the Temple at Lechew. Alceste's Voyage.
Lieut. Dwarris delin. J. Clark Sculp.
Published by J. Murray, London, 1817.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate.
A garden on Okinawa, with British sailors carrying casks to a storeroom, during a six-week stay there. From 'Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste', an account of Lord Amherst's diplomatic mission to China in 1817. On the return journey the Alceste hit a reef in the Java Sea and was wrecked, after which the crew had to cope with Malay Dyak pirates who burned the ship and surrounded their camp.
Abbey Travel 559.
[Ref: 55494] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Old and Young Man]
[after David Teniers] VB.
[n.d. c.1680]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 155 x 130mm (6¼ x 5¼"), with very large margins.
An old man holding a sharp stake looks at a younger man over his shoulder who holds a small cauldron. Engraved and published by Jan van der Bruggen (c.1648-90) after David Teniers the younger (1610-90).
[Ref: 65916] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Whole Proceedings On the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery for the City of London, and also, The Goal Delivery for the County of Middlesex, Held at Justice-Hall, in the Old Bailey, On Wednesday, the 9th of January, 1805, and following Days, Being the Second Session in the Mayorality of the Right Honourable Peter Perchard, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Taken in Short-Hand by Ramsey and Blanchard. [& Third Session, 20th February, & Fourth Session, 24th April]
London: printed and Published, By Authority of the Corporation of the City of London, by W. Wilson, St. Peter's-Hill, Little Knight-Rider-Street, Doctors' Commons. 1805.
Quarto (260 x 195mm, 10¼ x 7¾"), original boards; pp. 72-140, 157-310, incomplete, edges uncut. Ex-libris label on front pastedown; spine taped.
Transcripts of criminal cases, including that of Samuel Nunn (case 211) who was sentenced to be transported for seven years for stealing 3 shillings worth of indigo; and William Field (case 254) sentenced to death for counterfeiting sixpences. Important reference for transportation to Australia.
[Ref: 60683] £680.00 view all images for this item

[The Old Sessions House, Old Bailey.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Fine etching. Sheet 210 x 340mm (8¼ x 13½"). Trimmed into image, laid on album paper.
A rare etched view of the Sessions House, built in 1674, after the Great Fire destroyed the earlier building in 1666. The front was left open to the weather to prevent the spread of disease (closed in 1734).
[Ref: 61986] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Old Bailey.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. Stadler aquat.
London Pub. 1st. March 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1808. Platemark: 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"). Trimmed to plate at top but large margins on other the three sides.
An interior view of the Old Bailey, London. The court at Old Bailey held sessions eight times a year. It heard the most serious crimes commited in the city of London and Middlesex. In this image a witness is being cross-examined in one of these sessions. The court has been demolished and the present court building dates from 1907. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 58325] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bullerfield [Butterfield?] Swearing a Witness at the Old Bailey.
[John Nixon.]
Pub Jany 1st 1796 by E & S Harding Pall Mall.
Stipple with etching. Sheet 150 x 220mm (6 x 8¾"). Trimmed close to image, corners snipped.
A satirical scene at the Central Criminal Court, with a clerk in wig and gown holding a bible for a witness.
Guildhall: q9820443. Not in BM.
[Ref: 62535] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Bond Street.]
Sydney R. Jones.
[1928.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 315 x 225mm (12½ x 9").
A view of Old Bond Street looking towards Piccadilly, with several recognisable business signs including fine art dealers Agnew's. Sydney Robert Fleming Jones (1881-1961) was a notable watercolourist and etcher, particularly of architectural views; he also wrote several books on the English countryside and provided illustrations for several publications including The Times, Illustrated London News and The Studio.
[Ref: 62481] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Old Bridge.]
W.O.J.N. [Wijnand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp].
[n.d., c.1903.]
Woodcut. Printed area 175 x 315mm (7 x 12½").
An ancient bridge over a river, possibly in Mechelen, Belgium. Nieuwenkamp's 'Brücke in Mecheln' has a similar window structure. Nieuwenkamp (1874-1950) was the first European artist to visit Bali. It is probable that this view was drawn from his houseboat, 'De Zwerver' (The Wanderer), in which he toured Europe, holding exhibitions on board.
[Ref: 41733] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Chelsea Bridge.]
Ernest H. G. Cox [pencil signature.]
[n.d c.1910.]
Etching. Plate 171 x 246mm. 6¾" x 9¾".
A view of Old Chelsea Bridge with the various power stations and factories which stood where Battersea Power station now stands today. The bridge, originally called Victoria Bridge was opened as a toll bridge to the newly created Battersea Park, however, the bridge was not structually sound and the old Chelsea Bridge was demolised in the 1930s and the new bridge which still stands today was built.
See Ref: 39834
[Ref: 9234] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The College; - Windermere.
L. Aspland Del.t W. Banks. sc. Edin.r
Rare engraving, sheet 105 x 130mm (4¼ x 5¼"). Cut within plate mark and glued to backing sheet.
A school yard scene depicting boys playing cricket. The school appears to be what is known as the Old College, Windermere built for the Rev Addison by Abraham Pattinson who opened it as St. Mary's College in September 1853. In 1855 the college was bought by Benjamin Irving and George Hale Puckle of Nine Oaks. They became joint headmasters and renamed the establishment.
[Ref: 56003] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Complaint! ''Time are horrid bad.''
[nd. c.1830.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 235 x 275mm (9¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed close to the image.
A man, spectacles resting on his forehead, stands above a table with an empty cashbox, accounts ledger and bills.
[Ref: 51417] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Curiosity Shop London [pencil]. ''London'' (The Old Curiosity Shop). Original Etching Printed in Colours by the Artist R. Herdman-Smith, A.R.W.A. Edition Strictly Limited to 75 Signed Artist's Proofs.
R. Herdman-Smith. A.R.W.A. [signed in pencil.]
Etching, printed in colour. 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½") very large margins. In original mount with publisher's printed title label. Mint.
The sixteenth century building at 13–14 Portsmouth Street, Westminster, by the London School of Economics, supposedly the inspiration for Charles Dickens' novel. Robert Herdman-Smith (1879-1945) was born in Liverpool and exhibited at the Royal Academy and Paris Salon. He taught at the Wellington Technical School, New Zealand, from 1902, later returning to England.
[Ref: 49244] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

New way to pay old debts.
M.E. Esq.r del. G. Hunt sculp.
Pub.d by Tho.s M.cLean, 26 Haymarket 1825.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 195 x 200mm (7¾ x 8''), with very large margins.
A comic scene in which a man is greeted in the street by a doctor who requests payment for looking after the man's wife to which the man replies with a humourous retort.
Hickman: p.46
[Ref: 48551] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Old England just arriv'd from a Cruize round the Globe.
[1762.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 150mm (4¾ x 6"), large margins. Holes and foxing in plate.
A political satire commenting on the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris signed in September 1783 and peace with France. The scene shows the arrival of a ship full of figures, the Duke of Cumberland stands on the quaterdeck with a drawn sword adressing the figures on board. Pitt and the Duke of York stand behind Cumberland. On the shore Lord Bute and the Duc de Nivernois and some counsellors sit on a large box. This print is an illustration to "The British Antidote to Caledonian Poison".
A reduced and reversed copy of BM Satire 3920.
[Ref: 45490] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Old English Colour-Prints.
Text by Malcolm C. Salaman (Author of 'The Old Engravers of England') Edited by Charles Holme.
MCMIX Offices of 'The Studio' London, Paris and New York. [1909.]
Folio with cloth cover, gilt title on frotn and on spine. Cover rubbed.
A history of eighteenth century colour prints with forty colour illustrations.
[Ref: 21996] £60.00

[''She thought the judging would never end''.]
C.M.H. V.S.
[n.d., c.1944.]
Drawing. Sheet: 205 x 185mm (8 x 7¼"). On board with pencil annotations.
A scene showing a young girl showing her Old English Sheepdog in a dog show. An original illustration by illustrator and author Cynthia Harnett (1893-1981) and animal artist George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954), for Muriel Denison's 'Happy Tramp: the Story of a Little Girl and Her Old English Sheep Dog', 1944. After her father is wounded as a soldier in World War II and her mother is killed by in a German air raid Biddie and her Old English Sheepdog are evacuated to America where her father has found work as a kennel man for a wealthy New York dog breeder.
[Ref: 47832] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Old English Squire] Buys an Historical Picture. St. Anthony Preaching to the Fishes. Zooks! I ne'er understood that fishes could hear,/ But tis painted so lively the fact seems quite clear.
Published May 1821, by Tho.s Mc.Lean, Hay Market.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, pt Whatman watermark 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 8¾"), very large margins.
A bearded figure dressed as a monk on the sea shore addressing an audience of rather grotesque sea creatures. A satire referencing St Antony of Padua (1195 - 1231), of whom it is said that fish rose out of the water to hear him preach. From 'The Old English Squire. A jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free: a poem in ten cantos by John Careless, Esq'.
[Ref: 58413] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Old English Squire] Sees a Water Kelpy. The Kelpy it was __ he knew by its face / T'was the same their Scotch Gardiner had seen at that place.
Published May 1821, by Tho.s Mc.Lean, Hay Market.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 160 x 225mm (6¼ x 8¾") very large margins.
A monster rises from the water of a lake with a ruined building behind. In the sky is a half-moon with a sleeping face. From 'The Old English Squire. A jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free: a poem in ten cantos by John Careless, Esq'.
[Ref: 58414] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Old Gripus plunder'd by his Young Wife.
London, Published as the Act directs 11th October 1779 by Robert Wilkinson, at No.58 in Cornhill.
Mezzotint with large margins. 155 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼").
A pretty young woman raids the purse of her elderly, snaggle-toothed husband. A reduction of the plate engraved by Dawes for John Bowles, whose business Wilkinson took over the year of publication of this print.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32966] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View at the Old Hats. Plate 6. Page 19.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d Aug 13, 1796 by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row.
Coloured etching, 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Thread margins. Light foxing.
Design in an oval. Outside an inn, only the corner of its ground and first floor visible at right, two postilions lounge against a sign-post showing just the edge of the ‘Old Hats’ sign. The fat landlord brings a bowl of punch to two young cits in riding-dress. Nearby, two men smoke and drink at a table while other customers stand about. In the background wait a coach and a post-chaise. It was a half-way house on the road to Acton. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
BM Satires 8935.
[Ref: 67718] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Alte Liebe rostel nicht. Oude Liefde Roest Niet. Old Love Never Dies.
Nach C. Engel, lith. von C. Bach. Druck, Verlag u. Eigenthuin v. E.G. May & Wirsing in Frankfurt a/m.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 305 x 315mm (12 x 12¾''). Staining, creasing.
A scene showing an old married couple sitting at a table in their home.
[Ref: 51089] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Maids Petition.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick [n.d., c.1815].
Etching. Sheet 180 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼).
An ugly old maid kneeling at a desk in prayer. A man peeps on her through gap in the rafters. Signs read "love in a village", "cupids revenge" on door and wall. By William Davison of Alnwick (1780-1858), print publisher and pharmacist, produced a number of naive popular prints between 1812 and 1817, usually based on other prints.
[Ref: 54529] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Profile of an Old Man.]
I.B. Piazetta delineavit F.X. Iungwirth sculpsit Mon. Cum Privil. Sac. Caes. Maj. I.C. Leopold excudit Aug. Vindelic.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Plate: 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4''), with very large margins.
[Ref: 49898] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Bust of an old man]
T.W. [...] Worlidge Fecit [in image]
Etching, platemark 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Glued to backing sheet. Etching of man playing hurdy-gurdy (by Callot?) verso. Small margins.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge Senior (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression after Worlidge's widow Mary issued new impressions in 1767 with a number added to correspond with the catalogue of his prints she produced.
[Ref: 47685] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Head and shoulders of an old man]
G.L. f [c.1800]
Scarce etching, fine early impression; platemark 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
Etching by Giuseppe Longhi (1766-1831), Italian printmaker and writer who did much to promote the Neo-classical movement in Milan. In 1801 he became professor of engraving at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, and also wrote influential texts on printmaking. Impressions of this print in the British Museum are lettered 'Longhi f' rather than the scratched 'G.L. f' on this impression.
[Ref: 40303] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[An old man with white beard and fur hat.]
Rembran. h.c.s. [Honoré Coussin]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"), with large margins. Titled in pencil in margins, with other notes.
The head of an old man, possibly Jewish, etched by Honoré Coussin (1698-1779) after Rembrandt.
[Ref: 59463] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A wealthy older man offering coins to a young woman, her hand raised in rejection.] Dedié à Monseigneur le Prince de Galitzin, Ambassadeur de Russie é la Cour de Vienne Par son trés humble et trés obeissant Serviteur Q. Mark.
peint par Braun. gravé par Q. Mark en 1786.
Engraving. 460 x 330mm (18 x 13"), large margins. Repaired tear in title, creasing below platemark.
A composition in an arched frame, with the old man wearing a fur hat, coins and jewels on the sill, and a parrot sitting on top of its cage. Under the sill is a bas-relief of putti, one of whom holds a mask before his face while the others grab onto a goat.
The painting is now in the Saratov Art Museum, Inv. Ah-65.
[Ref: 57535] £320.00

[Old Man.]
Hayden Mackey [signed in the plate.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Coloured woodcut, signed. Plate 268 x 179mm. 10½ x 7". Laid on card.
Haydn Reynolds Mackey (1883-1979) was a book illustrator and printmaker of bold coloured linocuts and woodcuts. He was a leader in representing an innovative and bold departure away from the traditional and recognised methods of printmaking.
[Ref: 23618] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A young lady holding an amulet.]
G. Hoet pinxit. I. Broedelet fec: et excudit. [in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1700.]
Mezzotint. Plate 267 x 235mm. 10½ x 9¼". Two creases diagonally through the image.
A young lady seated at a tabel in the garden holds up and amulet; a man, perhaps her father, sits next to her resting on an ornate marble table.
[Ref: 16279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Man his Son & his Ass. [...] Moral / Who would please all Mankind and their Praises obtain / Shews a deal of good nature, but Labours in vain.
Sold by W: Tringham at No. 7 ye Back of ye Royal Exchange, and at his Shop under St. Dunstans Church Fleet Street.
Fine etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins.
Illustration of Aesop's fable, in which an old man and his son embark upon a journey with their ass, and in attempting to respond to all the advice and criticism they receive, end up carrying the ass, to the hilarity of the onlooking crowd. Each phase of the journey is illustrated in the background. One of several prints made during this period to illustrate this tale, with its moral that you can't please everyone.
Not in BM; for another print of the same subject see ref. 21368.
[Ref: 30781] £360.00

[Portrait of an Old Man with a Cane near Ruins.] Respectfully dedicated to the Friends of Philanthropy_by J.F. Waldeck Feb.y 1821.
J.F. Waldeck Lithog.
Printed by Romney & Forster.
Rare hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 295 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼''). Creasing in margins.
A portrait of an old man walking in the grounds of a ruined cathedral near the sea. A portrait by Jean Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck (1766-1875) who was an artist and explorer, he claimed to have been born in various countries around Europe, he travelled to South Africa aged 19, he then claimed he travelled back to France and studied under Jacques Louis David, he then claimed he travelled to Egypt with Napoleon. He is known for his republication of the pornographic series 'I Modi' and his exploration of Mexico and South America and subsequent publication of South American sculpture.
[Ref: 49032] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Head of an old man]
T Worlidge fecit 1752.
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed on platemark; light foxing; glued to backing sheet; lifetime impression.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
State ii/iv; W24; D150
[Ref: 32760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Head of an old man] [3 top left, 24 top right, 25 in reverse bottom right]
T Worlidge fecit 1752.
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Good impression with margins.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Posthumous impression with number '24' added in top right by Worlidge's widow to correspond with number in her 1767 catalogue of his prints.
State iii/iv; W24; D150
[Ref: 32762] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Head of an old man]
T Worlidge fecit 1752
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Trimmed on platemark; light foxing; signed verso 'J.B.' (for John Barnard, Lugt 1419).
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression from the collection of John Barnard (1709-84), print-collector and one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day.
State ii/iv; W24; D150
[Ref: 32761] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Head of an old man]
[after Thomas Worlidge, c.1800.]
Etching, platemark 135 x 100mm (5¼ x 4"). Margins; on 19th century laid paper; rare.
Copy in reverse of a portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66). The 'English Rembrandt', Worlidge was a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
W24 (copy); D150 (copy). For Worlidge's print see refs 32760-3.
[Ref: 32764] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Old Man, His Son, and His Ass; or, Any Thing to please You.
Pubd Septr. 30 1800 by G Thompson N:13 Long Lane West ['Smithfield' almost erased.]
Hand coloured etching, 370 x 470mm. 14½ x 18½". Centrefold crease; one hole to left side of image. Closed tear just into upper centre of plate. Some foxing/staining and rather tatty extremities.
Satire echoing Aesop's fable on the impossibility of pleasing everyone at once: an old man, a young boy and a donkey in sequence of scenes represented on winding road among cottages, mill, river and trees; text below in five columns. A fine example of a popular print on a popular theme. The publisher George Thompson (trading 1796 - 1839) was one of several to use the same basic image, and probably the same plate was recycled by several printers. This appears to be taken from the same plate which was published in 1793 by J. Evans (also on Long Lane), for which see British Museum 1992,0620.3.6.
[Ref: 21368] £320.00

Old Mill House. Barton Mill.
M. Oliver Rae.
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Image 82 x 114mm. 3¼ x 4½".
The Old Mill House, Barton Mills, Suffolk. Mabel Oliver Rae (British, fl. 1850-1900).
[Ref: 22909] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Old Nero look'd on Burning Rome so cool, He play'd the Fiddle, but you play the Fool.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Sheet: 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed within plate.
A group of figures stand discussing the fire on a ship while around them figures roll and carry barrels and boxes out of danger. The three central figures are the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Mansfield and Lord Holland (Henry Fox, accounting for the vulpine face). A satire on the fire at Portsmouth Dockyard on July 27th 1770, corruption within the Admiralty and Cumberland's affair with Lady Henrietta Grosvenor (referred to here as 'Harriout'). The fiddler is George III, who was an enthusiastic violin player.
BM Satires 4404.
[Ref: 36387] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Old, Old Song.]
W. Dendy Sadler. James Dobie [Pencil signatures.]
London Published 1920 by L.H.Lefevre & Son 1a King Street St.James's S.W, the proprietors of the Copyright. Printed by F. Brooker & Co.
Proof etching, limited edition signed by the artist and engraver, remark of a line from 'Old Lang Syne'. 490 x 640mm, 19¼ x 25¼". Printsellers' blind-stamp.
Gentlemen gathered around a table laden with fruit and nuts.
[Ref: 23897] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Wesley?] Old Orthodox.
Pub by MDarly, 39 Strand, Oct. 9 1777.
Etching with mezzotint tone, 18th century watermark. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), large margins. Some slight creasing and spotting.
A caricature portrait of a man in clerical bands holding a religious tract, ''Spirituous Hymns to be sung or said standing, sitting or lying mornings or evening''. Published by the team of Matthew Darly (c.1721-80) & his wife Mary (1736-91).
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 63870] £650.00

Old Palace Yard from Margaret Street.
T. Malton delin.t & fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, May 28. 1782 by T. Malton, N.o 8 Carlisle Street, Soho.
Etching with aquatint. Plate 370 x 505mm (14½ x 19¾"), with large margins. Laid on board. Tears to margins.
A view along a Westminster street looking toward Old Palace Yard, flanked by grand buildings on either side. Two carriages travel along the road, while a sedan chair sits on the pavement to the left, with other elegantly dressed figures gathered on both sides.
[Ref: 68921] £720.00

The Old Proprietors Advice.
William Heath.
Pub April 10 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. 367 x 254mm (14½ x 10"). Cut to platemark.
Satire on Prince Leopold (subsequently Leopold I of Belgium) at the time he was considering an offer to become king of Greece. Leopold puts his head through a glassless window in the door of his 'Grecian Establish[ment]—Co[burg]', to look intently at a fat Turk holding a long pipe. Next to the door are placards: 'This . Shop!!! will shortly open under entire new Management—Vivant [sic] Rex'; a Union Jack poster (partly covered); the Russian eagle, and a fleur-de-lis, the two last inscribed 'Loan'. One of Leopold's conditions for becoming king of Greece was for a loan guaranteed by the three Powers (hence the posters on the wall here). He obtained his conditions with regard to the loan, but nonetheless turned down the throne of Greece, and became the first king of Belgium the following year.
BM Satires: 16098.
[Ref: 30540] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The old prosecutor] Le Procureur antique. / Ce rusé Procureur assis à son bureau, / De meme que le Chat, enclin à la rapine [...]
F. Eisen Pere pinx. C.F. Macret sculp.
A Paris chez Mr. Alliamet Graveur du Roi, rue des Mathurins vis à vis celle des Maçons; Et chez L'Auteur rue Gallande vis à vis celle des Rats, chez un Horloger [c.1763]
Fine engraving, platemark 315 x 255mm (12½ x 10"). Trimmed to platemark top and bottom; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with a wiley old prosecutor (and his equally rapacious cat) trying to think of new ways to ruin impoverished defendants. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pere' [father] on this print.
[Ref: 44950] £550.00

An Exact Plan and Section of Old Sarum: Also, The East View of that antient city, as it then stood, (before its Reduction) in 553.
Taken from the best Authurities by F. Merryweather.
Salisbury. Printed & Sold at the Printing Office 1761 [for the Society of Antiquaries].
Engraving, scarce, printed on 18th century watermarked paper. Binding folds flattened.
A plan and wildly imaginative reconstruction of the Saxon hill fort at Old Sarum, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, with an extensive engraved description. The reconstruction owes more to medieval development than Saxon. The print was also produced in Salisbury, appealing to local interest in the history of Old Sarum. Old Sarum is perhaps best-known in art history as the subject of a painting by John Constable.
[Ref: 31738] £330.00

Old Scaleits...eterbro', from an Antient Picture in the Cathedral...2.nd: 1594. Rsaetatis 98. You see Old Scaleits picture stand on hie but at your feete there doth his body lye his grave stone both his age and death time show his office by theis tokens you may know. Second to none for strength and sturdye limm a scarbabe mighty voice with visage grim he had interd two queens within this place and this towns householders in his lives space twice over: but at length his one turne came what hee for others did for him the same was done no doubt his soule doth live for aye in heaven: though here his body clad in clay. Iuly 2 1594. R S Aetatis 98.
[Original etching by W. Williams after a painting in the Cathedral by an unknown artist.]
[Original publication - London: E. Jeffrey, 1807.]
Etching. 318 x 133mm. 12½ x 5¼". Cut, paper loss to upper left-hand corner.
Representation of "Old Scaleits" with teh text of the memorial. Robert Scarlett died in 1594 at the age of 98, having spent much of his life as the sexton at Peterborough Cathedral. He was laid to rest just inside the cathedral and is commemorated by a wall painting and a portrait which both hang up high inside the West front. It is suggested by some writers about Peterborough that he was the inspiration possible prototype for Hamlet's "Alas, poor Yorick".
[Ref: 23306] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

John Anderson My Jo. 'But now your brow is beld, John./ Your locks are like straw;/ But blessings on your frosty pow./ John Anderson my Jo.'
Painted & Engraved by John Burnet.
London Published Octr. 1827, by Moon Boys & Graves, Successors to Messrs. Hurst, Robinson & Co. 6 Pall Mall. et a Paris par Pieri Bernard, Boulevard des Italiens.
Engraving. Publlisher's stamp at bottom in publication line. 455 x 365mm (18 x 14¼"). Sheet is trimmed to plate. Slight crease lower right bottom.
An old Scottish man sitting by the hearth in a cottage interior, with grandchild and wife, who reminisces about his once youthful looks as they now share old age. Robert Burn's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a cleaned-up adaptation of a bawdy ballad, which Burns wrote for for James Johnson's 'Scots Musical Museum' in 1790. By John Burnet (1784 - 1868), etcher, mezzotint, line engraver and painter of landscapes and humorous genre, also writer; worked in Edinburgh, London, engraved after E.G. Wilkie, Turner and Landseer.
[Ref: 53611] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Old Ship Prints. with fifteen illustrations in colour and ninety-five in black and white from the Macpherson Collection.
by E. Keble Chatterton.
First published in 1927
Book: 4to (285 x 221mm). pp. v-xii + 182. Cloth binding with embossed title on front and gilt title on spine. Binding worn. Some illustration pages cut out.
An illustrated volume aiming to portray prints of "every kind of sailing ship which the engravers in the past sought to illustrate".
[Ref: 10106] £90.00

Old Ship Prints.
by E. Keble Chatterton.
First published in 1927. This edition published 1965 by Spring Books, Drury house, Russell street, London WC1. Second Impression 1967.
Book: 4to (245 x 185mm). pp. v-xii + 182. Illustrated with 71 b/w images. Binding worn with some scuffs and stains.
An illustrated volume aiming to portray prints of "every kind of sailing ship which the engravers in the past sought to illustrate".
[Ref: 10104] £30.00

The Old Soldier remarkable for constant attendance at St. Paul's, done from an original Painting.
[J.W.] C. Mosley sculp.
[n.d., c.1749.]
Engraving. Plate: 215 x 215mm (8½ x 8½"). Small margins.
A portrait of an old soldier walking across a square, perhaps West Smithfield with the dome of St. Paul's cathedral in the background.
[Ref: 46618] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

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