Grosvenor Prints

Optics. Plate I. Reflection and Inflection of Light.
J. Pass sc.
Engraved for the Encyclopoedia Londonensis, 1819.
Coloured engraving. 270 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Narrow margins.
Various illustrations.
[Ref: 57128] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Illustrations of Natural Pholosophy Optics. Popular Diagrams N.o 32.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie.
London, Published by James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Part of the series "Popular Diagrams" with plates no. 25-35 which were accompanied by 24 pages of descriptive text. Diagrams of lenses, refraction, reflection, eclipses, the human eye and camera obscuras.
[Ref: 56878] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

L'Optique.
N. Corneille pinxit. Simonneau, Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Jacq. Chereau rue St. Jacques au grand St. Remi. [n.d., c.1740.]
Etching on laid paper, sheet 165 x 260mm. 6½ x 10¼". Trimmed within plate.
An allegory of astronomy in an oval design (possibly a fragment or from a book?). A female figure in robes, left breast exposed, leaning back on to a pile of books looking through a telescope, surrounded by four putti, one of whom pulls back a curtain to reveal the French royal observatory at Versailles in the background. Another putti points to 'Picart Petit' inscribed on a scroll in the woman's left hand.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18221] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Minerology] Opykta.
[engraved by Antonius Eisenhoit.]
[Rome: J.M. Salvioni, 1717.]
Scarce engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 320 x 420mm (12½ x 16½"). Trimmed within plate, some foxing.
A representation of the mineralogy museum of the Vatican, with samples of metals in racks on the left and stones on the right. A plate from 'Michaelis Mercati Samminiatensis Metallotheca'.
[Ref: 65156] £380.00

Oran e Marsagujur.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Etching. 175 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"), with large margins. Fold.
A view of the Dardanelle forts with rough seas. A copy of a plate from 'Divarse Viste delli Luoghie Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibraltar', a series of eleven views the Strait of Gibraltar. etched by Lucas Vorsterman II, published by Jan Peeters c.1664.
[Ref: 64429] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Orang-Outang.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. 250 x 298mm. 9¾ x 11¾". Laid on album page.
An ape with a human-esque face looks towards the viewer, leaning on a staff.
[Ref: 19381] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Orange Girl.]
J.H. Benwell del. Walker Excud.t F. Bartolozzi sculp.t
London Publish'd Dec.r 2.nd 1786, by J. Walker, No.148, Strand.
Etching with stipple. Plate 274 x 221mm (10¾ x 8¾"). Slight mark.
Half-length young woman, body facing three-quarter to right, head turned in profile to right, wearing a hat with ribbons, holding a basket of oranges in right hand, a paper inscribed "Theatre Royal, Drury-lane Isabella". Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage, was a play by Thomas Southerne, which was adapated by Garrick with Sarah Siddons playing the title role.
De Vesme 1288: ii/iv.
[Ref: 28904] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d J. Campbell crossing the great river.
London. Printed for Thos. Kelly & Rich.d Evans. 17, Paternoster Row, July 3.rd 1824.
Engraving. 127 x 183mm (5 x 7¼").
In 1813, the Rev.d John Campbell visited a settlement, after accomplishing the task of crossing the Orange River, South Africa, as seen here. From "The History and Origin of the Missionary Societies".
[Ref: 28551] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Oratory School Reading [in pencil lower right.]
Etched by C. Stanley Pollitt [in pencil lower left.]
[n.d. c.1912.]
Etching. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½". Later impression.
A front view of the Oratory School, Reading, with the arms and motto in the centre below the image. The school is independent and Roman Catholic, and is the last Catholic all-boys boarding school in Great Britain. The school was founded under the supervision of John Henry, later Cardinal Newman, in 1859. C. Stanley Pollitt (British, d.1926).
[Ref: 22578] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Andrea Orgagna Figliolo di Maestro Cione Pittore, Scultore Poeta non Dispregievole ed Architetto Fioren.no Singolaris.mo nato nel MCCCL. in circa, morto nel MCCCLXXXIX. Presso dalle Pitture a Fresco delle Volte della Real Galleria di Firenze.
Guiliano Traballesi del. Gaet. Vascellini sc.
Engraving. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Old ink numeral and crease in margin.
Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (1308-68), better known as Orcagna, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.
[Ref: 40514] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Orchestra.]
Reindel imp.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching; in pencil at bottom Painter & Graver Show. Plate: 130 x 250mm (5 x 9¾''), with large margins.
A view of an orchestra by William George Reindel (1871-1941).
[Ref: 47971] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Jacob Butler of Barnwell.]
[?Etched by Michael Tyson]
Etching, platemark 195 x 170mm (7¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
Etching probably by Michael Tyson (1740-1780) of Jacob Butler (1681-1765) a Cambridgeshire counsellor whose epitaph, which he wrote himself, can be found in the church of St. Andrew the Less, or Barnwell.
RCIN 651727
[Ref: 42097] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Knight of the Garter.] Eques Balnei in Anglia.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Engraving. Plate: 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½'') very large margins. Foxing.
A costume plate showing the dress of a Knight of the Garter. From 'Torques Aurelius Magni Magisti Ordinis Anglici Constantiniani' 1710 a series of engravings showing the chivalric orders of Europe.
[Ref: 49199] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[East Ham & Barking.] London. Sheets XLIII, XLIV & LIV (parts of) Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen. A litle wear.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of East Ham & Barking, with the River Roding. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 11013] £160.00

[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet XI. 18. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number. Laid on linen, some surface soiling.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Rotherhithe with the Grand Surrey Canal and the South Metropolitan Gas Works. It marks the functions of the factories alongside the canal and shows terraced houses on the site of Millwall F.C.'s current ground, 'The Den'. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10849] £100.00

[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet XI. 9. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, a few tears.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Rotherhithe with the Grand Surrey Canal. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10848] £100.00

[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet CIII. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, tears, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Peckham with the branch of the Grand Surrey Canal to Peckham Reach This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10983] £80.00

[Grand Surrey Canal.] London. Sheet XI. 37. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number. Laid on linen, some surface soiling.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Peckham with a spur of the Grand Surrey Canal leading to Peckham Wharf. Also showing Peckham Road and Peckham High Street. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10851] £60.00

[Poplar.] London. Sheet VII. 62. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Some surface soiling, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of Poplar with the North Quay of the East India Dock, with the River Lea and Bow Creek. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10861] £60.00

[Surrey Commercial Docks.] London. Sheet VIII. 89. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, now redeveloped as the Surrey Quays. At the top is Globe Pond, now commemorated with a road named after it. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10854] £60.00

[Surrey Commercial Docks.] London. Sheet VII. 99. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895. Reprint by Heliozincography 50/1904.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of the southern Surrey Commercial Docks, including Greenland Dock, the oldest of London's riverside Docks. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority: an area bottom left is marked 'Sold', with a sale reference number.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10843] £220.00

[Vauxhall & Kennington.] London. Sheet LXXXIX. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Backed onto linen, staining and creasing to edges
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Vauxhall & Kennington, with the Oval cricket ground, Kennington Park Camberwell New Road and the end of the Grand Surrey Canal, cut short when the company ran out of money. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 30691] £260.00

[West India Docks.] London. Sheet VIII. 81. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With a blind stamp 'Board of Agriculture - Ordnance Survey - Coloured', stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, bottom edge knocked, a few tears.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of West India Dock, with South Dock and the Blackwall Basin. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10845] £180.00

A Grand Instrument, A Little Out of Tune. My husband dont like music so he has put it a little out of tune, but you can put it to rights in five minutes I dare say.
Dean & Co., Threadneedle St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 250 x 200 (9¾ x 8")
A woman shows a repairman a wrecked organ.
[Ref: 44357] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Savoyard organ-grinder]
[Thomas Worlidge after Adriaen van Ostade, c.1755]
Etching, platemark 90 x 80mm (3½ x 3¼"). Good impression on laid paper with margins.
Copy of an etching by Adriaen van Ostade (Hollstein 8) 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 '20' added in lower right and in reverse top left by Worlidge's widow to correspond with number in her posthumous sale of his prints.
Only known state; W20; D201.
[Ref: 32750] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Organ] Awake, my soul! and with the sun. Thy daily stage of duty run, Shake off dull sloth, and early rise. To pay thy morning sacrifice. Morning Hymn.
Prited by Lefevre & Kohler,.
Published by E. Lacey, 76 S.t Pauls Church Yard. [n.d. c.1835]
Scarce hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 335 x 260mm (13¼ x 10"). Very faint foxing.
A woman sits playing an organ, eyes cast up; she knows the music by heart. Lithographic printers William Kohler and L.M. Lefevre were in business together at 52 Newman Street, London circa 1833-1835. Kohler set up on his own by 1838 at the latest, leaving Lefevre to trade as L.M. Lefevre.
[Ref: 68745] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[An organ caprice.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Fine etching, scarce. 220 x 270mm (8¾ x 10½"). Folds, as issued.
A frame-like design based on a pipe organ, with the keyboard and music sheets at the bottom, with the pipes projecting upwards, with a lintel at top with garlands and more music. The centre is blank. Probably published as a frontispiece.
[Ref: 53382] £320.00

Portrait of Mrs Orger, Miss Cubbitt, Mr Munden, & Mr Knight. In the Musical Entertainment of Lock and Key. From an original Picture in the possession of Cha.s Mathews.
Painted by G.Clint, A.R.A. Engraved by Tho.s Lupton.
London, Published Oct.r 1, 1824; W.Sams, Royal Library, 1 st James's Street.
Mezzotint. 505 x 350mm, 20 x 13¾".
The actors Marie Caroline Cubitt (b. 1800), Mary Ann Orger (1788 - 1849), Joseph Shephed Munden (1758 - 1832) & Edward Knight (1774 - 1826) in 'Lock and Key by Prince Hoare the younger (1744-1834).
[Ref: 20560] £450.00

Adieux des Lanciers polonias aux dames de Châtellerault en 1810. (Historique).
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 175 x 195mm (7 x 7¾"), with large margins.
Polish lancers engage in an orgy with local women in the fields.
[Ref: 63445] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening; by Sr: William Chambers, Knt: Comptroller General of his Majesty's Works.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London] Printed by W. Griffin, Printer to the Royal Academy [also Davies, Dodsley, Wilson, Nicoll, Walter and Elmsley]. 1772.
Engraved illustrated titlepage to the first (4to) edition, with large margins, rare. 230 x 170mm, 9 x 6¾".
According to Colvin, the book was “primarily an attack on the bare style of landscape gardening associated with Capability Brown, and the oriental dress was merely a literary camouflage. To Chamber’s embarrassment his supposed championship of the Chinese garden as a model for imitation was taken seriously by the public, obliging him in 1773 to publish a second edition with an “Explanatory Discourse.’ Scottish architect Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) was responsible for many of Kew Gardens' temples, Carlton House, the north and south wings of Buckingham Palace, Richmond Palace, Sir Joshua Reynolds house, internal decorations of St James's Palace, Somerset House and many others. He was appointed tutor in architecture to the future George III. The classical design in an oval after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785) shows a spirit with butterfly wings decorating a statue with flower garlands; on the right, a woman seated on a chair, and on the left, three naked putti, one drawing.
See BL L.32/58. Colvin p. 205. De Vesme 1693.
[Ref: 26329] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Oriental figure behind bannister]
Tho.s Worlidge 1759
Etching with large margins, platemark 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5"). Early state (cloak unfinished). Glued to backing sheet in corners; excellent condition.
Rembrandtesque print by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) who specialised in etchings either copied from, or in the style of Rembrandt. The headgear worn by the figure here is adapted from Rembrandt's 'Second Oriental Head' (itself based loosely on a print by Lievens).
Ex: Collection of the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32579] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Oriental Love Letter.
Destouches Pinx.t H. Dawe Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured mezzotint with large margins. Plate 185 x 152mm (7¼ x 6")
A woman in oriental dress leaning out of a window and handing a token to a young man who sits below, on a bench against the wall, holding a lute; garden with a minaret in the background to left.
[Ref: 30433] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Oriental Macaroni.
Pubd accordg to Act Jany. 16th 1773, by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A somewhat quirkily-dressed man looks through a single eye-glass held in his left hand. He wears a hat, an unusually patterned waistcoat, shirt with lace ruffles and cravat, and striped breeches. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V5' upper left and '21' upper right.
BM Satires: 5053.
[Ref: 14295] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Golden Five Stores, Chepstow, H. Thomas & Son's Fifth Annual Show of Oriental Novelties and Art Goods is now open, and consists of - INDIA. - Benares Brass Work [...] JAPAN. - Satsuma, Awata, Kaga [...] CHINA. - Splash Mats, Baskets, Mud Figures, etc. EGYPT. - Native Water Botles [sic]. The Show-Room is now open, and your inspection invited. A large stock of Bon-bons, Fancy Fruits, Chocolates, etc., for the Christmas Trade.
[n.d., c.1910.]
Wood engraving on crepe paper, printed in two colours. 430 x 320mm (17 x 12½"). Creases.
A rare advert for an array of orientalist goods, decorated with Japanese figures and designs at Thomas's shop at 5 Mary Street, Chepstow. The 'Golden 5' referred to the large wooden numeral, painted gold, that hung above the shop, now in Chepstow Museum.
[Ref: 37516] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Origin of a Painter.
From a Sketch By Wm. Mulready R.A. [facsimile] (in the Possession of W. Mulready Esq.re) Proof. Plate 10, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane A.R.A.
Printed by Engelmann & Co. London 1828. Publishd by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé, rare with large margins. 406 x 266mm. 16 x 10½". Foxing around edges of chine collé.
Plate 10; interior scene with a boy tracing on the wall at right around the shadow of his father who sleeps in a chair in the centre, his mother and another child watching with merriment at left.
[Ref: 24890] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Collection of Prints, Engraved after the most Capital Paintings in England. Published by John Boydell. Volume the Second, containing sixty Prints. with a Description of each Picture in English and French./ The Origin of Drawing.
J. Mortimer Inventit. S.F. Ravenet Sculpsit.
London: Printed for the Editor, MDCCLXXII./ Published May 1st. 1771 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Letterpress with copper engraving, sheet 665 x 500mm (26¼ x 19½").
Title page to the second volume of "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in published in five volumes between the late 1760s and 1786, the first three of which (1769 to 1773) were originally published under the title Sculptura Britannica. These were a critical and financial success for the publisher John Boydell, who promoted the interests of artists, engravers and patrons, establishing a tradition in Britain for collecting prints. With an engraving illustrating the origin of drawing. According to some sources drawing originated with the tracing of human shadows.
[Ref: 14901] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Origin of Species.
[after C.H. Bennett]
[n.d. 1863]
Scarce wood engraving. 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Three horizontal creases. Faint stain in lower left corner.
The evolution of a muzzled bear into a crook, holding a watch to lure passersby and a 'garotte stick', or club, heavily alluding to Darwin's theory of evolution, 'The Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life' (1860). A wood engraving after Charles Henry Bennett (1829-67). The lettering differs to the example in the Wellcome Collection, which is titled 'The origin of the garotte - (Drawn by Charles H. Bennett)'.
Wellcome 12108i
[Ref: 57219] £480.00

The Origin of the Gout.
Etch'd from an Original Sketch, by W. H. Bunbury Esqr.
Publish'd as the Act directs, April 20th. 1785, by J. Jones, Great Portland Street.
Etching with some stippling, small margins; published state. 220 x 260mm, 8¾ x 10¼". Two faint printer's creases.
A gouty and obese man (right) seated in a chair playing the cello. Both legs are padded, the feet wrapped in slashed coverings; the right leg rests on a stool. The Devil (left), hat in hand, holds a hot coal against the right knee with a pair of tongs. Bottles and glasses stand on a table. A pair of crutches lean against the chair. The hands of a clock on the wall behind point to 1.25. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
BM Satires 6881.
[Ref: 26253] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Freaks of Fancy No 6. The Original Jerry Sneak. Whenever our Club see me, they call out 'Here Comes Jerry Sneak,' and laugh. My Vife too calls me her Darling Jerry and then She Laughs. I Vonder vot they mean; but for all that _ I'm glad I brough my Numbrella !!!
C.J.G. [Charles Jameson Grant.]
Pub by S. Gans, 1830, Southampton Street, Strand.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Slight glue stains in corners.
A man does not recognise the references to 'Jerry Sneak', a hen-pecked husband in Samuel Foote's 1763 farce 'The Mayor of Garret'. The play revolves around the 'Garrett Elections', a carnival of mock elections held in the hamlet of Garrett (now part of Wandsworth, commemorated by Garrett Lane), that ran for half the 18th century.
[Ref: 41834] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons. Vol. II Fifteenth Edition.
[by Ann and Jane Taylor et al.]
London: Printed for Darton, Harvey & Darton, No 55, Gracechurch-Street. Sold also by J. Conder, St Paul's Church Yard. 1819.
One volume only (of two). Small 8vo, original quarter morocco gilt with marbled boards; pp. viii + 128 +(8)(publisher's ads.), engraved frontis. Spine distressed, some leaves loose, old ink ownership inscription on prelim.
Collection of poems mainly written by Ann Taylor (1782-1866) and her younger sister Jane Taylor (1783-1824), author of 'The Star' (better known as 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'). The frontispiece illustrates 'The Welch Lad'. A poem for children titled 'Sluttishness' shows how much the English language has changed over the years.
[Ref: 40553] £130.00

Mapa de la huerta de Orihuela.
[Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1797.]
Engraved map, rare. Sheet 180 x 295mm (7 x 11½"). Trimmed.
A map of Orihuela in Alicante, from 'Observaciones sobre la Historia natural, geografía, agricultura, población y frutos del Reyno de Valencia' by Antonio José Cavanilles.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33255] £240.00

HMS Orion 91 Guns. To Captain John Erskine, This Plate is respectfully dedicated by His Officers. [Dimensions to left and right.]
Painted & Lithog.d by T.G. Dutton. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen. [Inside image:] T.G. Dutton 1856.
London, Published by Adolphus Ackermann & Co. 15 Beaufort Buildings, Strand, May 1.st 1857.
Hand coloured lithograph. Visible area 465 x 622mm. 18¼ x 24½". Mount burn around image repair tear upper left and centre top.
HMS Orion was a 91-gun screw ship launched in 1854 and commanded by Captain J.E. Erskine, where she saw service during the Baltic War against Russia in 1855. She had a crew complement of about 750 men and boys. She was broken up in the 1860s.
Parker: 1819.
[Ref: 21046] £720.00

Orcadum et Schetlandiæ Insularum accuratissima descriptio.
Amstelodami, Sumptibus Joannus Janssonn. [n.d., c.1650.]
Coloured engraved map. Sheet 370 x 485mm (14½ x 19"). Trimmed to printed border, bottom left corner made up with mss fill.
Two maps on one sheet: the Orkney Islands, with the title on a scroll and an inset crest of the Scottish monarchs; and the Shetlands, with a scale cartouche featuring a putto with a pair of compasses. The main title has a cartouche of fish hanging from lines and the seas are filled with vignette ships.
[Ref: 30306] £220.00

[Illustration to Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso']
Stothard del Blake sculp
[London, 1783]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 110mm (6½ x 4"). Trimmed. 'Vol 3 Page 164' effaced from top corners.
Illustration to 'Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto; with Notes: by John Hoole' (1783). The translator Hoole (1727-1803) benefited from Samuel Johnson's interest in his literary career (Johnson was involved in some way in almost all of Hoole's publications). In the poem, first published in 1516, the eponymous Orlando rampages through Europe and Africa destroying everything in his path after his love, Angelica, elopes to China with a Saracen kinght. Early engraving by the visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827), one of many he engraved from designs by his friend Thomas Stothard, Britain's most prolific book illustrator. While establishing himself as a copy engraver in the early 1780s, Blake was also studying at the Royal Academy and developing the highly personal approach he used in his original watercolours.
Russell 58
[Ref: 40837] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso']
Stothard del Blake sculp
[London, 1783]
Engraving, sheet 180 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed.
Illustration to 'Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto; with Notes: by John Hoole' (1783). The translator Hoole (1727-1803) benefited from Samuel Johnson's interest in his literary career (Johnson was involved in some way in almost all of Hoole's publications). In the poem, first published in 1516, the eponymous Orlando rampages through Europe and Africa destroying everything in his path after his love, Angelica, elopes to China with a Saracen kinght. Early engraving by the visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827), one of many he engraved from designs by his friend Thomas Stothard, Britain's most prolific book illustrator. While establishing himself as a copy engraver in the early 1780s, Blake was also studying at the Royal Academy and developing the highly personal approach he used in his original watercolours.
Russell 58
[Ref: 40838] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Orlando Furioso] [Angelica & Madora.]
G.B. Cipriani inc.t. Tho.s Burke sculp.t.
London Publish'd Oct/r 1783, by G. Durand, No 8 Catherine Street, Strand.
Stipple, proof before title, printed in brown. 135 x 170mm (5¼ x 6¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A scene from Italian epic 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto. Having been nursed back to health by Angelica, the Saracen knight Medora carves their names into a tree, before they elope to China.
See BM 1931,0618.56 for a 1790 edition published by Read.
[Ref: 54744] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Argalia appearing to Ferraù.]
[G.B. Cipriani. F. Bartolozzi.]
[n.d., c.1773.]
Etching on india paper, proof before all letters and engraved border. Sheet 270 x 195mm, 10½ x 7¾". Age-toning and light spotting.
Two soldiers in Romanesque uniform; Argalia standing in river to left, holding helmet, and on the right Ferraù standing on the bank, holding a pole. An illustration after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785) to 'Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando)' (G. Baskerville, Birmingham) by Lodovico Ariosto (1474 - 1533). Ariosto's Italian romantic epic takes place against the backdrop of the war between Charlemagne and his Christian paladins, and the Saracen army which is attempting to invade Europe.
De Vesme 1638, I of VI. See BL C.70.f.4.
[Ref: 21170] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Angelica Appearing to Sacripante.]
Ang.a Kauffman inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1783.
Engraving, rare proof. Plate: 235 x 155mm (9¼ x 6''), with large margins. Marking in title area.
A scene from 'Orlando Furioso' translated from the Italian by John Hoole. Sacripante is showing in armour, lying by the river while a woman in classical dress appears before him.
De Vesme 1648 II of IV.
[Ref: 49088] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Orlando Furioso] Angelica and Medoro.
Painted by B. West Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved from the Original Picture for Facius.
Publish'd Jan.y 1.st 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Stipple. Sheet: 355 x 265mm (14 x 10½''). Trimmed.
A portrait of lovers Angelica and Medoro, characters in Ludovico Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'.
[Ref: 48178] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Polindo and Albarosa.
R. Cosway R.A: del.t. I. Condé Sculpt.
Publish'd as the Act directs by I. Conde Nov.r 1, 1789 & S.W. Fores Piccadilly, E.M. Diemar 114 Strand, & Molteno Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall.
Stipple. Sheet 225 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
The tragic lover's from ''The Orlando Innamorato'', an epic poem written by the Italian Renaissance author Matteo Maria Boiardo. Two lovers sitting against a tree, the woman divesting herself of her garment and glancing modestly away, the man in armour and a plumed hat on the right. He has one arm around her shoulder, leaning towards her and pointing upwards with his other hand. After Richard Cosway (1742 - 1821); a companion print to 'Andromache and Ascanius'.
[Ref: 45129] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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