Grosvenor Prints

[A Man Mending a Pen.]
[Rembrandt pinxt. R.Houston fecit.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint proof. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed close to plate. Small hole in lower right of publication area.
Interior showing a window and a man wearing a flat cap is sat at a table mending a pen.
Charrington 83 i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65731] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[A Man Mending a Pen.] Done from an Original Picture in the Collection of John Blackwood Esq.r.
Rembrandt pinxt. R.Houston Fecit.
[n.d., c.1760.] Sold by Rd. Sayer at Charing Cross, London.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"), large margins. Some time-staining and crease down centre of image.
Interior showing a window and a man wearing a flat cap is sat at a table mending a pen.
Charrington 83 ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65732] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Two figures in a landscape]
[Anon., c.1810]
Pen lithograph, sheet 250 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"). Glued to backing board at corners; surface loss on left filled in ink.
Unidentified early lithograph showing the influence of Salvator Rosa, whose landscapes were significant in shaping the concepts of sublime and romantic representations of nature in the late Georgian period.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 36939] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Two figures in a landscape]
[Anon., c.1810]
Pen lithograph, J. Whatman watermark (PT) printed area 260 x 180mm (10¼ x 7").
Unidentified early lithograph showing the influence of Salvator Rosa, whose treacherous landscape were significant in shaping the concepts of sublime and romantic representations of nature in the late Georgian period.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 36940] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

To the Right Honorable Lord Kenyon, This View of Pen-Y-Lan, across the Dee, is most respectfully inscribed by his obedient & obliged Servant. Edw.d Pugh.
From a Drawing by E. Pugh [...] W. Ellis Aquatinta
Published 24th November 1794 by E. Pugh 13 Bedford Street Covent Garden
Aquatint, sheet 300 x 355mm (11¾x 14"). Trimmed to platemark. Repaired wormholes to margins.
A fine Welsh landscape after the miniature painter and topographer Edward Pugh (c.1761-1813) shows the artist drawing.
[Ref: 47631] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Penang] Burmah temple at Prince of Wales Island. (taken January 1805.]
Drawn by E.H. Looker Esq.r F.S.A. Engraved by L. Byrne.
London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, Aug. 1. 1811.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 205 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of a Buddhist temple on Penang, drawn by Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849), Admiral Edward Pellew's civil secretary during his East Indies command. From George Cook's ''Scenery of the East India Islands".
[Ref: 55660] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Penderill. Called by K. Charles the Second Trusty Dick For concealing Him in an Oak Tree
Zoust pinxt. R. Houston fecit.
Done from the Original in the Collection of Charles Jennens Esqr.
Mezzotint. Sheet: 325 x 225mm (13 x 9''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
Richard Penderel (d.1672) was a yeoman and royalist sympathiser, born in Shropshire, who assisted in Charles II's escape after the battle of Worcester and was thus rewarded by the king after the Restoration. Engraved after a portrait by Gilbert Soest (1600-?1681), Dutch portrait painter and rival to Sir Peter Lely in London
CS: 88.
[Ref: 48907] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Penderill. Called by K. Charles the Second Trusty Dick For concealing Him in an Oak Tree
Zoust pinxt. R. Houston fecit.
Done from the Original in the Collection of Charles Jennens Esqr.
Mezzotint, sheet 325 x 220mm (12¾ x 8½"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
Richard Penderel (d.1672) was a yeoman and royalist sympathiser, born in Shropshire, who assisted in Charles II's escape after the battle of Worcester and was thus rewarded by the king after the Restoration. Engraved after a portrait by Gilbert Soest (1600-?1681), Dutch portrait painter and rival to Sir Peter Lely in London
CS: 88: ii.
[Ref: 43044] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Pendley Manor] To the Honourable S.r Richard Anderson Bar:t this Plate of the Mannor House of Penley is Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver. Pag. 594.
[London: Benjamin Griffin et al, 1700.]
Engraving. 285 x 325mm (11¼ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of the original Pendley Manor, near Tring, burned down in 1835. From Sir Henry Chauncy's 'Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire'.
[Ref: 62543] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

William Pendrill of Boscobell in the County of Salop Aetis Suae 84 The Royall Oake. His face you see. Now breifly heare the Rest.; How well he serv'd his Prince in flight destrest. Twas , He whose little Household did Combine In Piois Care to save : the Royall Line. An Oake was thought most safe:for what could prove More Luckie tthen the sacred tree to Love. See where the Hen=roost Ladder stands; by that, The Might Monarch climb'd the Boughs of Statem Where Noble Carlos lent his Manlike Knee, The last support of Fainting Majestie, and Natures Tapistrie was the onely Shroud To shelter that Great Prince was Rage pursu'd. The Nutthook reaching up his Honely fare supply'd the want of Waiters standing Bare; Shile busie Wife and Children gather Wood To dress the Sheep prepar'd for Better food Thus, Many Oakes defend the British Maine but one Preferr'd the Brittish Soveraigne. "Pendrill thy name will shine in History /Brighter then their's whose Hospittallity / Disguised Deitys hath entertayn'd / for thine was reall t'other Poets saynd."
From the very rare print in the possession of A H Sutherland Eq.r. Are to be sold by S. Woodburn, St. Martin's Lane, London.
Engraving, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 10"), large margins. Faint brown stain bottom left.
A portrait of William Pendrill set in an oak. Pendrill was one of five brothers: George; Richard; Humphrey; John and William who helped Charles II escape from England after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 during his failed attempt to regain control of England from Cromwell. The Pendrills were a Royalist family who lived and worked on the estate of Boscobel House where the King sought refuge after his defeat. Having been forced to hide in an oak tree in order to escape Cromwell's troops Charles and the Royalist Colonel Carlos finally managed to escape disguised as land workers and escorted by the Pendrills. The Pendrill brothers were richly rewarded when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660.
[Ref: 66939] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Pendrill of Boscobell in the County of Salop Aetis Suae 84 The Royall Oake. His face you see. Now breifly heare the Rest.; How well he serv'd his Prince in flight destrest. Twas , He whose little Household did Combine In Piois Care to save : the Royall Line. An Oake was thought most safe:for what could prove More Luckie tthen the sacred tree to Love. See where the Hen=roost Ladder stands; by that, The Might Monarch climb'd the Boughs of Statem Where Noble Carlos lent his Manlike Knee, The last support of Fainting Majestie, and Natures Tapistrie was the onely Shroud To shelter that Great Prince was Rage pursu'd. The Nutthook reaching up his Honely fare supply'd the want of Waiters standing Bare; Shile busie Wife and Children gather Wood To dress the Sheep prepar'd for Better food Thus, Many Oakes defend the British Maine but one Preferr'd the Brittish Soveraigne. "Pendrill thy name will shine in History /Brighter then their's whose Hospittallity / Disguised Deitys hath entertayn'd / for thine was reall t'other Poets saynd."
From the very rare print in the possession of A H Sutherland Eq.r. Are to be sold by S. Woodburn, St. Martin's Lane, London. [n.d. c.1810]
Engraving. Sheet: 345 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾" ). Trimmed within plate. Staining in corners.
A portrait of William Pendrill set in an oak. Pendrill was one of five brothers: George; Richard; Humphrey; John and William who helped Charles II escape from England after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 during his failed attempt to regain control of England from Cromwell. The Pendrills were a Royalist family who lived and worked on the estate of Boscobel House where the King sought refuge after his defeat. Having been forced to hide in an oak tree in order to escape Cromwell's troops Charles and the Royalist Colonel Carlos finally managed to escape disguised as land workers and escorted by the Pendrills. The Pendrill brothers were richly rewarded when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660.
[Ref: 68163] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

William Pendrill of Boscobell in the County of Salop Aetis Suae 84 The Royall Oake. His face you see. Now breifly heare the Rest.; How well he serv'd his Prince in flight destrest. Twas , He whose little Household did Combine In Piois Care to save : the Royall Line. An Oake was thought most safe:for what could prove More Luckie tthen the sacred tree to Love. See where the Hen=roost Ladder stands; by that, The Might Monarch climb'd the Boughs of Statem Where Noble Carlos lent his Manlike Knee, The last support of Fainting Majestie, and Natures Tapistrie was the onely Shroud To shelter that Great Prince was Rage pursu'd. The Nutthook reaching up his Honely fare supply'd the want of Waiters standing Bare; Shile busie Wife and Children gather Wood To dress the Sheep prepar'd for Better food Thus, Many Oakes defend the British Maine but one Preferr'd the Brittish Soveraigne. "Pendrill thy name will shine in History /Brighter then their's whose Hospittallity / Disguised Deitys hath entertayn'd / for thine was reall t'other Poets saynd."
From the very rare print in the possession of A H Sutherland Eq.r. Are to be sold by S. Woodburn, St. Martin's Lane, London.
Engraving. Sheet: 250 x 350mm, (9¾ x 13¾). Repaired and laid on conservation paper. Damaged. Trimmed.
A portrait of William Pendrill set in an oak. Pendrill was one of five brothers: George; Richard; Humphrey; John and William who helped Charles II escape from England after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 during his failed attempt to regain control of England from Cromwell. The Pendrills were a Royalist family who lived and worked on the estate of Boscobel House where the King sought refuge after his defeat. Having been forced to hide in an oak tree in order to escape Cromwell's troops Charles and the Royalist Colonel Carlos finally managed to escape disguised as land workers and escorted by the Pendrills. The Pendrill brothers were richly rewarded when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660.
[Ref: 39939] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of three prints in various states.] Penelope taking down the Bow of Ulysses. From the original Picture in the Collection of Lord Boringdon.
A. Kauffman, R. A. pin.t. T. Ryder Sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1st. 1791,by B. B. Evans, Poultry London.
Set of three stipple engravings. Platemark: 390 x 280mm (15¼ x 11") each. Hand lettered proof impression trimmed inside plate. Untitled proof impression has light surface marks and chips to right and top edges, cut to platemark. Titled impression has light spotting in very large margins. Foxing.
A set of three prints in various states; two proof impressions printed in brown ink. Lettered impression with full titles and publication lines. Penelope, standing in profile to left, reaches up to free the bow from the sash tying it to a column, while another woman crouches in the foreground, preparing a quiver. Published as a pair to item ref: 36444, 'Venus shewing Aeneas the Road to Carthage', by Benjamin Beale Evans, 1791. After Angelica Kauffman, RA (1741 - 1807), a Swiss-born Austrian Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
[Ref: 36450] £520.00 view all images for this item

Perseverance
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. W. Wynne Ryland sculp.t
Published by the Proprietor July 9 1777 at No. 159 Strand London.
Fine stipple engraving, J. Whatman 1794 watermarked paper; platemark 380 x 295mm (15 x 11½"), with large margins.
Scene from Homer's 'Odyssey'. Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, sits at her loom awaiting the return of her husband. Engraved after 'Penelope at her Loom', 1764 (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex), an early painting produced in Rome by the history painter Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807). Born in Switzerland, Kauffman lived in England from 1766 to 1781 and was one of only two women (the other being Mary Moser) amongst the thirty-six founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts. This print differs from the source painting by extending the composition on the right to accommodate a large bust of Odysseus not in the original painting.
[Ref: 38671] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Penelope and the suitors] Ingratam Veneri pone superbiam. Non te Penelopem difficilem procis. Tyrrhenus genuit Parens. Horat. lib. 3.
Dom.us Magiotto pinx. Nicolaus Cavalli sculp Venetiis.
[Venice, n.d., c.1760.]
Rare engraving. 370 x 490mm (14½ x 19¼"), with very large margins. Creasing in margins.
A young man addresses a young woman in the centre who holds an apple, with an elderly bawd watching behind. The lines from Horace refers to the scene in the Oddysey in which Penelope receives unwelcome suitors.
BM 1951,0714.159. From the Airlie collection, Cortachy Castle.
[Ref: 57476] £340.00

Penelope awaken'd by Euryclea, with the News of Ulysses' return, and the Death of the Suitors.
Angelica Kauffman Pinx.t. W.W. Ryland & Michel sculpserunt
Publish'd May 12 1785 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London
Fine stipple with etching, printed in reddish-brown. 305 x 395mm (12 x 15½"), with very large margins. Crease.
A scene from near the end of Homer's 'Odyssey', as the hero returns to Ithaca to reclaim his throne.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60311] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

H.M. Steamship Frigate "Penelope" To Captain Jones and the Officers of the Ship. this print is repectfully dedicated by their obedient Servant.
T.G. Dutton 1843. T.G. Dutton del & lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[London Ackermann... Strand... Fenchurch Street... Plymouth Edmund Fry]
Rare lithograph, sheet 345 x 430mm (13¼ x 17"). Some nicks and abrasions. Trimmed losing publication line and most of Dutton's signature.
A view of the steam paddle frigate HMS Penelope (1829) with her sails up on the sea. HMS Penelope was first laid down as one of the many sail frigates that England built to a French model. She was then changed to a unique steam paddle frigate. For some time she was a very famous ship, having a claim to being the first steam frigate.
[Ref: 56583] £380.00

Penha Longa.
O.R.L. WH Burnett Fect.
[British, n.d., c.1820.]
Rare lithograph, image 210 x 290mm. 8¼ x 11½". A good impression overall, with wide margins, very scarce. Slight crease.
Figures walking on a path through a wooded rocky landscape near Sintra, Portugal; artist unidentified. One of the figures appears to be a monk, presumably from the monastery depicted at right. Image touched in pencil, with ruled pencil border.
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 25589] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Passage of the Douro, by the Division, under the Command of L.t Gen.l Sir John Murray: [Dedication to Murray by the artist follows.]
Drawn by H. L'Eveque. Engraved by C. Heath.
London: Pub.d April 2, 1812 for the Proprietors by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co 23, Cockspur Street.
Etching. 355 x 490mm (14 x 19¼"). Full margins, some spotting in the centre and on the right (mostly outside the image), some loss of surface in the centre and a light mark in the bottom right corner, presumably where a stamp or label has been removed.
General Sir John Murray (1768 - 1827) and his troops assembling on the bank and embarking in local boats to cross the river in Portugal; horses and artillery are manhandled into landing craft. The crossing, ordered by the Duke of Wellington, allowed the British to catch up to the retreating French under Marshal Soult. From the series 'Campaigns of the British Army in Portugal' after Henri L'Evêque (1769-1832), illustrating British Peninsula War campaign. With ink mss. label pasted over lower right corner of plate: 'Presented to the Wellington Collection by the Rt Hon: the Earl of [illegible] 1902.'
[Ref: 12630] £330.00

Passage of the Douro, by the Division, under the Command of L.t Gen.l the Hon.ble Edward Paget. To L.t Gen.l the Hon.ble Edward Paget this plate is respectfully inscribed by his most obedient Servant H. L'Eveque.
Drawn by H. L'Eveque. Engraved by J. Fitler.
London: Pub.d April 2, 1812 for the Proprietors by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co 23, Cockspur Street.
Etching. Sheet 355 x 465mm (14 x 18¼"). Trimmed to plate, vertical crease at centre.
Paget (1775-1849) and his troops assembling on the bank of the Douro and embarking in wine barges to cross the river with their artillery. The crossing, ordered by the Duke of Wellington, allowed the British to catch up to the retreating French under Marshal Soult. Plate 6 of the series 'Campaigns of the British Army in Portugal' after Henri L'Evêque (1769-1832), illustrating British Peninsula War campaign.
[Ref: 40501] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Ships.
T.G. Dutton, Del. et Lith. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London. Published by T.G. Dutton, 17, Gate St, Lincoln's Inn Fields. [n.d., c.1847.]
Rare tinted lithograph, finished with hand colour. Sheet 360 x 500mm (14¼ x 19¾"). Slight mount burn.
Two of P&O's iron paddle steamers, 'Ripon' (1846) and 'Indus' (1847), built at Money Wigram's Blackwall Yard and operating the Southampton - Alexandria service. At Alexandria the passengers for India disembarked, travelled up the Nile to Cairo, then travelled overland to Port Suez. The Alexandria to Suez railway opened in 1858 and the Suez Canal in 1869. After an illustrious career, bringing to England the Prime Minister of Nepal, the first hippopotomus since Roman times and Giuseppe Garibaldi, the 'Ripon' was scuttled off Trinidad in 1880. The Indus was converted to a sailing ship in 1863 and became a coal supply ship.
[Ref: 52813] £590.00

[Peninsular War] View on the Tagus near Villa Velha.
Rev.d. W.m Bradford del. J. Clark Sculp.
London Published by J. Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place, June 1, 1809.
Coloured aquatint. 270 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1809', very large margins. Early issue.
Sir John Moore's army crossing the Tagus. William Bradford was Chaplain to the British Army during the Peninsular War, and accompanied Sir John Moore on the retreat to Corunna, where Moore was killed. Published in his 'Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made During the Campaign and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809'.
Abbey: 135.
[Ref: 60740] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Peninsular War] View of the Rio Duero, at Torro, at which place the allied armies united on the commencement of the Campaign of 1813. This Town is famous for Wine & Fruit, great quantity of the latter is sent to Madrid & produced from Standard Trees.
Drawn & Etched by G. Cumberland Jnr.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching with extensive watercolour, on 1830 watermarked page. Verso in ink Description of "43d or the Monmouthshire Reg of Foot". Sheet 195 x 310mm (7¾ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate at top right.
A view of British soldiers marching out of a valley. From the extremely rare series 'Views in Spain and Portugal taken during the campaigns of His Grace the Duke of Wellington'. According to a title-page in BM 'only 30 copies printed'. The artist's father, also George, was a lifelong friend and collaborator of William Blake.
See BM 1852,0214.79.
[Ref: 61552] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Peninsular War] A bridge one mile from Celorico, upon the main to Almeida, crossing the river Mondego, an attempt was made by Massena to destroy it in his retreat before the Duke of Wellington in 1811, it is made of granate [sic].
Drawn & Etched by G. Cumberland Jnr.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching with extensive watercolour on 1830 watermarked page. Verso in ink Description of "43d or the Monmouthshire Reg of Foot". Sheet 185 x 310mm (7¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A view of the damaged bridge, with a British Army tent in the foreground. From the extremely rare series 'Views in Spain and Portugal taken during the campaigns of His Grace the Duke of Wellington'. According to a title-page in BM 'only 30 copies printed'. The artist's father, also George, was a lifelong friend and collaborator of William Blake.
BM 1874,0509.84, described as a lithograph.
[Ref: 61553] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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To the Honourable S.r Richard Anderson Bar;t this Plate of the Mannor House of Penley is Pa. 594
Humbly Dedicated by John Oliver
[Sir Henry Chauncy c.1700]
Engraving plate 285 x 375mm (11¼ x 14¾") Centre fold as issued. Some creasing. A few tears to marins. Slight ink offset.
Published for the first edition of Sir Henry Chauncy's (1632 - 1719) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire 1700. he manor of Pendley pre-dates the Norman Conquest of 1066, after which it was confiscated by William the Conqueror and passed to his brother-in-law, Robert, Count of Mortain (c. 1031-c.1095), and a later owner was John de Angle, an early Member of Parliament. In 1440 Sir Robert Whittingham (or Whytingham) and his wife Agnes received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI at Pendley manor; he enclosed 200 acres and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture. He built a manor house at the western end of the now-demolished town as a double cloistered courtyard as well as building a Chapel. On the accession of Edward IV (1442 -1483) he granted Pendley manor to George Neville, Bishop of Exeter in 1461 which then passed on to the Verney family through marriage. The Verney family lived at the medieval manor for the next 150 years, until it was passed on to the Anderson family. Sir Richard Anderson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1635-1699) owned the Penley estate when the print was made.
[Ref: 56224] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Penman-maur, taken from near Aber, N. Wales.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs. Longman & C.o. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveden S.t. Fitzroy Square London, June 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 300 x 230mm (12" x 9"). Very slight foxing.
View across to Penmaenmawr, a couple walk along a road in the foreground. Plate 34 from Vol II of "Voyage Round Great Britain".
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 33892] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Penmaen Mawr in Caernarvon Shire. [plate number scratched out, '75' in ink]
J. Boydell Delin & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver 1750. Price 1s.6d.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 344 x 481mm (13½ x 19"). Trimmed to platemark along lower edge.
A view of Penmaenmawr, Conwy, Wales. People struggle to save a carriage on the edge of a steep and precarious cliff edge; onlookers in a boat below. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
[Ref: 29401] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Penman-maur, taken from near Aber, N. Wales.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London, June 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 222 x 298mm. 8¾ x 11¾".
A view of Penmeanmawr, a seaside quarrying town. From William Daniell's Second Volume of "Voyage around Great Britain".
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 18089] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Druidical Circle on Penman Maior, North Wales (Seandudno in the Distance) AD XXXIX.
E.E. Wilmot. 1859.
Lithograph, scarce. 170 x 270mm, 6¾ x 10½".
Wild ponies in a desolate Welsh landscape.
[Ref: 22235] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Flying Pen, emanating from the practice of the royal Lewisian System of Penmanship. A process invented by Mr. Lewis, whereby bad Writers are easily made good ones [...]
Nichols and son, Printers, 8 & 9 Chandos Street, Strand [n.d., c.1840]
Letterpress pamphlet, 4pp, 245 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
Prospectus for the penmanship courses of James Henry Lewis & Son on the Strand in London. Lewis (1786-1853) was a strenographer who at the age of 26 published 'The ready writer', a shorthand course, which was still in print (on its 97th edition) in the 1860s. Patronized by George IV, Lewis taught in London and toured the provinces. One of the last great writing masters, Lewis believed penmanship was a fine art. In addition to teaching writing itself, he also invented pens and wrote a book about the history of stenography.
[Ref: 37938] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Guillaume Penn Traite avec les Indiens Etablissant la Province de Pensilvanie dans l'Amerique Septentrionale en 1681.
Benj: West Pinxit. D* sculp
[n.d., c.1780]
Engraving, rich impression; sheet 480 x 330mm (18¾ x 13"). Trimmed inside platemark; vertical crease through middle; small tears to edges; hole in centre; laid on conservation tissue.
William Penn's (1644 - 1718) 'Great Treaty' reputedly signed with Delaware Indian leaders in 1682 under an ancient elm tree at the village of Shackamaxon, located in what are now the borders of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was painted by the Pennsylvania-born artist Benjamin West, a picture which was engraved in 1775. This French copy, probably made from that engraving, reverses and crops the picture to focus upon the centre of West's composition.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 31858] £360.00

William Penn Esq.r Proprietor of Pennsylvania: 1703.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Fine engraving. 120 x 80mm (4¾" x 3?"). Worm holes in very wide margin. Some foxing.
Bookplate of William Penn (1644-1718), founder and 'Absolute Proprietor' of the Province of Pennsylvania, featuring his armorial.
[Ref: 52818] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Penn achete des Sauvages le Pays qu'il veut occuper
[Anon, c.1780]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed close and glued to backing sheet.
French rendering of the familiar subject of William Penn's (1644 - 1718) 'Great Treaty' reputedly signed with Delaware Indian leaders in 1682 under an ancient elm tree at the village of Shackamaxon, located in what are now the borders of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here the legend is rather different to in British engravings: 'Penn buys from the savages the land he wants to occupy'.
[Ref: 34861] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the Province of Pensylvania in North America 1681. To the Proprietaries of the Province of Pensylvania, &c. &c. This Print, Engraved from the Original Painting belonging to the late Thomas Penn Esquire, Is respectfully Inscribed by Their obedient humble Servant John Boydell.
Benj: West pinxit. John Hall sculpsit.
Published, June 12th. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. 485 x 615mm (19 x 24¼"). Repairs to edges. Watermark in lower left of publication line.
William Penn's (1644 - 1718) 'Great Treaty' was reputedly signed with Delaware Indian leaders in 1682 under an ancient elm tree at the village of Shackamaxon, located in what are now the borders of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This highly detailed depiction of the event, shows Penn in the centre left, with his arms open, his entourage beside him, two of his men kneeling, offering gifts to the Indians who are assembled at the right. Buildings in construction can be seen behind at the left, with boats on the sea at right. The painting by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820), who was born in Pennsylvania, is now in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. West was the first American-born artist to receive international recognition and remains one of the most important eighteenth-century painters of historical scenes. He enjoyed a career that endured more than half a century that included serving as president of the Royal Academy. William Penn, quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, was the first great hero of American liberty. During the late seventeenth century, Penn established an American sanctuary which protected freedom of conscience. Almost everywhere else, colonists stole land from the Indians, but Penn travelled unarmed among the Indians and negotiated peaceful purchases. He insisted that women deserved equal rights with men. He gave Pennsylvania a written constitution which limited the power of government, provided a humane penal code, and guaranteed many fundamental liberties. For the first time in modern history, a large society offered equal rights to people of different races and religions. Penn's dramatic example caused quite a stir in Europe. The French philosopher Voltaire, a champion of religious toleration, offered lavish praise. 'William Penn might, with reason, boast of having brought down upon earth the Golden Age, which in all probability, never had any real existence but in his dominions'.
[Ref: 54272] £690.00

John Penn Esq.
Drawn by A. Tendi, from an original bust by Deare. Engraved by L. Schiavonetti.
Published March 1.1801, by J. Hatchard 173 Piccadilly.
Stipple and etching. Sheet size 245 x 150mm (9¾ x 6"). Cut to platemark.
Bust portrait sculpture, facing three-quarter to right, head slightly tilted towards the viewer, in an oval within rectangular frame; after Tendi's drawing of sculpture by Deare; published state. John Penn (1760-1834), grandson of William Penn, was the last proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and a governor of the Isle of Portland where he built Pennsylvania Castle. Following the war of American Independence, the Penns settled in England and were granted an annuity by Parliament for their losses.
[Ref: 53548] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Penn] Pen-etration. NB: This Title has no affinity to Pen, as connected with the Goose-Quill; _ nor has it any allusion to Penguin, a stupid creature between a Fish & a Fowl; _ the word is simply derived from Pen, as the Instrument used to express the deep researches of the mind; _ see the St James's Street chit-chat _ respecting a Keen Pen; _ a Witty Pen; _ & a Pen, often Cut, but never mended.
J.s Gillray des. & f.t.
Pubd Aug.t 6th 1799 by H. Humphrey N 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"), with large margins.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Penn (1760-1834), with a gaping, fish-like mouth and receding chin, standing with feet splayed, a vacant expression on his face. The grandson of William Penn, he inherited 75% of the proprietorship of the province of Pennsylvania in 1775, aged fifteen, only to be dispossessed the same year by the Revolution. The new United States Government give him £130,000 compensation for his family's 26 million acres in Pennsylvania.
BM Satires 9441.
[Ref: 64707] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Penn Esq One of the first proprietors of Pennsilvania.]
[Davis Pinx. 1751. Martin sc.]
[n.d., c.1766.
Mezzotint. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to image losing inscription area.
A half-length portrait of Thomas Penn (1702-75), son of William Penn, extracted from the full-length oil by Arthur Devis, painted to celebrated Penn's marriage to Lady Juliana Fermor in 1751, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2004-201-1). A proof impression in the BM has 'D Martin 1766' in scratched letters (BM 1860,0728.28).
CS 4, two known states. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65020] £220.00

Penn. [William Penn, the celebrated founder of Pennsylvania, son of admiral sir William Penn, was born on Tower-hill, October 14, 1644. About the age of fifteen, he became a student of Christ-church, Oxford; but having early inbibed strong religious impressions, through the preaching of Thomas Loe, on of the people callled quakers...]
Holl. sculp.
[n.d.,c.1819.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 220 x 130mm (8½ x 5").
Portrait of William Penn (1644 - 1718), English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate of democracy and religious freedom, was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements in the state.
[Ref: 64110] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[William Penn on the Banks of the Delaware.]
RS. [Robert Spence.]
[n.d., c.1905.]
Etching on vellum, signed in pencil. Plate: 345 x 445mm (13½ x 17½''). Creasing.
A scene showing William Penn and a group of Europeans standing before a group of Native Americans. By artist Robert Spence (1871-1964) who was a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
[Ref: 49069] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn. b. 1644. d. 1718. The Portrait is from a model is basso relievo of the size of life by Sylvanus Bevan, of the Society of Friends, & a cotemporary of W.m Penn. The medal of him, the reverse side of which is represented below the portrait, was engrav'd by L. Pingo, A.D. 1770, for B.n Bartlett of the same society; a great collector of coins and medals.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. Plate: 200 x 120mm (8 x 5"). Small margins.
A bust portrait in an oval of founder of Pennsylvania and early Quaker William Penn (1644-1718).
[Ref: 45807] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn.
Chapman sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis July 1823.
Engraving. 7 x 5".
[Ref: 1231] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Admiral Penn. One of Cromwell's Admiral's who took Jamaica from the Spaniards from the Original Picture.
Sr. P. Lely pinxt. R. Earlom sculpt.
London Published by S. Woodburn, 1811.
A fine mezzotint impression. Image 158 x 108mm. Cut to the image and surrounded by an extra paper sheet.
Sir William Penn (1621-1670) was an English admiral, and the father of William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. He served his apprenticeship at sea with his father. In the first Civil War he fought on the side of the parliament, and was in command of a ship in the squadron maintained against the king in the Irish seas. The service was arduous and called for both energy and good seamanship. In 1648 he was arrested and sent to London, but was soon released, and sent back as rear admiral in the Assurance. The exact cause of the arrest is unknown, but it may be presumed to have been that he was suspected of being in correspondence with the king's supporters. In the First Anglo-Dutch War, he served in the navy of the Commonwealth of England, commanding squadrons at the battles of the Kentish Knock (1652), Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen (1653). In 1654 he accepted the naval command in the expedition to the West Indies sent out by Cromwell. In 1655 he commanded the fleet that launched a bungled attack on La Hispaniola. Afterwards the less desirable island of Jamaica was seized for the Commonwealth regime. On their return he and his military colleague Venables were sent to the Tower. He made humble submission, and when released retired to the estate he had received from confiscated land in Ireland. In the Second Anglo-Dutch War he was captain of the fleet at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665 under James Stuart, Duke of York.
[Ref: 12693] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn. From the Original Picture painted for the Society for commemorating the landing of William Penn on the shores of the Delaware, October 1682.
Painted by H.Inman. [***] by J.Sartain.
[Publication line erased. n.d., c. 1860 ]
Colour mezzotint, later printing of Sartain's very rare engraving. 660 x 500mm. Some damage to edges, well outside image.
William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania. Henry Inman (1801-46), American portrait painter. John Sartain (1808-1897), American engraver. Penn was born October 14, 1644 to Anglican parents, Admiral Sir William Penn and Margaret Jasper. For much of his young life he knocked about, getting expelled from Oxford, learning law at Lincoln's Inn, studying in the Huguenot Academy at Saumer, and managing his father's estates in Ireland. Soon after hearing the famous apostle Thomas Loe, he converted to Quakerism. Then in his mid twenties, he quickly involved himself in the Quaker cause, landing in prison several times for his 'radical' preaching for personal, property, and religious rights. In 1672 he married Gulielma Maria Springett, and five years later traveled in the company of George Fox to Holland. Penn, though wealthy and though a Quaker, lived beyond his means. In order to raise some funds he called in a debt owed his father by Charles II. On March 4, 1681 he obtained the charter for Pennsylvania, [and in August 1682 he gained the rights to Delaware from his friend James, the Duke of York.] Penn planned to make money by selling tracts of land, and although he was able to attract a good number of investors he never realized the profit he imagined. However, he saw this venture as more than a money-making exercise; it was, in his famous words to his friend and land agent for Pennsylvania, James Harrison, a "holy experiment." This experiment would become, as he confidently predicted, "the seed of a nation.". Penn imagined a "free. .sober and industrious people" living by their own laws. In 1682 he sought to delineate these laws in the First Frame of government; and though somewhat less liberal than his New Jersey bill, it provided many of the same rights. Penn first arrived at his new colony in the fall of 1682 and stayed only until August of 1684. It was at this time that he supposedly signed his famous treaty with the Delaware (Leni Lenape) at Shackamaxon. And though no copy of such an agreement exists, we do have a wampum belt allegedly given to Penn by the Indians. The first treaty document in existence is one dated July 15, 1682 in which Penn obtains land from Idquahon and several other Leni Lenape leaders. In the next year Penn would broker at least eight other land transactions with the Delaware. He was busy with man other tasks as well. During his first stay, Penn began building his mansion and attending to numerous details of colony building, including a border dispute with Lord Baltimore, who controlled the territory south of Pennsylvania. He returned to England to continue his dispute with Baltimore, not to return to Pennsylvania until 1699. The England in the 1690s was a tumultuous place, especially for an outspoken, liberal Quaker. Penn never shirked from the political fray, as did many of his fellow Quakers, though his forthrightness proved dangerous. He supported James II, though in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 William and Mary bested James. Later, under suspicion of treason, Penn briefly lost control of his colony from 1692 to 1694. He received another setback when his wife died in 1694, though he rebounded by remarrying a year and a half later to Hannah Callowhill. Back in Pennsylvania, political squabbling had set in and various leadership changes took place. In 1691 George Keith led a religious schism, and Pennsylvania and Delaware separated into two provinces. And in 1696, William Markham's (Penn's secretary and then governor of Delaware) charter replaced the earlier 'Frame', though when Penn returned in 1701 he would again revise this version. By the time he left for good in November of that year, the colony's Assembly was elected yearly and enjoyed a more powerful position than the governor, who despite his veto power, was secondary to the legislative body. Though Penn planned to stay in the New World, settling at his manor Pennsbury, (up the Delaware from Philadelphia) but further political troubles in England forced his return, and in 1712 suffered an attack of apoplexy which disabled him. His wife Hannah managed his affairs until Penn died in 1718, and after her death ion 1727 the proprietorship of Pennsylvania passed to their sons, John, Thomas, and Richard.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3400] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the Province of Pensylvania in North America.
[after Benjamin West.]
[n.d., c.1840.]`
Lithograph, 13½ x 17".
Penn was born October 14, 1644 to Anglican parents, Admiral Sir William Penn and Margaret Jasper. For much of his young life he knocked about, getting expelled from Oxford, learning law at Lincoln's Inn, studying in the Huguenot Academy at Saumer, and managing his father's estates in Ireland. Soon after hearing the famous apostle Thomas Loe, he converted to Quakerism. Then in his mid twenties, he quickly involved himself in the Quaker cause, landing in prison several times for his 'radical' preaching for personal, property, and religious rights. In 1672 he married Gulielma Maria Springett, and five years later traveled in the company of George Fox to Holland. Penn, though wealthy and though a Quaker, lived beyond his means. In order to raise some funds he called in a debt owed his father by Charles II. On March 4, 1681 he obtained the charter for Pennsylvania, [and in August 1682 he gained the rights to Delaware from his friend James, the Duke of York.] Penn planned to make money by selling tracts of land, and although he was able to attract a good number of investors he never realized the profit he imagined. However, he saw this venture as more than a money-making exercise; it was, in his famous words to his friend and land agent for Pennsylvania, James Harrison, a "holy experiment." This experiment would become, as he confidently predicted, "the seed of a nation.". Penn imagined a "free. .sober and industrious people" living by their own laws. In 1682 he sought to delineate these laws in the First Frame of government; and though somewhat less liberal than his New Jersey bill, it provided many of the same rights. Penn first arrived at his new colony in the fall of 1682 and stayed only until August of 1684. It was at this time that he supposedly signed his famous treaty with the Delaware (Leni Lenape) at Shackamaxon. And though no copy of such an agreement exists, we do have a wampum belt allegedly given to Penn by the Indians. The first treaty document in existence is one dated July 15, 1682 in which Penn obtains land from Idquahon and several other Leni Lenape leaders. In the next year Penn would broker at least eight other land transactions with the Delaware. He was busy with man other tasks as well. During his first stay, Penn began building his mansion and attending to numerous details of colony building, including a border dispute with Lord Baltimore, who controlled the territory south of Pennsylvania. He returned to England to continue his dispute with Baltimore, not to return to Pennsylvania until 1699. The England in the 1690s was a tumultuous place, especially for an outspoken, liberal Quaker. Penn never shirked from the political fray, as did many of his fellow Quakers, though his forthrightness proved dangerous. He supported James II, though in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 William and Mary bested James. Later, under suspicion of treason, Penn briefly lost control of his colony from 1692 to 1694. He received another setback when his wife died in 1694, though he rebounded by remarrying a year and a half later to Hannah Callowhill. Back in Pennsylvania, political squabbling had set in and various leadership changes took place. In 1691 George Keith led a religious schism, and Pennsylvania and Delaware separated into two provinces. And in 1696, William Markham's (Penn's secretary and then governor of Delaware) charter replaced the earlier 'Frame', though when Penn returned in 1701 he would again revise this version. By the time he left for good in November of that year, the colony's Assembly was elected yearly and enjoyed a more powerful position than the governor, who despite his veto power, was secondary to the legislative body. Though Penn planned to stay in the New World, settling at his manor Pennsbury, (up the Delaware from Philadelphia) but further political troubles in England forced his return, and in 1712 suffered an attack of apoplexy which disabled him. His wife Hannah managed his affairs until Penn died in 1718, and after her death ion 1727 the proprietorship of Pennsylvania passed to their sons, John, Thomas, and Richard.
[Ref: 6523] £420.00

William Penn. European Magazine.
Stanier sculp.t.
Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill May 1. 1790.
Engraving and stipple. 190 x 130mm (8¾ x 4¾"), with wide margins.
Half-length portrait, with a roundel scene of Penn shaking hands with a native American, reresenting his treaty with them.
[Ref: 23131] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

William Penn.
Chapman sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis July 1823.
Engraving, with large margins; platemark 18 x 13cm (7 x 5").
William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania.
[Ref: 27193] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Tho Pennant [facsimile signature].
Chapman sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis May 1823.
Stipple with very large margins. Plate 178 x 128mm. 7 x 5".
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), the Welsh naturalist, antiquary and topographer. One of a number of stipple heads of Kings and Queens of similar format printed on quarto sheets, by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810. They probably appeared as illustrations to the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature ... Embellished by ... engravings. Compiled ... by John Wilkes'.
Wellcome 2267-11. See Ref: 26343 for coloured version.
[Ref: 27066] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Pennant (Zoologiste), Membre de la Société royale de Londres, de la société royale d'Upsal &a. Né à Downing dans le Comté de Flint en 1726 Mort le 16 Décembre 1798.
Dessiné d'apres le Portrait original de T. Gaisnborough, et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Cut to platemark top & bottom.
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) the Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He wrote acclaimed books including 'British Zoology', the 'History of Quadrupeds., 'Arctic Zoology' and 'Indian Zoology', although he never travelled further afield than continental Europe. His first scientific papers focused on his own experiences, geological subjects and palaeontology. One of these so impressed Carl Linnaeus, that in 1757, he put Pennant's name forward and he was duly elected a member of Royal Swedish Society of Sciences.
W: 2267.
[Ref: 29631] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Tho Pennant [facsimile signature].
Chapman sculp.
Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis May 1823.
Hand-coloured stipple, with large margins; 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
Portrait of Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798), naturalist and topographer; in profile in oval. One of a number of stipple heads for the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature' originally published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810.
Wellcome 2267-11.
[Ref: 26343] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Pennant Esq.
Publish'd as the Act directs June 20, 1787 by Peter Mazell, Engraver No. 32 James Street, Covent Garden.
Etching, 215 x 170mm (8½ x 6¾"). Foxed.
Thomas Pennant (1726 - 1798), naturalist and topographer. Detail from the painting by Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) in the collection of the National Museum of Wales, engraved by John Keyse Sherwin (1751? - 1790).
Not in BM. NPG: D14536. From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth; for another engraving from the same picture (also by Sherwin) see ref. 19819.
[Ref: 9637] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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