Grosvenor Prints

[Henry Phillips as Umberto in the opera ''The Freebooters''.]
Painted by J.W. Wright. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A. Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London, Published March 1, 1829 by M.r Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Rare mezzotint. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Narrow margins.
An untitled portrait of opera singer Henry Phillips (1801-76) as Umberto degli Ardinghelli, a Florentine bandit, in an English version of Italian composer Ferdinando Paer's 'I fuorusciti di Firenze'. He wears a plumed hat, boots, and a pistol and dagger in his belt.
Whitman 426, state ii of ii, published state.
[Ref: 64893] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Phillips F.R.L. & G.S.S.
[John Elliot. Maxim Gauci.]
[John & Arthur Arch.][n.d., c.1831.]
Lithograph, printed in chine collé. Sheet: 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Foxing in borders.
A portrait of mineralogist and geologist William Phillips (1773-1828).
[Ref: 50586] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[William Phillips] Merry Andrew on the Stage. Le plaisant Charlatan. Il Ciarlatano Buffone.
[Mauron delin.]
P Tempest [exc: Cum privilegio.] [Henry Overton, c.1711?]
Etching. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9¾ x 6"). Trimmed into printed border, losing artist's name and part of publication line at bottom.
A portrait of actor William Phillips playing a cello, dressed in a clown's costume with ass's ears . After Marcellus Laroon (c.1650-1702), from the series 'The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life' published by Pierce Tempest (1653 - 1717). This example has the added plate number '63'.
[Ref: 67866] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

W.H. Phillips [facsimile signature] Inventor of the Fire Annihilator.
Alfred Tidey, Pinx.t. William Underwood, Litho. Printed by Hullmandel & Walton.
Published June 10th 1852, by J.L. Grundy, 130, Regent St.
Lithograph on india with back-sheet printed with title; extremely rare. Sheet 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"). Some spotting, corner creased.
Half-length portrait of William Henry Phillips, whose 'Patent portable fire annihilator, for extinguishing fire by gases and vapour, affording a means of saving life and property when water may be unavailing' was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, winning a prize. This was a device that used a chemical reaction to produce a cloud of carbon dioxide to smother a fire. A motion was presented to Parliament that every government vessel should have an Annihilator. However the Fire Annihilator Works, at Battersea Fields, burned to the ground in 1852, and the business failed. P.T. Barnum invested in the company that bought the American patent, but after some unsatisfactory trials, that company also closed, although the Great American Showman still believed the invention was a valuable one, writing about it in his autobiography.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 35334] £360.00

Arms designed for the People of England. By Philo-Servitudinis. Scotch King at Arms.
[anon., c.1762]
Fine engraving with letterpress. heet 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼").
Satirical coat of arms with key below. An impression of this engraving in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale, has manuscript annotations identifying the 'white Scotch Lawyer' as the Earl of Mansfield, the 'black English Duke' as the Duke of Grafton, the 'Scotch Earl' as John Stuart, Earl of Bute (Prime Minister 1762-3), the 'public Defaulter' as Henry Fox Holland (this print was probably published during his time as Paymaster, during which time he accumulated a great personal fortune), andthe 'insignificant, peace-making Duke' as John Russell, Duke of Bedford (Lord Privy Seal under Bute).
[Ref: 30782] £360.00

Controlleur van de Gelukkige en Rampzalige Lapis-Zoekers.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7"). Foxing and surface dirt. Messy.
A portrait of a dwarf, ''The Controller of the fortunate and miserable Lapis seekers, or searchers for the Philosopher's Stone''. Plate 8 from 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid', a series of Dutch satires on the Mississippi and South Sea Companies, their promoters and victims.
BM Satire 1670.
[Ref: 44628] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

La Philosphie. R 8.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59569] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The martyrdom of Master John Philpot, Archdeacon of Winchester
[Anon., c.1750.]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 260mm. 8½ x 10¼". Trimmed to plate at bottom.
John Philpot (1515 or 1516 - 1555), Protestant martyr, kneeling before the bundles of faggots that will be his pyre, praying ("I will pay my vowes in thee, O Smithfield") watched by a London crowd. Probably an illustration to an edition of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'.
[Ref: 17352] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Constantin Iohn Phipps Lord Mulgrave gebr: am 30ten May, 1744. gest: am 10ten October, 1792. zu Lüttich
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple. Plate 170 x 102mm (6¾ x 3").
Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (1744-1792), the English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, seeing action at the Battle of Havana and the Battle of Ushant. He also served as MP for Huntingdon and Newark, and in 1784 he became Paymaster of the Forces, and one of the Lords of Trade and Plantations. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. Colonial Secretary in 1839. From "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden".
Kivell & Spence: Pg.21
[Ref: 29527] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Constantine John Phipps] No. X. Lady Magnet. No. XI. The polar Nauticus.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r Fleet Street May 1:st 1782.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Small margins.
A pair of bust portraits set in ovals illustrating the account of explorer Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (1744-92) who took part in an expedition to discover a northern route to India and Lady Magnet the widow of a baronet. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6082.
[Ref: 45508] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

General The Honble Edmund Phipps M.P. Colonel Commandant of the 2nd Battalion, 60th. or King's Royal Rifle Corps. Aetatis Suae 72. 1832. ['E Phipps' facsimile signature in plate.]
A D'Orsay fecit 23 Aout 1832 [signed in plate].
[London: J. Mitchell, n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on india paper, rare, india 175 x 130mm. 7 x 5". Diagonal crease.
Portrait of Edmund Phipps (1760 - 1837), General; son of 1st Baron Mulgrave. From a series of portraits by Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay (1801 - 1852), Paris-born artist and gentleman of fashion. His profile sketches of his contemporaries, to the number of 125, include among them nearly all the literary, artistic, and fashionable celebrities of that time.
See O'Donoghue.
[Ref: 21868] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The R.t Hon.ble Henry Lord Mulgrave. First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty &c. &c. &c.
Painted by Thos. Lawrence Esq.r R.A. principal Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty. Engraved by Cha.s Turner.
London, Published Nov.r 23, 1808 by C. Turner No.50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
A fine mezzotint. Plate: 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A portrait of General Henry Phipps, 1st Earl Mulgrave (1755-1831) a soldier and politician who served as Foreign Secretary for William Pitt between 1805-1806. Member of the Dilettanti Society.
Frankau: 392
[Ref: 46913] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

R.t Hon.r. Const.ne. John Phipps. Lord Mulgrave.
Ridley sc.
Pub, 1, Sep, 1802 by J.Gold late Bunney & Gold, Showlane.
Stipple engraving. Sheet 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate. Some time staining.
Portrait of Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave FRS PC (1744 - 1792), English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, seeing action in a number of battles and engagements. Inheriting a title, he also went on to have a successful career in Parliament and occupied a number of political offices during his later years.
Not in Kivell.
[Ref: 64397] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Union Steam Ship Company's Royal Mail Steamer 'Phoebe' 613 tons. 120 horse power. To H.R. Clark Esq.re Commander, This plate is respectfully dedicated by his obedient servant, Wm Foster.
T.G.Dutton, del et lith. Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published by Wm. Foster, 114 Fenchurch Street.
Tinted lithograph. 300 x 460mm.
Union Line steamer, built by Messrs. Alexander Denny & Bros. in 1851, an iron screw vessel with a tonnage of 585. She was originally built for Preston & Co. who ran her to South America, being purchased by the Union Line in 1857, on the condition that she passed satisfactory trials, which she had no difficulty in doing. In 1861, she was sold to London brokers, who subsequently transferred her to the Union Line of New Zealand, by whom she was employed on the Inter Colonial mail service for many years. Finally she was hulked in 1901 and later broken up.
[Ref: 2219] £850.00

As Phoebus to the world, is science to the Soul. Beattie.
W. Green Delin. J. Allen sculpt.
Pub.d by Josiah Allen Colmore Row, Birmingham.
Engraving. 110 x 190mm (4¼ x 7½''). Marking and staining in margins, trimmed to plate.
An interior scene showing a man studying maps and and globe, with a line by poet James Beattie.
[Ref: 50013] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

To the Trustees and Directors of the Phoenix Fire-Office. This Work is most Respectfully Dedicated by Their much Obliged Obedient Humble Servant. R: Horwood. Explanation. Dwelling Houses Engraved...Churches Chapels &c...Inns of Court...Stabling Warehouses &c &c...Boundaries of Parishes...The Public will observe that there are many Streets &c where the Numbers are omitted, such are either without Numbers, or are so very irregular and frequently changed that they could not with propiety be inserted. It may be observed that the Numbers in the Strand, Fleet Street, Holborn &c are irregular, but in those long Streets the Proprietor though it necessary to insert them particularly as they are much less liable to alteration. As in many parts of the Town the Houses are too small to admit two figures_abreast it was thought best to put them in the following Order....which will be as well understood, look much neater and be more easily erased and corrected. Should the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, and the Parishes think proper at any future period to make a regulation in the Numbring, The Proprietor would in that Case with pleasure furnish any Gentleman who may desire it, with a New Sett of Impressions in exchange for the Old, at a trifling expence. The Proprietor thinks it his Duty to state to the Public, that he never pledged himself to show the interior or extent of the back parts of the Premises...The Proprietor will make any addition required at the least possible expence.
Published as the Act Directs by R. Horwood May 24 1799.
Etching and engraving, original outline colour. Plate 573 x 1035mm. 22½ x 40¾". Slight ink offset, bottom right corner patched.
A plate from cartographer Richard Horwood's 'Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of Southwark and Parts adjoining Shewing every House'. This magnificent map was made up of 32 such sheets, published sheet by sheet between 1792 and 1799. Horwood (1758 - 1803) intended originally to show every house and its number but this was to prove impossible: Although every house is included the numbering was never completed. Horwood dedicated this map to the Trustees and Directors of the Phoenix Fire Office, reflecting that the protection of London from fire was at this time the reserve of numerous independent company brigades. This sheet, watermarked 'Horwood's Plan of London', covers Deptford and a small piece of the Isle of Dogs, with the details of 'His Majesty's Dock Yard deliberately blank.
[Ref: 23361] £120.00

No. [144053] This Policy of Assurance Witnesseth, that [Mess.rs Edwards & Moore of the Dry Dock Liverpool Painters ~] have paid the Sum of [Five Shillings] to the Phoenix Assurance-Company of London...
[filled in 29th September 1798.]
Letterpress insurance document with engraved logo and woodcut border, filled in with old ink mss, four blind stamps with Nuremberg signatures. Verso in ink: "The interest in this policy has become the property of Capt James Borrowdale of Liverpool" Sheet 600 x 330mm (23¾ x 13"). Folds.
The Phoenix Assurance Company was founded as a fire insurance company in 1680, existing for just over 300 years, being bought by Sun Alliance & London in 1984. At the time this policy was issued the company was helping to fund Richard Horwood's monumental 24-sheet map of London, the first (but unsuccessful) attempt to number every house in London.
[Ref: 51367] £320.00

Pholas.
Designed by W. Daniell.
[n.d., c.1807.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A portrait of a marine bivalve mollusc, depicted on a beach. An illustration from 'Zoography' by W. Wood published in 3 vols. 1807.
[Ref: 45958] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Amateur Photography: ''Focussing'' [&] ''Exposing'' [&] ''Developing'' [&] 'Toning & Fixing''.
Victor Venner.
[n.d., c.1910.]
Set of four offset lithographs, printed area c.370 x 410mm (14½ x 16"). Some wear and tear to edges.
Four scenes of a photographer's meeting with a bull.
[Ref: 50346] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

Phrenological Chart. Designed to Illustrate the Treatise on Phrenology, in the ''Imperial Journal of Arts, Science, Mechanics and Engineering''.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Letterpress. Sheet: 530 x 825mm (21 x 32½"). Large tear in top edge and tears along folds.
A letterpress chart illustrating and explaining the various elements of phrenology.
[Ref: 44884] £360.00

Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim.
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. MDCCCXXVII [1827].
Oblong folio, disbound; etched title, 2pp text, six coloured etched plates, as called for. Title and text page foxed; two plates with single tears.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 57311] £480.00

Phrenological Illustrations.
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. [n.d., 1826].
Oblong folio, original printed wrapper.; text page, six etched plates, as called for, with contemporary guard leaves. Foxing and staining, with tatty extremities.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 9088] £250.00 view all images for this item

Drawing. Colour. Space. Form. Order. P.3.
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.e Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Etching. Plate 253 x 300mm (10 x 11¾").
A satire on 'Drawing' and the different components of the 'art', shows a black man smoking a cigar. From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'.
BM Satires: 15194; for the complete series in wrappers see ref. 9088. See [Ref: 68082] for with colour.
[Ref: 30361] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Drawing. Colour. Space. Form. Order. P.3.
Designed, Etched & Published by Geo.e Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Etching with hand-colour, 253 x 300mm (10 x 11¾"), with margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A satire on 'Drawing' and the different components of the 'art', shows a black man smoking a cigar. From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'.
BM Satires: 15194. For the complete series in wrappers see [Ref: 9088]. For one in black and white see [Ref: 30361].
[Ref: 68082] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Language P.5.
Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank _ August 1.st 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, 250 x 300mm (10 x 11¾"), with margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound. Foxing.
From Cruikshank's series of 'Phrenological Illustrations'. Five vignettes: A Billingsgate market quarrel, where two fishwives hurl insults amid an amused crowd, while a prim woman departs in shock beneath a notice beginning ''Notice All boats laden with Oysters arriving at Billings-Gate Market…'' ''Ideality," a man bolts upright in bed, mistaking clothes on a chair and peg for ghostly figures, as a grinning full moon peers through the window. ''Wit," in a churchyard, boys frighten an old woman with a lantern by raising a turnip-headed ''ghost'' behind a tomb marked ''Alas Poor Yorick.'' ''Imitation— &—Approbation'', Mathews performs a mock phrenological lecture on stage, brandishing a marked skull to the delight of an applauding audience, one holding a bill for ''Mathews at Home.'' ''Comparison'', a comically tall, thin man at ''Long Acre'' meets a very short woman at ''Little St Martin’s Lane,'' as barefoot boys point and jeer.
BM Satires 15196. For the complete series in wrappers see [Ref: 9088]
[Ref: 68103] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Phrenological Observations on the Head of Robert Burns.
Clements.
[n.d., c.1834.]
Wood engraving and letterpress. Sheet 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"). Laid on album paper.
In 1834, when the poet's crypt was re-opened to place the remains of Jean Armour, his widow, a cast was made of Robert Burns's skull by local phrenologists. The cast was sent to the Committee of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh under George Combe, who performed a 'blind' study.
[Ref: 62241] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Physic.
G.B. Cipriani Inv.t. J.M. Lelattre Sculp.t.
London, Published March 31st 1788 for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding, No 163 Strand.
Rare stipple, printed in brown. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with large margins. Uncut.
A winged cherub sitting on a cloud, holding the Rod of Asclepius in his right hand, a bowl in his left. A lyre rests behind him.
[Ref: 55074] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Physic.]
[After Adriaen van Ostade.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Original colour mezzotint. Fine. Sheet 310 x 245mm, 12¼ x 9¾". Trimmed & laid on album paper.
An alchemist, after a painting by Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85).
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 13837] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Physical Map Of The World. From The Discoveries Of The Most Eminent Modern Geographers.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie.
Published by James Reynolds 174 Strand London, Dec.r 10th 1849.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Small ink splatter and abrasion top left corner. Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
Map with explanatory text from Reynolds series 'Introduction to Natural Philosophy', a companion to Reynolds's series of Popular diagrams of natural philosophy comprising of two hundred and fifty illustrations. Shows the distribution of mountain ranges, deserts, the seasonal range of the Earth's icecaps and global ocean currents are shown along with air and sea temperatures around the world.
[Ref: 56832] £180.00

Physick.
Ostade pinx.t. R. Houston fecit.
[London: Bowles & Carver, n.d., c.1775.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 175 x 120mm (5¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into plate at bottom, losing publisher's inscription.
A doctor looking at a fluid in a round-bottomed flask. From a painting by Adriaen van Ostade once in the collection William Beckford (1709-70), a Lord Mayor of the City of London, a pair to 'Law',
[Ref: 53685] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Plaisance. Vue générale. [/] Veduta generale.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par J. Jacottet. Fig par Bayot.
Imp par Lemercier a Paris. Paris. Bulla éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne et Bulla st Delarue, 10 rue, JJ Rousseau. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A panoramic view of the city of Piacenza, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The scene depicts a group of poorly dressed figures gathered in a clearing in the foreground, with a number of buildings in the distance and to the right. Piacenza is at the confluence of the major waterways of nothern Italy, the Trebbia, draining the northern Apennines, and the Po, draining to the east. This has always made the city vital to the interest of the political and militay powers looking to control the region. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33321] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mess.rs Wilkinson & Wornum's Upright Patent Piana Forte. Plate 10, Vo. 1.
No.38 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. 1 Feb. 1810 [at 101 Strand.]
Marking.
A diagram of a large upright piano forte advertised in Rudolf Ackermann's magazine the 'Repository of Arts'.
[Ref: 49897] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Pianists.]
Nd. Lalaure
[n.d., c. 1920.]
Etching, 165 x 120mm. 6½ x 4¾".
Two girls playing a piano.
[Ref: 9107] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Funny Characters No 22. Now then Julier do 'a done vith that pehanner and give the mangle a turn!
J.L. delt. [John Leech.]
London: W. Spooner, 377, Strand. Printed by L.M. Lefevre. [n.d., c.1840.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Lightly soiled.
A plain young girl in work clothes playing the piano is admonished by a housekeeper carrying kettle and pail. Both wear metal stilts attached to their feet. After John Leech (1817-64).
[Ref: 47448] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mess.rs Wilkinson & Wornum's Upright Patent Piana Forte. Plate 10, Vol.7.
No.38 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. 1. Feb. 1812 at 101 Strand, London.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6''), with Whatman 1808 watermark. Trimmed into publication line.
[Ref: 49365] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Cornelis de Brun, 'Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie']
B. Picart delineavit anno 1711
Engraving, sheet 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½"). Crease.
Frontispiece to a travel volume by the Flemish artist Cornelis de Bruyn. The French engraver Bernard Picart (1673-1733) settled in Amsterdam in 1711, where he engraved this print.
[Ref: 41393] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Lord Barrymore's House in Picadilly taken from S. James's park. Vue de la Maison du Lord Barrymore dans Picadilly, prise du Parc de S. James.
S. Belanger le Romain London. Guyot Sculpsit.
London Pub.d Juillet 1792, as the act Direct by Molteno Colnaghi & Co No 132 Pall Mall. A Paris chez Guyot, Graveur et M.d d'Estampes, Rue S, Jacquesm No 10.
Rare aquatint and etching with fine hand colour. 225 x 305mm (8¾ x 12"). Trimmed to plate.
The house of the profligate Richard Barry (1769-93, 7th Earl of Barrymore, a rake and gambler known as 'Hellgate'), close to Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner. Barry died the year after this print was published and the house burned down soon after. After painter Louis Bélanger (1756-1816), engraved by Laurent Guyot (1756-1806).
[Ref: 50446] £360.00

Ayr Street, Piccadilly London
Edward Prust [signed in pencil]
circa 1926 [in pencil]
Etching signed by the artist, 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"), with very large margins. Dusty margins. Small taped tear in left margin. Very slightly creased in margins.
A busy scene on Regent Street looking towards Air Street. Edward C. Prust (1891-1978)
[Ref: 62591] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Saloon Piccadilly.
Engraved by R. Cruikshank [after 'Bernard Blackmantle', pseudonym of Charles Malloy Westmacott].
Pub.d by Sherwood Jones & C.º Sep. 1. 1824.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Edges chipped, a few small stains.
An interior, with the floor and balcony lit by a large chandelier, with men and women eating and drinking. The Royal Saloon was 'an all-night' house, famed for the quality for its cuisine, cellar and women, who were restricted to those personally invited by the management. From Charles Molloy Westmacott's 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle'.
Abbey Life 325, ''described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published''', as many of the people described were easily identifyable.
[Ref: 62058] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Piccadilly Circus.]
W. Walcot [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1915.]
Etching with drypoint. 150 x 250mm (6 x 9¾"), large margins. A good impression.
A view of the original facade of the Swan and Edgar on the corner of Piccadilly and Piccadilly Circus, prior to the 1917 Zeppelin raid that damaged the building and neccesitated the rebuild that exists today. Also shown is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, with the statue of Anteros (popularly known as Eros), still in its original position, before it was moved to Embankment Gardens when work started on the new tube station in 1922. William Walcott R.E (1874 - 1943) was described by Furst as 'next to Brangwyn the greatest decorative etcher this country has produced'. He also etched a view of the 1919 rebuilding.
[Ref: 13925] £580.00

[The 1919 rebuilding of Swan & Edgar, Piccadilly Circus.]
W. Walcot [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1919.]
Etching with drypoint. 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"), wide margins.
The original facade of the Swan and Edgar can still be seen, with today's building under construction behind. In 1917 the last Zeppelin raid in Britain damaged the building, with this work undertaken in 1919. To the right is the statue of Anteros (popularly known as Eros), still in its original position, before it was moved to Embankment Gardens when work started on the new tube station in 1922. William Walcott R.E (1874 - 1943) was described by Furst as 'next to Brangwyn the greatest decorative etcher this country has produced'.
[Ref: 43212] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Piccadilly Macaroni.
Pubd. accordg to Act Augt 12th 1772 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A very stout man with short legs standing in profile to the left. He wears a three-cornered hat; his club is looped at the back of his very thick neck. He wears a plain coat, ruffled shirt, spurred riding-boots. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.4' upper left and '8' upper right.
BM Satires: 5026.
[Ref: 14247] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Nic. Piggini. [sic.]
H.E.v. Wintter del. 1816.
Lithograph with very large margins. 413 x 285mm (16¼ x 11¼"). Creases to margins
Niccolo Piccini (1728-1800), the Italian composer who was one of the most popular composers of opera, particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa, of his day. He had the misfortune of falling between the great generations of Pergolesi and then later Cimarosa and Mozart. From "Portraite der berühmtesten Compositeurs der Tonkunst".
In the Bibliothek Beethoven-Haus.
[Ref: 28688] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Général Pichegru.
C.H. Hodges, ad vivum Pinxit et Fecit.
J. Allart Excudit 1795.
Very rare mezzotint. 420 x 305mm (16½ x 12"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left edge, crease in top left corner.
Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804), a French soldier who briefly served in the American Revolutionary War, and rose through the ranks to become commander-in-chief of Revolutionary France's army of the Rhine-and-Moselle. Under his leadership Belgium and the Netherlands were overrun. However, despite coming from peasant stock, he was suspected of conspiring against the Directory in 1795 and fell from grace. In 1797 he planned the Coup of 18 Fructidor, but was arrested and deported to Cayenne. In 1803 he tried to start a Royalist uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte, but was betrayed, arrested and strangled in his prison cell.
[Ref: 33011] £380.00

[An artist, presumed to be F.R. Pickersgill, at work on a canvas in his studio.]
John Gilbert [facsimile signature in image lower left].
[c.1880.]
Photogravure, image size 405 x 560mm. Scuff marks lower left, two scratches into lower left edge of image.
Mounted on original card and annotated and signed in pencil by artist lower right below image: 'F.R. Pickersgill Esqr. RA from his old friend John Gilbert Decr. 1882'. Sir John Gilbert (1817 - 1897) taught himself to paint. Skilled in several media, he gained the nickname, 'the Scott of painting'. He was best-known for the illustrations and woodcuts he produced for the Illustrated London News. Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (1820 - 1900) was born into an artistic family, and studied under his maternal uncle, Witherington, a portrait painter and Royal Academician. He entered the Academy Schools in 1839, sending his first picture for exhibition there in the same year. He became a noted history painter, favouring as well subjects from literature, the poets and the classics. Other subjects were from contemporary life, and from the bible. He became a full Academician in 1850, in which year he painted Samson Betrayed, considered his masterpiece.
[Ref: 7397] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pickett] No. XI. The Nonpareil of Portsoken. No. XII. The Premier Cit.
London Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street, 1 May, 1790.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins. Cut to plate at top.
Two oval bust portraits set in ovals. On the right William Pickett (d. 1796) who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1789-90, on the left is depicted the daughter of a greengrocer to whom Pickett was much devoted. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 7701.
[Ref: 38575] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Picking A Drum-Stick Fait Sir! And I'd be mighty sorry to be after _ taking y'e at your own Valuation!
M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
[Either published by Tho.s M.cLean or George Hunt] [n.d. c1827]
Etching hand coloured with aquatint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet. Some time staining.
A young fop admires himself in the mirror of a tavern. Another ruddy nosed man with whom he was dining picks a chicken bone clean. A butler laughs.
Hickman page 70. Not in BM.
[Ref: 58424] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Beware of a Dark Man.
Printed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn.
Published by O. Hodgson 111, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 250 x 210mm (9¾ x 8¼''). Foxing.
A scene in a wood in which a woman carrying a baby distracts a well-dressed young woman while a man steals from her pocket.
[Ref: 48912] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Mother & Child]
London Pub. Sep:r 4. 1777. By V.M. Picot. N: 171 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sanguine. 255 x 195mm.
[Ref: 4651] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Druidis Britanni Effigies. Clarisimmo Dignissimoq Viro Dnó Godfrido Kneller, de Whitton in Agro Middlesexæ, Sacri Romani Impery Militi... Hac Tabula humillime Dicata eft.
Etching and engraving. Plate 39 x 24cm (15½ x 9¾). With small margins. Small tear in left margin. Pinholes in margins.
A bearded British Druid stands within a vast plain with just a thatched building in the distance to the right. He wears a cloak, holds a staff and a book, a shoulder bag sits at his hip. A coat of arms below image. Illustration to Samuel Clarke's edition of 'Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries' (London: 1712, folio edition, No.25, page 94).
[Ref: 54003] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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