Grosvenor Prints

[The burial of St. Petronilla and her apotheosis as she is received by Christ] S. Petronillae Virginis. Quae Flacci Nobilis Viri coniugium spernens [...]
I.: Fran.cus Barberi in Templo Vaticano pinx. Iac: Frey delin. Et incid. Rome 1731
Fine copper engraving with large margins, 630 x 360mm (24¾ x 14¼") to platemark. Central fold as issued.
Engraving from Guercino's 1623 painting now in the Museo Capitolino, Rome. This engraving is the same size as that executed by Nicholas Dorigny in 1700.
[Ref: 19710] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Petrovaradin] The Battle of Piterwaradin. August the V. 1716.
A. Benoist inv. Cl. Du Bosc fecit.
Publish'd by Cl. Du Bosc, September the 22 1735, according to Act of Parliament.
Engraving. 260 x 190mm (10¼ x 7½"), with large margins.
A scene in the Austro-Turkish War (1716-18), with Prince Eugene of Savoy on horseback in battle. The Ottomans were besieging the fortress of Petrovaradin, on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, but were driven off by a much smaller army. A plate from 'The Military History of the Late Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of the Late John Duke of Marlborough: Including a Particular Description of the Several Battles, Sieges, &c. in which Either or Both Those Generals Commanded'. The scene is surrounded by a decorative frame.
[Ref: 64717] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Château de Petrovskoi, où séjourna quelque temps Napoléon.
Ed. de Montulé del. Lith de Langlumé. Brocas lith.
Lithograph. Sheet: 370 x 260mm, (14½ x 10"). Very large margins.
A view of the Petrovsky Palace in Russia. From 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Russie, pendent les années 1821, 1822 et 1823' by Edouard Montulé published in 1825 in which he described his travels to Great Britain and Eastern Europe.
[Ref: 39445] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Ecclesiastical scrutiny- or the Durham inquest on duty.
[Pub].d March 19th 1798 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 270 x 445mm (10¾ x 17½"). Trimmed within plate on left and right. Staining. Repaired tears. Central crease where previously folded. Made up bottom left corner.
Bishop Barrington of Durham (1734-1826) and two other bishops oversee the ''reform'' of women’s clothing. Barrington, seated and peering through a glass, inspects a dancer wearing stiff stays and mismatched shoes, one elegant, one clumsy. She protests, ''I really now think it a shame to disguise such a leg as this why my fortune will be ruin’d,'' while Barrington replies, ''Aye the upper part will do very well, many a husband will bless me for introducing these Stays.'' He holds a paper titled ''Petticoat Reform to be observed by all good…'' and a biblical-style decree about removing women’s ''ornaments'' hangs from his chair. Behind him, another bishop (possibly Manners-Sutton of Norwich (1755-1828)) adjusts a young girl’s bodice to cover her chest as she objects, ''Pa Pa dont tell me these things must not be shewn but to private parties.'' Nearby, Bishop Porteus of London (1731–1809) measures a woman’s petticoat, leering as she insists, ''come come thats long enough for an under one I'm sure.'' He retorts, ''What! I suppose you'd like to have nothing but a fig leaf on.'' At the far right, a dancer examines her reflection with disgust, dressed in the new ''modest'' fashion, bulky bodice, long sleeves, full skirts, and awkward shoes, exclaiming, ''Oh Vat fright! I vonder vat figure dey vill make of Bacchus, dis is vat dey Call a Divine dress, eh?'' 'Bacchus and Ariadne' was a new ballet, composed by the Ballet Master Gallet, with which the season 1797-8.
BM Satires 9299.
[Ref: 67463] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Full-Blown Rose, and Petty Mushroom!!
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Aug.t 5th 1806 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly London.
Hand coloured etching. Platemark: 245 x 350mm. (9½ x 13¾"). Small margins.
A large rose, whose centre is the face in profile of politician George Rose (1744 - 1818), grows from straw inscribed 'Opposition-Hot-Bed'. It looks down at the head of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780 - 1863). Charles Fox (1749 - 1806), depicted as a gardener, on the right, leans on his spade, looking down at the figures, Beside him stands his 'Broad Bottom'd Watering Pot'. Rose, an ex-Treasury Secretary and friend of Pitt, was one of the most persistent Opposition speakers, and a critic of Petty on questions of finance and administration.
[Ref: 39509] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

George Petty.
T. Murray Pinx. R. Williams fec, et ex.
[n.d. c.1685]
Mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), with large margins. Repairs.
A three-quarter length portrait of a young boy standing and facing forward. He has long hair, with his right hand placed inside his coat, which features large buttons, and his left hand resting on his hip. A hat is tucked under his arm.
CS 44 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65484] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

George Petty.
T. Murray Pinx. R. Williams fec, et ex.
[n.d. c.1685]
Mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Small margins. Glued to backing sheet
A three-quarter length portrait of a young boy standing and facing forward. He has long hair, with his right hand placed inside his coat, which features large buttons, and his left hand resting on his hip. A hat is tucked under his arm.
CS 44 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65486] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

George Petty.
T. Murray Pinx. R. Williams fec, et ex.
[n.d. c.1685]
Mezzotint, 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Collectors stamp of Queen Victoria. Trimmed to plate and glued to backing sheet. Small margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of a young boy standing and facing forward. He has long hair, with his right hand placed inside his coat, which features large buttons, and his left hand resting on his hip. A hat is tucked under his arm.
CS 44 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65487] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[John Petty, Earl Wycombe] ''Elegance Democratique''. _ a Sketch found near High Wycombe. '' _ whenever I wish to form a proper estimate of a mans Mind, I observe his Manners & his Dress." _ Lord Chesterfield.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Pub.d July 8.th 1799 by H. Humphrey, 27 S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"), paper watermarked ''Russell & Co''. Slight crease.
A caricature portrait of John Petty (1765-1809, later 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne), full-length in very casual dress, with a rustic walking stick. The son of Whig Prime Minister Lord Shelbourne, Petty found himself with a political career he didn't want, taking over his father's seat at Chipping Wycombe. Travelling often to avoid his father's control, visiting America and Revolutionary France, where he picked up Republican ideals that influenced his view of Ireland.
BM Satires 9438.
[Ref: 63376] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[William Petty, Earl of Shelburne.] 9.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, watermark 1809, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), standing, facing three-quarters left, his right hand thrust under his Garter ribbon. He wears a bag-wig and ruffles, and has the sly, complacent smile and half-closed eyes which are conspicuous in satires of Shelburne at this time. He was prime minister (1782-1783) during the reign of George III.
BM Satires 6062.
[Ref: 60012] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

S.r William Petty Kn.t Fellow of the Royall Society. Obit 16. Dec.r 1687. Anno Aetat: 63.
I Closterman pinx.
I. Smith fec: et ex: [n.d. c.1696]
Mezzotint, fine impression, 345 x 255mm (13¼ x 10). Thread margins. Trimmed to plate on left in areas. Very slight creasing.
Half length portrait of Sir William Petty (1623-1687), wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown and set within an oval. Petty was a famous political economist & philosopher, a founding member of the Royal Society and mapmaker. He also studied medicine at Oxford University and by 1651 he had become an anatomy instructor at Brasenose College. In 1652 he went to Ireland with Cromwell's army, where he made a fortune surveying the land to be confiscated and distributed amongst the victors. This work became known as the 'Down Survey', which he published in 1685 as 'Hiberniae Delineatio.'
CS 201 II of II. Welcome 2292. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68838] £490.00

S.r William Petty Kn.t Fellow of the Royall Society. Obit 16. Dec.r 1687. Anno Aetat: 63.
I Closterman pinx.
I. Smith fec: et ex: [n.d. c.1696]
Mezzotint, fine impression; 345 x 255mm (13¼ x 10). Thread margins.
Half length portrait of Sir William Petty (1623-1687), wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown and set within an oval. Petty was a famous political economist & philosopher, a founding member of the Royal Society and mapmaker. He also studied medicine at Oxford University and by 1651 he had become an anatomy instructor at Brasenose College. In 1652 he went to Ireland with Cromwell's army, where he made a fortune surveying the land to be confiscated and distributed amongst the victors. This work became known as the 'Down Survey', which he published in 1685 as 'Hiberniae Delineatio.'
CS 201 II of II. Welcome 2292. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68843] £490.00

S.r William Petty Kn.t Fellow of the Royall Society. Obit 16. Dec.r 1687. Anno Aetat: 63.
I Closterman pinx.
I. Smith fec: et ex: [n.d. c.1696]
Mezzotint, 345 x 255mm (13¼ x 10). Small margins. Left margin slightly damaged. Creasing. Repaired tear top left. Light foxing. Thread margins.
Half length portrait of Sir William Petty (1623-1687), wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown and set within an oval. Petty was a famous political economist & philosopher, a founding member of the Royal Society and mapmaker. He also studied medicine at Oxford University and by 1651 he had become an anatomy instructor at Brasenose College. In 1652 he went to Ireland with Cromwell's army, where he made a fortune surveying the land to be confiscated and distributed amongst the victors. This work became known as the 'Down Survey', which he published in 1685 as 'Hiberniae Delineatio.'
CS 201 II of II. Welcome 2292. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68844] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

S.r William Petty Kn.t Fellow of the Royall Society. Obit 16. Dec.r 1687. Anno Aetat: 63.
I Closterman pinx.
I. Smith fec: et ex: [n.d. c.1696]
Mezzotint, 345 x 255mm (13¼ x 10). Trimmed to plate and laid on 18th century album sheet.
Half length portrait of Sir William Petty (1623-1687), wearing long wig, lace cravat, and gown and set within an oval. Petty was a political economist & philosopher, a founding member of the Royal Society. He also studied medicine at Oxford University and by 1651 he had become an anatomy instructor at Brasenose College. In 1652 he went to Ireland with Cromwell's army, where he made a fortune surveying the land to be confiscated and distributed amongst the victors. This work became known as the 'Down Survey', which he published in 1685 as 'Hiberniae Delineatio.'
CS 201 II of II. Welcome 2292. Ex: collections of Lady Lucas of Credwell & The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68848] £320.00

[Marquis of Lansdowne.]
Gainsborough R.A. pinx. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi 1787.
Stipple printed in brown, with very large margins. Plate 280 x 222mm. 11 x 8¾".
Half-length portrait of the Marquis of Lansdowne, with sash and wearing garter insignia, in an oval. William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805) was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister from 1728 to 1783 during the months of the American War of Independence.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. De Vesme: 856. ii of iv.
[Ref: 25449] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice] Marquis of Lansdowne. Respectfully Inscribed to his Lordship and to his political Friends, By their obedient, humble Servants, The Proprietors of the "Constitution".
[Anon.]
[British, n.d., c.1825.]
Scarce lithograph, sheet 300 x 240mm. 11¾ x 9½".
Portrait of Whig politician Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780 - 1863). His first office, aged twenty-five, was as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the coalition 'Ministry of All the Talents'. On nearly doubling property tax, he gained a reputation for high moral principles and sympathy with the oppressed. During the Whigs' long years in opposition, he championed various causes; anti-slavery, Catholic emancipation and law reform. In 1826-8 he led a faction of 'Canningite' Tories and served as Home Secretary, resisting electoral reform. Issued for subscribers to a political periodical.
[Ref: 23470] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lansdowne [facsimile signature].
Painted by F. Grant, R.A. Engraved by J.R. Jackson.
London, Published Augt. 8th..1857, by Messrs..Fores, 41 Piccadilly.
Mezzotint. 440 x 340mm. 17¼" x 13" 1/3.
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863) was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the tender age of 25. He served as a Whig under eight prime ministers, becoming Lord President of the Council and the friend and political confidante of Queen Victoria, from whom he declined a dukedom in 1857. Like his father, the 3rd Marquess built up an outstanding art collection and delighted in entertaining friends and colleagues at Bowood.
[Ref: 8289] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[A decorated urn on a plinth] Vase in the Garden at Petworth.
A L [monogram of Amelia Long on stone.]
[British, n.d., c.1837.]
Rare lithograph, 295 x 205mm. 11½ x 8". Original card mount watermarked 1837, with ink ruled border. Some light foxing.
An attractive and detailed study of garden furniture at Petworth House, Sussex. Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772-1837). In 1793 she married Charles Long, created Baron Farnborough in 1826. An amateur etcher and a vigorous patron of the arts, she assisted the watercolourist Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) to make his one visit to Paris in 1801. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely admired by professional artists and drawing masters. Her watercolours also show the influence of her contemporary John Varley.
[Ref: 68302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Original sketch for Dugdales' England & Wales.] Petworth House, Sussex. Seat of the Earl of Egremont.
[Thomas Hosmer Shepherd]
[n.d., c.1838.]
Colour wash sketch. Sheet 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"). Mounted on album paper at corners.
A view of the west façade of Petworth House, facing the lake. This is the original sketch for the engraving published in ''Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated'', by Thomas Dugdale, published by John Tallis in parts from 1838.
[Ref: 60265] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

La Peur Enfantine.
Peint par Banazech. Gravé par Girard.
[n.d. c.1780] A París, chez les Campions freres, rue St. Jacques, à la ville de Rouen, No. 8.
Stipple. 171 x 228mm. 6¾" x 9". Fine.
Two children with a dog.
[Ref: 8636] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Conrad Peutinger. Geb.d 14 Oct. 1465, Gestorb.d 24 Nov 1547.
C.A. Schwerdgeburth sculps. Weimar.
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple. Plate 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾").
Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547), a German humanist and antiquarian best known for his ownership of the Peutinger Table, a 13th-century manuscript copy of a road map of the Roman Empire. It is believed that Agrippa (64/63 - 12 BC, grandfather of Emperor Caligula) ordered the original to be drawn, but it seems to have been continally updated, as it marks Pompei (destroyed AD 79) and Constantinople (founded 328). It remains one of the very few example of Roman mapping to survive, having passed from the Peutinger family to Prince Eugene of Savoy and to the Habsburg Imperial Court Library. The portrait was engraved by Carl August Scwerdgeburth (1785-1878) and published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29548] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Pevensey Bay, from Crowhurst Park. Proof.
Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Engraved by W.B. Cooke.
London, Published March 1. 1819, by John Murray, Albermarle Street, and W.B. Cooke, 13 Judd Place East, New Road.
Engraving on chine colle. 255 x 330mm (10 x 13"), with very large margins. Some light creasing on india paper.
A view looking across fields towards Beachy Head. From the series ''Views in Sussex'.
Rawlinson 132, state II of III.
[Ref: 60601] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Pevensey Bay, from Crowhurst Park. Proof.
Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Engraved by W.B. Cooke.
London, Published March 1. 1819, by John Murray, Albermarle Street, and W.B. Cooke, 13 Judd Place East, New Road.
Engraving. 255 x 330mm (10 x 13"). Slightly dusty.
A view looking across fields towards Beachy Head, from the series ''Views in Sussex'.
Rawlinson 132, second published state, II of III.
[Ref: 63778] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Pevensey Bay, from Crowhurst Park. Proof.
Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Engraved by W.B. Cooke.
London, Published March 1. 1819, by John Murray, Albermarle Street, and W.B. Cooke, 13 Judd Place East, New Road.
Engraving. 255 x 330mm (10 x 13"), with wide margins. Small area of surface abrasion in inscription area.
A view looking across fields towards Beachy Head. From the series ''Views in Sussex'.
Rawlinson 132, second published state.
[Ref: 56599] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pewterer]
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼"). Slight staining.
A scene in a shop containing dressers stocked with metal platters and jugs. A figure stands behind a counter while another carries a heavy load of dishes towards the door. An illustration from 'Etwas für Alle...' by Abraham à Santa Clara (1644-1709).
[Ref: 38914] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Pewter Shop.]
Georg Christoph Kilian excudit A.V. [n.d. c.1700.]
Mezzotint engraving, extremely rare. 362 x 481mm. 14¼ x 19". Trimmed. Some damage, loss and staining.
A pewter shop in a wooden booth at the side of street; women selling their goods, a mother and child to the left, a man inspecting a tankard to the right.
[Ref: 19240] £480.00

Sir Walter Scott Revisiting his Armory.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Image 210 x 240mm.
Sir Walter Scott's debts forced him to place his home, Abbotsford House, and income into a trust belonging to his creditors, with the intention of writing his way out of debt.
[Ref: 7082] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Peyton and Mrs Williams] No. X. M.rs. W_ll_ms. No. XI. The Nautical Cornuter.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street 1 May 1783.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins. Cut on left.
Two bust portraits in ovals. On the right Captain Joseph Peyton and the left Mrs Williams. Peyton was fined £1000 after causing Mrs Williams to leave and divorce her husband. 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 6298.
[Ref: 38564] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Jeune Fille de la Vallée de Pfafflar, dans le Tyrol. Cost. de div. Pays. No.11
Lanté delt. Gatine Sculpt.
[n.d. c.1827.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate 298 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼".
A young girl in traditional dress holding a basket, from Pfafflar, a municipality in the Austrian district of Reutte, Tyrol.
[Ref: 16205] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Johann Andreas Pfeffel.]
Georg. de Marees pinxit. Joan. Georg. Pintz sculp.
[Ulm: C.U. Wagner, 1734-35.]
Rare engraving with large margins. 320 x 210mm (12½ x 8¼"). Printer's creases on left.
Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1750), engraver and publisher who issued a map of Hungary in 1709. He published an edition of Scheuchzer's 'Physica Sacra', in which this portrait was published as a frontispiece, with Pfeffel holding the titlepage to the work.
[Ref: 29773] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ida Pfeiffer [facsimile signature].
A Dauthage 1855. Ged bei Jos. Stouss.
Very rare and scare lithograph, sheet 440 x 315mm (17½ x 12½"), very large margins. Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Portrait of world traveller Ida Pfeiffer with the Pyramids of Giza in the background. Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858), née Reyer, was an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers, whose bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. During her travels she collected plants, insects, mollusks, marine life, and mineral specimens. Many were sold to Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the British Museum.
[Ref: 57088] £360.00

[Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher] Louis Pfyffer Seigneur de Wyher Lieutenant-General des Armées du Roi de sa Majesté Très-Chret.ne, Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de St Louis &c. Né à Lucerne en 1716.
Gravé en 1786.
A Basle chez Chrétien de Mechel Graveur.
Aquatint. Sheet 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, a little soiling.
Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, an officer in the French king's Swiss Guard who made a three-dimensional map of the area around Lake Lucerne, completed in 1786 and now the oldest relief map in existance. He took 24 years to construct it, using available materials including plaster, charcoal, sand, beeswax, brick & pottery, in 136 separate sections for easy transportation. It has been on display in the Glacier Garden in Lucerne for over a century. His military career was also successful: he retired with the rank of lieutenant general in 1768.
[Ref: 57010] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher] Louis Pfyffer von Wyher Lieutenant General des Armees du Roi de France, qui fet le premier Bas-relief d'une partie de la Suisse; mort a Lucerne on 1802 a l'age de 87 ans.
J. Schwegler del. [after a painting by Joseph Reinhard] Lith de B Egli a Lucerne.
[n.d. 1815.]
Lithograph. Sheet 230 x 335mm 9 x 13". Minor creases visible.
Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, an officer in the French king's Swiss Guard who made a three-dimensional map of the area around Lake Lucerne, completed in 1786 and now the oldest relief map in existance. He took 24 years to construct it, using available materials including plaster, charcoal, sand, beeswax, brick & pottery, in 136 separate sections for easy transportation. It has been on display in the Glacier Garden in Lucerne for over a century. His military career was also successful: he retired with the rank of lieutenant general in 1768.
[Ref: 12163] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Franz Ludwig Pfyffer. Generallieutenant in französischen Diensten. geb. 1716 Verfaser des berühmten Reliefs von der Schweiz; in seiner Alpen Tracht, auf dem Pilatus berge zeichnend.
C. Westermayr f. [after Joseph Reinhard]
[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½").
Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, an officer in the French king's Swiss Guard who made a three-dimensional map of the area around Lake Lucerne, completed in 1786 and now the oldest relief map in existence. He took 24 years to construct it, using available materials including plaster, charcoal, sand, beeswax, brick & pottery, in 136 separate sections for easy transportation. It has been on display in the Glacier Garden in Lucerne for over a century. His military career was also successful: he retired with the rank of lieutenant general in 1768. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
For a larger version of this image see ref. 12163
[Ref: 29605] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Ludwig Pfyffer.
Pf.fecit.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 131 x 89mm. 5¼ x 3½".
Ludwig Pfyffer (1524-1594), the Swiss military leader, spokesman for Roman Catholic interests in the cantons, chief magistrate of Lucerne, as elected in 1571, and probably one of the most important Swiss political figures of the latter half of the 16th century. He is remembered for safely leading the royal family of Charles IX from Meaux to Paris whilst under Huguenot attack in 1567. He also formed a Swiss alliance with Spain against the accession of Henry of Navarre to the French throne.
[Ref: 26013] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Phaëthon.
G.Stubbs Pinx.t. B. Green [fecit].
[Sold by Ryland and Bryer at the Kings Arms in Cornhill [n.d., c.1766].
Mezzotint. 435 x 550mm (17 x 21¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, losing publication line and some text, damage to text, repaired tear.
Phaethon, son of Helios, drives the chariot of of the sun, drawn by four horses. Lightning crosses the sky behind. The first version of this picture to be engraved by Green
Lennox-Boyd: 3, ii of iii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64881] £420.00

The New Fashioned Phaeton. Sic Itur ad Astra.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 22d Feb.y 1776.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Tear just entering plate at bottom repaired, mounted on album paper.
A phaeton and pair outside a town house, the body of the carriage raised on an expanding trellis-work to the level of the first-floor windows. A gentleman who holds the reins in his left hand leans forward to assist into the carriage a lady who is stepping through the window and over the low iron railing of the balcony. He wears a small hat, a looped macaroni club, laced coat, and top-boots. She is elaborately dressed in the height of the fashion with a vast pyramid of hair decorated with enormous ostrich feathers.
BM Satires 5394
[Ref: 58496] £490.00

"Saevis compescuit ignibus ignes" Ov. met L2. V313.
Hayter Invt. et aqua forte fecit 1841 Lonfinii.
Etching with an aquatint over printed tone. In pencil on bottom left "Presented to his friend J. Bonomi signed with Hayter's initials, Sept 1847", Sheet 545 x 381mm. 21½ x 15". Foxing, minor nicks and tears around margin edges.
A mythological scene with Zeus accompanied by an eagle on a cloud in top centre, striking a thunderbolt towards Phaeton who tumbles from his chariot. This is the part in Ovid's Metamorphoses when Phaeton, seeking assurance that his father is truly the sun God Helios, obtains the promise to drive the sun chariot as proof. Failing to control it, the Earth is in danger of burning up, so Zeus kills him with a thunderbolt to prevent further disaster. Sir George Hayter (1792 – 1871) was a notable English painter and printmaker, very well known for his portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Queen Victoria appreciated his merits and appointed Hayter her Principal Painter in Ordinary and also awarded him a Knighthood 1841. This original etching by Hayter is most uncommon. Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878) was born in London into a family of architects. His father, Joseph Bonomi the Elder, had worked with Robert and James Adam, while his older brother, Ignatius Bonomi, was a notable architect of the early and mid-19th century. He was an acclaimed sculptor, draughtsman, lithographer and Egyptologist, marrying John Martin's daughter in 1845.
[Ref: 20138] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A light Pheaton [sic] with Ackermann's Patent Moveable Axles; Built by Mr. Kinder, Gray's Inn Lane.
Drawn by C. Blunt. Engraved by S. Mi[missing].
[Illegible] of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pubd. July 1, 1819 [101 Strand, London].
Hand coloured engraving, image 105 x 170mm. 4 x 6¾". Sheet trimmed.
A Phaeton is a sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, designed for speed. The name refers to the disastrous ride of mythical Phaëton, son of Helios, who set the earth on fire while attempting to drive the chariot of the sun. Numbered 'Plate 3, Vol. VIII' upper right, for Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature. Ackermann's ingenuity and enterprise were not directed to fine art matters alone. His father had been a coach-builder and harness-maker in Germany and his early years in London were engaged in making designs for many of the principal coach-builders. The preparation of Lord Nelson's funeral car (1805) was entrusted to his skill. Between 1818 and 1820 he was occupied with a patent for movable carriage axles.
[Ref: 19055] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Phalaris Das Kunst Stuck welches / hier Perillus hat erdacht [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower centre of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching with very large margins, sheet 340 x 210mm (13¼ x 8¼").
Phalaris of Acragas (now Agrigento, Sicily). Phalaris was a tyrant renowned for his cruelty. Here he watches a small animal being devoured, while in the background is the infamous brazen bull. This was a bronze bull, hollow, and with a door in one side, used to execute criminals by roasting them to death. Here the sculptor Perillos, who made the device, is put into the device to test it (he was withdrawn before dying, and thrown from the top of a hill instead). Phalaris, however, later met his end inside the brazen bull after he was overthrown by Telemachus. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33174] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Phases Of The Moon. The various appearearances which the Moon periodically presents in her...
London: Published By James Reynolds, 174, Strand. [n.d., c.1850]
Hand tinted engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Some time staining along edges of card. Small tear in the tissue paper behind full moon and pinhole in half moon next to it. Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
One of a set of 12 hand-tinted astronomical prints with explanatory text from the series 'Astronomical Diagrams'. Several of the images were drawn and engraved by John Emslie, who also collaborated with Reynolds on the set of diagrams, 'Popular Diagrams of Natural Philosophy'. A transformation print with holes in the card backed by tissue paper to indicate the lit portions of the Moon during its cycle when held up to the light. Text at top and bottom give an explanation of these movements and appearances.
[Ref: 56831] £360.00 view all images for this item

Pheasant [pencil, lower left.]
BG(?)Bromhead [signed in pencil and in plate.]
[British, n.d., c.1930s?]
Etching from a limited edition, numbered '1/15' to lower margin. Laid paper watermarked 'Hand Made', 135 x 200mm. 5¼ x 8". Some faint spotting.
Three pheasants at the base of a tree.
[Ref: 22754] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse du Faisan. [Pheasant Shooting].
Peinte par J. Ibbetson. Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Avril 1791 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple with small margins. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼").
A Pheasant hunting scene with two men and their dogs in a woodland area. In the foreground to the right, a man is directed to the left with his gun facing outwards, whilst in the background to the left, the second man takes aim at a Pheasant in flight, which can be seen in the sky in the centre of the image. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Morland.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 33225] £370.00

Pheasant Shooting.
Painted by J. Ibbetson. Engrav'd by R. Dodd.
Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1790 by T. Smith N.º 40 Margaret Street, Cavendish Sq.r.
Aquatint, printed in brown, 1st issue. 365 x 425mm (14¼ x 16¾"), with large margins.
Two men shooting with pointers.
Siltzer p. 166, as published by Simpson in 1790.
[Ref: 63024] £390.00

Pheasant Shooting. La Chasse au Faisand. 216.
T. Buford fecit.
London Published May 1st 1787 by Rob.t Sayer 53 Fleet Street.
Mezzotint, 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Repaired tears, one affecting engraver's signature. Small margins. Title messy.
A man shoots at a pheasant while three dogs chase it. A second hunter watches. Since the plate was originally published by Burford in 1770 it has been reworked, with the addition of the second hunter.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 55418] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pheasant Shooting.
Engraved by T. Sutherland.
London: Published by R. Ackermann, at His Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street. [n.d. c.1820 bit later.]
Coloured aquatint. Plate 267 x 718mm. 10½ x 28¼".
Pheasant Shooting; two pheasants fall having been shot by men and hunters to the left, dogs running to catch the game.
[Ref: 23633] £750.00

[Pheasant Shooting - An Awkward Dilemma]
[Painted by Charles Whymper] [Etched by Herbert Sedcole]
London Published Novr. 1st. 1890 by Fine Art Society [limited] 148 New Bond Street. W.
Etching 610 x 415mm.
Remarqued proof [foxhound] ltd. 150 - The shooting disrupted by foxhunting.
[Ref: 6605] £590.00

[Pheasants.]
F. Barlow pinxit. W. Hollar fecit.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. 150 x 210mm (6 x 8¼"), with large margins. Stitch holes in left margin.
An untitled plate from the series 'Diversae avium species', showing a cock and two hens, one perching in a tree.
Pennington 2131, only state.
[Ref: 63603] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

In the Covert [in pencil].
W Travis Jackson [in pencil].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching signed by the artsit, 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"), with very large margins.
Two pheasants in a woodland.
[Ref: 62620] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Phenology] Lord Suffield's Remarks on Mr. Marsham's Indications of Spring.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress with wood-engraved border. Top right signature of ... Martineau ink mss. ownership inscription dated 1804.; Sheet 350 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Splits in folds taped, some spotting.
A phenological table giving the earliest and latest recorded dates of the first appearences each spring of 27 species over a period of up to 60 years. Robert Marsham F.R.S. (1707-97) of Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, first published his Indications of Spring in 1789 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 62567] £360.00

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