Grosvenor Prints

Bechuana Belle.
W.C. Harris.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana; a tribes woman standing bare-breasted with a small child strapped to her back peering up over her shoulder. Tribesmen are seen in the background standing around a wagon. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30174] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bechuana of Distinction.
W.C. Harris del.t
[n.d. c.1838.]
Coloured lithograph. 240 x 165mm (9½ x 6½").
Bechuana, people from Tswana; a tribesman with a loin of meat hanging off of his spear and holding a feather parasol. By Sir Captain William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled through South Africa. From "Wild Sports of Southern Africa".
Abbey 334.
[Ref: 30173] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

S. Thomas Cantvariensis. Sol, 279.
[n.d. c.1800's]
Engraving, Trimmed and laid onto album paper.
Full lenth portrait of Thomas Becket (1118-70) as Saint Thomas of Canterbury set against a barren landscape. He wears his robes of office. He holds his right hand in a sign of blessing and holds a cross shaped staff in the other.
[Ref: 65755] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Couple in Conversation.]
B fec et Ex. [Engraved by Isaac Beckett.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Mezzotint. 225 x 180mm (8 x 7"). Trimmed close to plate. Some loss /damage to corners.
A portrait of a lady and gentleman. The woman seated with her arm resting upon a table, to her side stands the gentleman who looks down at her.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65509] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Isaac Beckett.
J. Smith fec.
Sold by W. Beckett at the back side of the Royal Exchange.
Very scarce mezzotint. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed just within plate.
A youthful portrait of the mezzotint publisher Isaac Beckett (c.1653-88), a memorial portrait by his pupil John Smith.
CS 17. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See Anthony Griffiths' "The Print in Stuart Britain 1998", pg. 234.
[Ref: 69079] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[W. Beckett Esq.r., M.P. for Leeds.]
[Painted by Sir Fra.s Grant, P.R.A. Engraved by James Scott.]
[Henry Graves & Co., 1861.]
Very fine mezzotint on india, proof before letters. Printsellers' Association blindstamp. 690 x 405mm. Edition limited to 100 proofs.
William Beckett (1784-1863), a respected banker and Conservative politician, MP for Leeds (1841-52), then Ripon (1852-7).
[Ref: 2800] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Edmund Beckett-Denison] Edmund Denison, Esq. Chairman of the Great Northern Railway.
Painted by H.W. Pickersgill, Esq.re R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
Published April 4.th 1848 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & C.º 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publishers to Her Majesty.
Mezzotint. Sheet 505 x 380mm (20 x 15"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear through title, creasing.
A three quarter portrait of Edmund Beckett-Denison (1787-1874), Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, with a copy of the Act of Parliament approving the railway. Because of opposition, the cost of getting the bill passed by Parliament was £600,000, the most expensive in British railway history
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68200] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of Beckford, Gloucestershire.
J. Bluck del.t et fecit.
London: Published by R.A. Ackermannm at the Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, April 2, 1801.
Aquatint. 200 x 290mm (8 x 11½").
A view of the church at Beckford, from an unknown series of topographical scenes of Gloucestershire by John Bluck, who is better known for etching other people's work.
Not in Abbey Scenery. See 30811; 30813.
[Ref: 30809] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Fox Petition, 1769.] William Beckford Esq.r Member of Parliament for the City of London, chosen Alderman of Billingsgate ward, 1752. Ja.s Townsend Esq.r Member for Westloe in Cornwall, chosen Aldermann of Bishopsgte ward, June 23.d 1769. John Sawbridge Esq.r Member for Hithe in Kent, chosen Ald.n of Langbourn Ward, July 1st 1769.
R. Houston del et fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Sep.r 29th 1769 by Jn.o Smith No 35 in Cheapside; and Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint. 305 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"). Narrow margins, slight damage on right; glued to backing sheet.
Portraits of three important London politicians, all supporters of John Wilkes and all Lord Mayors of London in the 1760s and 1770s. They are shown here preparing their petition against the Paymaster General of the Forces, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, who was believed to have amassed a personal fortune of £400,000 in his eight years as Paymaster. Beckford (then Lord Mayor) holds the petition scroll in his hand, which is opened to the section which refers to Fox as 'the public defaulter of unaccounted millions'. Although he escaped from the charges Fox died an embittered man. Sawbridge, on the right, rests upon a volume of 'Locke on Government'.
C.S.Houston 9.
[Ref: 27578] £360.00

[The Fox Petition, 1769.] William Beckford Esq.r Member of Parliament for the City of London, chosen Alderman of Billingsgate ward, 1752. Ja.s Townsend Esq.r Member for Westloe in Cornwall, chosen Aldermann of Bishopsgte ward, June 23.d 1769. John Sawbridge Esq.r Member for Hithe in Kent, chosen Ald.n of Langbourn Ward, July 1st 1769.
R. Houston del et fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Sep.r 29th 1769 by Jn.o Smith No 35 in Cheapside; and Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint. 305 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"). Tears taped.
Portraits of three important London politicians, all supporters of John Wilkes and all Lord Mayors of London in the 1760s and 1770s. They are shown here preparing their petition against the Paymaster General of the Forces, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, who was believed to have amassed a personal fortune of £400,000 in his eight years as Paymaster. Beckford (then Lord Mayor) holds the petition scroll in his hand, which is opened to the section which refers to Fox as 'the public defaulter of unaccounted millions'. Although he escaped from the charges Fox died an embittered man. Sawbridge, on the right, rests upon a volume of 'Locke on Government'.
C.S.Houston 9.
[Ref: 62769] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[The Fox Petition, 1769.] William Beckford Esq.r Member of Parliament for the City of London, chosen Alderman of Billingsgate ward, 1752. Ja.s Townsend Esq.r Member for Westloe in Cornwall, chosen Aldermann of Bishopsgte ward, June 23.d 1769. John Sawbridge Esq.r Member for Hithe in Kent, chosen Ald.n of Langbourn Ward, July 1st 1769.
R. Houston del et fecit.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Sep.r 29th 1769 by Jn.o Smith No 35 in Cheapside; and Rob.t Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street, London.
Scarce mezzotint, very fine impression; 305 x 390mm (12 x 15¼"), large margins on 3 sides. Loss in inscription area.
Portraits of three important London politicians, all supporters of John Wilkes and all Lord Mayors of London in the 1760s and 1770s. They are shown here preparing their petition against the Paymaster General of the Forces, Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, who was believed to have amassed a personal fortune of £400,000 in his eight years as Paymaster. Beckford (then Lord Mayor) holds the petition scroll in his hand, which is opened to the section which refers to Fox as 'the public defaulter of unaccounted millions'. Although he escaped from the charges Fox died an embittered man. Sawbridge, on the right, rests upon a volume of 'Locke on Government'.
C.S. 9.
[Ref: 63173] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. Willm. Beckford Esqr. Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London. This being the second Time of his Mayoralty, & the third Time of Representing that City in Parliament.
London, Printed for R. Sayer at No. 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith at N.o 35 in Cheapside. [n.d. c.1770].
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of William Beckford (1709-70), shown standing full-length and turned to the left. With his left hand he lifts the fur-trimmed edge of his long cloak, while wearing the mayoral chain of office and a powdered wig. He looks out towards the viewer and gestures with his right hand towards a document inscribed “The Humble Address, Remonstrance & Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Livery of the City of London in Common Hall Assembled”, which rests upon the mace on a table beside him. Behind are the sword and, set within a niche, a statue of Justice. Beckford began his life in the West Indies before being sent to England to be educated from 1723. Following the death of his father in 1735 he returned home to managed the family estates, but in 1747 he returned to England and entered parliament as an MP. He became an alderman in 1752 and held the office of Lord Mayor of the City of London twice in 1762 and 1769.
CS 23. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68792] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. Willm. Beckford Esqr. Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London. This being the second Time of his Mayoralty, & the third Time of Representing that City in Parliament.
London, Printed for R. Sayer at No. 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith at N.o 35 in Cheapside. [n.d. c.1770].
Mezzotint, plate 350 x 250mm (14 x 10"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Paper lightly toned small margins.
Portrait of William Beckford (1709-70), shown standing full-length and turned to the left. With his left hand he lifts the fur-trimmed edge of his long cloak, while wearing the mayoral chain of office and a powdered wig. He looks out towards the viewer and gestures with his right hand towards a document inscribed “The Humble Address, Remonstrance & Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Livery of the City of London in Common Hall Assembled”, which rests upon the mace on a table beside him. Behind are the sword and, set within a niche, a statue of Justice. Beckford began his life in the West Indies before being sent to England to be educated from 1723. Following the death of his father in 1735 he returned home to managed the family estates, but in 1747 he returned to England and entered parliament as an MP. He became an alderman in 1752 and held the office of Lord Mayor of the City of London twice in 1762 and 1769.
CS 23. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68794] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Rt. Honble. Willm. Beckford Esqr. Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London. This being the second Time of his Mayoralty, & the third Time of Representing that City in Parliament.
[London, Printed for R. Sayer at No. 53 Fleet Street & J. Smith at N.o 35 in Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1770]. [But later]
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed losing publication line, inlaid at edges.
Portrait of William Beckford (1709-70), shown standing full-length and turned to the left. With his left hand he lifts the fur-trimmed edge of his long cloak, while wearing the mayoral chain of office and a powdered wig. He looks out towards the viewer and gestures with his right hand towards a document inscribed “The Humble Address, Remonstrance & Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Livery of the City of London in Common Hall Assembled”, which rests upon the mace on a table beside him. Behind are the sword and, set within a niche, a statue of Justice. Beckford began his life in the West Indies before being sent to England to be educated from 1723. Following the death of his father in 1735 he returned home to managed the family estates, but in 1747 he returned to England and entered parliament as an MP. He became an alderman in 1752 and held the office of Lord Mayor of the City of London twice in 1762 and 1769.
CS 23. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68795] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cricket] The Courtiers Assembled on hearing the News of the Death of the R.t Hon.ble W.m Beckford.
[Oxford Magazine, 1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½''). Remains of paper pasted over bottom of image, stains.
Jeremiah Dyson, blackened face and dressas Harlequin with his batte (or 'slapstick') tucked in his belt) arrives to break the news of William Beckford's death to a group of saitisfied ministers. On the table is a scroll, 'A New Scheme to restrain the Liberty of the Press, by M__d & others, with the Art of packing Juries'. Depicted are John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich (in sporting gear, holding a curved cricket bat), William Murray Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, Augustus Henry Grafton, John Russell Bedford, Henry Fox Holland, Lord Hillsborough (Wills Hill, Marquis of Downshire), John Stuart Bute, and possibly Thomas Thynne Bath (Viscount Weymouth).
BM Satire 4393. Temi Odumosu, 'Africans in English Caricature', p.65, Fig. 1.10.
[Ref: 66672] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Monument to be Erected to the Memory of the R.t Hon.ble W.m Beckford Esq.r.
For the Oxford Mag.
[1770.]
Etching. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with margins.
A monument to William Beckford with allegorical figures, including Britannia and Hercules, mourning him.
BM Satires 4396.
[Ref: 54386] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

William Beckford Esqr.
J. Chapman sculp.
London published as the Act directs April 19, 1798 by J. Wilkes.
Colour-printed stipple. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with wide margins.
William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London (1709-1770). He began his life in the West Indies before being sent to England to be educated from 1723. Following the death of his father in 1735 he returned home to managed the family estates, but in 1747 he returned to England and entered parliament as an MP. He became an alderman in 1752 and held the office of Lord Mayor of the City of London twice in 1762 and 1769. His son was William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) was was the eccentri English novelist and politician. He was known for building Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower.
See NPG: D14113.
[Ref: 17579] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Will.m Beckford Esq.r Lord Mayor, and Member of Parliament for the City of London. This being the second Time of this Mayoralty, and the third Time of his Representing that City in Parliament.
J. Dixon del.t et fecit.
London: Published as the Act directs, A.D. 1770. Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard.
Mezzotint with small margins. 355 x 255mm (14 x 9¾").
A portrait of William Beckford MP (1709-70), Mayor of London and sugar merchant in Jamaica. Full length portrait, wearing robes and chain and standing next to the Lord Mayor's sword and mace, the Bill of Rights in his left hand and his right hand resting on the Magna Charta.
CS:5. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32331] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Beckford Esq.r. Author of Histories of France & Jamaica.
From a Shade by Miers.
Pub.d by Vernor & Hood, 31 Poultry, May 31, 1799.
Stipple, small margins. Platemark: 160 x 110mm. (6¼ x 4¼").
A silhouette portrait of William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790. He moved to Bath where he bought many of the houses on Lansdown Crescent and he eventually commissioned architect Henry Goodridge to design the spectactular folly on Lansdown Hill, known as Beckford's Tower. Most of Fonthill Abbey collapsed under the weight of its poorly-built tower in 1825.
[Ref: 31680] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

William Beckford Esq Twice Lord Mayor of London. Taken from the Original Model presented by Augustin Carlini, and REJECTED by a Majority of the Committee of the Court of Aldermen and Common Council. on the 16th January 1771.
Aug. Carlini inv. Biagio Rebecca del. Fran. Bartolozzi sculp.`
Published according to Act of Parl.t 5. Apr. 1772.
Rare engraving & scarce. Sheet 640 x 430mm (25¼ x 17") Trimmed within plate top and bottom, without loss of image; some loss around platemark.
An illustration of the statue of William Beckford (1709-70, MP and twice Lord Major of London) that Agostino Carlini (c.1718 - 1790) proposed for the Guildhall but which was rejected for another design. He is shown in his mayoral robes and chain, his sword and mace to the side. Two putti hold the Bill of Rights, a Liberty Pole and a scroll, which probably contains the text of his famous admonition of George III.
De V: 759
[Ref: 33151] £550.00

The Rt. Honble. Willm. Beckford Esqr. Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London. This being the second Time of his Mayoralty, & the third Time of Representing that City in Parliament.
London, Printed for R. Sayer at No. 53 Fleet Street &.... [rest of publication line erased, n.d. c.1770].
Mezzotint. 250 x 350mm.
William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London [1709 - 1770].
[Ref: 5382] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

William Beckford Esq.r
J. Chapman sculp.
London published as the Act directs April 19. 1798 by J. Wilkes.
Stipple, with very large margins . Plate 165 x 113mm. 6½ x 4½". Stain in lower margins
William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London (1709-1770). He began his life in the West Indies before being sent to England to be educated from 1723. Following the death of his father in 1735 he returned home to managed the family estates, but in 1747 he returned to England and entered parliament as an MP. He became an alderman in 1752 and held the office of Lord Mayor of the City of London twice in 1762 and 1769.
See Ref: 17579 for coloured copy.
[Ref: 26860] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Part of the Garden at Hall-Barn, near Beckonsfield, in Buckinhamshire; a Seat of Edmund Waller Esq.r.
W.m Woollett delin.
Printed by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. 175 x 270mm (7 x 10¾").
Hall Barn Manor House was built by Edmund Waller (1606-1687), poet and politician. The Edmund named here was a descendent. From "Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c.".
[Ref: 16933] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Beckwith, Lt. Colonel Anglais, Bienfaiteur des Vaudois.
Adeveria. Lith de Lemercier, A Paris.
[n.d. c.1846.]
A very rare lithograph. 545 x 376mm. 21½ x 14¾". Two holes. Some creasing.
John Charles Beckwith (1789-1862) was a British army officer and missionary. He entered the British army in 1803, and in 1815 he served with Sir Thomas Picton's divsion at the battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, where he lost his leg after it was shattered by a cannonball. He was awarded the Waterloo Medal and promoted to lieutenant-colonel. In 1837 he was raised to colonel and in 1846 to major-general. After his injury he returned home to Halifax, where he became a founder and patron of the town's first Sunday school, and in 1826 he was invited to visit the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House in London where he read Dr William Stephen Gilly's "Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont" (London, 1824). This inspired Beckwith to take an interest in the plight of a small group of Protestants known as Waldensians or Vaudois who lived in the Piedmont valleys near Pinerolo. He visited the Waldensians for several years until he decided to move to Turin and devote the rest of his life to assisting them. He worked to improve Waldensian schools, and therefore collected money from friends in England, visited the schools, urged building of new schools by the community, sent teachers to Lausanne and Florence for training, and encouraged the education of women. In all he opened or restored 120 district schools. In 1848, in recognition of his labours with the Waldensians, Beckwith received the cross of St Maurice and St Lazarius from the king.
[Ref: 17805] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Tho.s Beckwith of York, Painter & F.A.S. London.
M.F. Quadal pinx.t. W.Humphrey fec.t.
[n.d., 1777.]
Rare mezzotint. 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Thread margins, mounted in album paper.
Thomas Beckwith (1731-86), painter, genealogist and antiquary, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
[Ref: 43551] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry] M.me Du Barry
[after François-Hubert Drouais]
[n.d. c.1800]
Coloured stipple, sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Portrait of Madame du Barry, shown as a bust with her head gently tilted toward her right shoulder, within an oval frame. Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93) was the last mistress of King Louis XV of France, she was renowned for her influence in the court of Versailles. During the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, Jeanne was imprisoned over accusations of treason by her servant Zamor; particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She was executed by guillotine on 8th December 1793.
The oil painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art Washington DC.
[Ref: 68617] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Madame la Comtesse du Barry.]
B Wilson delin. W.m Humphrey fecit. R Sayer Ecudit.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer N.o 53 in Fleet Street, Published as the Act Directs 1.st Dec.r 1779.
Fine & rare mezzotint proof before title, 395 x 280mm (15½ x 11"), with very large margins.
Three-quarter-length standing portrait of Madame du Barry, turned to the right and glancing at the viewer, leaning her left elbow on a table, or windowsill, while holding a cameo, her right hand resting on her wrist, dressed in a low-neck gown with a pearl choker and pearls in her hair, with a curtain to the left and a landscape seen through a window on the right. Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93) was the last mistress of King Louis XV of France, she was renowned for her influence in the court of Versailles. During the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, Jeanne was imprisoned over accusations of treason by her servant Zamor; particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She was executed by guillotine on 8th December 1793.
CS 8 I of III. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68621] £480.00

A Bed Matt or a Door Matt Achetez des Nates Chi vuol Storioli da letto. 6.
MLauron delin:
P Tempest ex Cum privilegio [n.d. c.1740.]
Hand-coloured etching and engraving; paper 18th century watermarked. Plate 246 x 165mm. 9¾ x 6½". Small hole and creasing.
A street seller walking to right with sticks over his shoulders, from which mats hang. From "The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life".
[Ref: 28181] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A view of Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire.
Edw.d Goodwin del.t H. Meyer sculp.t
London, Published 12th Jan.y 1814, by T. Macdonald, 39 Fleet Street.
Coloured aquatint, very rare with large margins, J. Whatman 1826 watermarked paper, platemark 450 x 600mm (17¾ x 23½").
The village of Beddgelert in the Snowdonia area of Wales, at the confluence of the rivers Glaslyn and Colwyn. A wonderful example of a large coloured aquatint.
[Ref: 29859] £490.00

Whims of the Moment or the Bedford Level!!
Woodward del. [Etched by Isaac Cruikshank]
[London Pub No 20 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening]
Coloured etching, E & P watermark. Sheet 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line at top.
Two panels: on the left a well-dressed man staggers back in horror as he regards his queue of hair which has been roughly cropped from the back of the neck; on the right a farmer smiles as he shows off his neck, shaved at the back of his head. Francis Russell (1765-1802), 5th Duke of Bedford, protested against the imposition of a tax on hair powder in 1795 by cutting his hair short, a style that became known as the 'Bedford Level', after the area of the Fens reclaimed by his family.
BM Satires 8763.
[Ref: 54563] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch or Map of Bedford Level and Country adjoining, Shewing the Divisions, Rivers, Frains, &c. with the proposed New Cut from Eau Brink to Lynn. Reasons In Support of the Bill for manking a New Cut from Eau Brink to Lynn, in Norfolk, for the effectural Improvement of the Outfall of the River Ouze, and the Preservation of the Harbour of Lynn.
S.I. Neele, sculp.t 352, Strand.
[n.d., c.1793.]
Engraved map with hand colour 230 x 330mm (9 x 13") , on sheet with letterpress, total 355 x 340mm (14 x 13¼"). Map trimmed within plate top and right, letterpress cut at bottom?
A map of the Great Level of the Fens (here named Bedford Level after Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, who facilitated the draining of the Fens in the 17th century. It was published to accompany a proposal that needed an Act of Parliament. Despite opposition from the people of King's Lynn, the first Act ordering the construction of the Cut was passed in 1795, but the Cut was not completed until 1821.
[Ref: 54800] £290.00

T. Bedford Lithographic Establishment Bristol. Specimen of Bedford's Lithography.
[c.1850]
Lithograph, printed area 155 x 200mm (6 x 8"). Glued to backing sheet.
Trompe l'oeil advertisement for T. Bedford, printer at 15 Redcliff Street, Bristol. The image includes various overlapping sheets of paper, no doubt intended to demonstrate the range of printing tasks Bedford could carry out, and that lithography could do anything that engraving could. These include tradecards, sheet music, maps, broadsides, views (Clifton Suspension Bridge) and invitations.
[Ref: 46939] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

"Western Australia" [Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford G.C.B. K.C.D.]
[''Spy" monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image lower left.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. lith.
Vanity Fair Decr. 3rd. 1903.
Chromolithograph, image 320 x 190mm. 12½ x 7½".
Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford KCB (1838 - 1913) was Governor of Western Australia from 24 March 1903 to 22 April 1909. His father was a Vice-Admiral. Sir Frederick joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14, and also served in the Crimean War.
[Ref: 10808] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

New Bedlam in Moor-fields.
[London: Henry Overton, c.1724.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate: 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"). Marking in large margins.
A view of Bethlem Royal Hospital or Bedlam, from 'Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London, Neatly Engraved' published by Henry Overton.
[Ref: 45350] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Cap.t William Bedloe Discoverer of the Popish Plott.
[Anon., c.1681]
Engraving, rich impression. Sheet 225 x 150mm (9 x 6'').
William Bedloe (1650-80), informer and adventurer. In the 1670s Bedloe fell into a life of crime in London, spending time in jail for fraud and at one point fleeing for the continent with his brother. There they stole horses and committed fraud, going by different disguises and identities. In Valladolid they met Titus Oates (and stole from him too), but back in England Bedloe came into the public eye following the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. Godfrey died in mysterious circumstances soon after receiving testimony from Oates about a supposed 'Popish Plot' to assassinate Charles II, and Bedloe claimed he knew how Godfrey had died. Bedloe appeared at a number of trials relating to the plot, giving evidence that led to the deaths of a number of innocent people. An opportunist, Bedloe exploited the hysteria and gullibility surrounding the fabricated plot, earning well from his 'evidence', while his early death meant he was spared the retribution which Oates and others received once the smoke cleared.
[Ref: 48804] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cap.t William Bedloe Discoverer of the Popish Plott.
[Anon., c.1681]
Engraving, sheet 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed. Glued to album sheet at edges.
William Bedloe (1650-80), informer and adventurer. In the 1670s Bedloe fell into a life of crime in London, spending time in jail for fraud and at one point fleeing for the continent with his brother. There they stole horses and committed fraud, going by different disguises and identities. In Valladolid they met Titus Oates (and stole from him too), but back in England Bedloe came into the public eye following the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. Godfrey died in mysterious circumstances soon after receiving testimony from Oates about a supposed 'Popish Plot' to assassinate Charles II, and Bedloe claimed he knew how Godfrey had died. Bedloe appeared at a number of trials relating to the plot, giving evidence that led to the deaths of a number of innocent people. An opportunist, Bedloe exploited the hysteria and gullibility surrounding the fabricated plot, earning well from his 'evidence', while his early death meant he was spared the retribution which Oates and others received once the smoke cleared.
[Ref: 42812] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Bedouin Woman. Making Butter.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼").
An Bedouin arab woman making butter in an animal skin hung from a tree. From 'The World in Miniature; edited by Frederick Shoberl', containing a translation of Castellan's 'History of the Turks'.
[Ref: 39153] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Bedouin Woman. A Bedouin Arab.
Pub.d by R. Ackermann, London, 1821.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 135 x 85mm (5¼ x 3¼").
An bedouin arab man, woman and child. From 'The World in Miniature; edited by Frederick Shoberl', containing a translation of Castellan's 'History of the Turks'.
[Ref: 39154] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A Wahhabi Bedouin' and an Arab of the Azami Tribe.]
Drawn by E. Prisse Esq.re on stone by Mouilleron.
Print.d by Lemercier, Paris. [1848.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, laid on card as issued. Card: 575 x 460mm (22¾ x 18''). Foxing.
A portrait of two men, wearing swords in a desert landscape. A plate from 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, And Modes of Life In the Valley of the Nile' by James Augustus St. John, illustrated after drawings by Emile Prisse d'Avennes. Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French Egyptologist and archeologist who moved to Egypt in 1827 and adopted the Egyptian way of life, converting to Islam and being known as Idriss-effendi. Very fine 1st state with wonderful fresh colour.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 50920] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Bedouins from the vicinity of Suez.]
Drawn by E. Prisse Esq.re. On stone by Bour.
Print.d by Lemercier, Paris. [1848.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph, laid on card as issued. Card: 575 x 460mm (22¾ x 18''). Foxing, damage in corners.
A scene showing two men in bedouin dress in a desert landscape. A plate from 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, And Modes of Life In the Valley of the Nile' by James Augustus St. John, illustrated after drawings by Emile Prisse d'Avennes. Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French Egyptologist and archeologist who moved to Egypt in 1827 and adopted the Egyptian way of life, converting to Islam and being known as Idriss-effendi. Very fine 1st state with wonderful fresh colour.
Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
[Ref: 50924] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bedruthan Steps, near S.t Colomb, (from Diggory Island). Proof.
Published by W. Polkinhorn [n.d., c.1840].
Colour tinted lithograph, a proof on chine collé, on printed backing card as normal. Sheet 335 x 440mm (13¼ x 17¼"). A little scuffing.
A rare, separate-issue view of Bedruthan beach, with the sea stacks known as the 'Bedruthan Steps', said to be a giant's shortcut across the bay. There is no record of Polkinhorn as a publisher, but a 'W. Polkinhorn' owned the Red Lion Commercial Inn at St Columb in 1859.
[Ref: 58717] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bedtime Story.]
Arthur J. Elsley 1916 [in image area.] Arthur J. Elsley [signed in pencil.]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1916 by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd in the office of the librarian of Congress at Washington. Copyright 1915 by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd. London E.C. Printed in England. Published by Bovril Limited. Produced by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd. London E.C.
Photogravure on india, publisher's stamp, artist's proof with pencil signature. India 610 x 430mm (24 x 17").
A mother sat on a chair by the fireplace reading a book to her two children, with a rough-coated collie dog lying in front of her feet. Shuttlecock on chair behind. Arthur John Elsley (1860-1952), the English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, known for his genre scenes of playful children and their pets.
[Ref: 28689] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

East Front of Bedwell Park.
Litho. Newlands 1829. M.A.T.W. [Mary Anne Theresa Whitby]
Lithograph, very rare; printed area approx. 200 x 315mm (8 x 12½"). Foxing around edges.
Bedwell Park in Hertfordshire, which had been owned by the brewer Samuel Whitbread in the 18th century. The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For a London view by Whitby, see ref. 19290.
[Ref: 35687] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

To the Right Hon.ble the Hon.ble and The Rev.d The Governors of the Hospital of Mr Nicholas Chamberlain; deceased This View of the New Hospital now erecting at Bedworth, Warwickshire, is dedicated by their most obedient and most humble Servant, Thomas Larkins Walker, Architect.
G. Hawkins, Jun.r lith. Day & Haghe, Lith.rs to the Queen.
[Published by Walker] 2, Kepple St, Russell Square, London, Sep.r 1839. N.B. Sold in aid of the funds for building an Infact School-House, on Bedworth Heath.
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 285 x 340mm (11¼ x 13½"). Large margins.
A rare print of Bedworth Hospital, one of at least two published as fund-raisers for the Infant School. Bedford's current secondary school is named after the same Nicholas Chamberlaine (1632-1715).
See Wellcome ICV No 12477 for the other lithograph.
[Ref: 38839] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Bees.]
E. Dayes delin. F. Hollyer [?] sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Coloured stipple, rare. Sheet 450 x 550mm (17¾ x 21¾"). Trimmed, losing title and publication line, other inscriptions worn; margins stained, laid on archival tissue, wormhole in image.
A family wave a swarm of bees from a tree in the farmyard back to their hives.
[Ref: 48517] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Frau Harriet Beecher-Stowe. Ms. C.L. No.1823.
Inst. Bibi. Excudit. [n.d. c.1830.]
Engraving. 240 x 152mm. 9½ x 6".
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery. As a novel and a play it became very influential in the United States and the United Kingdom. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
[Ref: 23622] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Lithographed & Pubd. by J.M. Menzies 27 Hanover St. Edinr. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 280 x 220mm. 11 x 8¾". A little soiled, with handling creases. Upper right corner chipped.
Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American writer, social reformer, and philanthropist who wrote one of the classic works of American literature, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852).
[Ref: 27080] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Beechlands, Newick. The seat of William Thomson Esqre.
Drawn & Engraved by J.H. Hurdis for Baxter's History of Sussex.
Gad & Co. Printers. London [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving, with large margins, 160 x 225mm. 6¼ x 9".
A village fair attended by a crowd at the Beechland estate, Newick, East Sussex. Baskets lying on grass in foreground at centre, a man selling flowers and vegetables at left, and agricultural products laid out on a table outside a tent within a fenced area behind; building flanked by trees in background. There is an archery competition between two lady archers taking place in the background to right. John Henry Hurdis (1800 - 1857).
[Ref: 24267] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[3. Yeoman of the King's Body-Guard.]
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street Jan.y 1. 1805.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed within plate.
A 'beefeater' with his pike, Windsor Castle in the distance. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 51349] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Bills from Beer House Farm, near Cawston, Norfolk.]
[1840s]
Over 100 hand-written bills, various sizes.
A fascinating insight into the running of the 300-acre Beer House Farm, when run by Catherine Ireland and her son Horace Soame Ireland.
[Ref: 49014] £500.00 view all images for this item

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