Grosvenor Prints

A View of Purfleet in the County of Essex. Vüe du Purfleet dans le Comté d’Essex. No.18.
J.no Boydell Delin. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside London. 1752.
Engraving, paper watermarked with large margins Plate 255 x 420mm (10 x 16½").
A view of Purfleet, on the River Thames, in Thurrock, Essex; ships and other small vessels on the water. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.18.
[Ref: 29311] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[America] Puri. Botocudos. Dr. Pritchard's Natural History of Man. Plate.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint with added gum arabic. 145 x 236mm (5¾ x 9¼").
Two South American tribes people. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
See Ref: 30256 - different colouring and publication.
[Ref: 30260] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Declaration D'Amour de René a Sarotte. [&] Proposition de Mariage aux Parens de Sarotte.
C. Troost pinxit. Punt et Tanje fecerunt.
A Amsterdam, chez J. Punt et P. Tanje 1754 ['Proposition' only, 'Declaration' published by P. Fouquet junior in addition to Punt and Tanjé]
Pair of engravings, each 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10¾"). Small repair to upper left of 'Declaration'.
Two Dutch satirical interior scenes, in which the Puritan René declares his love to Sarotte, and asks her parents for permission to marry her. Title and four lines of verse in Dutch to left and French to right. After the 1738 paintings by Cornelis Troost (1697 - 1750).
[Ref: 27722] £320.00 view all images for this item

Love declar'd from Rene to Sarotte. Upon my Word, 'twill never do! / Cease, formal Fool, to sigh and Woo! [...]
C. Froost Pinxit / Wilson Fecit
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Map Seller, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. [c.1760]
Engraving, platemark 355 x 255mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Thread margins; crease through title area
British copy of a Dutch satirical scene (one of a pair), in which the Puritan, René, declares his love to Sarotte. As the verses below underline, René's stiff demeanour is intended to contrast with the vivacious Sarotte ("trust me a sprightlier Bird, Mynheer"). In the accompanying plate René asks Sarotte's parents for their permission for him to marry her. After a painting from 1738 by Cornelis Troost (1697 - 1750).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for the pair of Dutch prints from which this derives, see ref. 27722.
[Ref: 36209] £320.00

Purity in Danger, or First Temptation.
J.J. [James Jenkins]
London, Published by J. J. March, 1819, at 48, Strand.
Rare coloured stipple. 215 x 240 (8½ x 9½") very large margins.
Caricature of an elderly lady in a loud dress caressing the head of a young cleric.
[Ref: 42008] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. J. Purkis Jun.r, Professor of Music Who independent of his extraordinary musical abilities stands eminently distinguished as an object favoured by Divin Providence in obtaining sight by a skilful operation at the age of Thirty having been totally Blind from his Birth.
Painted by J. Vaughan. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
Pub. Sept.r 20 1811 by Edw.d Orme Printseller to His Majesty & Royal Family Engraver & Publisher Bond St. Corner of Brook St. London.
Scarce mezzotint printed in brown. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins.
Rare portrait of blind organist and music teacher John Purkis (1781-1849), wearing spectacles, leaning on his harp.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67778] £320.00

Mr. J. Purkis Jun.r, Professor of Music Who independent of his extraordinary musical abilities stands eminently distinguished as an object favoured by Divin Providence in obtaining sight by a skilful operation at the age of Thirty having been totally Blind from his Birth.
Painted by J. Vaughan. Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester.
Pub. Sept.r 20 1811 by Edw.d Orme Printseller to His Majesty & Royal Family Engraver & Publisher Bond St. Corner of Brook St. London.
Scarce mezzotint printed in brown. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins.
Rare portrait of blind organist and music teacher John Purkis (1781-1849), wearing spectacles, leaning on his harp.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67779] £320.00

Le Dessein.
A. Le Clerc, pinx. E. Jeaurat Sculp.
1734. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 255mm (8¾ x 10) Thread margins. Trimmed within plate slightly at bottom. Paper border glued to top margin and within plate.
A woman points to a sketch seemingly to teach the two young boys with her. A very attractive image.
[Ref: 58571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Pursuing the Common Enemy.
Dean & Munday Lithographers Threadneedle St.
London Pub.d by: O. Hodgson 10. Cloth Fair. [n.d. c.1829.]
Scarce coloured lithograph. Sheet 210 x 320mm (8¼ x 12½. Several tears taped.
A disparate crowd, including the Pope, an archbishop, a Turk, a Jewish clothes pedlar and a Quaker, pursue a man. The archbishop using his crozier to trip him, causing his shoe to fall off, revealing a hoof, and the man's tail coils itself around the crozier. A barrister sits on the ground by a flame, with a slab on which is written 'Cancery Suit'. Jewish interest.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 60590] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Recollection. E.B. Pusey [in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1850.]
Etching and stipple. Sheet 278 x 192mm. 11 x 7½".
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882), Church of England clergyman and university professor; a leader of the Oxford Movement. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and canon of Christ Church. Despite the conversion of Newman and others to Roman Catholicism, Pusey himself remained a devout Anglican.
See NPG D5567.
[Ref: 14508] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Putney Embankment, with the boathouses and slipways.]
[Montague Lack]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"), with large margins.
A view of yachts and eights on the slipway of Putney Embankment, Putney Bridge in the background. The etcher has reversed the image, indicated by the numbers on the yachts.
[Ref: 62803] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Obelisk on Putney Common. Erected by order of The City of London in commemoration of the invention of Fire Plates fr securing buildings against Fire.0
Drawn & etched by M.H.
[n.d., c.1789s.]
Etching. 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"). On 18th century watermarked paper, very large margins.
A view of the obelisk at Putney Common, St Paul's and London skyline in background.
[Ref: 63134] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Obelisk on Putney Common. Erected by order of The City of London in commemoration of the invention of Fire Plates fr securing buildings against Fire.0
Drawn & etched by M.H.
[n.d., c.1789s.]
Etching. Trimmed 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed and glued onto album paper at corners.
A view of the obelisk at Putney Common, St Paul's and London skyline in background.
[Ref: 63137] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Putney, took of [sic] Fulham Bridge. No.4.
J. Boydell Delin. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside. Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 260 x 420mm (10¼ x 16½").
View on the Thames, from roughly mid-stream, taken from the bridge, with Putney on the left, the church at far left; small boats on the river. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.4.
[Ref: 29297] £450.00

[View of the Thames at Putney]
[by William Pickett.]
[Pub.d June 4th by T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill.]
Aquatint with hand colouring. Sheet approx 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to image; glued to album sheet.
Riverside view with buildings [whose sign is the name of the printmaker] and poultry in foreground. From Pickett's 1812 book of 'Ninety-Six Speciments of Cottages-Bridges-Castles-Churches [...] Intended to facilitate the Improvement of the Student, and to aid the Practitioner, in Landscape Composition'. Aside from its function as an educational volume, the scenes in the book also provide many unusual views of London in the early 19th century.
Abbey (Life in England) 168.
[Ref: 32304] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Putney & Wandsworth.] London. Sheet CXIII. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen. A litle wear.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Putney & Wandsworth, with the Upper Richmond Road, Putney and West Hill. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 11002] £230.00

Fulham [ink mss.]
[n.d. c.1790.]
Pen and ink and sepia wash heightened with white, image 110 x 195mm (4¼ x 7¾"). Mounted on card.
View of the wooden bridge at Putney with Fulham and All Saints Church beyond, with boats on the River Thames and a fisherman sitting on the bank lower left foreground. Copied from an engraving after Thomas Priest.
See Guildhall Library Record: 23145.
[Ref: 11550] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Putney Heath.]
HBK.
[n.d. c.1812.]
Etching. 114 x 152mm (4½ x 6"). Cut.
View on Putney Heath, with a straight road leading through fields in foreground, and fenced areas with trees in background. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871), a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
Ex. Collection of the Hon.Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34799] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Putney School.
Drawn & Engraved by J.W. Harding 1808.
Aquatint. 135 x 195mm (5¼ x 7¾"). Framed. Stains, some ink mss. showing through from reverse.
A view of Putney School, a school and hospital for incurables, with residents playing cricket in the grounds. As Putney House, it had been the country house of the Duke of Hamilton.
[Ref: 67049] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Putney School.
Drawn & Engraved by J.W. Harding 1808.
Aquatint. 135 x 195mm (5¼ x 7¾"). Framed. Some toning of paper.
A view of Putney School, a school and hospital for incurables, with residents playing cricket in the grounds. As Putney House, it had been the country house of the Duke of Hamilton.
[Ref: 67050] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Johann Stephan Pütter] Johannes Stephanus Pütter / Magnae Britanniae regi [...]
H.F.L. Matthieu pinx 17776 / J.E. Haid sculp AV 1777
Mezzotint with very large margins, rare, platemark 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Wormholes lower right; good impression on laid paper.
Johann Stephan Pütter (1725-1807), lecturer on law at the university of Göttingen who turned down positions in Vienna and St Petersburg to stay there. He was also the electorate of Hanover's representative at the Imperial elections in Frankfurt on three occasions.
[Ref: 35596] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Two putti unveiling a rural scene.]
I.H. Green delin et sculp.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etching and aquatint, sheet 132 x 178mm. Light foxing.
A charming print, with putti flanking a picturesque view of a cottage next to a bridge over a river. Possibly a proof for an invitation to an exhibition of pictures, or intended for a peep show. By J.H. Green (fl. c.1801 - 1807), publisher and maker of satirical prints.
[Ref: 7584] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Nine puzzles.]
Pickering ft.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Woodcut puzzle print with letterpress key clues below, sheet 125 x 185mm. 5 x 7¼". Trimmed to image, losing part of the text on lower left.
Grotesque theatrical characters hold a banner displaying nine numbered vignette puzzles. A piece of popular printing for children.
[Ref: 12594] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Tragedy. Comedy.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 140 x 165mm (5½ x 6½''). Trimmed. Neatly repaired tear.
An upside-down puzzle print showing seven faces, held one way up the faces look happy, held the other way they look sad.
[Ref: 49933] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Pychely Hunt set of six.] A distinguish'd Character in the Pychely Hunt [&] Push Him up Tomboy. [&] "now Contract, says Dick, By Jove! Those D_d Quornites shall now see the trick." [&] Proof of Bottom. [&] The fore Horse of the Team. [&] Whoop "was never so carried."
C.Loraine Smith pinxt. Jukes Sculp.
London, Pub.d March 1790 by F. Jukes Engraver Howland Street, No 10.
Ser of six sepia aquatints. Ea. c.250 x 265mm. Some restoration to each plate.
A set of six fox hunting caricatures.
Siltzer: p.250-255.
[Ref: 21091] £590.00 view all images for this item

Pygmalion.
Peint par Gigoux. Lith par Emile Lassalle. Imp. Lemercier Paris.
Berlin _ Verlag von Goupil & Co. Publié par Goupil et C.e le 1.er Mai 1856. Paris _ London. New-York Pub.d by Goupil et C.e.
Lithograph with fine hand colour, scarce. Printed area 690 x 420mm (27¼ x 16½"), with Goupil's blindstamp. Very large margins, spotted.
Pygmalion watches in wonder, one arm reaching out, as his statue Galatea comes to life on the pedestal; smoke from a brazier to right. From a painting by Jean François Gigoux (1806-94) and published in the series 'Les Artistes Anciens Et Modernes'.
[Ref: 47436] £420.00

[Illustration to 'Pygmalion' by J.J. Rousseau] Pigmalion.
C. Eisen inv.
A Paris chez Basan
Engraving, platemark 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾") large margins.
Probably one of a set of six illustrations to Rousseau's dramatization of the Pygmalion story after designs by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus. Although unsigned, this engraving is probably by Emmanuel de Ghendt.
IFF 174? ('dans l'atelier de Pygmalion, des jeunes gens dessinent d'après la statue).
[Ref: 46498] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

William Henry Pyne and His Microcosm.
Harris Myers.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1996.
4to, green gloth gilt with d/w; pp. ix + 302, 186 illustrations. Signed by the Author.
An account of the 'Microcosm', an important record of country life in the late 18th & early 19th centuries, with every plate reproduced.
[Ref: 59765] £60.00

Egiptische Piramiden.
[Olfert Dapper.]
[n.d. c.1670.]
Coloured engraving. Plate 267 x 356mm. 10½ x 14". Fold down centre.
A view of the Egyptian Pyramids, engraved for Dapper's 'Beschrijvinge der Afrikaanse Gewesten', 1668. The plate was also used in John Ogilby's 1670 translation "Africa: being, An Accurate Description of the Regions of Egypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abysinnes, with All the Adjacente Islands".
[Ref: 23732] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

South View of the Pyramids or Devils Arrows at Boroughbridge.
Published as the Act Directs March 23 1798 by J. Flintoff Boroughbridge.
Very scarce and fine aquatint. Plate 235 x 295mm (9¼ x 11½") with very large margins.
View of 'The Devil's Arrows', standing stones found in Boroughbridge, a small settlement in the parish of Aldborough. The National Gazetteer of England and Wales 1868 reported: "Near Boroughbridge are three obelisks roughly shapen of ragstone, about whose origin and character antiquarians are not agreed. They are locally named the Devil's Arrows or Bolts, and by different authorities have been assigned to a British, a Roman and a Celtic origin." There may originally have been even more standing stones here.
In the Online Catalogue for the British Library.
[Ref: 52418] £320.00

[Pyramus and Thisbe] [inscription in Dutch running vertically top to bottom on left]
[Anon., after Robert Robinson, c.1685]
Mezzotint, platemark 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") very large margins. Late impression on wove paper.
Pyramus and Thisbe, two lovers in the city of Babylon whose story is told in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. The pair arranged to meet by a mulberry tree, and the woman Thisbe, arriving first, fled to escape a lioness and left her veil behind. Pyramus, arriving and finding the veil, believed Thisbe had been killed, and so killed himself. Here Thisbe returns to find the body of Pyramus and stabs herself with the same sword Pyramus had used. Anonymous mezzotint, believed to be derived from a print by Bernard Lens (see British Museum 2010,7081.53) in turn after painter and printmaker Robert Robinson.
State ii/iii (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database).
[Ref: 40223] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Les Pecheurs des Napolitains. Gravés par Anne Philiberte Coulet, d'apres le Tableau Original de Joseph Vernet.
J.Vernet pinx. A. Ph. Coulet Sculp.
A Paris, chez Lempereur, Graveur di Roy, rue et porte S.t Jacques, au dessus du Petit Marché. [c. 1790.]
Engraving. 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼"). Very large margins.
Fishermen on a rocky coastline, under a ruined tower.
[Ref: 38120] £320.00

[Six plates from 'Sketches in The Pyrenees'] Crossing the Snows of Gavarni. [&] El Fandango. [&] French Officer Feeding. [&]Pilgrimage to the Baths of Panticosa. [&] Men of Landes. [&] Swimming Baths of the Mediterranean.
M.J. Booth, Del et Lith. M. & N. Hanhart, Imp.t.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837.]
Six tinted lithographs, each sheet c. 175 x 265mm (7 x 10½"). Some spotting, a few signs of wear.
From 'Sketches in The Pyrenees with Some Remarks on Languedoc Provence and the Cornice' by Mary Boddington (née Comerford, 1776-1840). 'Snows of Gavarni' shows the author being guided through a pass in the Pyrenees. Born in Cork, Mary had her poety published in local papers before leaving for London in 1803. She married Thomas Boddington (1774-1862), son of a director of the Bank of England, in 1805 at Saint George’s Church, Hanover Square. She continued to write: other published works include: 'Slight reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a corner of Italy' (1834); 'The Gossip’s Week, in Prose and Verse' (1836); and Poems (1839).
Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland, ''She wrote a couple of entertaining volumes of travel on the Continent'',
[Ref: 49426] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bivouac in the Pyrennees. The night before the Battle.
J. A. Atkinson del. Fry & Sutherland sculp.t.
Published & Sold June 4th 1815 by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty & H.R.H. the Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 330mm (10 z 13"). Faint spotting.
Wellington and his officers around a fire, the night before the Battle of the Pyrenees, fought 25th-30th July 1813. A plate from Orme's 'Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, Of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies, in the last long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo'. This was the first plate of the series, eventually published complete in 1819. It is interesting that this plate was published just over two months after the event shown.
Abbey: Life 376.
[Ref: 33730] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pyrennées. Chevrier prés les eaux chaudes. No.38.
ed Pingret. Litho. de Bernard.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 329 x 279mm. 13 x 11".
A man in traditional dress, in the Pyrenees near the hot springs of Eaux-Chades in the valley of the Gave d'Ossau, France.
[Ref: 26639] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Psyche Going to Dress.
I. G. Cipriani del.t R.A. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t. R.A. Engraver to His Majesty.
Published as the Act directs December the 12. 1786 by E.M. Diemar No. 114 Strand London.
Stipple, fine. Plate: 300 x 220mm (12 x 8¾"), with large margins.
A scene showing the classical figure of Psyche getting dressed with the help of two women.
De Vesme 484.
[Ref: 47376] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Pytchley "Wednesday". Gone Away from Crick.
[Cecil Aldin within print].
Copyright- Published by Richard Wyman & Co., Ltd. 16, Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.
Chromolithograph. Plate: 330 x 190mm, (13 x 7½").
A pack of hounds run across a track while the hunt jump the hedge.
[Ref: 34500] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Pythagoras.
W. Elder sculp.
[n.d. c.1700, but later.]
Engraving. 140 x 89mm. 5½ x 3½". Cut.
Pythagoras of Samos (c.570-c.495BC), the Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is particularly remembered for his Pythagorean theorem in the field of mathematics.
[Ref: 24546] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Pythagoras. Ex marmore antiquo. b,
P.P. Rubens Delin.t J. Faber fecit.
Printed for & Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard. [n.d., c.1720].
Rare mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Thread margins. Light creasing top and right. Repaired wormhole
A portrait of Greek polymath Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 - c. 495BC), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65014] £320.00

Pythagoras. N.25 Magnus Philosophus tanta apud suos Auctoriate ut Auditoribus fuerit satis: Ipse dixit suis.
I.E Nilson, del. Ioh. George Hertel, exud A.V.2.
[n.d., c.1750]
Engraving, plate 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"), with very large margins. Some creasing.
Pythagoras teaching students in a very ornate decorative allegorical setting.
[Ref: 57104] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Pythagoras. Ex marmore antiquo. b,
P.P. Rubens Delin.t J. Faber fecit.
[Printed for & Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in S.t Pauls Church Yard.] [n.d., c.1720].
Rare mezzotint, printed in sepia, 18th century watermark. Sheet 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, into title area at bottom, losing engraved biography.
A portrait of Greek polymath Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 - c. 495BC), taken from a marble bust, sitting in a niche. One of twelve busts in the series 'Ancient Philosophers and Poets', probably originally published by Faber, but no earlier state is listed in Challoner Smith.
CS 2. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64652] £360.00

Pythagorean Fancies, No 10. Love and Liquor; or every one to his Taste.
[Anon., c.1829.]
Lithograph, sheet 155 x 240mm. 6 x 9½". Some spotting.
Two bulls in human rustic costume drinking ale at a table, one smoking a pipe; behind are a nanny goat and a ram dancing and canoodling. From a whimsical series of anthropomorphic animals.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18495] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Pythagorean Fancies, No 9. The Green Eyed Monster. ''I say it's a Fowl attack, you coxcomb, on the honor of my Lady''.
[illegible] Spencer, 27 Lamb'd Conduit St.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 325 x 185mm (12½ x 7½").
Two anthopomorphic scenes. Above a cat wife berates her sheep husband, as a dog(?) maid wipes tears from her eyes. Below a soldier cockerel raises his fists at another in civilian dress, a hen looking on nervously. From a whimsical series of anthropomorphic animals.
[Ref: 54597] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Qalaherriaq] Kallihirua.
[London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed, losing publisher's inscription.
Qalaherriaq (c. 183-56, baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), an Inughuit hunter from Cape York, Greenland, who worked as an interpreter by the crew of HMS Assistance during the search for Franklin's lost expedition in 1850. Afterwards he was trained as a missionary in England but he died of tuberculosis a year after his return to Canada. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
[Ref: 63459] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Kom
[London: John Ogilby, 1673.]
Engraving 290 x 360mm (11½ x 14¼"), with very large margins. Crease in centre as normal.
A prospect of the ancient city of Qom in Persia. From John Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
[Ref: 48272] £320.00

Mutual Accusation - When once you've told & cant recall a Lye / Boldly, percist in't or your Fame will die. /Learn this ye Wives, with unrelenting Claws /Or right or wrong, Afsert your husbands cause.
Mr. Bunbury del. Js.Bretherton f.
Publish'd by Bretherton 3d. January 1774.
Etching, 18th century watermark; platemark 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Thread margin on bottom and small margin at top.
Two rival quack doctors (whose premises, both advertising Antiscorbutic Pills to prevent scurvy, face each other) argue while their wives fight each other. Even their cats and dogs are involved in the rivalry! Etched after Henry Bunbury, an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it' (Clayton). The dubious claims of both are emphasised by the crest top centre, featuring two ducks and the motto 'quack quack quack'.
BM Satire 5279; see Timothy Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802', p.245.
[Ref: 67305] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Animal Magnetizm [&] The Devil to_Pay Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), 1795]
Two engravings and two letterpress sheets, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', reissuing (in two parts) an earlier print. As the letterpress accompanying the two prints confirms, they satirise quack doctors, specifically new experiments with electricity. As the doctor advises his female patient, 'the electrical shock is violent, I confess, but it is not unaccompanied with rapture'. The scene is inside a tavern, with portraits on the wall including one of the painter J.P. de Loutherbourg.
[Ref: 45864] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Behold how in the Colledge hall, The Surgeons and the Doctors all, Are met in Consultation wise, A Carcase to Anatomize: The Master there displays his art, Sagely discants on every part, And that with Ears & eyes and nose, We hear, and See, and Smell, he shows.
[E. Heemskerck Pinxt.]
[Published by John Bowles.] [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving and etching. Plate 286 x 247mm. 11¼ x 9¾".
A satire on quackery.
BM Satires: 1861 (after).
[Ref: 15506] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Quadrupeds or Little Boneys Last Kick.
[G. Cruikshank fec.t]
[Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1813 by W.N. Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 520mm (7 x 20½"). Trimmed to image, losing title and inscriptions, split in centre fold with toning. Loss on left margin.
Tsar Alexander, as the Russian bear, stands in the centre holding Napoleon suspended in the air by one jack-booted leg, and plying a large birch-rod. Jack Frost, a hideous goblin, tweaks Napoleon's nose. Behind an army of Russian bears drive the French into the 'Sea of Troubles'.
BM Satires 11992, with extensive description.
[Ref: 62474] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Quails. 10th. Plate of the British Feather Game.
Barrenger pinxt. Turner sculpt.
London, Published Sept. 1. 1810, at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Mezzotint, 380 x 443mm. Some spotting to image, ink spots to image lower left.
A pair of quail in a landscape. From a series of 14 plates 'British Feather Game' published 1810 - 1812. After the animal painter James Barenger (1780 - 1831). He was the son of J. Barenger, a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813, and he was on his mother's side a nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1831, in which year he died Collector's stamp on verso.
Whitman: 660. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8096] £520.00

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