Grosvenor Prints

On the First Day of January, 1812, will be Published The First Part of a Work, Entitled A New History of Engravers, who have practised the Art if its different Branches, Either in Wood, Metal, or other Substances, From its Appearance during the Fifteenth Century progressively to the present Time; With A Detailed List of Their Leading Productions, Either in respect to their peculiar Merit, or as curious Representations of various Objects, which may prove interesting to every Class of Admirers of Prints; Together with Fac-similies of the Monograms, Initials, or Cyphers, usually prefixed to their productions.
The Whole compiled from every authentic Source of Information, and materially improved by every possible Research into the Subject during the last Ten Years, By Thomas Dodd....The Compiler and Published, Mr. Dodd, 101, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross; Also by Mr Palser, Printseller, Bridge Road, Lambeth...May 1811.
Rare letterpress, three pages; 4to. 216 x 278mm (8½ x 11"). Laid on album sheet on left side.
Thomas Dodd (1771-1850) was an English auctioneer and printseller; in 1796 he took a small shop in Lambeth Marsh before moving to Covent Garden. It wasn't until 1806 that he opened an auctionroom in St Martin's Lane, where he sold some famous collections, among them being that of General Dowdeswell in Janaury 1809. Dodd acquired a wide knowledge of engravings, and began an elaborate biographical catalogue of engravers, which eventually formed thirty folio volumes of manuscript. In 1817 Dodd spent time on a dictionary of monograms, but a similar work by Brulliot was published about that time.
[Ref: 52421] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Cambridge Printsellers]
T. Orde ft 1768.
Etching, sheet 220 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼").
Etching by Thomas Orde-Powlett (1746-1807), politician also known for his etched caricatures (mostly of Cambridge celebrities) which were published by his drawing-master, the well-known printmaker James Bretherton. An impression of the print in the British Museum is inscribed 'Mrs. Hammond Printseller & D. Randal Printman at Cambridge'.
[Ref: 41705] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair of frame labels] John Harris, Map & Printseller, No 3. Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. & No 8 Broad Street. N 1. Port Folios of all sizes.
[Ink mss. date '6 Oct. 1788.']
Two oval frame labels, engravings, 60 x 85mm (2½ x 3¼"), pasted on contemporary frames. Edges chipped.
Pair of rare frame labels of John Harris (c.1740-1812), print publisher, especially of historical, literary, marine and sporting subjects, and prints after Bunbury. He frequently re-issued the plates of other publishers. The prints depicted are 'Going to School' & 'Coming from School', oval stipples printed in blue, by Knight after Stothard.
BM: he had opened his premises in Broad Street 'by 1789'. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
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Geography and Navigation. James Heskett, No 13. Sweetings Alley, Roy.l Exchange.Map, Print & Chart-Seller. Prints & Drawings neatly Framed & Glazed. Maps Beautifully Coloured and adapted for Librarys or Travelling. Globes & Mathematical Instrum.ts, Books, Gunter-Scales, Compasses, Pencils and India Ink. Charts properly tited up for Nagivators. Drawing Books, & Reeves's superfine Colours. Atlases, East & West India Pilots. [On the back of a print by William Woollett & William Ellis print 'Solitude'.]
[n.d.., c.1780's.]
Engraved frame label. 95 x 60mm (3¾ x 2¼"). Pasted on the back of fabric.
Frame label of James Heskett, printseller, fl. 1820. The tradecard collection of Sir Ambrose Heal (of Heal's Furniture shop) has two examples of this label (from which the obscured text has been taken), which the BM describe as 'DRAFT Trade cards'.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67788] £320.00 view all images for this item

Geograph[y,] and Navigation. James Heskett, No 13. Sweetings Alley, Roy.l Exchange. Map, Print & Chart-Seller. Prints & Drawings neatly Framed & Glazed. Maps Beautifully Coloured and adapted for Librarys or Travelling. Globes & Mathematical Instrum.ts, Books, Gunter-Scales, Compasses, Pencils and India Ink. Charts [properly tited up for Nagivators. Drawing Books, & Reeves's superfine Colours. Atlases, East & West India Pilots.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved frame label, 80 x 60mm (3¼ x 2¼"), pasted on contemporary oval frame. Nick in top losing some of the text, old newspaper pasted over bottom of label, obscuring text.
Frame label of James Heskett, printseller, fl. 1820. The tradecard collection of Sir Ambrose Heal (of Heal's Furniture shop) has two examples of this label (from which the obscured text has been taken), which the BM describe as 'DRAFT Trade cards'
BM: Heal,82.9. Ex: Collection of Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
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Edw.d Orme. Engraver Printseller, & Picture frame Maker. 25 Conduit Street, corner of George Street, Hanover Square. A choice collection of Drawings, Prints & Drawing materials.
[n.d., c.1830].
Engraving. Size: 90 x 65mm. (3½ x2½"). Trimmed to right edge.
A decorative trade card advertising the prolific printseller, engraver and framer, Edward Orme (1775-1848).
[Ref: 31517] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Augustus Magnus Printz auf Haemen un Noraditz Ictus, Ihro Königl. Majest. in Pohlen und Chur=Fürstl. Durchl. zu Sachsen bestalter Cammer Procurator im Marg=Grafthum Oberlausitz.
fait a Leipsig par Bernigeroth Graveur Royal.
[n.d., c.1733.]
Rare engraving, very fine impression; 330 x 255mm (13 x 10"), large margins. Laid on album paper.
Portrait of Augustus Magnus Printz, appointed kammerprokurator (taxman) in the Margraviate of Oberlausitz (Upper Lusatia) in 1726.
[Ref: 57741] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Benjamin Priolo] Benjaminus Priolus. Santo Juliani F. Eques Venetus.
C. le Febre Pin. N. Pitau Sculp 1663.
Rare engraving. Sheet 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, collector's ink stamp in lower right corner. Central crease not visible from front.
Portrait of French historian Benjamin Priolo (1602-67), wearing hat and buttoned tunic, sitting at a desk and writing with a quill. He is best known for 'The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine'.
[Ref: 61361] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Henry and Emma.
Design'd by S.Shelley. Engraved by C.Knight.
London, Publish'd Jan.y 18, 1785 by W.Dickinson Engraver & Printseller, No 158 Bond Street.
Pair of stipples, printed in sanguine. Ea. 180 x 130mm. Faint damp stain on one plate.
With verse from 'Prior's Poems'.
[Ref: 5508] £320.00 view all images for this item

Mr. Mathew Prior.
I. Richardson pinx 1718. Simon fecit et excudit.
[n.d. c.1718.]
Fine mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. Image 357 x 252mm. 14 x 10". Cut and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was an English poet and diplomat. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster. One of his schoolfellows and friends was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow. In collaboration with Montagu he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12849] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

To The Rt. Hon.ble Edward Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer, This Plate is humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Ser.t Ja: Gibbs.
[Antoine Coysevox.] B. Baron Sculp.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate 400 x 260mm. 15¾ x 10¼". Mint.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) the poet, politician and diplomat is buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, where sits this monument by James Gibbs, and the bust by Antoine Coysevox.
See NPG: D40754.
[Ref: 20070] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Matthew Prior Esq.r
Jonath:n Richardson pinxit. Geo: Vertue Sculpsit.
1719.
Engraving. Plate 375 x 274mm. 14¾ x 10¾". Tearing and staining around the edges.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was an English poet and diplomat. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster. One of his schoolfellows and friends was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow. In collaboration with Montagu he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.
Alexander: 299.
[Ref: 20254] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Honorable Matthew Prior, Esqr Her late most Sacred Majesty's Plenipotentiary to Louis XIV. King of France, and one of the Commisioners of Her Customs.
la belle pinx a paris.
[Published by George Vertue, n.d. c.1720.]
Engraving, print 355 x 240mm (14 x 9½"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Right section trimmed off. Glued down tear.
Half length portrait of poet and diplomat Matthew Prior (1664-1721), in oval border set on a ledge. He wears a long curly wig, lace cravat and embroidered jacket (formal French dress). The original painting is currently on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior entered the House of Commons in 1700. Prior became ambassador at Paris and was charged with improving relations between the two countries, which had fought on opposite sides during the War of the Spanish Succession. However he was recalled in 1715 on the death of Queen Anne and imprisoned.
[Ref: 58865] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Prise de San Dimas au Montserrat.
Dessiné par Langlois et Delamare. Joly Lit: Fig: par C.L.
Lith: de Engelmann, rue Louis-le-Grand No.27 à Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 292 x 430mm. 11½ x 17".
Montserrat, Catalunia, Spain.
[Ref: 15607] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Prison.
Désiné à Paris par Lautherbourg en 1763. Gravé à Bâle par A. Romanet en 1765.
A Paris Chez Buldet rue de Gesures au Grand Coeur à Bâle Ches Chrt de Mechel Graveur.
Copper engraving. 260 x 342mm. 10¼" x 13½".
[Ref: 8482] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Le Prissonnier.
Dessiné à Paris par Lautherbourg en 1763. Gravé à Bâle par AL Romanet en 1765.
AParis chez Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur. à Bâle Chez Chr.t de Meckel.
Scarce etching with engraving. Sheet 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate.
The interior of a prison cell with prisoner sitting in shackles, hands tied to a post, watched by three soldiers.
[Ref: 62117] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[A man (priest?) visiting a prisoner (John Howard?)] Vide Howard on Prisons, Page 82_Octavo Edition.
Bartolozzi sculp.
Published as the Act directs. by J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, June 26th. 1780."
Etching on india paper, 225 x 175mm. 9 x 7". Lacking right margin, else a fine impression.
A semi-naked chained to a wall in a vaulted prison, seated on the ground; the jailor, key suspended from belt, and a male visitor stand over him in front of a staircase on the right. Plate to the second edition of 'The State of the Prisons in England and Wales' (Warrington, 1780) by John Howard (1726?-1790), prison reformer and social campaigner. Howard himself experienced imprisonment in France in 1756. It was not until 1773 when he became High Sherriff of Bedfordshire that he initiated an important campaign to transform prison conditions. His long series of visits to prisons in Britain and most European countries led him to write his influential book, first published in 1777. A highly reserved man, Howard shunned public recognition throughout his life.
De Vesme 1735, III of III.
[Ref: 21190] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Escort of the Prisoners by Torch Light to the Bristol Jail, Tried (under a Special Commission) for Riot & Arson in the Year 1832.
Engraved on Steel by J. Brett, 15, Corn Street, Bristol.
Published by George Davey 1, Broad Street, Bristol, and by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, London, and all other Book & Printsellers.
Mezzotint on india laid paper, sheet 235 x 305mm (9¼ x 12"). Some light creasing. Nicks to edges of paper. Slight soiling.
A scene from the aftermath of the Bristol Riots of 1831, after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill, which aimed to get rid of some of the rotten boroughs and give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds greater representation in the House of Commons. The rioters numbered about 500 or 600 young men and continued for three days, during which the palace of Robert Gray the Bishop of Bristol, the Mansion House, and private homes and property were looted and destroyed, along with demolition of much of the gaol. About 100 people involved were tried in January 1832 and four men were hanged despite a petition of 10,000 Bristolian signatures, which was given to King William IV.
See also reference 15397.
[Ref: 60046] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Escort of the Prisoners by Torch Light to the Bristol Jail, Tried (under a Special Commission) for Riot & Arson in the Year 1832.
Engraved on Steel by J. Brett, 15, Corn Street, Bristol.
Published by George Davey 1, Broad Street, Bristol, and by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, London, and all other Book & Printsellers.
Mezzotint on india laid paper, 235 x 305mm. 9¼ x 12".
A scene from the aftermath of the Bristol Riots of 1831, after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill, which aimed to get rid of some of the rotten boroughs and give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds greater representation in the House of Commons. The rioters numbered about 500 or 600 young men and continued for three days, during which the palace of Robert Gray the Bishop of Bristol, the Mansion House, and private homes and property were looted and destroyed, along with demolition of much of the gaol. About 100 people involved were tried in January 1832 and four men were hanged despite a petition of 10,000 Bristolian signatures, which was given to King William IV.
[Ref: 15397] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Gunmaker's Advertisement] Will.m Pritchard, N.14 Bull Ring, Birmingham / Manufacturer of Fire Arms in every Branch for Home & Foreign Markets, Percussion Guns & Pistols on the most Approved Principle.
[c.1800]
Etching, sheet 135 x 235mm (5¼ x 9¼").
Advertisement for a Birmingham gunmaker, with elaborate vignette demonstrating the usage of 'rifle guns of the most modern invention'.
Ex: Norman Blackburn
[Ref: 33081] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Pritchard.
F. Hayman pinx.t. 1750. J.s McArdell fecit.
Publish'd April 25th 1762.
Mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Slight creasing.
Hannah Pritchard (née Vaughan) (1711-68), actress and singer, seated with a book upright in her lap. Her lengthy career included working with Garrick at Drury Lane, when she was held as the best Lady Macbeth of the age. Cast as Irene in the first production of Samuel Johnson's 'Mahomet and Irene' (1749), her acting as she was being strangled in the finale led the audience to scream 'murder' and stop the show. Johnson had to rewrite the ending, and seems never to have forgiven Mrs. Pritchard for his misfortune.
CS 146, state iii of iii.
[Ref: 32992] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Private Rehearsal. ["But soft! What light through younder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!]
[n.d., c.1836.]
Coloured lithograph. 209 x 229mm (8¼ x 9"). Trimmed.
A chimney sweep reads from Romeo and Juliet to a scullery maid who sits on a barrel holding a candle. On the ground, a playbill for Othello Theatre Royal, Drury Lane performed with Edwin Forrest, November 22, 1836.
[Ref: 52223] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Rob.t Dunthorne has the honour to invite [-] to see a New Etching by A.H. Haig. The Cathedral of Saint George Limburg on the Lahn. at The Rembrandt Head, 5, Vigo St London W. Saturday 26th Feb.y 1887.
AH [monogram of Axel Haig] 1887.
Etching. Sheet 80 x 115mm (3¼ x 4½"). Invitee's name scraped off.
An invitation to a private view, decorated with a view of the cathedral and a representation of St George and the Dragon.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 53198] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Privy-Garden Westminster. Veüe du Privy-Garden a Westminster. No.36.
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 in Cheapside London. 1751. Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 260 x 431mm (10¼ x 17").
A fine view along the Banqueting House in Whitehall towards Westminster Abbey. 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): 47.36.
[Ref: 29371] £450.00

A Prize Baby Show- Materfamilias rewarding a successful candidate. Punch's Pocket book for 1855.
J Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1855]
Coloured etching, sheet 125 x 315mm (5 x 12½"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
Satire on 19th century society gender roles and expectations of children. A scene at a baby show. The mother figure judge rewards a contestant with an 'interesting volume on Plain Domestic Cookery.' Illustration for Follies of the Year by John Leech, a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844–1864, published by Bradbury Evans & Co. John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63855] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Prize Fight.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 229 x 324mm. 9 x 12¾". Slight offsetting. In mount.
Two men poised to fight with two men behind each fighter; spectators behind a bar. Plate 38 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25715] £480.00

International Prize Medal, 1862. Hancock's Patent Prize Medal Machine for Purifying Butter from all traces of Milk and Acid, also for cooling and making it firm in hot weather, without touching with the hand... as used in Her Majesty's Dairy, the Emperor of the French, and nearly all Courts in Europe. J. & F. Hancock, Sole Manufacturers and Patentees, Patent Invention Works, Dudley, Worcestershire.
[Anon, c.1862.]
Letterpress broadside on yellow paper, manufacturer's promotional handbill/flyer with woodcut border and royal coat of arms. Sheet 255 x 190mm, 10 x 7½".
Advertisement includes 'Directions for Use' for the prestigious [Irish and British] medal winning machine for the production of Butter "intended for Private Families, Schools, Hotels, & Ships".
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16526] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Procession.]
[n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 115 x 207mm. 4½ x 8¼".
Two horse-drawn carriages led by standard bearers; accompanied by foot-guards and staff carrying candlesticks. The horses heads of the first carriage are decorated with bells; the carriage and slips over the horses's backs carry the charge of an up-turned crescent moon.
[Ref: 20249] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Procession Of A Country Corporation.
M.r H. Bunbury Del. Etched by T. Rowlandson.
Pub.d August 12. 1799 by T. Rowlandson N.o1 James Street Adelphi.
Very rare etching, sheet 285 x 405mm (11¼ x 16"). Trimmed within plate. Centre fold. Some surface dirt.
Not in BM. Grigo I 366.
[Ref: 59043] £460.00

The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon.
Painted by Thomas Stothard Esqr. R.A. Engraved by James Henry Watt.
Published Decr. 1832 by the Propietors, Alaric A. Watts, 58, Torrington Square; and James H. Watt, 26, George Street, New Road.
Engraving, 435 x 865 mm, 17 x 34" Creased at edges; one tear extending into india paper, some folds at left.
Fine open letter proof on india paper of this well-known subject showing the procession of the flitch of bacon, claimed by a woman who declared upon oath a year after her marriage that she had never in that time quarrelled with her husband.
[Ref: 8614] £660.00

The Procession Passes [pencil].
O. Donovan [pencil].
[n.d., c.1950.]
Aquatint, limited edition 7/12, signed by the artist. 235 x 150mm (9¼ x 6"), very large margins. Rubbing in margins around signatures.
Five women lean out of a window to watch a procession.
Property of Nigel C. Talbot
[Ref: 60889] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Proclamation of Proclamations, or the most glorious and memorable Peace that ever was proclaimed in this or any other Metropolis thoughout the World.
A. Patchpeace, delin et Sculp.
Sold by E. Sumpter, at the Bible and Crown near Shoe-Lane, Fleet Street, Price 6 Pence, Where may be had, The British Antidote, in 2 Volumes, Price 5 Shillings [n.d., 1763]. Bit later.
Hand-coloured etching, 1828 watermark. Plate: 245 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½''). Paper tone.
A satire on the Peace of Paris. The Treaty of Paris was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. Together with the Treaty of Hubertusburg, it ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713 - 1792) is depicted to the left leading the rejoicing. To the right George Whitefield (1714 - 1770) preaches for peace. Lettered with captions in the image and twelve lines of verse below title: 'See here Fellow-Subjects, (so fine and so pretty!) ... Let's hope yet his Lordship won't die in his Bed'.
BM: Satires 4007.
[Ref: 50954] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Boats of His Majesty's Sloop Procris, containing Ninety Officers, Seamen and Soldiers, commanded by Captain Robert Maunsell, attacking and Capturing off the Coast of Java on the 31.st. day of July 1811. Six French Gunboats mounting each one Thirty two and one Eighteen Pounder Cammpmad, and manned with upwards of three hundred Sailors and Soldiers. This print is respectfully dedicated to the Captain by hi obedient Servant W. J. Huggins.
Painted by W. J. Huggins, Marine Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by C. Rosenburg.
...and Published for the Proprietor April 1837 at 105 Leadenhall Street, London.
Rare aquatint, printed in colour with some hand colour. J Whatman watermark 1836; Sheet: 545 x 400mm, (21½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate. Small repaired tear top left in margin.
An extremely fine naval image showing the confrontation of the British and the French off the coast of Java. The British, under the command of Capt. Robert Maunsell (1785-1845) discovered a convoy of local canoes and French gunboats at the mouth of the Indromayo river in Java. The British gunfire made little impact so they launched their boats and boarded and captured five of the French ships whilst blowing up a sixth.
[Ref: 40212] £920.00

The Death of Procris (vide Ovid). This plate from an Original Picture by Angelica Kauffman, is dedicated to Joshua Readshaw Esq.r by his much obliged & obedient Servant Thomas Fielding.
Angelica Kauffman R.A. Pinx.t. Tho.s Fielding (Pupil of the late W.Wynne Ryland) Sculp.t.
[London. Published Jan.y 1st 1784 for the Proprietor T.Fielding No.8 Wormwood Street, and W.Palmer No 150 Strand.]
Stipple. 370 x 315mm (14½ x 12¼"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Cephalus accidentally kills his wife with an arrow.
[Ref: 62148] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

''Your Name and College Sir?'' - Scene with the Proctor.
[after Rev George Robert Winter.]
Published by J. Ryman, High S.t Oxford [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 300 x 380mm (11¾ x 15"). Some creasing and spotting. Very small margins.
A proctor apprehends a student riding in a two-wheeled carriage. One of 24 satires from ''Eton and Oxford. A Few Familiar Scenes sketched from recollection, after an interval of several years, And Dedicated by permission, to The Earl of Darnley'', illutsrated by George Robert Winter (1826-1895), later Canon of Norwich.
Abbey Scenery 285
[Ref: 63000] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Prodigal Son.]
N. Strixner del: Angelo Bronzino.
[Munich: J. Stuntz, 1811-1816.]
Tinted lithograph, with white highlights. Sheet 280 x 315mm (11 x 12¾"), large margins.
An early tinted lithograph, showing the Prodigal Son in his debauchery, after Agnolo Bronzino (1503-72). From 'Les Oeuvres lithographiques. Contenant un choix de dessins d'après les grands maîtres de toutes les écoles, tiré des Musées de sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière.'
[Ref: 60949] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Return of the Prodigal Son. From the Original Picture painted by Guerchino, In the Collection of Lady Leicester. Size of the Picture 3F, 4I by 4F, 5I in Height. Vol. II. No. 48.
Guerchino pinxit. John Boydell excudit 1772. S.F. Ravenet Sculpsit.
Published March 2.d 1772 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 517 x 380mm (2½ x 15"). Very large margins.
The return of the Prodigal son; the penitent son returns to his father and brother.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38178] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Prodigal Son taking leave of his Father. Plate 1. [&] The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots. Plate 2. [&] The Prodigal Son in Misery. Plate 3. [&] The Prodigal Son returned Home Reclaimed, Plate 4.
[After Robert Dighton.].
Published 1st Aug.st 1791 by Rob.t Sayer & Co. Fleet Street, London.
Set of four mezzotints with early hand colour. Each 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾").. A little wear in margins, some restoration
Depicting the parable of the Prodigal Son in late 18th century England, where the Protestant interpretation of the parable required the son to repent, and be worthy of his father's forgiveness.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 55425] £650.00 view all images for this item

[The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots]
[After Sébastien Leclerc II, c.1760s]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 305 x 425mm (12 x 16¾"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge; creases.
A young gentleman dining with three women, one of whom he embraces. On the left an old woman, unnoticed, gathers coins left on a gaming table. Anonymous continental copy of a plate from a set of six depicting the parable of the prodigal son, engraved by Richard Purcell after Sébastien Leclerc II. There also exists a contemporary British copy of the print (in reverse), titled 'Women & Wine'.
[Ref: 40463] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Prodigal Son returns to his Father] Filius Prodigus revertitur ad Patrem suum
[Anon, c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 205 x 305mm (8 x 12"). Trimmed inside platemark; paper tone and wrinkling; later hand-colouring.
Final plate from a continental set of prints showing the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), who wastes his fortune and is reduced to penury before returning to his father, who forgives him and welcomes him back. The story was usually depicited in sets of four or six plates.
[Ref: 34233] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A person formed for Geometrical of Mechanical excellence.
Barlow sculp. [c.1780]
Engraving, platemark 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4"). Small margins.
[Ref: 45705] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Programme du jeu des eaux des Parcs de Versailles es de St Cloud. le 27 Aout 1849. Le jeu des Eaux de Versailles commencera a 2 heures precise en aura lieur dans l'ordre suicant...Eaux de St. Cloud. Le grand jeu d'Eau, Les 24 jets, La grande Cascade, jouerons de 6 h a 8 heures du Soir.
Letterpress. 172 x 114mm (6¾ x 4½"). Foxing and creasing.
A programme for one of the spectacular 'Water Music' concerts at Versailles, which still continue today.
[Ref: 30454] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

V R. Official Programme of the Royal Procession at the Opening of the Imperial Institute. There will be Four Royal Processions the first that of the Prince Wales, who will be accompanied by the Duke of York, the Duke of Fife, and most likely the Princess May. The second the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and children, The third that of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh & daughter. The Fourth will be the great procession of the Queen and leave Buckingham Palace at a quarter to 12 and consist of six carriages. First Carriage ... Equerry to Prince Henry of Battenbury, Equerry in waiting on Prince Christian, Field officer in Brigade Waiting. Second Carriage...Silver Stick, the Groom in waiting, Lady in Waiting on Princess Beatrice, Lady in Waiting in Princess Christian. Third Carriage...Keeper of the Privy Purse, Sir Henry Ponsonby, the second Equerry in Waiting, the two Maids of Honour. Fourth Carriage...Lord in Waiting, Gold Stick, Lady in Waiting, the Mistress of the Robes. Fifth Carriage...The Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Prince Christian. Sixth Carriage...Princess Beatrice, Princess Christian, and THE QUEEN, the Senior Equerry in Waiting will ride alongside her Majesty’s State Carriage.
[n.d. c.1887.
Printed letterpress on crept de chine, rare. 406 x 406mm. 16 x 16".
A programme listing the Royal Procession that attended the opening of the Imperial Institute in London by Queen Victoria. It was established in 1887 as a result of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 by the governments of the United Kingdom and several countries of the British Empire to promote research which would benefit the empire.
[Ref: 25908] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates [lettered to the single sail of boat in foreground].
[F. Marryat's anchor monogram.] G Cruikshank sculpt_.
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St. London 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, first state; 215 x 285mm, 8½ x 11¼". A fine impression, full margins and fresh colour. Stain on right.
The mast slants across the design backed by a sail bellying in the wind. Mr. B. sits miserably with closed eyes astride a spar, to which he has tied his right thigh. His right arm encircles the mast, and to his wrist is tied an open book inscribed 'Wilt thou upon ye high & giddy mast scale the ship (?) bays O yes & rock his brain.' Lettered below the design with 'dialogue' between our hero and a Lieutenant (on the deck below, and well out of vision). From a set of seven naval satires plus titlepage designed for George Cruikshank by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848). He served during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1825-26; his satirical prints are signed with an anchor. Marryat's design in water-colours and pen is in the B.M.; 'Mr. B' is without his book.
[Ref: 20476] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Progress of Heroism!
Woodward Delin.t. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub.d April 9th 1796 by S W. Fores No. 50 Piccadilly. Folios of caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Etching with original colour. 345 x 475mm, 13½ x 18¾". Few stains and creases; mount burn.
Eight scenes of a captain, brave on the parade-ground, less so on the battlefield, in the tradition of parodic 'progresses'. After George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
[Ref: 24396] £320.00

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The Life of a Gentleman. Scene the Tenth._ Wounds & Destitution. Given with No.40 of the Teetotaler. Progress of Inebriety. No.10.
T.C. Wilson [written inside the image.]
Lithograph. 318 x 254mm. 12½ x 10".
An officer outside the Spanish Legion Office, stands with a broken arm ready to join the queue of officer awaiting compensation.
[Ref: 15466] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward Daniel Clarke] Projecting i.e. Irons in the Fire _ or Keep them all Going!! I have lived" (said the indefatgable D,r E.D. Clarke) to know the great secret of human happiness is this _ never suffer your enegies to stagnate. the old adage of ''too many irons in the fire'' conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many Poker Tongs _ keep them all going.
C.W. [Charles Williams].
London Published by Tho.s McLean 26 Haymarket, 1827 [but later].
Coloured etching. 250 x 350 (9¾ x 13¾").
A man and his son fill their fireplace with pokers and tongs, much to the mother's consternation. A satire on one of the sayings of Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), a clergyman who filled the Egyptology department of the British Museum by looting one of Napoleon's Savants after the defeat of the French army at Alexandria (1801), including the Rosetta Stone.
Not in BM Satires but 1985,0119.403.
[Ref: 61826] £320.00

Promethee.
Jeaurat Pinxit. Flipart l'aine Sculp.
a Paris chez Flipart rue S.t Jacques au nom de Jesus vis avis le College du Plessis.
Rare mezzotint, tipped into album paper at sides; sheet 375 x 290mm (14¾ x 11½"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate at bottom.
A greek mythological scene of Prometheus' punishment for stealing fire from Olympus and giving it to mankind. Prometheus chained to a rock is being pecked at by an eagle.
[Ref: 61602] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Prometheus & Melpomene standing into the Gulph of Riga, to meet the boats of the British Squadron, and prizes cut out during the night August 1809. From a drawing by Mr Hood, Midn. of the Melpomene.
Painted by Whitcombe. Engraved by D. Havell.
[London, c.1820.]
Hand coloured aquatint, sheet 150 x 215mm. 6 x 8½". Trimmed within plate.
On July 7th 1809 four British warships attacked eight Russian gunboats in Baro Sound, off the Finnish coast; only one Russian vessel escaped. For James Ralfe's 'The Naval Chronology of Great Britain'.
Parker: 202. NMM: PAD5786.
[Ref: 14896] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The business premises of Promoli & Hausburg, Liverpool.]
Printed by Maclure Macdonald & Macgregor 1, Brunswick St. Liverpool [n.d., c.1860s].
Scarce wood engraved promotional illustration, fragment from a periodical or broadsheet? Sheet 180 x 275, 7 x 10¾".
The factory, warehouse and retail outlet of Promoli & Hausburg was located in the Old Post Office Buildings, Church Street, Liverpool. The company described itself in its advertising as "Jewellers Watchmakers Manufacturers of Desks Dressing Cases Lamps Chandeliers etc". A display of mantelpiece clocks and chandeliers can be seen in the many windows; figures and carriages in the street in front of the imposing building.
[Ref: 20664] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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