Grosvenor Prints

W. R. Howell & Co. Fine Art Publishers. Bedford Row Chambers. 42 Theobolds Road. London. W.C.
[Robert Walker Macbeth.]
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching printed in red ink with very large margins. On watermarked paper, 'O.W.P & A.O.L'. Platemark: 145 x 195mm (5¾ x 7¾"). Mint.
A trade card for 'W.R. Howell & Co. Fine Art Publishers', by Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, Robert Walker Macbeth RA (1848 - 1910).
[Ref: 35550] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Publius Lentulus, President In Judea In The Reign Of Tiberius Caesar, To The Senate Of Rome. Conscript Fathers, There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living among us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of Truth; but his own Disciples call him the Son of God... [description of the deeds, countenance, and character of Jesus Christ follows].
T. Bensley, Crane-court, Fleet-street.
Published by J. Eedes, No 2, Newgate Street [n.d., c.1810].
Letterpress broadside in wood engraved decorative frame, sheet c.490 x 380mm. Tatty extremities.
Publius Lentulus is a fictitious person, said to have been Governor of Judea before Pontius, and to have written a letter to the Roman Senate, concerning Jesus. The letter of Lentulus is certainly apocryphal for a number of reasons. There never was a Governor of Jerusalem; no Procurator of Judea is known to have been called Lentulus, and a Roman governor would not have addressed the Senate in the way represented. Lastly a Roman writer would not have employed the expressions, 'prophet of truth', 'sons of men' or 'Jesus Christ'. The former two are Hebrew idioms, the third is taken from the New Testament. The letter, therefore, gives a description of Jesus such as Christian piety conceived him. The letter was first printed in the 'Life of Christ' by Ludolph the Carthusian (Cologne, 1474), and in the 'Introduction to the works of St. Anselm' (Nuremberg, 1491). But it is neither the work of St. Anselm nor of Ludolph. According to the manuscript of Jena, a certain Giacomo Colonna found the letter in 1421 in an ancient Roman document sent to Rome from Constantinople. It must be of Greek origin, and translated into Latin during the thirteenth or fourteenth century, though it received its present form at the hands of a humanist of the fifteenth or sixteenth century.
[Ref: 8046] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Puck.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Pen & ink sketch on folded letter sheet, side 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"), with printed version; Baskerville vellum wove watermark. Printed version trimmed from booklet cover.
A grotesque, winged Puck, sitting on a toadstool. Apparently a preparatory sketch for the cover illustration of 'Virtue's Imperial Shakespeare', a 40-part illustrated series published by Charles Knight, 'with Illustrations by Cope, R.A. Leslie, R.A., Maclise, R.A. E.M. Ward. R.A. W.P. Frith, R.A. H.S. Marks, A.R.A. and others'.
[Ref: 57783] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Northern Extremity of Puebla de Los Angelos.
Drawn on the Spot by W. Bullock Junr. 1823. I. Clark sc.
Published by I. [John] Murray, London, 1825.
Aquatint and etching, folding plate to William Bullock's 'Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico'. Sheet 160 x 215mm. 6¼ x 8½".
A prospect of the city of Puebla in Mexico. William Bullock (c.1773 - 1849), traveller, naturalist, and antiquarian, established the London Museum, also known as the Egyptian Hall or Museum, or Bullock's Museum, at 22 Piccadilly in 1812. His book is an interesting account of a journey in Mexico, illustrated with topographical views and images of indigenous Mexicans. Upon his return to England from an 1822 trip to the country, he advertised an exhibition on Mexico at the Museum. The exhibition catalogue was titled 'Catalogue of the Exhibition, called Modern Mexico; containing a panoramic view of the city, with specimens of the natural history of New Spain ... Now open for public inspection at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.'
Abbey Travel: 666, 7. See British Library 1050.k.16. For the book see item Ref: 13338.
[Ref: 26720] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

View on Puffin Island, near Anglesea.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland St, Fitzroy Square, London, March 1, 1815.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12") large margins.
A view of Puffin Island in Wales. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 47152] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Boy, pug and broken cup.]
Published by M. Knœdler & Co., 170 Fifth Avenue, New York. Entered according to act of congress in the year 1880 by M.Knœdler & Co., in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington.
Mezzotint on india paper. 680 x 530mm (26¾ x 20¾"). Laid on board.
A young child hugs a pug, the handle of a broken tea cup hooked over his thumb.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 47329] £450.00

[Pug] Mischief.
F. Sandys, pinxt. L. Flameng sculpt.
London. Published 20th June, 1876 by Messrs Ellis & White, 29, New Bond Street.
Etching on chine collé. 255 x 310mm (10 x 12¼"), with very large margins. Printseller's Association blind stamp in inscription area.
A pug rampaging through a knitting basket, with Chinese pot and furniture in background. Painted by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829-1904), a painter and wood engraver best known for his Pre-Raphaelite portrait of women. The pug ‘Mischief’ belonged to Murray Marks, an antique dealer in the Pre-Raphaelites’ circle.
[Ref: 63321] £320.00

The Pug-ilists. Time!!! From a picture in the Collection of the Honorable George Agar Ellis M.P. F.R.S. &c. &c. &c. to whom this plate is dedicated by his Obedient and very Humble Servant, C. Turner. Proof.
Painted by J. Bristow. Engraved by C. Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London, Published Jany 1,,st 1828, by Mr. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess,,rs Colnaghi, & C.º, Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint, open letter proof. 355 x 355mm (14 x 14") very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to platemark at bottom.
An interval of a fight between two monkeys in an ale-house, with seconds and a timekeeper with watch. Boxing interest.
Whitman 683, state i of ii.
[Ref: 65690] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Pug-ilists. Time!!! From a picture in the Collection of the Honorable George Agar Ellis M.P. F.R.S. &c. &c. &c. to whom this plate is dedicated by his Obedient and very Humble Servant, C. Turner. Proof.
Painted by J. Bristow. Engraved by C. Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London, Published Jany 1,,st 1828, by Mr. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess,,rs Colnaghi, & C.º, Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint, open letter proof. 355 x 355mm (14 x 14") very large margins on 3 sides. Narrow margin at bottom, repaired tears, surface scuffing in margins and inscription area, laid on restorer's tissue. Title area restored.
An interval of a fight between two monkeys in an ale-house, with seconds and a timekeeper with watch. Boxing interest
Whitman 683, state i of ii.
[Ref: 65691] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Pug-ilists. Time!!! From a picture in the Collection of the Honorable George Agar Ellis M.P. F.R.S. &c. &c. &c. to whom this plate is dedicated by his Obedient and very Humble Servant, C. Turner. Proof.
Painted by J. Bristow. Engraved by C. Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London: Published Feb.y 21.st 1867, by Louis Brall, 6, Prescott St.
Mezzotint. 355 x 355mm (14 x 14") very large margins.
An interval of a fight between two monkeys in an ale-house, with seconds and a timekeeper with watch. First published by Turner in 1828. Boxing interest.
Whitman 683, unlisted later state after ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65692] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

The Pug-ilists. Time!!! From a picture in the Collection of the Honorable George Agar Ellis M.P. F.R.S. &c. &c. &c. to whom this plate is dedicated by his Obedient and very Humble Servant, C. Turner. Proof.
Painted by J. Bristow. Engraved by C. Turner, Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
London: Published Feb.y 21.st 1867, by Louis Brall, 6, Prescott St.
Mezzotint. 355 x 355mm (14 x 14"), large margins. Surface scuffing and soiling. Bit messy.
An interval of a fight between two monkeys in an ale-house, with seconds and a timekeeper with watch. First published by Turner in 1828. Boxing interest.
Whitman 683, unlisted later state after ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65693] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Jemelja or Emelka Pugatschew. A Rebel in Russia under the assumed name of Czar Peter III, in the Government of Oldenburgh [...]
Published by Alex.r Hogg [c.1793]
Engraving with 6pp letterpress, sheets 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"..
Portrait of Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (c.1742-75) with biographical account 'drawn from the Proceedings of the Criminal Process against him at Moscow, by the definitive Sentence of which he was condemned to be quartered alive'. Pugachev was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II (1773-4). Alexander Pushkin wrote a history of the rebellion, and fictionalised some of its events in his novella 'The Captain's Daughter'. From the 'Wonderful Magazine', an entertaining but short-lived periodical founded in 1793 by the hack writer and bookseller Henry Lemoine (1756-1812).
[Ref: 39630] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Pugilistic Society. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
[London, c.1794.]
Engraving. 185 x 110mm (7¼ x 4¼"), with page of letterpress with description of the plate. Small margins
A satirical scene showing a drinking club with a picture of a boxing match on the wall. Two of the members seem to be sparring. The description takes the form of a letter, from 'Frederic Fisticuff' to the editor of the Carlton House Magazine, describing how he was introduced to the club by 'A Certain duke, skilled in the science of pugilism'.
[Ref: 45826] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Pugilists. The first knock down blow.
[n.d., c.1830.]
A fine and rare lithograph. Printed area: 290 x 325mm (11½ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Creasing in corners. Uncut.
A comic boxing scene in a tavern in which two monkeys are in the midst of a fight, one stands on the left with his fists raised while one lies on the ground. A group of monkeys stand watching, in the background a female monkey enters the room with a broom raised in the air.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46802] £350.00

Pug-Nacity.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq. Des. et sculpt.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where Political & other Caricatures are daily Pub. [n.d., published c.1825 but printed later?]
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate, edges chipped, some spotting.
Two fashionably dressed ape-women try to attack each other, held apart by four ape-watchmen, three of whom hold rattles.
BM Satires 15609.
[Ref: 66567] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

G. Pugnani. Ged. 1728. gest. 1798.
Riedel sc. 1815.
Stipple, rare. Plate 178 x 114mm. 7 x 4½".
Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798) was an Italian violinist who trained under Giovanni Battista Somis and Giuseppe Tartini. He was the first violinist of the Royal Chapel in Turin, where he was born. Following his success in London, he went on to direct the King's Theatre from 1767 to 1769.
[Ref: 21409] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Pugs.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Coloured etching signed by the artist. 235 x 305mm (9¼ x 12"). Limited edition: 34/250.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 59659] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Pukawa Lake.
C.D. Barraud del. W.D. Blatchley Lith. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22"). Slight foxing below title.
From 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61026] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Kasimir Pulaski. Marésal de la Terre de Lonza [...] (De la Coll.on de L. Chodzko)
Oleszkiewitz del. James Hopwood sc.
P. Dien impr. [Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Stipple engraving on steel. Sheet 270 x 185mm, 10½ x 7¼".
Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779), a Polish refugee who became a general in the Continental Army under George Washington, and has been called the Father of the American cavalry. He was killed at the Battle of Savannah and is one of only seven people to be awarded honorary United States citizenship, granted 2009. Casimir Pulaski Day is a public holiday in Illinois. A portrait from the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it. It was used on a 1931 US postage stamp.
[Ref: 21247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Pulsford] Write 'em or let 'em alone.
Drawn Etchd & Pubd as the act directs by Richard Dighton March 1824.
London. Pub.d by Thos McLean. 26. Haymarket. 1824.
Etching. 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"), with large margins.
A satirical full-length portrait of an elderly man identified by the BM as Robert Pulsford (d. c.1835), A wine merchant in partnership with his son William, at 7 Great St. Helens, London. Pulsford also had property on Antigua, Montserrat and Tobago, owning slaves, and invested heavily in railways. On his death his estate was valued at £450,000.
BM Satires 14677.A.
[Ref: 63799] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble William Pulteney, Earl of Bath &c.. Done from an Original Picture in the Possession of Lord Lyttelton.
A. Ramsay Pinxit. D. Martin Sculpt. 1763.
To be had of J. Boydell in Cheapside. J. Spilsbury in Russel Court Covent Garden & G. Steidel in Maddox Street.
Copper engraving. Plate 338 x 235mm. 13¼ x 9¼". Half laid on album sheet. Horizontal crease through centre. Slight foxing and tear on left.
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684-1764), Statesman. Throughout the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14), Pulteney played a prominent part in the Whig struggle to regain power from the Tories. He became a Whig Member of Parliament in 1705 and held a number of government posts before falling out with Sir Robert Walpole, the Whig Prime Minister. From his opposition faction, Pulteney was in a position to take over the government on three occasions, but failed to do so. When Walpole fell from power in 1742, Pulteney declined two requests by George II to form a government, accepting instead the first Lordship of the Treasury in the 1st Earl of Wilmington's ministry (1742-3) and the earldom of Bath.
[Ref: 17749] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille de Pulstuck.
Champion del. Lith: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 325 x 430mm (12¾ x 17").
The snow-bound Battle of Pultusk, Poland (26 December 1806), during the War of the Fourth Coalition. 50,000 Russian soldiers held off 23,000 French troops led by Marshal Jean Lannes. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 35928] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

New Pump Room, Bristol, Hotwells.
Sketched from Nature by T. Hulley. Drawn on Stone by H. Jones R.I.A.
Bristol Pub.d by T. Bedford, High Street. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 263 x 369mm (10¼ x 14½"). Scarce.
Hotwells takes its name from the hot springs which bubble up through the rocks of Avon Gorge. In 1692 the Society of Merchant Venturers leased the springs and a pump room was built. The pump room of 1696 was demolished and replaced by Hotewells House in 1816. In 1822 a new pump room was built, as seen here, but that too was eventually demolished in 1867 to allow for the widening of the River Avon.
[Ref: 30038] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Tiens toi bien, pouchinelle.
Francis C. 1832.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 215mm (7¼ x 8½"). Trimmed and laid on sheet with decorative border.
A scene showing a young child playing with his puppet which he has placed on a newfoundland's back.
[Ref: 47734] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Punch and Judy] Voyex-vous ma chère! C’est la police que fait jouer ces polichinels lá, pour détourner l’attention!! .... Je suis sure qu’ils ne savent plus comment faire pour enterer l’Empereur!!.....Il n’est pas mort!!!..
Pruche [inside image.] Imp….
La Mode, 11 Juillet 1840. Rue Pauthout 28.
Lithograph. 323 x 242mm. 12¾ x 9½".
A punch and judy show entertains the children whilst four adult figures stand behind; one man dressed as woman, very unconvincingly.
[Ref: 15701] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Punch & Judy Show [pencil].
George D Harvey Samuel [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920s.]
Drypoint etching, unfinished presentation proof from a limited edition, numbered '6/100' in pencil, titled and signed by the artist to the original mount. 160 x 210mm, 6¼ x 8¼".
Inscribed in pencil by the artist lower right 'for H J Harvey, HMH'. Children and their mothers watch the puppet show on the banks of a river.
[Ref: 16026] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Punch and Judy. Quadrille by H.S. Roberts
13pp sheet music with chromolithograph cover, sheets 330 x 240mm (13 x 9½"). Trimmed at bottom & top.
Suite of piano music with cover showing a Punch and Judy show.
[Ref: 44124] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Punch Turned out of France.
[Anon., c.1845]
Pen and ink, sheet 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Very small hole top left.
Amateur copy of a satire published in 'Punch, or the London Charivari' for 1841. The caption below the published satire read: "I have this moment, in a half-tempest, arrived from Boulogne- thrust from the port by the point of the sword. Yes; it is true- Punch is no longer to be admitted into France."
[Ref: 43840] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Punch's Opera with the Humours of Little Ben the Sailor. These Figures Gem'men & Ladaes are the Richest & Largest in Europe. I Challenge all the World to shew the like [...]
Publish'd according to Act Oct. 15 1756 by Edwards & Darly at ye. Acorn facing Hungerford Strand.
Etching, platemark 80 x 110mm (3 x 4¼") large margins.
Political satire published in 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757', a volume of seventy-five satirical prints with short descriptions. The description of this print read 'Every one of these Figures are very striking, and be easily known to those who have the least Penetration in Politicks'.
For 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757' see ref. 38743.
[Ref: 43816] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Punchinello teaching his Children] In the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. A Pair.
Cav.r Pietro Leoni Ghezzi. delin. AP.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Etching with very large margins. Plate: 360 x 290mm (14 x 11½").
Punchinello teaching children to read. The character said to be modelled on Sportelli, a friend of the artist. Pier Leone Ghezzi (1675-1755) is regarded as the first professional caricaturist. Based in Rome, he moved freely amongst the Italian nobility, even associating with Pope Clement XI. His satirical portraits include one of Vivaldi and several British grand tourists. Etched by Arthur Pond (1701-58), painter, engraver, print-seller, dealer and collector.
Hake: 83. & 84.
[Ref: 39795] £320.00

Stops.
[Unidentified double LL monogram] Esq. del. etchd by G. Ck.
Pub.d May 18th 1824 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St London.
Very rare etching with hand colour. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins. Faded.
A satire in six panels relating to punctuation. Human figures resemble a comma, semi-colon, full stop, exclamation mark, colon and question mark.
BM Satires 14717.
[Ref: 57869] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to 'The Second Punick War between Hannibal and the Romanes.']
J. Lamorlet f [1661]
Engraving, platemark 320 x 215mm (12½ x 8½") large margins. Glued to backing sheet.
Historical scene with slaying of a dragon in the background, after Joseph Lamorlet, 17th century painter working in Antwerp. Plate from Thomas's Ross's translation of Silius Italiacus' epic poem 'Punica' into English as 'The Second Punick War Between Hannibal, and the Romanes'.
[Ref: 40471] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The punishment formerly inflicted on those who Refused Pleading to an Indictment.
Vangroddin. Roberts sculp. [c.1770]
Engraving, sheet 210 x 125mm (8 x 4¾"). Large margins on 3 sides.
[Ref: 46578] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Owen or Men of Letters.
Alfred Mills Del et fec.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, 2 Jan 1806.
Coloured etching. 175 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trace worming in unprinted inscription area and margin on left.
A Quaker stands stiffly on Mr. Owen's doorstep, asking a liveried footman if 'Friend O,-N' is within. The footman, hands on hips, bending with a grin towards the visitor, replies 'N,-O'.
BM Satires 10655
[Ref: 33156] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Owen or Men of Letters.
Alfred Mills Del et fec.
London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, 2 Jan 1806.
Coloured etching, sheet 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Small bottom margin. Damaged.
A Quaker stands stiffly on Mr. Owen's doorstep, asking a liveried footman if 'Friend O,-N' is within. The footman, hands on hips, bending with a grin towards the visitor, replies 'N,-O'.
BM Satires 10655.
[Ref: 67894] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The taking of the Piratical Schooner Socora, at Punta Gorda, a small island south of Cuba on 25th March 1825…
Lithograph, 150 x 240mm, with ink mss. underneath.
Very scarce.
[Ref: 335] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Pupille. Dedié à Monsigneur Camus de Pont Carré Premier President du Parlement de Normandie honnoriare sw l'Academie des sciences Belles Lettre et Arts, de Rouen. Par son très humble et très obeissance Serviteur Descamps.
J.B. Descamps pinxit. N. Le Mire Sculp.
A Paris chez le S.r Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy. Et a Rouen chez Descamps vis à vis St Amant. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with wide, uncut margin.
A scene from Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan's one-act comedy 'La Pupille', first performed 5th June 1734. As a clerk in the public service, Fagan (1702-55) appears to be drawing on personal experience. The original painting, by Jean-Baptiste Descamps (1714-91), is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.
[Ref: 21375] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Mother's Favourite, playing his Tricks with the Candle.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼'') very large margins.
A scene showing a young boy holding a candle in one hand and shielding the flame with another.
[Ref: 48836] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Playbill.] Royal Living Marionette Theatre, Leicester Square, The Public are respectfully informed that in consequences of the numerous Audiences which have nightly visited this Theatre, to witness the Extraordinary Performances of the Buislay Brothers, The Proprietor is induced to extend their Engagement Six Night Longer, when they Positively Leave London. [...]
[1852.]
Letterpress playbill, sheet 195 x 130mm (7¾ x 5"). Tears and nicks on edges, one small wormhole.
A theatre bill for a trapeze artistes show at the Royal Living Marionette Theatre in Leicester Square.
[Ref: 59073] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Little Savoyards
[After Mind.] Sept 12, 1825 M.A.A.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Very fine watercolour. 135 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"), part Whatman watermark.
Children watch a young boy plays a lute and makes puppets dance by pulling a cord attached to his leg.
[Ref: 53521] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Naples] Sampognaro che fa ballare i pupi.
[Naples, c.1831.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Faint stains.
A man playing a Zampogna (Italian bagpipes) makes punchinello and 'Judy' dolls dance with a string tied to his knee. From 'Scene Populari di Napoli'.
[Ref: 62673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Puppets] I Burattini
Fran.co Maggiotto inv. Gio Volpato Sculp apud Nic: Cavalli Venetis
[c.1765]
Engraving, sheet 375 x 290mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed inside platemark. Damage to left edge of sheet.
Street puppet show, with one of the two puppeteers emerging from the booth to look at his puppet, while a blind fiddler plays to draw in the crowds. One from a set of twelve plates titled 'Le arti per via' ('street arts'), all engraved by the prominent engraver Giovanni Volpato (1740-1803) after designs by Venetian genre painter Francesco Maggiotto (1738-1805).
[Ref: 38317] £360.00

[Two paper puppet designs, uncut.]
[French, c.1780.]
Two etchings with original hand colour. Sheets 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾") & 335 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼"). Woman trimmed into plate at top, some creasing; man with ragged edges.
Two extremely rare paper puppet designs, The woman is in a rustic dress and hat, with arms and legs. The man is in an opulant frockcoat with sash and garland of flowers; he has a separate hat, arms and legs jointed at hip and knee.
[Ref: 54912] £950.00 view all images for this item

Pomatum-haired puppy, how charming you are, / With your bold stareing eyes and brilliant cigar [...] And though in tour own estimation you shine, / You are not bright enough, Sir, for my Valentine.
London S. Marks, and Sons [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured wood engraving with letterpress. Sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Laid on album paper.
A poisonous valentine with a man with the head of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
[Ref: 60999] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Puppy]
c.1840.
Coloured lithograph in a naïve style. 210 x 285mm.
[Ref: 336] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Puppy & kitten.]
Fanni Moody. R.Wallace Hester [Pencil signatures.]
London, Published June 1st 1892 by I.P. Mendoza, St James's Gallery. 4a King Street, St James's.
Etching. 300 x 250mm.
[Ref: 4272] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A puppy asleep inside a gambler's hat.]
[by Henry Macbeth Raeburn.]
London Published 1st January 1887 by W. Wollrauch & Co. 24 Great Alie Street, Aldgate.
Etching before Artist proof stamp. 330 x 380mm (13 x 15") very large margins.
On the table are scattered playing cards, one of which has been chewed by the dog; also a cigar stub and a box marked 'Colorado'.
[Ref: 53134] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A puppy asleep inside a gambler's hat.]
H. Macbeth Raeburn [pencil signature].
London Published 1st January 1887 by W. Wollrauch & Co. 24 Great Alie Street, Aldgate.
Etching, signed by the artist, with Artist Proof stamp. 330 x 380mm (13 x 15") with very large margins. Creasing. Messy.
On the table are scattered playing cards, one of which has been chewed by the dog; also a cigar stub and a box marked 'Colorado'.
[Ref: 53133] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Purcell.
[Anon.]
London; Published by W. Pinnock, 267, Strand, June 1823.
Etching from an unidentified publication, sheet 285 x 225mm. 11¼ x 9". Small tear to right edge.
Bust portrait of Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), composer. Purcell is said to have written his first composition at the age of eleven in honour of Charles II's birthday. He became organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679, and of the Chapel Royal in 1682. He composed religious anthems, secular songs, instrumental pieces, odes, music for plays and 'semi-operas', and the famous Dido and Aeneas, one of the first English operas, and the Fairy Queen. According to John Evelyn he was 'esteemed to be the best composer of any Englishman hitherto'.
[Ref: 22487] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Purcell.]
Anon., c.1820s.
Stipple, proof before letters, very scarce, sheet 195 x 155mm. 7¾ x 6". Trimmed within plate; creasing.
Bust portrait of Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), composer, based on the painting by John Closterman (1660 - 1711). Purcell is said to have written his first composition at the age of eleven in honour of Charles II's birthday. He became organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679, and of the Chapel Royal in 1682. He composed religious anthems, secular songs, instrumental pieces, odes, music for plays and 'semi-operas', and the famous Dido and Aeneas, one of the first English operas, and the Fairy Queen. According to John Evelyn he was 'esteemed to be the best composer of any Englishman hitherto'.
[Ref: 16964] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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