Grosvenor Prints

Alan Ramsay Scotus.
A.Ramsay ad viv. del. D.Allan Sc. Edin. 1788.
Published according to Act of Parliament by D. Allan Edinr. July 12 1788.
Etching and aquatint, frontispiece to Alan Ramsay's 'Gentle Shepherd'. 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8".
Allan Ramsay (1686 - 1758), Scottish poet; in an oval with comic mask to left and pipe with his manuscript to right. Father of the painter of the same name, who seems to have painted this portrait.
Abbey Life: 244, 1.
[Ref: 13896] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[James Ramsay] Illustris et Generosus Dominus Dominus Jacobus Ramsay, Scotus, Eques Auratus [...]
[Engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius, 1636]
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed, possibly losing text; folds; tipped into album sheet.
James Ramsay (1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. Copy in reverse of a print engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius.
[Ref: 42903] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[James Ramsay] Illustris et Generosus Dominus Dominus Jacobus Ramsay, Scotus, Eques Auratus, Gen Mai. Anno Ætat MDCXXVI.
Johann: Cressius fec: Sebast: Furck ad vivum sculpit.
Engraving, very scarce; sheet 195 x 160mm (7¾ x 6¼"). Collector's stamp of Edward Wenman Martin on verso. Thread margins, wear at top of image, signs of damage to the printing plate.
Portrait of James Ramsay (known as 'Black Ramsay', 1589?-1638/9), army officer in the Swedish service, engraved by Sebastian Furck after Johannes Nicolas Cressius in 1636, two years before Ramsay's death. Ramsay became the colonel of his own recruited regiment of Scots serving in Swedish campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, with the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna authorizing the provision of new troops from Lithuania, Scotland and Courland (now part of Latvia) to replace the many troops in the regiment who had died. Ramsay's regiment were part of an estimated 30,000 Scottish soldiers in Swedish service during the war. Ramsay's conduct in forcing the fortified castle at Würzburg to surrender saw him receiving a large land grant in Mecklenburgh, and an appointment as governor of Hanau, near Frankfurt. However Hanau was attacked and taken in 1638: Ramsay, wounded, died in prison soon after. The collection of Edward Wenman Martin warranted a special mention by Chaloner Smith when it came up at auction (Sotheby's 1854-5): apparently Martin ''had obtained an extraordinary number of the very great rarities amongst the English portraits, but unfortunately, did not preserve all his prints with proper care; indeed, he is said to have permitted a favourite monkey to handle them, so that prices, even for those uninjured in what the catalogue calls their ''unadorned state'' were not very high''.
Lugt: 914.
[Ref: 43121] £320.00

[Sir William Ramsay] ''Chemistry.'' Vanity Fair Supplement.
Spy [Leslie Ward].
[Vanity Fair, 1908.]
Collotype. Sheet 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾").
Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), KCB, FRS, FRSE, chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904.
[Ref: 46395] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mixed Political Wares. Methodical & Methodist. Babble & Bluster. Faithful & Faddist. Supplement to Vanity Fair
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.
Dec.r 3, 1892.
Collotype. Sheet 410 x 775mm (16 x 30½") Folded as issued, one split slightly.
A Vanity Fair caricature, an unusual triptych, with three pairs of portraits of new Liberal government: 'Methodical & Methodist' are Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908, Secretary of State for War and later Prime Minister 1905-8) and Henry Hartley Fowler (1830-1911, Liberal MP and the first Methodist to be raised to the peerage, as 1st Viscount Wolverhampton); 'Babble & Bluster' are William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898, Liberal Prime Minister 1892-4, at the time of publication) and William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904, Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer); and 'Faithful & Faddist' are George Frederick Samuel Robinson ((1827-1909, Lord President of the Council under Gladstone) and John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910, 5th Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty under Gladstone).
[Ref: 46397] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Jesse Ramsden] M.r Ramsden.
Engraved by C. Knight, from an original in the possession of M.r Colnaghi.
London, Published Aug.st 31 1803 by A. Tilloch, Cary Street.
Stipple. 190 x 120mm (7½ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right.
Oval head and shoulders portrait of Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker specialising in dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments . Based on a painting by Robert Home.
[Ref: 59833] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[James Andrew Bourn Ramsay, tenth Earl and first Marquis of Dalhousie]
Engraved by C.H.Jeens.
[n.d. c.1875]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title. Plate 248 x 179mm.
[Ref: 3446] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Ramsgate] Nelson's Crescent and Royal Harbour, Ramsgate. [&] Wellington Crescent and Sand, Ramsgate.
Lithographed by Newman & Co. 43 Watling Str. London.
Published by F. Knott, Ramsgate [n.d., c.1840].
A pair of rare lithographs with hand colour. Sheets 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼") Mount burn, some surface scuffing, margins messy.
Two locally-publlished views of Ramsgate, depicting the town as a fashionable resort. F. Knott published several similar views as separate-issues.
[Ref: 55472] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Views of Ramsgate.
Published by Rock & Co. London [compiled c.1865].
Attractive souvenir booklet of 12 steel engraved views on six leaves, 8vo, complete; original printed card wrappers, embossed upper cover. Covers a little bumped and soiled, extremities chipped.
No text save captions; all views numbered and dated. Ownership stamp to first leaf: 'A.P. Southee, West Cliff School'.
[Ref: 22710] £140.00 view all images for this item

The Harbour and Pier, Ramsgate. [&] The Bathing Place, Ramsgate.
Drawn by R. Green 1782. Engrav'd by V. Green & F. Jukes.
Publish'd July 8th 1782 by V. Green Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine, No.29 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London.
Pair of aquatints. Plate: 380 x 330mm (15 x 13"). Thread margins.
Two views of Ramsgate, the first shows the harbour with men at work laoding boats and couples walking along the pier, the second scene shows the bathing machines and bathing house at Ramsgate.
[Ref: 42511] £480.00 view all images for this item

A View of Ramsgate from the East Pier Head.
E. Dorrell Del. G. Kirtland Sculp.
London Publish'd Feb.y 19st 1798 by G. Kirtland Printseller N.º 119 Titchfield S..t Oxford Market.
Scarce etching with hand colour. Fine frame, sight size 325 x 470mm (12¾ x 18½". Some spotting and toning, unexamined out of frame.
A naive view of the town from the pier, with promenaders.
[Ref: 61653] £450.00

Ramsgate, in a High Gale. [&] Ramsgate, with a View of the new Light-House.
P.J. De Loutherbourg R.A. delt. J.C. Stadler Sculpt.
London: Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall-Mall, 1801.
Pair of hand-coloured aquatints with etching, each c.440 x 570mm. 17¼ x 22½". Slightly faded; with margins. Some repairs.
Figures observing shipping in Ramsgate harbour in east Kent, from the quayside. Ramsgate was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century and a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque Ports. The lighthouse is prominent in the backgrounds of both compositions. From a first edition of 'Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain' after designs by the landscape painter and scene designer Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812).
Abbey Scenery 6, 1 & 2. First issue.
[Ref: 20599] £650.00 view all images for this item

The Granville Hotel, Ramsgate.
Newman & Co. Nov.r 28.th 1877. 69, Southwark Bridge R.d
Engraving. 184 x 115mm (7¼ x 4½").
The Granville Hotel by Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1875); it was originally built as a terrace, and was then converted into a "celebrated hotel", famous for the monstrous striped Lombardic tower; constructed c.1870.
[Ref: 19103] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Miss Benedetta Ramus.]
Painted by G: Romney, Engraved by W. Dickinson.
Publish'd Jan. 20th, 1779 by Will.m Dickinson & Tho.s Watson, No.158 New Bond Street, London.
Mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Framed. Trimmed to plate, old ink mss 'Miss Ramus' in title area
Portrait of Benedetta Ramus; half-length standing leaning forward to right, her hands joined on a book labelled 'Johnson, Shakespeare, 4' propped on a folding table in front of her, her chin on her hands, dark hair dressed up with a jewelled scarf, wearing a gown with lacy sleeves. Lady Benedetta Day (c.1811), wife of Sir John Day of Middle Temple, Advocate General in the East Indies. Her father was housekeeper at St James's Palace. She was buried at Kew, where there is also a monument to her husband.
Horne: 102, B, ii/ii. CS: 66, ii/ii.
[Ref: 51842] £360.00

Pierre Ramus. ne en 1515, mort en 1572.
[J. C. François.]
[Paris: Brunet, c.1760.]
Crayon manner, printed in red on watermarked laid paper, printed area 245 x 180mm. 9¾ x 7".
Portrait of Pierre de la Ramée (Peter Ramus, 1515 – 1572), French humanist, logician, and educational reformer; in profile to the right, his left hand placed on a book. A Protestant, he fled from Paris in 1561 and returned only to be murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, which saw Roman Catholic violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. From Alexandre Savérien's 'Histoire des Philosophes modernes', published in eight 4to volumes from 1760-1767. 79 plates (and eight frontispieces) were engraved for the book. The plates engraved for vols 3-8 are adapted from a 12mo format, with the addition of a crayon manner border engraved by Jean Charles François (1717 - 1769), inventor of the technique in 1757.
Wellcome 2435 - not in.
[Ref: 22194] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Ramus Gallus.
Johann Bussem: excud: Colonie.
[Köln, c.1580.]
Engraving, scarce. Sheet 140 x 90mm, 5½ x 3½". Trimmed, laid on card.
Portrait of the French humanist Petrus Ramus (or Pierre de la Ramée, 1515-72), engraved by Johann Bussemacher, with one hand on a globe, the other holding a set of compasses. Ramus, a convert to Protestantism, was stabbed to death during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572.
[Ref: 25783] £350.00

[Mr Randal and Mrs Hammond.]
T. Orde inv.t et fecit 1768.
Etching. 190 x 160mm (7½ x 6¼"), with margins. Creased.
Mr Randal in a tricorn and chin-length wig, buckled shoes and a simple coat and suit, with Mrs Hammond in a straw bonnet , shawl and simple dress, both carrying baskets. One of a number of prints of towns-people of Cambridge, most of which are dated 1768. The BM has an example annotated with 'D. Randal & Mrs. Hammond, fruitsellers of Cambridge'.
BM 1931,0413.54.
[Ref: 54453] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Randall's Park, Leatherhead] S.E. View of the Mansion.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 135 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed, old ink mss.
A view of a house in Leatherhead, once the seat of Nathaniel Bland, and said to be the inspiration for 'Randalls' in Jane Austen's 'Emma'.
[Ref: 66886] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Ric.d Randall. This celebrated tenor singer so remarkable for his great strength of voice & unrivalled comic humour was born Sept.r 1st 1736 & educated under Mr Bern.d Gates in the Chapel Royal where he was early noticed & became a great favourite of his late Majesty George the Second by whose command he sung many Solo Anthems; he is the only remaining chorister who sung with Mr Handel in his Oratorios & whose compositions he still performs with most wonderfull effect at the age of 76.
[...] ad vivam Delt et sculpsit.
Published May 1812 by [...]
Etching, printed in sepia. 330 x 220mm, 13 x 9¾"
Richard Randall (1736-1828), singer. The name of the engraver and publisher appear to have been erased on the copper plate: the example held by the Royal Academy of Music also lacks these details.
Harvard Vol.III: p.363, 1.
[Ref: 24249] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Canal Chinese Building, Rotunde, in Ranelagh Gardens, with Masquerade &c. Vuë du Canal, du Batiment Chinois de la Rotunda, &c, Des Jardins de Ranelagh un Jour de Masquarade.
[after Canaletto.]
[French, c.1760.]
Engraving with hand colour. Very large margins.
Ranelagh Gardens during a masquarade, with the revellers wearing masks. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768), who lived and worked in London during the 1740s and 1750s. The print is a 'vuë d'optique', designed to be viewed through an optical viewer that gave the impression of perspective: thus the scene is reversed, as is the extra title at top, 'Masquerade Anglois'.
[Ref: 37771] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Regatta = Ball at Ranelagh XXIII June MDCCLXXV.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1775.
[London, c.1775.]
Etching. Image 165 x 205mm (6½ x 8"). Fold creases as normal; trimmed within plate.
A ticket for the Regatta Ball held at the Ranelagh Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, on 23rd June 1775. Old Father Thames stands at the front of a conch shell on the river holding forth three medals from Britannia; Abundance and a putto with shield behind, Triton and Siren in water, two naked children rowing boats far left. The Rotunda on far bank to left background. Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
De Vesme 1969, iii/iii. See 20451.
[Ref: 21163] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Ranelagh House and Garden.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1750 for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard London.
Copper engraving, sheet 175 x 250mm. 7 x 9¾". Vertical folds, as normal.
Ranelagh Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital. The pleasure gardens became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. For the Universal Magazine.
[Ref: 18212] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside View of the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens with the Company at Breakfast.
Bowles delin et Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1754 for Stowe's Survey [c.1800].
Copper Engraving. 290 x 400mm, 11½ x 15¾".
Engraving reversed from a painting by Canaletto in Compton Verney. The view focuses on the architecture of William Jones' rotunda, a structure in which the young Mozart performed (June 29th 1764). Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining the Wren's Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but its popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely.
Longford: 340,a.
[Ref: 19588] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

An Inside View of the Rotundo in Ranelagh Gardens. Vue de l'Interieur de la Rotonde dans le Jardins de Ranelagh.
Canaleti delin. N. Parr sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for & Sold by Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching. 265 x 405mm (10½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate.
Elegantly dressed figures gather in the large open space of the Rotunda, with a large extravagant fireplace in the centre, musicians playing in stands far right. Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, opened in 1742 and quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity for a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. It housed balls, concerts and dinners. However its popularity waned over the years and in 1803 the Rotunda closed, to be demolished two years later. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768).
[Ref: 41736] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Canal, Chinese Building, Rotundo, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with the Masquerade.
[after Canaletto.]
London Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Copper engraving, 170 x 275mm. 6¾ x 10¾".
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. During the masquerade depicted here, participants were disguised or in fancy dress, often favouring Oriental costume. This Oriental taste was reflected by Ranelagh's 'China House' created in 1750. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768). From a series of reduced views, numbered '7' upper right.
For the earlier engraving of this scene, see ref. 18202
[Ref: 18204] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Rotundo, House and Gardens, &c. at Ranelagh.
London Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1780.
Engraving, 175 x 275mm. 7 x 10¾". Curteis & Son watermark. (Carshalton papermakers William, John and Thomas Curteis went into partnership on 1778.)
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. Revellers promenade in the gardens in their ball costumes. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768). From a series of reduced views, numbered '6' upper right.
[Ref: 18211] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Canal, Chinese Building, Rotundo, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with the Masquerade. Vüe du Canal, du Bâtiment, Chinois, de la Rotunda, &cc. des Jardins de Ranelagh un jour de Masquerade.
Canalet delin.t. C.Grignion Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. Printed for & Sold by Rob.t. Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Framed. Plate: 400 x 260mm (15¾ x 10¼"). Frame: 585 x 440mm (23 x 17"). Unexamined out of frame. Some rubbing in sky.
A view of the Chinese House and Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens on the bank of the Thames at Chelsea. Ranelagh House was bought in 1751 by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Drury Lane and was opened to the public the following year. It was in the gardens that the masquerade was introduced to a wider public, it had formerly been an aristocratic entertainment.
[Ref: 40401] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Chinese House, the Rotunda, & the Company in Masquerade in Renelagh Gardens. [parallel text in Fernch]
Bowles delin.t. Bowles sculp
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, & Carington Bowles in St Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1750]
Line engraving with hand-colouring, watermarked paper 18th century; platemark 285 x 410mm (11¼ x 16"). Small margins; staining; very good colour.
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Its admirers included Smollett, Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole and the Duke of Cumberland. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. During the masquerade depicted here, participants were disguised or in fancy dress, often favouring Oriental costume. This Oriental taste was reflected by Ranelagh's 'China House' created in 1750. The rococo rotunda, built by William Jones, was 150ft in diameter and heated by a large fireplace. Mozart once played at the orchestra stand inside it. After one of several pictures of the area which Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768) painted while resident in London.
[Ref: 37212] £380.00

A View of the Canal, Chinese Building, Rotundo, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with the Masquerade. Vue du Canal, du Batiment, Chinois, de la Rotunda, &c, des Jardins de Ranelagh un jour de Masquarade.
Canalet delint. C.Grignion Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [1752]/ Printed for and sold by Robt Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street.
Copper engraving with fine hand-colouring, sheet 265 x 410mm. 10½ x 16". Silght foxing around edges
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining the Pensioners' Hospital at Chelsea, became a popular place of leisure and entertainment. Balls, concerts and dinners were held almost daily. During the masquerade depicted here, participants were disguised or in fancy dress, often favouring Oriental costume. This Oriental taste was reflected by Ranelagh's 'China House' created in 1750. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768), who lived and worked in London during the 1740s and 1750s.
For an uncoloured impression with original publication line see ref. 18202.
[Ref: 27191] £320.00

A View of the Ranelagh House and Gardens, with the Rotunda at the time of the Jubilee Ball. [French translation to right.]
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1780.]
Etching, 175 x 270mm. 7 x 10½".
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining the Wren's Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. Shown here during a costume ball on May 24th 1759 to mark the Birthday of George Prince of Wales, the future George III. From a series of reduced views in London, numbered '11a' upper right.
From the Capper Album.
[Ref: 10899] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Interieur de la Rotonde des jardins de Renelagh.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Plate 235 x 368mm.
This anonymous print is similar to the painting by Canaletto that was published as an engraving by Robert Sayer in 1751. The view focuses on the architecture of William Jones' rotunda, a structure in which the young Mozart performed (June 29th 1764). Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining the Wren's Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but its popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely.
for a British print of the rotunda, see ref. 19588
[Ref: 15195] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Panorama al fresco with fireworks] Ranelagh! Gardens, St. Peters. Extraordinary Attraction! Grand Galla and Fete every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [...] The Splendid Picture Model of the Magnificent Buddha Temple of Honan of the Three Golden Idols. (Lately Exhibited at Vauxhall Gardens, London.) In the course of which will be introduced a magnificent series of Chinese Pyrotechnic Tableaux, being a continuous and superb display of Fireworks!! [...]
Keble, Printer, Margate.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce letterpress handbill on blue paper. Sheet 280 x 115mm (11 x 4½"). A few small tears.
A hand bill for a show at Ranelagh Gardens, Broadstairs, Kent, with a panorama al fresco accompanied by fireworks by Messrs Adams, three brothers who often worked with George Danson.
[Ref: 57170] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Canal, Chinese Building, Rotundo, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with the Masquerade.
[after Canaletto.]
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1770].
Fine coloured engraving. Sheet 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Central crease.
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. During the masquerade depicted here, participants were disguised or in fancy dress, often favouring Oriental costume. This Oriental taste was reflected by Ranelagh's 'China House' created in 1750. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768). From a series of reduced views, numbered '7' upper right.
[Ref: 62801] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Inside view of the Rotundo in Ranelagh Gardens.] Prospect Von dem Inern de la Rotonde in den Garten zu Ranelagh in London.
Canaleti del. F. Leizelt Sculp.
Se vend à Augsbourg dans le Négoce comun de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire sous son Privilege et avec défence de n'en faire ni vendre de copies. [n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with hand colour. Sheet: 330 x 440mm (13 x 17¼"). Trimmed to plate, torn in two, repaired, nicks in edges.
A vüe d'optique of the Chinese House and Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea. The print was to be used in an zograscope or optical diagonal machine which would use lenses to create the illusion of a 3-D landscape. The print would be seen in reversed, accounting for the backwards title above the scene.
[Ref: 50058] £320.00

An Inside View of the Rotundo in Ranelagh Gardens. Vue de l'Interieur de la Rotonde dans le Jardins de Ranelagh.
Canaleti delin. N. Parr sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. London Printed for & Sold by Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 265 x 405mm. 10½ x 16". Tatty extremities; a fine impression with full margins.
Elegantly dressed figures gather in the large open space, a large extravagant fireplace in the centre of the room, musicians playing in stands far right. Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely.
After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768).
[Ref: 14739] £220.00

Svbsn: Masqe: Ranelagh XIIII. June. MDCCLXXVI. HDV.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1776.]
Etching with engraving, fine. Plate 222 x 185mm. 8¾ x 7¼". Trimmed to platemark, very slight foxing
Ticket. The Birth of Venus; Venus standing naked in front of the sea combing her hair with her fingers. Two birds above the over and two putti seated at each end of the console holding masks. Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining the Wren's Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely.
De Vesme: 1957; iii/iii. See Ref: 20539 for earlier state.
[Ref: 20538] £320.00

[Svbsn: Masqe: Ranelagh XIIII. June. MDCCLXXVI.] HDV.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1776.]
Etching with engraving. 158 x 102mm. 6¼ x 4". Cut nearly to image, slight foxing.
Ticket. The Birth of Venus; Venus standing naked in front of the sea combing her hair with her fingers. Two birds above the over and two putti seated at each end of the console holding masks. Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining the Wren's Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely.
De Vesme: 1957; ii/iii. See 20538 for later state.
[Ref: 20539] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Ranger's very Elegant, Pleasant, and much Admired Lodge, in the Green Park, St. James's.
London. Printed for Rob. Wilkinson. No. 58 Cornill. [n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching. 190 x 170mm (7½ x 6¾"). Bit dusty.
An exterior view of the ranger's lodge in Green Park, London.
[Ref: 63210] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Rangitikei.
C.D. Barraud del. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
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: 61018] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Rangoon from the Dall Side.
C. Terry, High Holborn, London WC.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Wood engraving, very rare. Sheet 120 x 225mm (4¾ x 9"). Trimmed.
A view of the city from the river, a paddle steamer in the foreground.
[Ref: 32161] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Rangoon. The Storming of one of the principal Stockades on its inside on the 8.th of July 1824.
Drawn by J. Moore. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Published Oct.r 1. 1825 by Kingsbury & Co. 6 Leadenhall Str.t & T. Clay. 18, Ludgate Hill, London.
Hand coloured aquatint. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½). Repaired tears in margins. Colour faded.
After Lieutenant Joseph Moore of Her Majesty’s 89th Regiment, British Army. It was one of a series of pictures drawn by Moore that were subsequently published in London in 1825-26 as aquatint plates under the title "Eighteen Views Taken at and near Rangoon". The prints depict various scenes from the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), which the British fought to halt Burmese expansionism and incursions into British India. Rangoon was captured in May 1824.
Abbey: 404.15. Hickman: p.240.
[Ref: 49498] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hinterindien u. Ind Archipel. Taf 1. Die Goldene Pagode swa Guadama in Rangun.
[Leipzig: A. Weger, c.1850.]
Steel engraving. 280 x 320mm (11 x 12½").
A central scene of the Golden Pagoda in Rangoon, surrounded by ten sketched scenes in Burma and China.
[Ref: 45627] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Attack of the Stockades at Pagoda Point, on the Rangoon River by Sir Arch.d Campbell, K.C.B. 8th July 1824. No.18.
Drawn by J. Moore. Engraved by Reeve, Jun.r.
Published Jan. 2, 1826 by Tho.s Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, & Kingsbury & Co. Leadenhall Str.t London.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16¼"). Trimmed within plate, two tears in edges taped.
The First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826) was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmese Empires in the 19th century. General Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet (1769-1843) led 10,000 men and took the city with little resistance. In May of 1824, after fortifying the Shwedagon Pagoda compound, Campbell launched attacks on Burmese lines, and by the end of July 1824, he had successfully pushed the Burmese towards Kamayut, enough to repel Burmese efforts to retake the city.
Abbey Travel 404; Hickman p.230, illus. p. 233.
[Ref: 58236] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Sixteen String Jack Rann.
AR Fecit 1774.
[Pub.d Oct.r 6 1774]
Etching, drypoint and stipple, scarce proof before publication line. Sheet 330 x 230mm (13 x 9¼"). Trimmed to plate. Tipped into album sheet.
A half-length, three-quarter profile portrait of a young man faces left, looking back at the viewer while holding up a glass in his left hand and a bottle on the table in front of him. He is dressed in a jacket, cravat, and wide-brimmed hat with rope around it. To the left is a circular window with bars. John Rann 'Sixteen String Jack' was a highwayman who was hanged in 1774.
[Ref: 62035] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

V.E Cahier de Groupes de Fleurs et d'Ornemens pour la Décoration. Dessiné par Ranson. D. 1 [-6]
Ranson del. Berthault Sculp.
A Paris chès Fr. Chereau au Rue S.t Jacques aux deux Pilliers [n.d., c.1773].
Set of six plates, stitched together. Each c. 235 x 195mm (9¼ x 7¾").
Six numbered plates of flowers decorating architectural panels, engraved by Pierre Gabriel Berthault after Pierre Ranson.
V&A E.1880-1938 for plate 1.
[Ref: 63613] £480.00 view all images for this item

IIIR Cahier de Groupes de Fleurs et d'ornemens pour la décoration. Dessinés par Ranson. 1 [-6]
Ranson del. Berthault Sculp.
A Paris chès Fr. Chereau au Rue S.t Jacques aux deux Pilliers [n.d., c.1773].
Set of six plates. Each c. 235 x 195mm (9¼ x 7¾"). Plates 2-5 mounted in album paper, plate 2 trimmed within plate on left and bottom.
Six numbered plate of flowers decorating architectural panels, engraved by Pierre Gabriel Berthault after Pierre Ranson.
[Ref: 63612] £300.00 view all images for this item

Ranston in Dorsetshire. La Seigneurie de Th. Ryves Ecuyer. No. 12 des Jardine Anglois.
W: Watts del. Gravé par Guyot.
à Paris chez Guyot Graveur et Md. d’Estampes, rue St. Jacques au Grand Gessner No.9. [n.d. c.1780.]
Framed aquatint and with etched outline. Glass area 352 x 361mm. 13¾ x 14¼".
Iwerne Courtney House at Ranston, Dorset built in 1755. The residence of Thomas Ryves (1721-1788). Following the death of his parents, Thomas, his brother and his sisters were passed into the care of their uncle, George Ryves, who owned the large estate of Ranston, however when he died the estate passed to Thomas' brother. In 1739 with the death of his brother, Thomas received the sole ownership of the estate. In 1760 Thomas Ryves was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences and he exhibited some watercolours before the society. He also rebuilt Ranston Hall, giving it its present appearance. However in 1781, undoubtedly for financial reasons relating to his eldest son Thomas, he had to sell this estate which had been in the family for almost 240 years.
[Ref: 21924] £450.00

Henricus Ranzovius Regis Daniae Vicarius, In Ducatib. Slesvi, Holsat. ac Ditmarsiae. DN. in Bredenb. etc,
[Augsburg, 1600.]
Rare engraving with very large margins, printed on 17th century watermarked paper. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5¼"), set in letterpress.
Portrait of Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598), a Danish economist, astrologer and governor of Schleswig & Holstein, from Dominic Custos's 'Atrium heroicum'. Rantzau was patron to cartographer Mark Jordan and astronomer Tycho Brahe and regularly corresponded with both Gerard Mercator and Braun & Hogenberg: the only country map in Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' atlas of townplans is Jordan's map of Denmark, dedicated to Rantzau.
[Ref: 29710] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Shrine of the Saline, Rapallo.
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾''), very large margins. Mint.
The view of a shrine in the Italian town of Rapallo, near Genoa. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49337] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Zuagli, Bay of Rapallo (Italy).]
Claude H. Rowbotham. [signed in pencil.]
Etching. Edition strictly limited to 100 signed artists proofs. In original mount. Plate: 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6'') very large margins. Marking.
A view of the Bay of Rapallo. An etching by Claude Hamilton Rowbotham (1864-1949) who created a new single plate coloured etching process.
[Ref: 49340] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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