Grosvenor Prints

The Resurrection of Christ.
Raphael Urbin inv.t. R. Dalton delin. R. Dalton, F. Vivares & C. Grignon Sculp.nt.
Published according to Act of Parliament Feb.y ye 21st, 1753 (but later).
Engraving with large margins. 450 x 750mm, 17¾ x 19½".
Christ emerging from the crypt, shocking & terrifying a cohort of Roman soldiers.
BM: 1893,0612.114.
[Ref: 26777] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Retort Humorous.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6½"). Foxing on right.
A scene in a room in which Frederick the Great sits at a table with two men sat either side while a man stands sheepishly before him.
[Ref: 43964] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Retort Courteous.
Finucane delin.t.
Published 1st August 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") large margins.
A scene outside a grocer's, where a countryman has slipped and fallen. The grocer laughs: ''Our London Stones are too proud to bear such a Bumkin as you are", to which the countryman replies, ''As proud as they are Measter Grocer, _ I have made them Kiss my A_e". In shop window boxes of tea can be seen, including Souchong.
BM Satires 9114.
[Ref: 54499] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Le Retour a Constantinople. Eh bien chiens de chretiens je vous croyais partis!...
V.H 1828
L'Industriel No 13. [French, c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 220 x 270mm. 8¾ x 10½". Fold creases;
French satirical print on Ottoman Turkish Trade. 1828 corresponds with the treaty of Adrianople where the Ruling Ottoman granted trade concessions to the Russians which may have annoyed the French hence this satire. It does show a European delegation appearing to be "cap in hand" at the Ottoman Court.
[Ref: 20290] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Le Retour de Paris or the Neice presented to her Relatives by her French Governess.
EHL del 1816___Etched by G Cruikshank.
Pub.d by H. Humphrey St. James's St. January 3d. 1817.
Hand-coloured etching. 274 x 380mm (10¾ x 15").
An elderly couple, plainly dressed in a very old-fashioned manner, watch with shocked dismay an over-dressed Frenchwoman who takes by the wrist an equally over-dressed girl, making her curtsey, as she does herself. Their dresses are high-waisted, flounced, and vandyked, with neck-ruffles and short puffed sleeves. Both wear huge bonnets with erect cylindrical crowns, grotesquely trimmed, long gloves, each with a reticule dangling from the arm. A French servant in livery stands chapeau-bras, a band-box slung from his arm, shrugging his shoulders to express horrified surprise. A plainly dressed young girl standing behind her aunt grins in astonishment at the visitors. A dog and cat register hostility towards a cringing lap-dog shaved in the French manner, which is attached to the servant with a string. The room is panelled and carpeted, with one side-table, and is probably a hall or ante-room in a country house.
BM Satires: 12922. Cohn: 1314.
[Ref: 30567] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Retour du Matelot.
[after Louis Philippe Boitard.]
[n.d. c.1750.]
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing verse at bottom, bottom right corner torn and taped.
A sailor of the Royal Navy returns from sea, awash with prize money. He is richly dressed and gives his love gifts of money and a watch. Behind is a wagon with the Royal Standard and 'N.º 25' on the canvas. A pair to 'Adieux du Matelot'. The scene is probably referring to the return of Admiral Anson from his voyage around the world (1740-4). The siver captured from the Spanish treasure ship filled 30 wagons; each ordinary seaman received about £300 prize money, equivalent to 20 years' wages. Engraved after Louis Philippe Boitard, a French-born printmaker based in London and frequently considered one of the finest satirists of his day.
Provenance Cornwell House.
[Ref: 66744] £320.00

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Trauriges Bild der Französischen Retirade in Thüringen. Man fragt sich, ist dies grosse Heerführer, vor dem bis jetzt ganz Europa zitterte? Vide 23. Bulletin des Kronprinzen von Scheden.
Nürnburg bei Friedrich Compe [n.d., c.1814].
Etching with hand colour. 180 x 255mm (7 x 10"), large margins.
Napoleon rests in a bivouac as the Grand Army rests near Erfurt during the Retreat from Moscow in 1812. A propaganda piece, with a title referring to the 'sad state' of the army and continuing 'One asks oneself, is this great military leader before whom all of Europe has trembled until now?'.
[Ref: 61479] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Map exhibiting the Retreat of the French Army from Moscow to Paris.
W. Milton sc.
Published by R. Bowyer Pall Mall, London, 20 Feb. 1815.
Engraved map. Printed area 385 x 255mm (15¼ x 10"). Damp stain on edge of wide margins.
A map of the roads between Moscow and Paris, showing the route of Napoleon's disastrous retreat of 1812, published in Bowyer's 'Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe'.
[Ref: 37913] £140.00

Nap near Nab'd or a Retreating Jump Just in Time. 203.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d June 1813 by Tho.s Tegg No.11 Cheapside - Price one sh col.d
Hand-coloured etching; J. Whatman, Turkey Mills 1820 watermark. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Some damage.
Napoleon leaps in terror from a window, his large bicorne falling off; another French officer steps on to the sill, about to follow. They will inevitably drop into a wash-tub below. The house is a neat log cabin with casement windows. Two flowering plants in pots fall from the sill, pigs scamper off, a cock and hen fly away. A woman scouring a pot looks out in alarm from a lower window. A cat miaows on a pent-house roof. Behind a paling (left) a Cossack with his long spear has dismounted, and hastens towards the house with a satisfied grin; in the background Cossacks gallop across a snowy landscape.
BM Satires 12058.
[Ref: 52299] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Caillard_Les Chiens d'Arret.
J. Rothschild editeur, Paris. Lemercier & Cie. Imprimeurs.
Chromolithograph. Printed area: 225 x 295mm (9 x 11¾"). Creasing.
A portrait of a retriever.
[Ref: 47472] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Curley-Haired Retriever.] Caillard_Les Chiens d'Arrét.
J. Rothschild Éditeur Paris. Lemercier & C.ie Imprimeurs. [n.d., c.1870.]
Chromolithograph. Printed area: 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾"), with large margins.
[Ref: 47770] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Golden Retriever & Grouse.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Etching signed by the artist. 105 x 95mm (4 x 3¾"), with very large margins. Limited edition: 163/250. Mint.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 59667] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Golden Retriever & Mallard.]
G.Vernon Stokes.
Coloured drypoint etching, 52 of 75, signed by the artist. 250 x 290mm.
[Ref: 5739] £380.00

[A Maid of All Work.] No.16.
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1902, by Photographische Gesellschaft. Published by the Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W. 133 New Bond Street_New York 14 East 23rd Street.
Photogravure. Plate 388 x 290mm. 15¼ x 11½".
Flat-coated Retriever Champion ' Bring 'Em' - Owner - H. Reginald Cooke, Esqr.
No.16 British Hounds & Gundogs.
[Ref: 16005] £350.00

[Golden Retriever & Mallard.]
G.Vernon Stokes.
Framed coloured drypoint etching, 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½"). Edition: 54/75. Unexamined out of frame.
A golden retriever carrying a mallard. By animal artist George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954).
[Ref: 60159] £320.00

Rector.
Painted by Heywood Hardy. Engraved by J.B. Pratt.
Published 1906 by Thos. Agnew & Sons, 23 Old Bond Street, London, Liverpool & Manchester Copyright. Printed by F.G. Hardcastle.
Large mixed-method engraving on india paper, title in open letters. 465 x 450mm, 18¼ x 17¾". A wonderful impression, with full margins. Mint.
Magnificent portrait study of a black flat coat retriever, landscape behind. Heywood Hardy (1842 - 1933) was a painter and watercolourist of animals and sporting subjects.
[Ref: 23447] £480.00

[May - Visiting the Coops.]
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1906. Published by the Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W. 133 New Bond Street.
Colour photogravure. 220 x 350mm.
An Ilchester Retriever. Maud Alice Earl (1864-1943) was an eminent British-American canine painter. Her works are much enjoyed by dog enthusiasts and also accurately record many breeds. Earl was the born in London, the daughter of artist George Earl and his first wife Alice Beaumont Rawlins. Maud's profession was the continuation of a family tradition. George Earl, an avid sportsman and noted sporting painter, was his daughter's first teacher and had his daughter study the anatomy of her subjects, drawing dog, horse and human skeletons to improve her skill. She later said that her father's instruction had given her ability that set her apart from other dog painters. After her father's tutelage Maud went on to study at Royal Female School of Art (later incorporated into the Central School of Art). Earl became famous during the Victorian Era, a time when women were not expected to make their living at painting. Nevertheless, she developed a select clientele, including Royals amongst her patrons such as Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Although evidently extremely successful in England, Earl felt that the world she knew had been destroyed by World War I and she emigrated to New York City in 1916. By this time her work had received wide international recognition and her popular images were published in a number of books and in print form. The Sportsman's Year featured twelve of Earl's works as engravings. Maud Earl died in New York in 1943 and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
[Ref: 7455] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Serving the Guns.]
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1902. Published by the Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W. 133 New Bond Street.
Photogravure, 300 x 370mm. Slight foxing in margins.
Curly Coated Retriever, 'Preston Rattler'. - Owner - Mrs Duerdin Dutton
No.17 British Hounds & Gundogs - limited to 500.
[Ref: 2272] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Hund Mit Fasan. / Retriever and Pheasant.
[after Richard Ansdell]
Berlin P. Sala & Co. Uter den Linden 57.
Lithograph 260 x 320mm, image. Glue stains from verso in sky.
German lithograph of the popular Richard Ansdell picture.
[Ref: 427] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Retriever and Mallard. ''Hard Hit''.] Copyright.
[Painted by George Earl. Engraved by Charles Tomkins.]
London Published Oct. 30th 1869, J. M,,cQueen 31 Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street, & 22 Rue De Dunkerque, Paris.
Mezzotint, proof before title and inscriptions publication line above image, printed on india, Printsellers' Association blindstamp, artist proof limited edition 100. 595 x 695mm (23½ x 27¼"). Trimmed to plate at top, tears on backing sheet.
A black retriever flushes a mallard out from rushes.
Printsellers' Association, dated 1871; See BM 2010,7081.6614 for lettered state.
[Ref: 62657] £380.00

[Return from the Hunt.]
Rowlandson. 1788.
[Pub. Jan.y 1st. 1788 by J Harris No 38 Dean St. Soho.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 450 x 515mm (17¾ x 20¼"). Trimmed to printed border, losing title, nick in top edge, several small repaired tears at edges.
One of a series of six hunting scenes, showing the party dismounting outside a Palladian mansion, dog pack bottom right.
[Ref: 45236] £420.00

Reconciliation or the Return from Scotland.
T. Rowlandson fec.t.
Pub.d Nov.r 22. 1795. by S.W. Fores N.o3 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, surface dirt.
An interior scene showing the reconciliation of a newly-wed couple and the bride's family following her elopement to Scotland. The bride wipes her eyes while her father and mother regard the couple's entrance with shock, two servants clasp their hands in delight in the doorway.
For a 1785 version see BM 9669.
[Ref: 43645] £360.00

The Return from Scotland, or Three Weeks after Marriage.
London: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 5th Decem.r 1777.
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Repaired damage to margins.
A young couple sit awkwardly, the wife faced away from her husband, demonstrating that the honeymoon period has definitely ended. The tightening of marriage regulations in England in the 18th century prevented couples under the age of 21 from marrying without their parents consent. This gave rise to the phenomenon of young couples marrying over the border in Scotland, which inspired many satirical prints depicting both the joys and perils of impulsive decisions.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; BM Satires 4625
[Ref: 36224] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Return from the Continent, or, the Family puzzled.]
Phillips, fec.
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket, Aug.t 1st 1835.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 215 x 325mm (8½ x 12¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing title, laid on album paper.
A stout lady pours tea on to a plate, missing the cup, in her amused astonishment at the appearance of her very fat and jovial husband who sits opposite her, wearing a hat burlesquing the French fashion, coat open over a wide expanse of horizontally striped waistcoat, and plain white trousers. The husband has obviously taken on too many French airs. The satire was originally published by George Humphrey in 1827. This reissue comes from 'Cruikshankiana, an Assemblage of the Most Celebrated Works of George Cruikshank'.
See BM Satires 15465 for the first issue.
[Ref: 57829] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Return of the Campaign.
A. Watteau pi. Cl. Du Bosc sculp.
Printed and Sold by John Tinney at the Golden Lion near the Globe Tavern in Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving with very large margins. 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Tear entering plate at bottom.
An army returning from a campaign, with camp followers, wounded, plunder, etc. A reversed copy of a plate engraved by Cochin in 1727, one of a pair with 'The Flying Camp'.
[Ref: 30821] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

Returned from the Ball.
[Paul Pry holding a candle, monogram of William Heath.]
Pub by Tho. Mclean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1829].
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 365 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to printed border. Tear left side top.
A young woman, dressed in her ballgown, sprawls on a settee in her bedroom while her elderly maid yawns with tiredness.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 63655] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Returning from Market. From the Original Picture of the same size, Painted by Nicholas Berchem; In the Collecion of John Darker Esq.r.
N. Berchem Pinx.t. John Boydell excudit, 1771. P. C. Canot Sculpsit.
Published May 1.st. 1771 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Engraving. Plate: 480 x 380mm (19 x 15"). Very large margins.
A landscape view in which several figures, three of whom are mounted, drive their livestock across a river. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38263] £350.00

Fantasien. Umrisse zum Erstenmal von den Original-Platten Abgedruckt.
Gezeichnet von Moritz Retzsch.
London im verlag von Saunders und Otley, Conduit Street; Black, Young und Young, Tavistock Street; Rittner und Goupil, Paris. 1834.
Book: 8vo (281 x 211mm). Cloth and marble board binding. Binding a little worn.
Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 - June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. A wonderful collection of line engravings and a few separate drawings and etchings.
[Ref: 10466] £160.00 view all images for this item

Rivière De S.t Dennis (The Bourbon)
Paris del. Himely sc. de Sainson Edit. Finot imp.
[Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833-1835.]
Aquatint on india, plate 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15") with very large margins. Blind stamp with 'La Favorite' in the bottom margin. Some spotting in margins.
Part of a series "Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830,1831,1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace". Published in Paris in 1835 under the direction of Louise Auguste de Sainson. Under the command of Laplace, La Favorite explored the Indian Ocean and the route to the Indies via the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and Malaysia, into the China Sea (1830-1832). A view of the River De St. Dennis, on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. A man carries water from the river in pots and women wash clothes, nearby cows graze. A small hut can be seen in the middle ground. The mountainous terrain fills the distance.
[Ref: 54892] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de S.t Denis. Ile Bourbon.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier. Lith. par Turpenne et Lauvergne.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London. Ackermann et C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 230 x 345mm (9 x 13½"), with very large margins.
A view of Saint-Denis, capital of Reunion. Plate 99 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47161] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vue De Saint Denis. (Ile Bourbon.) P. 229.
de Sainson pinx. Nousveaux et St. Aulaire Lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Bichebois aine, rue de la bibliotheque, 4. [Paris, 1833.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 340 x 535mm (13½ x 21"), large margins. Faint toning.
Shipping in rough seas in the harbour Saint-Denis in the French island of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. From 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829.
[Ref: 60230] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Bason des Chites. Isle of Bourbon.
Engraved by George Cooke.
London, Published by Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. Paternoster Row, Sept.r 1.1813.
Engraving. 209 x 272mm. 8¼ x 10¾".
A view on the island of Reunion, known as the Ile Bourbon; the French island located in the Indian ocean.
[Ref: 20623] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

St. Denis (Ile Bourbon) Hotel du Gouvernem.t France Pittoresque.
Buttura del. Cuché et Chansin Sculp.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 158 x 203mm. 6¼ x 8".
The Government Building in Saint Denis, Reunion.
[Ref: 20341] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Paul Julius Baron von Reuter.]
Painted by Rudolf Lehmann. Engraved by T. Oldham Barlow.
Private Plate. [n.d. c.1870.]
Mixed method engraving, on india paper. Plate: 385 x 510mm (15¼ x 20").
(Paul) Julius de Reuter, Baron de Reuter (née Israel Beer Josaphat) (1816-1899), founder of Reuter's News Agency. Reuter moved to London on October 29, 1845, he set up an office at the London Stock Exchange, and established a telegraph link between Britain and the European continent through the English Channel. This link was extended to the south-western shore of Ireland, at Cork in 1863 where ships coming from America threw canisters containing news into the sea. The news was telegraphed to London, arriving before the ships. He was created Baron in 1871.
[Ref: 41023] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Paul Julius Baron von Reuter.] [Signed "Yours Truly, Julius Reuter" in ink lower right.]
Painted by Rudolf Lehmann. Engraved by T. Oldham Barlow.
Private Plate. [n.d. c.1870.]
Mixed method engraving. Board: 410 x 550mm (16 x 21½"). Laid on board, glued into mount. Tears in image in left and right edges. Rubbing to sheet.
(Paul) Julius de Reuter, Baron de Reuter (née Israel Beer Josaphat) (1816-1899), Founder of Reuter's News Agency. Born in Germany. His birthname was Israel Beer Josaphat. Reuter moved to London on October 29, 1845, calling himself Joseph Josephat. On November 16 he was baptised as Paul Julius Reuter. He set up an office at the London Stock Exchange, and established a telegraph link between Britain and the European continent through the English Channel. This link was extended to the south-western shore of Ireland, at Cork in 1863. There ships coming from America threw canisters containing news into the sea. The news was telegraphed to London, arriving before the ships. Created Baron in 1871.
[Ref: 32681] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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La Revanche, eller Europæerne i Misouri. "Her see De, mine Herrer og Damer, Ant. le Coreque, 1ste. Livjæger hos Kong Carl X, dette er et Pragt, Stykke af en Eurpæer; ved Siden af ham Jeanette Pauline de Ceour, 1ste. Kammerpige hos Hertuginden af Angoulême; Manden til Venstre er Hertug C. af Bruns-vigs Ven og Gesandt, Baron Bender v: Bienenthal, han er födt i Schweinfurth og opdraget i London. Bagved Jeanette see De Marquis af Queluz, Don Miguels Premier-Minister, forhen Pirez, Strobarbeer af Portugal. Disse Mennesker leve af Kjöd, Fisk, Grönt, Viin, Brændeviin."
Danchell lith. N.B. Krossing.
Kglt. Steentr. A . Dir. [Swedish, n.d. c.1720]
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 260 x 340mm (10¼" x 13½"). Some creasing.
A satire of reversing European attitudes to the American natives: a lecturer points to four Europeans in outlandish dress and explains the anthropological background. The woman is described as '1st. Chambermaid of the duchess of Angoulême'.
[Ref: 50343] £450.00

A Revd: Macaroni.
Pubd. Accorg: to Act Octr 1st. 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 170 x 130mm. 6¾ x 5".
Whole length portrait of a man standing in profile to the left. He wears his own hair, a plain coat, riding breeches, and spurred boots. His left hand is in his breeches-pocket and under his arm is a riding-whip. From 'Characters, Macaronies & Caricatures, by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered '16' upper left and 'V.6' upper right.
BM Satires: 5161.
[Ref: 14327] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Revellers.]
Tinier inv: B.Lens ex.
[London: John Boydell, 1805?]
Mezzotint. Sheet 125 x 85mm (5 x 3"), on wove paper. Trimmed within plate.
A couple dancing outside a tavern, other revellers behind with a man playing bagpipes. Engraved by Bernard Lens II after David Teniers the Younger, published by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits'.
BM: 2010,7081.81., Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65043] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Revellers.]
Tinier inv: B.Lens ex.
[London: John Boydell, 1805.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 125 x 85mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
A couple dancing outside a tavern, other revellers behind with a man playing bagpipes. Engraved by Bernard Lens II after David Teniers the Younger, published by John Boydell in his 'Collection of Portraits'.
BM: 2010,7081.81, Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 31985] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Reverie. Proof.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, pinx. Thomas Cheesman, late Pupil to Bartolozzi, Sculp.
Pub.d May 16, 1792, by P. Borgnis, No. 40, Oxford Street
Stipple. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), with very large margins.
A young woman wearing a broad-brimmed plumed hat over curly hair. Although attributed to Reynolds no corresponding painting is known.
BM: 1897,1117.174.
[Ref: 44045] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Rêverie.]
[Paul-César Helleu.]
Printed in Paris _ Copyright 1901 by Manzi, Joyant & Co.
Photogravure, printed in colours. 500 x 400mm (19¾ x 15¾"), with large margins. Uncut.
A glamourously-dressed woman seated on a river boat, a cityscape behind.
Musée Goupil 93.I.2.1855.
[Ref: 62658] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Rêveuse. Gravée d'aprés le Tableau original. Peint par Wateau de la même grandeur.
Wateau pinx. P. Aveline sculp.
A Paris chez Gersaint pont. N.D. et chez Surugue rue des Noyers avec privil du Roi. [n.d., c.1729.]
Engraving. 280 x 200mm, 11 x 8". Framed. Slight paper toning. Unexamined out of fine frame.
'The Dreamer', a portrait of woman in a landscape, engraved by Pierre Alexandre Aveline (1702-60) after Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Edme Francois Gersaint (1694 - 1750), the publisher, was a friend and patron of Watteau.
[Ref: 26601] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Taste a la Mode in 1748 Compar'd with that in 1711. [The Review.]
J. June del Sc. [in image]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament. [n.d. c.1750]
Etching. Sheet 285 x 570mm (15¼ x 22½"). Title cut out and new one glued. Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet.
A scene ridiculing skirt hoops while proposing 'a new Invention by your Sexe's Friend' (a skirt which can be contracted to fit through narrow spaces by pulling two cords). The woman on the left demonstrates this innovation outside Long's Warehouse in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden where a shop sign of a woman in a petticoat is being raised into position. To the right we see 'The Round Hoops condemnd': a weeping woman is tried before a magistrate's court, apparently for wearing the round hooped petticoat which is suspended above her head (drawing comparisons with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the distance).
BM Satires 1991. See references 31750 & 54334.
[Ref: 61985] £320.00

The Review.
[Drawn and engraved by John June.]
London. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard. [n.d., c.1770.]
Etching. Sheet 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed close to plate, mounted on album paper. Slight diagonal crease not visible on front.
A scene ridiculing skirt hoops while proposing 'a new Invention by your Sexe's Friend' (a skirt which can be contracted to fit through narrow spaces by pulling two cords). The woman on the left demonstrates this innovation outside Long's Warehouse in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden where a shop sign of a woman in a petticoat is being raised into position. To the right we see 'The Round Hoops condemnd': a weeping woman is tried before a magistrate's court, apparently for wearing the round hooped petticoat which is suspended above her head (drawing comparisons with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the distance). First published by John June c.1750, this later state has a different publication line and the number '76' added in the lower right.
Ex Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd; BM Satires 1991.
[Ref: 31750] £340.00

The Review.
[Drawn and engraved by John June.]
London. Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard. [n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 230 x 305mm (9 x 12"). Trimmed close to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
A scene ridiculing skirt hoops while proposing 'a new Invention by your Sexe's Friend' (a skirt which can be contracted to fit through narrow spaces by pulling two cords). The woman on the left demonstrates this innovation outside Long's Warehouse in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden where a shop sign of a woman in a petticoat is being raised into position. To the right we see 'The Round Hoops condemnd': a weeping woman is tried before a magistrate's court, apparently for wearing the round hooped petticoat which is suspended above her head (drawing comparisons with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the distance). First published by John June c.1750, this later state has a different publication line and the number '76' added in the lower right.
[Ref: 54334] £320.00

[King Ninus reviews his troops before battle with Zoroaster] Premiere discipline dans la guerre [...]
F. Chauveau fec. et in.
[n.d., c.1650]
Etching with small margins, platemark 220 x 355mm (8½ x 14").
Ninus, king of Assyria, inspects his troops before doing battle with Zoroaster, king of Bactria. The text says that this battle was instigated by Ninus' wife Semiramis, although other accounts say that it was during the subsequent siege of Bactra that Ninus met Semiramis. The text also says that even though Ninus' men were only armed with rural and agricultural tools, they still defeated Zoroaster. By François Chauveau (1613-76), Parisian designer of book illustrations.
[Ref: 33167] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Revolt of the Fleet. The Parliament having invested the Earl of Warwick with the command of ye Fleet contrary to his Majesty's Pleasure... NB. Considering ye vast Improvement in Naval Building it was thought it would be most agreeable to represent ye Fleet as compos'd of Modern Ships, at top are several Hierogtyphick Figures.
S.N. [Sutton Nichols?] fc 1728.
Rare etching, fine early state. Sheet 390 x 445mm (15¼ x 17½"), 18th century watermark. Trimmed inside platemark. Repairs to left corner.
A fleet of British Navy warships is framed by columns and a tableau of allegorical and mythological figures above. The inscription below relates the events leading up to the revolt of British sea captains against Royal authority during the Civil War. The plate seems to be engraved by Sutton Nicholls (1680 - 1740; fl), the London topographical engraver, printseller and publisher. After Louis Chéron (1660 - 1725) and Thomas Baston (1699 - 1730; fl.).
[Ref: 51752] £480.00

Tableaux de la Révolution Française. Ils ne sont plus ces jours de désastres, de deuil...
Fragonard fils inv. et del. Coiny aqua forti. Malapeau sculp.
[Auber, 1804]
Engraving. Sheet: 275 x 390mm (10¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate.
The frontispiece to 'Tableaux de la Révolution Française' 1804 in which three classical god-like figures descend into a battlefield, a figure who's face is hidden behind a mask holds a snake up to the first figure who holds a spear. The figures are symbols of the Revolution and the glory of France.
[Ref: 42141] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Hanging. Drowning. Fatal Effects of the French Defeat.
[By James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate at top, mounted in album paper at edges. Slight foxing at corners.
Two scenes about the news that the French army on the Rhine had been defeated by the Austrians: on the left the pro-revolution Charles James Fox tries to hang himself; on the right William Pitt the Younger and Henry Dundas celebrate, sloshing wine everywhere. Behind Fox is a portrait of General Jean-Charles Pichegru who, it later transpired, was a secret royalist and had caused the French defeat by betraying the French strategy. In 1803 he plotted a coup against Napoleon, was discovered and was found strangled in his prison cell.
BM Satire 8683.
[Ref: 52916] £950.00

Commencement of the Revolution. Window Smashers.
[n.d., c.1832.]
Lithograph. Sheet 130 x 100mm (5 x 4"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed and backed onto album paper, pt of larger sheet.
A satire of the Reform Act of 1832: a group of men, including the Duke of Wellington, throw bricks and stones to smash a building's window. Opponents of the attempt to pass a reform bill twice attacked the Duke's London residence, Apsley House, smashing the windows. This burlesques the events, with the Duke's bill smashing the windows of the Establishment.
[Ref: 68991] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

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