Grosvenor Prints

Francis Duke of Bedford
Drawn by J. Lonsdale from the Original Bust by J. Nollekens Esq.r R.A. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 1802, Engraved by L. Sailliar.
Published Jan.y 12 1802 by Charlotte Brydon No 4 Charing Cross
Very rare stipple, platemark 285 x 240mm (11¼ x 9½"). Small margins. Glued to backing sheet.
Francis Russell, fifth duke of Bedford (1765-1802), agriculturalist and politician. Bedford became known as a leading promoter of agricultural development. He was an original member of the board of agriculture set up in 1793, and the first president of the Smithfield Club in 1798, while he also instituted the annual agricultural fair at Woburn. Russell was also an ambitious urban developer, and used his 119 acres of land around London's West End to develop much of the Bloomsbury estate (including Bedford Square, Russell Square, and Bloomsbury Square). After Russell's death a statue was erected in Russell Square, showing Russell with one hand resting on a plough and the other holding ears of corn. Stipple after one of the three busts of Russell sculpted by Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), whose many portrait busts make up a visual record of the personalities of late Georgian Britain.
[Ref: 40800] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Generae of Patriotism, _ or _ The Bloomsbury Farmer, planting Bedfordshire Wheat.
J.s G.y des et fec.r.
Pub.d Feb.y 3.d 1796 by H Humphrey New Bond Street.
Etching with aquatint, sheet 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14") Trimmed within plate/to plate on three sides.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765 – 1802), as a farmer, scatters guineas from a pouch slung to his shoulder. As he sows the tips of bonnets-rouges and spikes sprout up; behind him they progressively emerge more completely, and appear as little Jacobins, a raised dagger in each hand, crowding in close ranks towards the horizon, where they hail (or are smitten by) thunderbolts which dart from clouds in the upper left corner of the design and explode on reaching the ground. The soil is prepared by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) and James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839): a bull (John Bull) is harnessed to a plough which is guided by Sheridan wearing a bonnet-rouge and Lauderdale raises a whip to flog the weary bull.. Fox's smiling face is the centre of a sun which issues from clouds and shines on Bedford. Bedford was an ardent supporter of Fox and a friend of Lauderdale; for his lavish expenditure for party purposes. Bedford was a great agriculturist and an original member of the Board of Agriculture
BM Satires 8783.
[Ref: 58780] £650.00

[Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford.]
Painted by Stephen Pearce. Engraved by James Scott.
London, Published Dec.r 18.th 1863, by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen_ 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 550 x 420mm. 21½ x 16½". Limited to 100 proofs. Slight paper discoloration.
Very scarce portrait of Francis Russell seated, reading at his desk. Russell (1788-1861) was an MP for Peterborough, then Bedfordshire, and from 1833 served in the House of Lords as Baron Howland of Streatham.
[Ref: 12327] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford] French Habits. No 4. Membre du Directoire Exécutif.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins.
Francis Russell wearing the uniform of a Director, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). His head has ostrich feathers and he wears a cloak over a tunic, with a sabre. Behind a curtain marked 'Egalite' half-covers the Bedfors arms and motto of 'Che sara sara'. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9199.
[Ref: 59144] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Published May. 1st 1778 by W.Shropshire No 158 New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"). Trimmed to image on three sides, and through publication line at bottom.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: Green 8.
[Ref: 4831] £450.00

[His Grace The Duke of Bedford with his Brothers Lord John Russell, Lord Will.m Russell, & Miss Vernon.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by V.Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by Walter Shropshire May 1.st 1778 N.º 158 New Bond Street.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 510 x 430mm (20 x 17"), large margins. With the 'K' collector's stamp of Thomas Kirk. Narrow margins, crease
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802), dressed as St. George, standing above the dead dragon, with his brothers John (1766-1839, 7th duke) and William (1767-1840), with Henrietta Vernon (1745-1828, Countess Grosvenor) as Sabrina.
CS: 8, i of ii. Goodwin 69, i of ii. Hamilton p.8. Lugt 1623, Thomas Kirk (c.1765 97), painter and engraver. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68053] £580.00

[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford] The Duke of B_d's Reception at Exeter.
Murgo-resky Fuergrock inv. delin sc. [Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7''). Damage along lower edge.
A satirical scene showing the Duke of Bedford passing the doors of St Peter's Church, Exeter, followed by a shouting mob of inhabitants of the city. Some of crowd seem to be holding cricket bats (Bedford was a cricket fan). On a ceremonial visit to Exeter, Bedford was followed by a pro-Wilkes mob, who heckled him constantly.
BM Satire 4302.
[Ref: 48428] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford] The Duke of B_d's Reception at Exeter.
Murgo-resky Fuergrock inv. delin sc. [Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.]
[Oxford Magazine, 1769.]
Engraving. 120 x 180mm (4¾ x 7'').
A satirical scene showing the Duke of Bedford (1710 –71) passing the doors of St Peter's Church, Exeter, followed by a shouting mob of inhabitants of the city. Some of crowd seem to be holding cricket bats (Bedford was a cricket fan). On a ceremonial visit to Exeter, Bedford was followed by a pro-Wilkes mob, who heckled him constantly.
BM Satire 4302.
[Ref: 59987] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[John Russell] A Late Crow from the Earley Bird. The Hornet. June 26th, 1872.]
[London: Frederick Arnold, 1872.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 400 x 270mm (15¾ x 10¾"). Nicks in edges.
Caricature of John Russell (1792-1878), former prime minister, as a crowing cockerel standing on a scroll titled 'Alabama Claims'. In 1862, during the American Civil War, Foreign Secretary Russell allowed 'Alabama', a warship built by John Laird, to leave Birkenhead to join the Confederate navy, despite complaints from the Federal legation in London. Within two years she had taken over sixty Federal prizes before being sunk off the coast of France. In 1869 the US brought a claim for damages against Britain, seeking compensation for the damage done by ships built in this country. The original demand was for either $2 billion or the ceding of Canada to the United States but, after international arbitration, the case. was settled for $15.5 million. Despite admitting the release of the ship was a mistake, Russell obstinately refused to accept Britain should pay damages.
[Ref: 53077] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

I. Russell Ld: Privy Seale with one Eye.
H. Holbens Delt. R. Dalton Fecit.
[n.d. c.1770.]
Etching. 364 x 282mm. 14½ x 11". Crease to top and bottom left-hand corners. Some toning around edges. Cut inside the platemark.
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, KG, PC, JP (1485-1554) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal.
[Ref: 14387] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Lord John Russell. The Advocate of Parliamentary Reform.
N. Whittock del.t
London: Published by F. Kennedy (late Royle) July 1831 27, King St Holborn. Printed by C. Kellow 11, High Holborn.
Lithograph with hand-colouring, rare in colour, sheet 185 x 155mm (7¼ x 6"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet with decorative gold border attached.
Lord John Russell (1792-1878), prime minister and author. Lord John served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 19th century. His first premiership (1846-1852) came following the resignation of Peel after the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was responsible for reforms to the working hours in the 1847 Factory Act and for the passing of the Public Health Act of 1848. His ministry also ended restrictions on colonial trade by repealing the Navigation Acts of 1849. This lithograph was published earlier in Lord John's career, shortly after he introduced the second Reform Bill to the House of Commons. It was rejected by the House of Lords, but a third bill was passed the following year.
Not in O'D
[Ref: 41091] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Alexander George Russell, and his Pony Emerald. To His Grace The Duke of Bedford, this Print is with permission respectfully inscribed.
Painted by Edwin Landseer R.A. Drawn on stone by R.J. Lane A.R.A.
Published Feb'y 13th 1832 by J. Dickinson New Bond Street Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fine lithograph with tintstone on india, sheet 305 x 325mm (12 x 12¾"). Foxing to edges.
Lord Alexander George Russell (1821-1907), army general. The son of John Russell, sixth earl of Bedford, it has also been claimed that Lord Alexander was the son of Edwin Landseer, from whose painting this lithograph derives, since Landseer had an affair with his mother. Landseer's original painting 'The First Leap: Lord Alexander Russell on his Pony "Emerald"' (1829) is in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
[Ref: 41092] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lord John Russell. Premier 1849.
[n.d. c.1860.]
A rare mezzotint, Plate 363 x 251mm. 14¼ x 10". Trimmed close to the platemark.
Lord John Russell (1792-1878), the English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 19th century. His first premiership (1846-1852) came following the resignation of Peel after the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was responsible for reforms to the working hours in the 1847 Factory Act and for the passing of the Public Health Act of 1848. His ministry also ended restrictions on colonial trade by repealing the Navigation Acts of 1849.
[Ref: 19672] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

J. Scott Russell M.A._F.R.S._M.I.C.E. Engineer and Ship Builder.
Engraved by W. H. Mote, from a Photograph by Mayall
[n.d., c.1850]
Rare engraving and stipple, plate 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Some creasing and time staining with tears to edges.
A half-length seated portrait of John Scott Russell with an engineering plan on his knee. John Scott Russell (1808-1882) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859). He made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction.
[Ref: 55996] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

From a Portrait of Lord Cosmo Russell, Son of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
By Edwin Landseer A.R.A. [facsimile]. (in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Bedford).
Plate 11, of Lithographic Imitations of Sketches by Modern Artists by Rich.d J. Lane, A.R.A. Printed by Engelmann & Co. London 1828. Published by J. Dickinson.
Lithograph on chine collé. 386 x 278mm. 15¼ x 11".
Lord Cosmo George Russell (1817-1875), ninth son of the 6th Duke of Bedford.
NPG: D22410.
[Ref: 25003] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lucie Countess of Bedford.
Engraved by R. Cooper, from a Miniature Painted by Nicholas Hilliard in the possession of the Marquis of Buckingham.
[n.d., c.1800.]
A fine & rare colour printed stipple. Plate: 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9") with large margins.
A portrait of Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (1580-1627) who was a major aristocratic patron of the arts during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
[Ref: 46320] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas M. Russell Esq.r. Vice Admiral of the Blue Squadron.
C.G. Stuart pinx.t. H.R. Cook sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple engraving, 6¾ x 5" [paper size]. Trimmed inside plate.
At the end of the American War of Indendence, Russell's command of the HUSSAR (20 guns) enabled him to capture the French frigate SIBYLLE (38 guns).
Not in Parker.
[Ref: 5776] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Brief Memoir Intended to Accompany Mr. John Bromley's Engraving of the Trial of William Lord Russell, from the Celebrated Picture, Painted by George Hayter, Esq. M.A.S.L. &c. in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Bedford. Written by John Landseer, Esq. F.S.A. & A.R.A.
London: printed for R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, 46, Pall Mall, [The Proprietors and Publishers of the Engraving) by Thomas Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street. 1828.
Pamphlet, small 8vo, paper wrappers; pp. 30, etched folding plate. Front of wrapper partly missing, stain to titlepage.
A prospectus for Bromley's mezzotint of 1828, with a keyplate at the rear.
[Ref: 66540] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

William Duke of Bedford.
E.Lutterell pinx. R.William fec.
[n.d., c.1700.] Sold by I.Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden.
Fine & scarce mezzotint. 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾"). Small margins.
Portrait of William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616 - 1700), English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited his Peerage as 5th Earl of Bedford and removed to the House of Lords. He fought in the Parliamentarian army and later defected to the Royalists during the English Civil War.
CS: 6: ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65438] £360.00

The House of William Russel, Esq. Showell Green. The House of W. Russell, Esq. This mansion, which is situated about two miles from the town, at Showell-Green, was not destroyed till Saturday the 16th of July 1791. By the activity and intrepid conduct of W. Russell, Esq. its inhabitant owner, the rioters were either repelled or persuaded to retire, more than once... Aussi-tôt après la maison ayant été pilleé du restant de ses meubles (la majeure partie ayant été démenagée auparavant) fut incendiée ainsi que toutes ses dépendances.
Drawn by P.H. Witton Jun.r Engraved by W.m Ellis.
London. Published, 1 May 1792, by J.Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard.
Aquatint with descriptive text in English and French. Sheet 406 x 260mm. 16 x 10¼". Laid on album page, foxing.
William Russell (1740-1818) was a practising Unitarian Dissenter, close friend and sponsor of Joseph Priestley. Rioters therefore attacked his house, on 16th July 1791, during the Priestley Riots, the Birmingham Riots of 1791, which targeted religious Dissenters, most notably the politically and theologically controversial Joseph Priestley. From "Views of the Ruins of the Principal Houses destroyed during the Riots at Birmingham. 1791." On the 14th of July, 1791, a party having met at an hotel to celebrate the anniversary of the French revolution, collected together as a mob, and proceeded for several days their devastations, setting fire to several meeting-houses and private mansions, but on the arrival of the military from Oxford and Hounslow, order was restored: at the ensuing assizes four of the ring-leaders were convicted, two of whom suffered the penalty of the law. Shortly after this occurrence barracks were erected on the Vauxhall-road, near the town, consisting of a range of handsome buildings, enclosing a spacious area for the exercise of cavalry, and a smaller for parades, a riding-school, a magazine, and an hospital.
[Ref: 21108] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

W.H. Russell. The Times Correspondent.
London: G. Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street. [n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 179 x 114mm. 7 x 4½". Crease lower right corner.
Sir William Howard Russell (1820-1907) was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent twenty-two months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.
[Ref: 24730] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Wriothesley Lord Russell.
[after Sir Godfrey Kneller.]
I. Beckett exc. [n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Thread margins, laid on album paper at edges.
A full-length portrait of Wriothesley Russell (1680-1711), a boy dressed in Roman costume and robe, leading against an ornamental vase containing a tree. The son of William Russell, Lord Russell, who was executed for treason in 1683, he became 2nd Duke of Bedford in 1700. He held the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Middlesex between 1701 and 1711, served as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III 1701-2, was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1702 and served as Lord High Constable of England for the coronation of Queen Anne the same year. He died of smallpox aged thirty.
CS 90, state ii of iii . Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65467] £360.00

Wriothesley Lord Russell.
[after Sir Godfrey Kneller.]
I. Beckett exc. [n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint, 17th century watermark 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Thread margins, some time staining, edged with album paper.
A full-length portrait of Wriothesley Russell (1680-1711), a boy dressed in Roman costume and robe, leading against an ornamental vase containing a tree. The son of William Russell, Lord Russell, who was executed for treason in 1683, he became 2nd Duke of Bedford in 1700. He held the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Middlesex between 1701 and 1711, served as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III 1701-2, was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1702 and served as Lord High Constable of England for the coronation of Queen Anne the same year. He died of smallpox aged thirty.
CS 90, state ii of iii .
[Ref: 65469] £360.00

Basse des Trois-Frères et pointe du phare, à l'entrée de la baie d'Avatscha. (KamtschatKa). Voyage de la frigate Vénus. Atlas Pittoresque.
Moerenhout del. Lith. Thierry frères. Sebatier Lith.
[n.d., c.1841.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 11''), with very large margins.
A view of the mouth of the Avacha river on the Kamchatka peninsula in north-eastern Russia. A plate from 'Atlas Pittoresque of du Petit-Thouars' Voyage Autour du Monde sur La Fregate La Venus'.
[Ref: 50940] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bonaparte's Flight in Disguise, from Russia, 1811.
W. Heath. Del. Aquatinted by Sutherland.
London, Published March 1st 1814 by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint. 215 x 300mm (8½ x 11¾"), with large margins.
A scene showing Napoleon, wrapped in a large fur coat and hat escaping from a battle on a sled.
[Ref: 55806] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Russian Empire in Europe and Aisa: from the best Authorities.
J.Cary sculp.
Published Sep.r 28 1782 by I.Fielding No 23 Pater noster Row.
Engraving. 195 x 270mm, 7¾ x 10½". Folded.
Map from the 'Complete Geographical Dictionary' by John Seally.
[Ref: 13222] £75.00

Retour de Moscou.
M...del. Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 444 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"). Repaired tears in lower edge.
Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia, following the French Invasion of Russia in 1812, which was a turning point during the Napoleonic Wars. It resulted in a decisive Russian victory and the destruction of the French Allied army. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30797] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Russia.____________Yet there life glows; / Yet cherish'd there, beneath the shining waste, / The furry nations harbour: tipt with jet, / Fair ermines, spotless as the snows they press; / Sables, of glossy: black; and dark embrown'd, / Or beauteous freakt with many a mingled hue, / Thousands besides, the costly pride of courts. Vide Thomsons Winter.
C. Ansell delint. W. Nutter sculpt.
London Publish'd Jan. 11. 1791 by C. Tomkins No.2 Rathbone Place.
Stipple. Plate 301 x 246mm. 11?" x 9¾".
A rustic Russian scene of a fair maiden and father preparing for the hunt.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9258] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Sledge of Kamtschatka.
J. Webber del. Woodyer sc.
[London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1785.]
Engraving on watermarked laid paper, 185 x 250mm. 7¼ x 9¾". A fine impression with full margins.
A sledge or sleigh from the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Russian Pacific coast. From Cook's Voyages, numbered '71' upper right. John Webber (1751 - 1793) travelled with Captain James Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the official artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hands of Hawaiian natives.
NLA: 2929997.
[Ref: 18775] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside of a Winter Habitation, in Kamtschatka.
J.Webber del. W.Sharp sculp.
[London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.]
Engraving. 260 x 415mm, 10¼ x x 16½". Large paper copy.
A scene on Kamchatka Peninsula on the north Pacific coast of Asia. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 11018] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A Lap man?]
[***] jun.r fecit 1830.
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"). Faint surface soiling.
A man in bright clothes with a tatooed face, carrying a bow.
[Ref: 11086] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

[A Lap woman?]
[***]fecit 1830.
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 195 x 140mm, 7¾ x 5½". Faint surface soiling. Name of artist scraped off.
A woman in bright clothes carrying a child on her back.
[Ref: 11087] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

[Les Hollandais passant l'Hiver dans la Nouvelle Zemble, dans les années 1596 & 1597.
Uncut proof sheet. [Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving, 275 x 350mm, with old ink mss. title as above.
Four scenes of Willem Barents and his crew wintering on the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya, 1596-7, while searching for the North East Passage.
[Ref: 1235] £350.00

Russia or Moscovy.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved map. 190 x 220mm, 7½ x 8¾".
Map of Russia.
[Ref: 13242] £65.00

The Russian Empire, with its gradual Acquisitions traced and Explained.
Printed by R. Juigné, 17, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square. [n.d., c.1817.]
Hand coloured engraving with surrounding letter press text and large margins. Sheet size: 495 x 715mm (19½ x 28¼").
A map of the Russian Empire, stretching from Finland and Walachia to Kamchatka, surrounded by letterpress descriptions, published in an English edition of Le Sage's Historical Atlas.
[Ref: 36875] £240.00

Bateau pour les parties de plaisir.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Fine lithograph, paper watermarked. Image area 165 x 247mm. 6½ x 9¾". Trimmed to image and around title area.
Two pleasure boats, one being rowed in the background, whereas the one in the foreground sits whilst men make music. From an uncoloured copy of "Moeurs et costumes des Russes représentés en 50 planches coloriées exécutées en lithographie -- par A. C. Houbigant".
[Ref: 26567] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bonaparte's Flight in Disguise, from his Ruined Grand Army in Russia 1812. Dedicated to all the Patriotic Subscribers to the Fund for the relief of the brave Victorious, but suffering Russians By Edw.d Orme.
Atkinson Del. M. Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y. 20.th 1813, by Edw.d Orme, Bond St. London.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 305 x 405mm (12 x 16''). Laid on album sheet at corners, foxing.
A scene showing Napoleon, wrapped in a large fur coat and hat escaping from a battle on a sled. Following Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon had held Moscow for one month but as winter drew in and with no negotiations from the Russians, Napoleon decided to retreat. Lack of food and fodder for animals, cold and repeated attacks from the Cossacks caused the French to lose huge numbers of men.
[Ref: 50513] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Summer and Winter Habitations, in Kamtschatka.
J. Webber del. S. Smith sc.
[London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1785.]
Engraving, 245 x 405mm. 9¾ x 16". Full margins.
Structures on the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Russian Pacific coast. From Cook's Voyages, numbered '77' upper right. John Webber (1751 - 1793) travelled with Captain James Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the official artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hands of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 18736] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka.
J. Webber del. P. Benezech sc.
[London: G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1785.]
Engraving, 240 x 345mm. 9½ x 13½". Full margins.
View at Bol'sheretsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Russian Pacific coast; sleigh dogs, cattle and a family feature. From Cook's Voyages, numbered '77' upper right. John Webber (1751 - 1793) travelled with Captain James Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the official artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hands of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 18738] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Russia.] Russland Taf. II. Hôtel des Generalstabs in Petersburg.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Russia arranged around a central view of St Petersburg, other views include 'Fleichsmarkt', 'Die Admiraltät in Petersburg', 'Fleichmarkt'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46029] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Famille Russe Attaquee Par Des Loups.
Peint par Schopin. Grave par Jazet. Imprimerie de Goupil et Vibert.
Goupil & Vibert, Editeurs. Berlin, Verlag von L. Sachse & Cie. Paris _ 15, Boulevart Montmartre, & 7, Rue de Lancry. London_25, Berners St. Oxford St. _ Publd. 9ber 1st./44 [n.d., c.1850].
Aquatint, 530 x 650mm. 20¾ x 25½".
Dramatic image showing a pack of wolves attacking a terrified mother and two children in horse-drawn sleigh. One horse in the background of this wintry composition has fallen and is about to be engulfed by the ravenous pack.
[Ref: 8516] £490.00

Scheeps-tocht, in den Jaare 1596. naar Nova Zembla ondernoomen.
[Jan Luyken, (1649-1712)]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 280 x 345mm, 11 x 13½".
A depiction of the crew of Willem Barentsz's ship 'Mercury' trying to harvest the tusks of a herd of nearly 200 walruses they encounted on the Orange Islands near Novaya Zemlya. As it was more dificult than they expected they only came away with a few tusks.
See Ref No. 11025.
[Ref: 11028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Donna della Samogizia. Femme de la Samoiedes.
C.P.E.S. Apud Theodorum Viero Ven. [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8". Lightly soiled.
A Samoyed woman of Siberia carrying her child behind her back. Plate to 'Raccolta di ... Stampe, che rappresentano figure ed abiti di varie nazioni, etc' in 3 parts, 1783-91, by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice.
[Ref: 11091] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Russia. ____Yet there life glows; Yet cherish'd there, beneath the shining waste...Or beauteous freakt with many a mingles hue, Thousands besides, the costly pride of courts. Vide Thomsons Winter.
C. Ansell delin.t W. Nutter sculp.t
[n.d. c.1822.]
Stipple, rare. 291 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Cut, messy.
In a snowy mountain, a woman with a headscarf, standing in the centre, holding a bird in her hand; a man next to her, carrying a quiver and a bow on his back, leaning against a sledge on the right which another figure rides and a reindeer pulls; a log house on the left.
See Ref: 9258 for earlier in tact publication.
[Ref: 34752] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Uralsky Cossac.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t. P.A. Herbert direx.t.
[London: John Stockdale?, 1821.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9"), watermarked 'J. Whatman 1821'. Worm holes in unprinted area of plate. Crease on right.
From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'. First published in 1809 by Richard Phillips, Stockdale published the second edition in 1813.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 34447] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Immiretien.
Chopin del.t. Lith. de G. Engelmann.
[n.d., c.1828.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"). Very large margins.
Lithographed by Godefroy Engelmann after Jean-Marie Chopin (1796-1871), one of 16 plates in Chopin's 'Costumes Russes modernes'.
[Ref: 37874] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three Engravings. With Descriptions in English and French.
[by William Alexander.]
London: Printed for W. Miller, Old Bond Street, by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn. MDCCIII [1803].
First Edition, first issue. Folio, original full calf calf gilt, morocco title labels on spine; pp. [18], 73 aquatint plates with fine original colour, each with a page of letterpress in English and French. Plates and text watermarked 1796 as called for by Abbey. Boards detached.
A fine costume plate book, with illustrations of the peoples of Scandinavia, Central Asia and the Far East. The plates were copied from a four-volume work by J.G. Georgi published in St. Petersburg, 1776-80. According to Abbey: ''The text to this English edition is said to be by William Alexander''.
Abbey, Travel, 244.
[Ref: 55185] £1,300.00 view all images for this item

[No 1. A Laplander.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Portrait of a Laplander, carrying fish and nets, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37868] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Russia - Plate 1. [A Laplander.]
[London: John Murray, c.1814.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate, edges soiled.
Portrait of a Laplander, carrying fish and nets, the frontispiece of William Alexander's 'Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians'.
[Ref: 37909] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

No 2. [A Woman of Lapland.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Portrait of a Laplander woman, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text. Such women are described as 'obliging, modest and extremely irritable'.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37869] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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