Grosvenor Prints

Dr. William Ruddiman. Late Physician to His Highness the Nauasunt Wallayah of the Carnatic, and in the Service of the East India Company on the Coromandel Coast.
Engrav'd by Anth.y Cardon.
Printed by J. Smart, 1807.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet 230 x 125mm (9 x 5"). Trimmed and pasted into album paper.
Portrait of William Ruddiman, Physician to Mohammad Ali Wallajah (1717-1795), Eighth Nawab of the Carnatic, whose residence Chepauk Palace in Madras (Chennai) was hospitable to many men of learning and British visitors. An Indian landscape appears in the background.
[Ref: 66793] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Rudge Esq.r.
J. Whood pinx.t. 1730. J. Faber Fecit 1740.
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint. Plate: 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾'') very large margins. Creasing.
A portrait of politician John Rudge (1669-1740) who served as MP for Evesham.
CS 310
[Ref: 48034] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A fragment of the standard of Rudolph 1st, founder of the House of Habsburg, and first Emperor of Germany, given me at the Civic Arsenal, at Vienna, Dec.r 23rd 1841. It is 566 years old.
Manuscript, fabric and printed decorative border, 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Cut out and pasted onto nineteenth century album sheet.
[Ref: 25514] £450.00

Sir. Beniamin Rudyerd Surveyor of His Ma.tyes Court of Wardes and Liveryes. Ano. Dom. 1632. Aetatis 54. Ano.1627. Could we, as heere his Figure, se his Mynd...As he doth lack a Foe even to forgive.
D: Mytens pinxit. Iohn Payne sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1632.] later impression.
Fine engraving. Plate 336 x 223mm. 13¼ x 8¾".
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd (1572-1658), Surveyor of the Court of Wards, politician and poet. Rudyerd was a minor poet and an influential member of Parliament. In 1618, as the lettering of the plate states, he was appointed to the lucrative sinecure of Surveyor of his Majesty's Court of Wards and Liveries. He was a close friend of the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and the two conducted an exchange of poems that was edited by John Donne's son for publication in 1660. He retained his seat throughout the Civil War, and retired only in 1648. Mytens's portrait (now at Audley End) was painted in 1627, whereas this plate was engraved in 1632. Both dates are carefully specified on the print. The obvious explanation why this plate was made to such a large size and high standard is that it was a private plate, commissioned and owned by Rudyerd himself. If so, it must have been sold after his death to Peter Stent who reprinted it.
[Ref: 24646] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Man wearing a ruff]
TW [Thomas Worlidge] 1751
Etching, platemark 120 x 95mm (4¾ x 3¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; good impression; 'J.B.' for John Barnard verso (Lugt 1419).
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Previously in the collection of the famous print collector John Barnard.
State i/ii; D146.
[Ref: 33059] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Man wearing a ruff]
TW [Thomas Worlidge] 1751.
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Good margins; good impression on cream laid paper.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
State i/ii; D146.
[Ref: 33058] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Man wearing a ruff]
TW [Thomas Worlidge] 1751.
Etching, platemark 125 x 100mm (5 x 4"). Very large margins; on white wove paper.
Portrait study by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression after number added top left and then erased.
State ii/ii; D146.
[Ref: 33060] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Reitres et Lansquenets. Dédiés à Monsieur Wasserschlebe Premier Secretaire des affaires Etrangeres de S.M. le Roi de Dannemark et de Norwege, par son Ami et très-humble Serviteur Will.
C. Parrocel inv. J.G. Will fecit.
A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, Quay des Augustines, à côté de l'Hotel d'Augurgne. [c.1753.]
Complete set of 12 numbered etchings. Each sheet c. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper, a few signs of wear.
Twelve plates of 'ruffian soldiers', etched by Johann Georg Will after Charles Parrocel (1688 - 1752). The second plate is dated 1753.
[Ref: 40310] £480.00 view all images for this item

Rufus's Stone / New Forest [ms]
[Mary Anne Theresa Whitby] Litho. Newlands 1825.
Rare lithographPrinted area and title approx 205 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
The Rufus Stone, marking the spot where King William II is believed to have been fatally wounded in 1100AD during a royal hunting visit in the New Forest (the king was nicknamed Rufus). The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35714] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sua Cuique Voluptas.
[Unsigned, c.1940]
Pen and ink drawing with colour, sheet 160 x 270mm (6¼ x 10½").
Comical rugby sketches, probably a preparatory drawing for a publication.
[Ref: 47638] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Rugby players.]
Gregorio Prieto. 1938.
[Dolphin Book Co (Tredwr) Ltd, 1938.]
Woodcut. Printed area 245 x 240mm (9¾ x 9½"), on laid paper, with large margins.
From ''Students: Oxford and Cambridge'', by Gregorio Prieto, a collection of twenty woodcuts, limited to 100 copies. Prieto (1897-1992), a Spanish avante garde artist whose work often featured homoerotica, moved to London to avoid the Spanish Civil War, only returning to Spain in 1950.
See also reference 60883.
[Ref: 60882] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Rugby] Imp-ossible!
[n.d., c.1900.]
Scarce chromolithograph on thick paper. 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Binding holes on left edge.
Four vignette scenes, two of football, two of Rugby, illustrating a verse in which imps complain to the Devil about their injuries playing Rugby. His response: ''go and play Football!".
[Ref: 58849] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Rugby Match.]
L.L.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Ink drawing. Sheet: 180 x 280mm (7 x 11'').
A sporting scene showing a rugby player kicking a football into a mass of players.
[Ref: 51065] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A Dash on the Goal Line.]
Ernest Prater.
[n.d., 1902.]
Photolithograph. Sheet 205 x 300mm (8 x 12"), mounted on original green backing paper, with sheet of descriptive text.
A try being scored, a rare early rugby scene. Accoring to the text sheet Prater's painting was exhibited at the R.A. in 1897. From B.F. Robinson's 'Sporting Pictures', 1902. After Ernest Prater (1864–1950), a war correspondent during the Anglo-Boer War and illustrator for newspapers and books, including works by Henty.
[Ref: 40252] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Scenes in New Zealand. To James Baxter. Esq., Manager of the British Rugby Football Team. From the New Zealand Government August, 1930.
Album of 25 Photographs. Small, oblong folio, Morocco binding with gilt. 340 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Rubbing to binding, some foxing.
A scarce early Rugby Lions item, with a copy of "History of the British Lions" by Clem Thomas, 1997. A presentation copy of an album of photographs of scenery of New Zealand presented to James Baxter with a dedication from George Forbes (1869-1947), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1930-1935, in celebration of the first British 'Lion's' tour to New Zealand in 1930. The team was the first bona fide British team to tour New Zealand. Dedication reads: 'With complts & best wishes George Forbes, Prime Minister N.Z. Augt. 14th 1930.'
[Ref: 42852] £700.00 view all images for this item

To the Right Hon.ble & Hon.ble The Trustees of Rugby School, Warwickshire, this South East View of the Buildings Erected under their Authority is most respectfully dedicated by their ,uch obliged & obedient serv.t, George Hawkins.
G. Hawkinds del et sculp. Henry Hakewill Architect 1808.
London Published Feb.y 1.st 1817 by Geo. Hawkins. 21 Panton Street Leicester Square.
Engraving. 280 x 400mm (11 x 15¾"), very large margins. Tear and some nicks in the lower margin.
A south east prospect of Rugby School, founded in 1576, but re-established during the first half of the 19th century. In foreground boys are holding cricket bat.
[Ref: 56309] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View from the Quadrangle. Rugby School.
W.Westell del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
Published Nov.r 1 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Rugby School.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view from the Quadrangle at Rugby School, designed and built by architect Henry Hakewill. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62902] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Great School Room of Rugby.
J.Gendall del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
Pub.d. Nov.r 1 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Rugby School.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of the great school room at Rugby School. Pupils are sat on benches around the room, some are reading. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62903] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Head Master's House. Rugby School.
W.Westall del.t. J.Stadler sculp.t.
Published Oct.r 1, 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Rugby School.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of the Head Masters house at Rugby School, built in 1809. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62904] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View of Rugby School. From the Northampton Road.
W.Westall del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1812 watermark, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of the Rugby School from the Northampton Road. A woman and her child are walking in the forground, the school amongst the trees in the distance. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62905] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Southern Schools & Dormitories of Rugby School _ from the Play Ground.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London: Pub.d Nov. 1, 1816, at 101, Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Charter House School.
Fine coloured aquatint. 250 x 300mm (6 x 11¾"). Mint.
A view of Rugby School, with pupils playing cricket in the foreground.
[Ref: 60872] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Rugby School as it appear'd in the Year 1809, Is by Permission respectfully dedicated to the Honorable the Trustees By their much obliged and Obedient Servant E. Pretty.
Drawn & Etch'd by E. Pretty. Aquatinted by R. Reeve.
Rugby, Published by E. Pretty, Drawing Master, June 1811.
Etching with aquatint. 280 x 490mm (11 x 19¼"). Foxed, creased.
The school with cricketers in the foreground, by Edward Pretty (1792-1865).
[Ref: 66614] £480.00

Rugby School as it appear'd in the Year 1809, Is by Permission respectfully dedicated to the Honorable the Trustees By their much obliged and Obedient Servant E. Pretty.
Drawn & Etch'd by E. Pretty. Aquatinted by R. Reeve.
Rugby, Published by E. Pretty, Drawing Master, June 1811.
Etching with aquatint. 280 x 490mm (11 x 19¼"). Occasional foxing to sky area upper right.
The school with cricketers in the foreground, by Edward Pretty (1792-1865).
[Ref: 4720] £480.00

[Rugby School entrance on Hillmorton Road, looking towards the Temple Speech Room.]
Gertrude Hayes.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching, signed in pencil by the artist. 255 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Very large margins.
Gertrude Ellen Hayes (1872-1956), who married Alfred Kedington. Both were art tutors at Rugby School.
[Ref: 37882] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Rugby School from the Temple Speech Room.]
Gertrude Hayes.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching, signed in pencil by the artist. 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Very large margins.
Gertrude Ellen Hayes (1872-1956), who married Alfred Kedington. Both were art tutors at Rugby School.
[Ref: 37884] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Football. (Rugby) St. Dunstan's v. Royal Naval School 8.10.98 at Catford. St. D. lost by 17 pts [...]
Sketched after the match by F.A. Brooker -98
Pen and ink, scarce item; sheet 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Hole on left.
Unique sheet of sketches showing events during an 1898 rugby match between the Royal Naval School in New Cross (now Goldsmiths College) and St Dunstan's College in Catford. Several players in the match are identified by name (Elgin, Silvester, Christie).
[Ref: 44820] £390.00

[Battle Scene.]
G.P. Rugendas pinx. et del. Li 3 di Marzo Ao 1696 in Augusta. Christian Rugendas Sculps et excud Aug. Vindelicor.
Mezzotint printed in different coloured inks, platemark 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½") very large margins. Good impression.
Violent battle scene by two members of the Rugendas family of artists in Germany. The image derives from a painting by Georg Philipp Rugendas I, a painter and graphic artist who established a print publishing house in Augsburg in 1735. It was engraved and published by his son Christian (1708-81).
[Ref: 40226] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle Scene.]
G.P. Rugendas pinx. Roma Ao 1694 Christian Rugendas Sculps et excud Aug. Vind.
Mezzotint printed in different coloured inks, platemark 140 x 225mm (5½ x 8¾") very large margins. Good impression.
Violent battle scene by two members of the Rugendas family of artists in Germany. The image derives from a painting by Georg Philipp Rugendas I, a painter and graphic artist who established a print publishing house in Augsburg in 1735. It was engraved and published by his son Christian (1708-81).
[Ref: 40227] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle Scene.]
G.P. Rugendas pinx. et del. Ao 1696 li15 Novembre in Augusta / Christian Rugendas Sculps et excud Aug. V
Mezzotint printed in colours, platemark 180 x 225mm (7 x 9"). Thread margins.
Battle scene by two members of the Rugendas family of artists in Germany. The image derives from a painting by Georg Philipp Rugendas I, a painter and graphic artist who established a print publishing house in Augsburg in 1735. It was engraved and published by his son Christian (1708-81).
[Ref: 38655] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Chinoiserie designs]
John. Lorenz Rugendas Sculpsit et excudit Aug. Vind. [c.1770]
Etching, platemark 245 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Small margins.
Chinoiserie designs by Johann Lorenz Rugendas I (1730-99), one of a family of German painters, draughstmen and engravers descended from Georg Philipp Rugendas I, an esteemed painter who established a publishing house in Augsburg in 1735.
[Ref: 41397] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Chinoiserie designs]
John. Lorenz Rugendas Sculpsit et excudit Aug. Vind. [c.1770]
Etching, platemark 245 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Small margins.
Chinoiserie designs by Johann Lorenz Rugendas I (1730-99), one of a family of German painters, draughstmen and engravers descended from Georg Philipp Rugendas I, an esteemed painter who established a publishing house in Augsburg in 1735.
[Ref: 41398] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

So wechselt Freud und Leid: [...]
Georg Philipp Rugendas inv. del. et Sculpsit.
Johann Christian Leopold excudit Augustæ Vindelicorum cum Gratia et Privilegio Sacræ Cæsareæ Magestatis. [Augsburg, n.d., 1730.]
Mezzotint. 410 x 515mm (16 x 20¼"). Thread margins, holes patched, central crease.
A camp scene: a woman cooks eggs as a man starts to pluck a goose; a soldier dances with another woman; and, in the background, a man is being held down and beaten with a stick.
[Ref: 51359] £320.00

[Battle scene] Militis Hungarici prima est audacia Virtus [...]
Georg Philipp Rugendas Junior fecit.
G.P. Rugendas Senior excud. Johann Christian Leopold excudit Augustæ Vindelicorum cum Gratia et Privilegio Sacræ Cæsareæ Magestatis. [Augsburg, n.d., 1730.]
Rare mezzotint. 410 x 515mm (16 x 20¼"). Thread margins, holes patched, repaired tear central crease.
A battle scene, with cavalrymen in melée.
[Ref: 51361] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontis to George Ruggle's Ignoramus]
[n.d. c.1630]
Engraving, sheet 115 x 65mm (4½ x 2¾"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of George Ruggle, standing in a library, facing right, wearing a hat, lace collar, and academic gown, with short hair and a moustache. He holds a closed scroll in his left hand and an open scroll in his right inscribed “Ignoramus.” A speech scroll bears the words “Currat Lex,” with bookshelves visible in the background. George Ruggle (1575-1622), author of Ignoramus, a Latin college farce with English and French passages, created one of the most notable academic plays of the English Renaissance, adapted from Giambattista della Porta’s, 'La Trappolaria' (1596). It premiered at Clare College, Cambridge, on March 8, 1615, for King James I’s visit. After Ruggle’s death, Nicholas Ferrar praised him as a “Brother of the [Virginia] Company,” noting his three years of service there. In his will, Ruggle bequeathed £100 for the education of American Indian children in Virginia.
[Ref: 67644] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Ruined abbey.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink & watercolour, coloured on both sides as a transparency. Sheet 285 x 360mm (11¼ x 14¼"). Creased.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 40420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A campfire in a ruined abbey.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Watercolour, coloured on both sides as a transparency with some varnish. Image 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Some creasing.
Ex: collections of the Spencer Sisters and the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd.
[Ref: 40439] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[A ruined abbey.]
Drawn by W.m Westall. Etched by George Cook.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Etching, proof before title? 230 x 300mm (9 x 11¾").
A ruined abbey, with a cowherd driving three cows in the foreground
[Ref: 41784] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Ruined Tower and Gateway.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 140 x 200mm (5½ x 8'').
[Ref: 48233] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[A ruined tower above a river.]
Sanby [sic] inv.t.
Published as the Act directs by Fran.s Vivares Nov.r 4 1780.
Rare etching, printed in sepia, 18th century watermark; 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"). Slight creasing, small marghins.
Ex Collection of Sarah Baynton-Williams.
[Ref: 57663] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Ruins with two figures]
[Perhaps by J. T., c.1820]
Etching, sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed to platemark.
[Ref: 43600] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ruislip - Middlesex.
William J. Phillips.
[n.d. c.1905.]
Etching, signed in pencil. Plate 204 x 152mm. 8 x 6".
A view of Ruislip High Street, with St Martin's Church in the background, the waterpump sits next to the road sign, a girl behind with two water jugs; a Hovis Bread store to the right, a cart and horse outside.
[Ref: 20039] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Music Bouquet. Rule Britannia! The National Song and Chorus, Performed by Julien's Band; by the French Guides' Band; and by the Bands of the Grenadier & Coldstream Guards.
With all the correct words, Composed by D.r Arne.
London, Musical Bouquet Office , 192, High Holborn; & J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
Frontis and music sheet. Sheet: 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Light foxing. Part of music missing bottom right.
A song sheet for Rule Britannia, the frontis shows the figure of Britannia flanked by a sailor and a soldier.
[Ref: 46061] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Freedom. Rule Britannia Britannia rules the waves [/] Britons never shall be Slaves.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Engraving. Sheet: 185 x 225mm (7¼ x 9"). Trimmed and laid on an album sheet.
A scene in a blacksmiths in which several smiths work hard at their various tasks while a large man in a hat shouts at them from the left.
BM Satire 8497.
[Ref: 43966] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Fancy, the Ruler of the Guild of Smoke-Sellers, Paints Mississippi, Which Wastes France's Treasures.] De Inbeelding; Heersseres van't Rookverkopers-gild, Maald Missisippi hier, 't geen Vrankryks schat verspild.
[1720.]
Broadside, 18th century watermark. Plate: 335 x 295mm (13¼ x 11½'') very large margins. Crease as normal.
A Dutch satirical scene showing the allegorical figure of Fancy painting a prospect of Mississippi while putti sit and play around her. In the corners of the image are four scenes showing traders in North America and share holders purchasing shares. The bursting of the Mississippi contributed to the financial crisis of 1720.
BM Satire 1657.
[Ref: 48478] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Skittles Ground. Plan of a double Skittle Ground half an Inch to a Yard [image.] [Text:] Rules and Instructions for Playing at Skittles. By a Society of Gentleman. As the Game of Skittles is now a favourite Amusement, a general Guide to remove Doubts, and prevent Disputes, is become necessary. Stimulated by these considerations, a respectable Society of Gentlemen (who are esteemed good Players) have been induced to print the following Rules and Instructions, which thay have themselves often lamented the want of; hoping they will be found generally useful, but particularly to Learners. Rules. I. The Bowler must stand at the mark with one foot, and from thence deliver his Bowl fairly out of his hand; which Bowl must run upon the Board, fixed for that purpose, before it arrives at the Frame...XIII. If you Bowl and Top, for a limited number, at the close of the Game, and throw down more than you want, you must for Nine. N.B. In the Ground where these Rules are observed, a disinterested person is generally appointed to Score the Game, and in disputes, (if the case differs from any of those herein states, which is hardly possible) his decision is, or should be, final. Instructions. Bowling. The Art of Bowling well must be acquired in a great measure through practice, yet a little instruction will soon be found very useful, and a proper attention will enable a Learner to become a good Player...Tipping. When the Learner is going to Tip, he should hold the small circumference or opposite side of the bias in the palm of his hand, grasping it very strong his finger...if not struck hard, without the danger of their rolling, especially if they are tipped down hill; to do which, he must make the Sixth his first Pin. For the benefit of the Learner the Skittles are all numbered in the above Plan. Dimensions of a Double Covered Ground, by which, and the above Plan, either a Single of Double Ground may be formed. aa The whole length of the inclosed Ground 17 yards and an half. bb Breadth of the Ground, from side to side, 4 yards. The Dots shew the curves Line which Bowl should form. The just proportion of a Skittle is 15 inches round in the largest part, and 12 inches high...The Bowl should be 18 inches in circumference; each angle of the Frame for the Pins 3 feet 4 inches....The proportions and distances of ever part, as well as those already described, may be ascertained by the Scale.
Printed for G. Kearsley, at No.46, in Fleet-Street, 1786. __ Price 6d. Plain, or 1s. coloured. --- Entered at Stationers-Hall. A later copy c. 1900.
Coloured engraving with letterpress. Sheet 481 x 311mm. 19 x 12¼".
Rules and instructions for playing skittles. A printed sheet with hand coloured panel of a skittle ground and plan.
[Ref: 24964] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Joseph Rullier. Se portant très bien âgé de Cent-Sept-Dix et Cinq Mois, Né le 6 avril 1673, 3, au bourg Ste Maurice en Savoye
Permis d'imprimer et Debiter à Paris ce 25 Mars 1780 Le Noir.
Etching. 210 x 135mm (8¼ x 5¼"), with large margins.
Contemporary scene of French centenarian Joseph Rullier being presented to the French court, aged 110, apparently published to raise money for him. Earlier states of the plate give his age as 107 and 109.
[Ref: 55758] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Rullier. Se portant tres-bien, age de cent Neuf ans...[etc.]
C.L. Desrais Del. Dorgez sculp.
Avec l'Approbation de Mr. le Lieutenant General de Police [n.d., c.1780].
Etching, 265 x 165mm. Printer's crease into upper part of image.
Contemporary portrait of a French centenarian, Joseph Rullier, who is here depicted aged 109. After Claude Louis Desrais (1746 - 1816) by F J Dorgez (1780 - 1814; fl. in Paris).
[Ref: 7917] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Part of the Island of Rum.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, April 1, 1818.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
Rùm in the Inner Hebrides, now owned by the Nature Conservancy Council. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36290] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Rum Characters in a Shrubbery.
Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Aquatint with hand colour. 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Framed Unexamined out of frame.
Two hideous prostitutes stand at the counter of a gin-shop (or vault), each with a glass. A stout man fills a glass from a bottle on the counter. Behind him are huge casks, one inscribed 'Booths Best Gin' (for Booth & Co., the famous firm of distillers).
BM 11115, originally published by Reeve and Jones in 1808.
[Ref: 51838] £350.00

I Say say Dick, what rum cove is this I wonder! / ''Why 'tis a Ratcatcher to be sure don't you see the Rat on hi collar? / No. No. That's a Fox. he's a Sportsman. / ''You are right. You are right Sir."
S. Jenner Berkeley.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 240 x 305mm (9½ x 12"). Nicks in edges of sheet.
A scene in Petticoat Lane, with two men accosting a third in a fur-collared red coat.
[Ref: 58408] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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