Grosvenor Prints

Tom Jones' Marriage Settlement.
June 17th, 1875.
Letterpress, sheet 200 x 130mm (18 x 5"). Creases where previously folded.
A lewd poem/songsheet/marriage vows.
[Ref: 58968] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tour to Foreign Parts.]
[After Henry W. Bunbury.][Engraved by Thomas Rowlandson.]
[n.d. c.1807.]
Watercolour with etching lines, sheet 240 x 310 mm (9½ x 12¼"). Laid on card. Some stains, creases and tears on edges.
A satire on Grand Tourists, in which a young English gentleman arrives with his tutor and servant to an inn in France and he is promptly welcomed by the innkeeper holding out a menu. Out of the window of the inn, a cook chases away three cats with long tails with a carving knife in hand. To the rear of the group, another cook prepares to butcher a cock.
[Ref: 59108] £360.00

The Great Court Of The Tower. Plate 78.
Published May 22.nd 1799, by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½").
View of the north east front of the White Tower, from the Great Court, the Tower partly obscured by a large tree in foreground to right, a woman and child below tree, elegantly dressed figures on the left; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59008] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Ever Memorable Battle Off Cape Trafalgar: 21 October 1805.
[Published 12th December 1805 by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Hand coloured aquatint with engraving. Sheet 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image at top, laid on album paper with some of the original letterpress pasted on reverse, including half the publication line.
A scarce broadsheet plan of the Battle of Trafalgar, published less than two months after the event, showing the two columns of Royal Navy ships charging into the side of the French line. A sketch map illustrates the position of the battle against the coasts of Spain and Africa, marking Cadiz. Between the British columns is a vignette scene of Admiral Nelson collapsing on the quarterdeck of H.M.S. Victory, having been hit by a French musket ball.
[Ref: 59092] £550.00

Uxbridge House.
Published May 15.th 1800. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Tape marks.
View of Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly; fashionably dressed figures on pavements on street, a carriage entering street beyond the house; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59016] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Edward Vernon Esq.r: Vice Admiral of the Blue, And Comander in Chief of all HIs Majestie's Ships in the West-Indies. To the R.t Hon.ble Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, & y.e Common Council of y.e City of London this Plate is humbly dedicated by their most obedient Serv.t John Faber.
T Bardwell pinxit. J. Faber fecit 1740.
Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Rare mezzotint, fine impression, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet.
Three-quarter length portrait of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757) wearing a sword, long coat, cravat and long dark wig, pointing to left with right hand, holding a long telescope in right hand.
CS 363.
[Ref: 58816] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Transformations No 5. The Royal Rose of England. ''The expectancy and rose of the fair State". Shakepeare.
London William Spooner, 377 Strand, June 1st 1835.
Lithograph with hand colour, prepared as a transformation print, mounted on card with title underneath. Card 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9").
A view of a rose Windsor Castle changes when the card is held up to the light, with Victoria on a throne who appears in the petals.
[Ref: 58960] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Visit of Louis Philippe of France to Windsor Castle, 1844.] Park's New Characters.
[n.d., c.1844.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 180 x 210mm (7 x 8¼"). Laid on album paper with other scraps, creased and stained.
A popular print depicting Victoria and King Louis Philippe sitting together on thrones, both wearing crowns, watched by Prince Albert. Louis-Philippe's week-long stay at Windsor in 1844 was the first meeting of the monarchs of Britain and France on English soil in half a millenia.
[Ref: 58832] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Albert driving his favorites.
Dean & Co, Threadneedle Street.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Hand coloured lithograph with overlay. Sheet 190 x 265mm (7½ x 10½"). Vertical folding crease in the middle.
Prince Albert drives a closed-top carriage with two horses and a view of Windsor Castle in the background. Raising the flap reveals Queen Victoria seated with three of her children, Victoria, Princess Royal, King Edward VII, and Princess Alice. A Regency amusement.
See Ref: 48939 & 59033
[Ref: 58855] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Vienna] Ansicht des Platzes und der Kirche von S.t Peter. Vue de la Place et de L'Eglise de S. Pierre.
dessiné et gravé d'apres nature par C. Shütz.
Cum Priv. S.C.M. [Vienna: Artaria c.1805.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 335 x 440mm (13¼ x 17¼").
A view of the Peterskirche, a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church, built 1701-33. It is now run by Opus Dei.
[Ref: 58738] £330.00

[Vienna] Der Hohemarkt. Vue du Haut Marché.
Nach der Natur gezeichnet und gestochen von C. Shütz.
Wein, bey Artaria u. Comp. [n.d., c.1793.]
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 415 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"). Trimmed within plate, glue stains at corners, repaired tear top left. Central crease.
A view of Hoher Markt Square, Vienna, with the 'Vermählungsbrunnen' (The Marriage Fountain), a baroque, white marble temple based on a drawing by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, consecrated 1732.
[Ref: 58739] £320.00

The Honorable S.r Charles Wager K.t. Vice Admiral of y.e Red Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, & one of y.e Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Amiral of Great Britain.
J. Ellis pinx. 1726. G. White fecit.
[n.d. c.1726]
Rare mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). A lettered state before addition of Overton address. Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. Central crease.
Three-quarter length portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Wager (1666-1743) standing almost in profile to left with right hand resting on baton, head turned to face front, left hand on hilt of sword; wearing plain undress uniform and long wig. Ships rocking on waves can be seen to the right.
CS 51.II. See also our references 12452 & 39882 (not same image).
[Ref: 58808] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Warrens Jet Blacking] With Warrens, 30, Strand, the Boot so bright / The Cat alarm'd prepares her shade to fight. Presented to his Musical Friends by Robert Warren. Air The King God Bless him.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Engraved music sheet, printed on both sides. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Loss of print lower left, taped over plate on reverse. Damaged.
An early advertising jingle, with a vignette of a cat taking fright from its own reflection in the back of a highly-polished boot. Rare Dickens item. There were two rival firms in London called 'Warren’s Blacking', formed by two brothers who had fallen out, Jonathan & Thomas. This music sheet was published by Thomas's son, Robert. Jonathan's rival firm is best known for employing a 12-year-old Charles Dickens while his father was in debtor's prison in 1824. He earned six shillings a week pasting labels on pots of boot blacking, in a building near Hungerford stairs, infested with rats.
[Ref: 58840] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of Waterloo Bridge. From the East End of Somerset House Terrace.
J.H Shepherd Del.t. J.C. Stadler Sculp.e.
London. Published April 12.th 1818, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Etching with beautiful aquatint colour. Frame 575 x 685mm (22½ x 27"). Unexamined outside of frame. Some time staining.
View of the River Thames, with Somerset House Terrace on the right, a large barge surrounded by smaller boats on the river to the left, Waterloo Bridge beyond and Westminster Abbey in the distance.
[Ref: 58964] £480.00

[Johan Wilhelm Weinmann] Joannes Guilielmus Weinmannus Dicasterij Ratisbonensis Assessor et Pharmacopola, natus Gardelegiæ MDCLXXXIII. d. XIII Mart. ætat LIV.
Hirschman pinx. J. Jac. Haid sculps. Aug. Vind.
[n.d., c.1737]
Mezzotint printed in blue. 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"), large margins on 3 sides. Thread margin lower right.
Johan Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741), German apothecary and botanist, aged 54 so dating the portrait to 1737. Weinmann established a botanical garden in Regensburg and published botanical works, most notably the eight-volume florilegium 'Phytanthoza iconographia' (1737-45), illustrated with fine mezzotint plates. Engraving by Johann Jakob Haid (1704-67), one of the engravers employed on the florilegium, after a portrait by Johann Leonhard Hirschmann (1672-1750), artist and printmaker who studied in the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller as a young man.
Wellcome 3142.
[Ref: 58811] £360.00

[Richard Colley Wellesley] [To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, This Portrait of The Most Noble Richard Marquess Wellesley, K.G. &c. &c. &c. Is by permission dedicated by Her Majesty's most faithful Subjects and very humbles Servants Welsh & Gwynne.]
[Sir Tho.s Lawrence P.R.A. Pinx.t. Samuel Cousins A.R.A. Sculp.t.]
[London, Jan.y 1.st 1842, Published by Welch & Gwynne, 24, S.t James's Street.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 390 x 305mm (15½ x 12"), with very large margins.
Seated half-length portrait of Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), Marquess Wellesley, wearing garter star partly obscured by his lapel and ribbon with medal around his neck, his left hand just visible, curtain behind. He first made his name as fifth Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
Whitman 170, i of iv.
[Ref: 59034] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Wenceslaus Comes a Gallas &c.
G. Kneller S.R.Imp & Angl. Eques Aur. pinx. 1707. I. Smith fec.
[n.d. c.1707.]
Rare mezzotint, fine impression, print 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Abrasions to right edge.
Half-length portrait of Johann Wenzel, Count of Gallas (1669-1719), in an oval. Looking towards the viewer, wearing a wig, collar, armour, and cloak. Coat of arms below. Wenzel was the ambassador to England and Rome for the emperors Joseph and Charles VI of Austria.
CS 94.
[Ref: 58869] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Eighty Seven Years have I sojourned on this Earth, Endeavouring to do Good. John Wesley.] 1. James Hamilton, M.D. / 2. Rev.d John Wesley, M.A. / 3, Rev.d Joseph Cole. / As they were seen walking on the Street at Edinburg, in the year 1790 taken by an original genius, who was expert in sketching with great correctness, the figure of every eminent person that appeared publicly in that City
Engraved by Consitt & Goodwill, Hull.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Rare etching with engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, losing surtitle, paper toned
A group portrait of James Hamilton, John Wesley and Joseph Cole, walking arm in arm along a pavement, all dressed in black frockcoats and breeches with tricornes over their bob-wigs.
[Ref: 58836] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Deans Yard
Publish'd Jan: 30. 1793. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½").
View of the south front of the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey behind, from Deans Yard; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59000] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Henry VII. Chapel.
Publish'd Aug: 21.st 1793. [T. Malton.]
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 395 x 310mm (15½ x 12¼"). Tape marks.
Interior of the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey; looking through an arch into the main space of the chapel, with fan vaulting; a man gestures up towards the impressive architecture addressing a group of figures; illustration in Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59013] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Melbourne House, White-Hall.
Publish'd Jan.y 18.th 1797. by T. Malton.
Coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 280 x 400mm (11 x 15¾"). Tape marks.
View down a street in Whitehall, with Melbourne House on the left, pedestrians passing below the portico, a man writing on a piece of parchment on the pavement in foreground to left, carriages on street to right; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59020] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Whitelaw's Patent Vegetable Vapour Baths. J. Shores, 41, Dock-Street Hull. [...] It is well known that Capt. Parry, in his last Northern Expedition, took one of these Baths with him, and that those of his crew, and those only who availed themselves of its use, could bear the severity of the extreme cold [...]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Letterpress advert. Sheet 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Laid on album paper.
Charles Whitlaw, a Scottish horticulturist, emigrated to North America in 1794 and spent about two decades collecting botanical specimens, some of which are preserved in the herbarium at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. On returning to Britain, he was proposed for election as a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London, but was black-balled. He established ''patent medicated vapour baths'' in which he employed various North American plants with reputed medicinal properties. Claiming to be able to cure diseases such as scrofula, Whitlaw outraged the medical establishment and he was branded a charlatan and a quack.
[Ref: 58760] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

David Wilkie, ESQ. R.A.
Engraved by H. Meyer, from an original Drawing by J. Jackson.
Published July 1. 1815, By T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Stipple engraving 380 x 330mm (15 x 13"), J. Whatman 1813 watermarked paper; with large margins top and bottom, left and right decent margins.
Bust portrait of Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841). A Scottish painter. He was a pioneering genre painter and an original portraitist, and his scenes of Scottish peasant life won him much attention when he moved from Edinburgh to London in 1805. He was the friend of B.R. Haydon with whom he visited France in 1814. He was patronised by the Prince Regent and was made painter to King William IV, who later knighted him in 1836. His death on his return from India in 1841 was commemorated by Turner's painting, Burial at Sea.
[Ref: 59031] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland &c. Born, April 1721 and Died, Oct.r 1765, Aged 45.
D.M. Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1753.
Mezzotint, print 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Scuffed on the right side, crease in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), in an oval. Looking towards the viewer, wearing his armour with a sash diagonally from the left shoulder. Prince William Augustus was the third son of King George II. He was known as 'butcher Cumberland' for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.
CS 105.II. State with 'Cumberland' printed in a different script.
[Ref: 58876] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

His Highness the Prince of Orange.
P. Lely Pinxit. R. Thompson excudit.
[.n.d. c.1680]
Very scarce mezzotint, print 340 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed to plate and glued to album sheet.
Three-quarter length portrait of the future William III (1650-1702) standing in front of a rock. He wears a long wig, lace cravat, and armour, holding a baton, and placing one hand on a helmet on a block. In the background a cavalry battle is raging and a castle can be seen in distance.
CS 36.II. Simon Turner: T70 II.
[Ref: 58881] £480.00

His Highness William Prince of Orange & Nassau, &c, &c, &c Done from the Original Painting w.ch His Highness Presented to y.e Right Hon.ble Philip Earl of Chesterfield, &c. To whom this plate is most Humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Sersant John Faber.
P. van Dijk pinx 1732. I. Faber fecit 1733.
[n.d. c.1733]
Mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. 'Sersant' mistake seems to have been corrected in ink (?).
Half-length portrait of William IV (1711-1751) in an oval frame with his arms thrown out, head turned to right and glanced towards the viewer, wearing a dark coat with decoration at the cuffs, neck and waist, breastplate and long curls.
CS 269.
[Ref: 58800] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Writing sheet]
Sold by R.t Birchall, No 133, New Bond Street. 1790-1815.
Engraved writing sheet. 275 x 200mm (10¾ z 8"). Trimmed into plate at bottom.
An oval frame decorated with the head of Apollo and musical instruments including a violin and a flute. Publisher of Mozart, Beethoven, & Handel, musical instrument vendor.
[Ref: 58945] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Watergate, York Buildings
Publish'd Dec.r 15.th 1795 by T. Malton.
Coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15"). Reapaired tears to bottom edge and right edge.
View from the rivers edge, looking towards the York Buildings waterworks, with the York Watergate in the foreground; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'. The watergate still stands in Victoria Embankment Gardens, obviously now defunct.
[Ref: 59024] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Harwicke in the County of Gloucester, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
M. Dahl pinxt. Bockman fecit.
Printed for Thos. Bowles next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard & Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill London.
Fine mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed through publication line. Glued to album sheet.
Bust portrait of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), in an oval, wearing heavily brocaded chancerial robes, lace cravat and long white wig. Yorke was Lord Chancellor 1737-1756.
CS 10. See Ref: 58872
[Ref: 58826] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Right Hon.ble Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Wills Pinxt. 1744. J. M.cArdell Fecit.
Sold by Jas. McArdell at the Golden Head next Southampton Street Covent Garden. Price 2s.
Mezzotint, fine impression, plate 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins/trimmed to plate. Glued to album sheet.
Three-quarter length portrait of politician Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), with right hand outstretched and papers in his left, wearing judge's robes and long curled wig with chair and purse behind him. Yorke was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1737-1756).
CS 100. Goodwin 168. See Ref: 58826
[Ref: 58872] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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