Grosvenor Prints

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 150 x 170mm Trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 5701] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 150 x 170mm (6 x 6¾"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55130] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Napoleon and His Army, Effecting the Wonderful Passage of the Alps, at Mount St. Bernard.
Engraved by Mr. George Cruikshank, from the original design of C. Vernet, executed at Paris, by I. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published July 1. 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Hand-coloured aquatint. 210 x 285mm. 8¼ x 11¼". Folds as published. Cut to image on right.
Napoleon and his army crossing through the Great St Bernard Pass in 1800 to Italy. From "The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte".
Cohn: 435.
[Ref: 26478] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The New House at Longwood, St. Helena (Built for Napoleon). Pl.4.
From Nature by Lieut. F.R. Stack_Chas. Haghe lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen.
Published by Day & Son, 17 Gate Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, London. [1859.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 285 x 370mm (11¼ x 14½"), with large margins.
Plate 4 from a set of six tinted lithographs after Lieutenant Frederick Rice Stack, 'Souvenir of the Emperor Napoleon, consisting of six drawings made in the Island of Saint Helena..' A attractive scene on the island of Saint Helena associated with the last days of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), who was exiled to the island in 1815 and died at Longwood House. Titles in English and French. Stack is known to have served with the Saint Helena regiment as a Lieutenant from January 1842 until he was promoted to Captain on 5 August 1853. He transferred to the 65th regiment and subsequently served in New Zealand from 1857 until 1862. He is now perhaps best known for his 'Views in the Province of Auckland, New Zealand'.
Abbey Travel: 319. British Library: 003471878.
[Ref: 39978] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon at St Helena.
London, Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row, Dec.r 14th 1816.
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 265mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Slight staining.
Napoleon on a galloping horse, riding uphill apparently trying to evade his escort.
[Ref: 35989] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[St Helena.] View taken from the Road leading Towards the Plantation House. [&] View of Plantation House The Residence of the Governor. [&] View from the First Range of Hills below Sandy Bay Ridge. [&] The New House at Longwood Intended for the Late Napoleon Buonaparte. [with] The Shade of Napoleon Visiting his Tomb.
[Painted by John Kerr, engraved by Robert Havell & Son.]
[London: Colnaghi & Co, 1822.]
Four very fine coloured aquatints. Each sheet c.225 x 340mm (9 x 13½"). Each trimmed to image and laid on two album sheets, titles excised and pasted below each image.
Four plates from the rare 'Series of Views in the Island of St Helena' by John Kerr, Paymaster to the 66th Regiment, which had garrison duty guarding Napoleon on St Helena in 1816. An extra plate is an uncoloured lithograph with Napoleon's outline formed by two trees by his tomb.
Abbey: Travel 316.
[Ref: 38080] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Rock at St. Helena (The Last Sketch of Delaroche) From the Picture in the Royal Collection
P. Delaroche pinxt. C.W. Sharpe sculpt.
[1860]
Engraving, sheet 315 x 200mm (12¼ x 8"). Unidentified 'R.J.' collector's stamp verso. Trimmed.
Engraving published in the 'Art Journal', 1860. Queen Victoria bought Delaroche's oil sketch of c.1855-6 (made in preparation for a large canvas never completed) at the sale of Delaroche's studio in Paris in 1857 before giving it to Prince Albert the following year. It remains in the Royal Collection, whose cataloguing for the oil sketch notes that Queen Victoria was 'in touch with the fashion in England and on the Continent during the middle years of the nineteenth century for collecting Napoleonica'.
Not in Lugt.
[Ref: 41228] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Ile Ste. Helene.
Martinet del. Lith. de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 444 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with wide margins
The island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean where Napoleon was exiled. A slightly romanticised scene of Napoleon with his generals, and army troops; a woman and two children behind. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30810] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Napoleon ut in morte recumbit. Dedicated with Permission to the Countess Bertrand By her obliged and most obed.t Serv.t Will.m Rubidge. Taken at St. Helena in Presence of Countess Bertrand, Count Montholon &c.&c.&c.
W. Rubidge pinx.t H. Meyer sculp.t
London, Published Aug.t 20. 1821, by Henry Meyer, 3 Red Lion Square, High Holborn.
Stipple and engraving. 330 x 265mm (13 x 10½"), with wide margins.
Napoleon I, Emperor of France (1769-1821) on his deathbed. William Rubidge was the only professional artist who painted Napoleon while in captivity, and also sketched the dead emperor on his deathbed.
Ex Collection: William Fitzwilliam Burton [1796-1844], of Burton hall, Carlow; Eire, landowner.
[Ref: 21098] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Napoléon.
[by Innocent Louis Goubaud.]. Lith de Jean-Baptiste Joubard No.1.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 260 x 340mm (10¼ x 13½"), with wide margins. Foxed, edges creased.
A moonlit scene of Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb on St Helena, with soldiers guarding.
[Ref: 35977] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Views of St. Helena; Illustrative of Its Scenery & Historical Associations. From Photographs By G.W. Melliss, Esq. Surveyor-General of the Island, 1857.] [4] The Briars. [6] Longwood, Old House. [7] Front View of Longwood House. [8] Longwood New House. [9] Bertrand's Cottage Longwood. [11] St. Paul's Church. [12] Oak Bank.
W. Gauci lith. Vincent Brooks Imp.
[n.d., c.1857.]
Tinted lithographs. Very scarce. Sheet size: 145 x 245mm (5¾ x 9½") each. Light foxing.
Seven of thirteen plates from, 'Views of St. Helena; Illustrative of Its Scenery & Historical Associations. From Photographs By G.W. Melliss, Esq. Surveyor-General of the Island', published in 1857. In 1815, the British government selected the island of Saint Helena as the place of detention of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was taken to the island in October 1815, staying at the Briars pavilion (plate 4) on the grounds of the Balcombe family's home until his permanent home, Longwood House (plates 6, 7 and 8), was completed. He died there on 5th May 1821. During this period, Saint Helena remained in the East India Company’s possession, but the British government met additional costs arising from guarding Napoleon. The island was strongly garrisoned with British troops, and naval ships circled the island.
Abbey Travel: 318: 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12.
[Ref: 36891] £420.00 view all images for this item

Bonaparte at St. Helena.
London, Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row, Dec.r 14, 1816.
Engraving. 203 x 254mm (8 x 10").
Napoleon riding his horse on St Helena. Behind is possibly William Balcombe, a friend of Napoleon on the island until the authorities became suspicious that Balcombe had acted as an intermediary between Napoleon and Paris, and dismissed him from the Island.
[Ref: 22915] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Burial of Napoleon] Napoléon.
[by Innocent Louis Goubaud.] Lith de Joubard No.2.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Rare lithograph, signed on left D. J Goubaud. Printed area 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"), with large margins. Wear to edges, spotting.
French soldiers lowering Napoleon's coffin towards his tomb, the ceremony presided over by Father Ange Vignali.
[Ref: 55795] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

L'Aigle fidele.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"), with large margins. Foxing.
An eagle guards the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
[Ref: 55826] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Two views of Napoleon's tomb, St Helena.]
[Aquatint] Arranged by E.W.
[n.d., c. 1840 & 1825.
An engraving & an aquatint mounted in album sheet together. 70 x 115mm (2¾ x 4½") & 95 x 120mm (3¾ x 4¾"). Both trimed within plate.
[Ref: 55828] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Lot and Lots wife, the rocks so named at Sandy Bay, on the island of S.t Helena.
Capt. Tobin R.N. del. Dubourg sculp.
Published & Sold Nov, 1, 1815, by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, Corner of Brook Street, London.
Aquatint sheet 295 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾")
A view of the beautiful scenery in Sandy Bay (Saint Helena) showing the rocks named after the biblical Lot and his wife.
[Ref: 55908] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Helena][27]
G. Lancon inc.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching with hand colour, plate 205 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), very large margins.
A wonderful view of a small port in Saint Helena with steps leading to buildings and two small cliffs with fortresses either side.
[Ref: 55909] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Mort de Napoleon.
[after François Grenier.]
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. Printed area 170 x 200mm (6¾ x 8"), with large margins. Some spotting.
Napoleon in full uniform, lying on a bed in a darkened room at Longwood, 5th May, 1821, in the presence of Father Ange Vignali and British officers.
[Ref: 55793] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A View & Plan of Longwood House, St. Helena. The Residence of Napoleon Bonaparte.
No.13 of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. Jany. 1 1817 [101 Strand, London].
Hand coloured etching with aquatint, sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6").
Napoleon Bonaparte died, reportedly of stomach cancer, on 5 May 1821 after six years in exile on the Atlantic island of Saint Helena. His body was buried first in the grounds of Longwood, his residence on the island, before being brought back to France in 1840 to be ceremoniously reburied in Les Invalides. Numbered 'Plate 3, Vol. III', for Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. The formal title of the publication was "Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics", and it discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 18981] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his Character as Napoleon, is 12 Years Old. 25 Inches High and Weighs 15 Pounds.
London J.T. Wood, 33, Holywell Str. Strand. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), known on the stage as General Tom Thumb, was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
See Ref: 58043, 37654 & 60364
[Ref: 48993] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Sword from Sterne [faded ink mss]. [The Sword. Rennes. His sword was given him, and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almost out of the scabbard...]
W. Harding Inv.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t.
Publishe'd 13 April 1787, by W. Palmer No.163 Strand.
Stipple. Proof before title. 375 x 350mm (14¾ x 13¾''). Thread margins on three sides.
Illustration in a roundel of 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' (1768) by Lawrence Sterne - the Marquis reclaiming his sword. Scene inside the court room at Rennes, Brittany, France, with two judges and a clerk seated to left, the Marquis unsheathing his sword; to the right stand his family.
De Vesme 1422, in between II & III.
[Ref: 55930] £320.00

Napoleon at the Passage and Battle of the River Tagliamento.
Engraved by Mr. George Cruikshank, from the original design of C. Vernet, executed at Paris, by I. Duplessi Bertaux.
Published Sept.r 11. 1823, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Hand-coloured aquatint. 210 x 285mm (8¼ x 11¼"). Folds as published.
Whilst General Joubert was still near Primolano, Napoleon marched with 32,000 men, protected by a guarding force of 11,000 under Massena, to the Tagliamento River. Near Valvasone Napoleon and Massena’s forces rushed the Tagliamento under the cover of heavy artillery fire and forced the Austrians back to Udine. This was the beginning of the march that led to Loeben and the Peace of Campo Formio. From "The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte".
Cohn: 435.
[Ref: 26479] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Taleyrand Perigord Prince of Benevuntum.
W. M. Craig del. Brown sculpt.
Published by T. Kinnersley Jany. 1 1815
Engraving with etching, sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Small margins, trimmed to plate on one side. Small tear. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
Oval portrait of the French clergyman and diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 –1838), below on a stone inscribed with the sitter's name and surrounded by flowers and oak leaves, a snake and book below and an owl flying against clouds above. Illustration from 'A New History of the Twenty Years War with France'. Tallyrand was one of Napoleon's chief diplomats and instrumental at obtaining peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Luneville and with Britain in the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. Napoleon and Tallyrand's foreign policy differed; he sought a negotiated secure peace so as to perpetuate the gains of the French revolution, which led to accepting bribes from hostile powers.
[Ref: 55850] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Commencement of Capt.n Schomberg's Action off Madagascar, May 26th. 1811. From a Drawing by Mr. Beechey.
Painted by T. Whitcombe. Engraved by T. Sutherland.
[n.d. c.1811.]
Aquatint. 159 x 241mm. 6¼ x 9½". Some spotting.
The beginning of what became known as the Battle of Tamatave, Madagascar, between British and French frigate squadrons during the Napoleonic Wars. The British side was led by Sir Charles Marsh Schomberg.
[Ref: 25148] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Combat de Tarvis.
F. Grenier. Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 315 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"), with large margins. Slight foxing.
Napoleon directing the Battle of Tarvis, fought 21-23 March 1797 near present-day Tarvisio in far northeast Italy, against the Austrians Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55866] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Wahre Abbildung von Napoleons Thron.
Bei Friedr. Compe. [n.d., c.1810.]
Etching with small margins. 260 x 180mm (10¼ x 7").
'A True depiction of Napoleon's Throne'.
[Ref: 36028] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Timour the Tartar. The Equestrian Procession. Act 1 Scene 1.
[n.d., but watermarked 1812.]
Coloured engraving. 305 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Some creasing.
"Timour the Tartar" was a grand romantic melodrama in two acts by the prolific Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), with music by Matthew Peter King. First mounted at Covent Garden in 1811, it was a satire of Napoleon: Timour, of low origin, usurps the throne and raises up his needy relations to princely dignity. The play featured horses brought onto stage.
[Ref: 12758] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Chambre Ardente De Napoleon. construite a Toulon en Juillet 1840, dans la Fiegate, la Belle Poule.
dessinee d'apres nature par Arnout._ L'entourage par V. Adam. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et Co.
Paris, publie par Jeannin, Place du Louvre 20.
Lithograph sheet 355 x 480mm (14 x 18¾"). With publishers embossed stamp.
Print of Napoleon's tomb on board the French frigate Belle Poule, which had been painted black for the occasion, on the retour des cendres. In Napoleon's last will he gave directions to the priest Vignali how he wished his body to be laid out in a 'chambre ardente' (a state room lighted with torches).
[Ref: 55931] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Tomb of Napoleon.
Sketched Etched & Published by G. Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1830 but later.]
Etching. 204 x 254mm (8 x 10").
A collection of vaguely satrical images surround the central image of Saint Helena. The pictures depict Napoleon I on his steed, a successful stance holding the French standard, two eagles, and an image of Josephine holding her sceptre.
See BM: 1891,1117.438 [for original drawing of the study of the rocks.]
[Ref: 16770] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The French attacked Toulon by Land, when it was evacuated by the English Fleet, December 19th 1793.
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle 53 Fleet Street London.
Etching with hand-colouring with very large margins, platemark 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Tear in centre of image.
The Fall of Toulon in 1793, an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion. After the royalists called for aid, the British admiral Sir Samuel Hood committed British, Spanish, Piedmontese and Neapolitan troops to assist. Nonetheless, the republicans (including a young captain, Napoleon Bonaparte) defeated the allies after their captain, Charles O'Hara, was taken prisoner. Part of a set of battle scenes published by the popular printmakers Laurie & Whittle soon after the actions had taken place.
For O'Hara during the siege see ref. 31423; for Sir Samuel Hood, see ref. 1885 and 12186.
[Ref: 35941] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Caricature of Napoleon at the Siege of Toulon.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 110 x 205mm (4¼ x 8"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper.
A caricatured scene of Napoleon firing a mortar, probably the Siege of Toulon in 1798, the engagement that first brought him to the attention of the nation.
[Ref: 55778] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pace Conclusa fra il Gen.l in Capo Bonaparte, ed i Plenip.re di S.S. Pio VI. Seguita a Tolentino il di 19. Febr.io 1797.
G. Beys Inv. & Del. A. Poggioli Sculp. Romæ.
Roma Anno 1801.
Engraving. Sheet: 380 x 370mm (15 x 14½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet. Central vertical fold.
A scene showing the signing of the Treaty of Tolentino by Bonaparte and representatives of the Papal States and Pius VI. Following the invasion of Italy by Napoleon during the French Revolutionary Wars, the Papal States surrendered to the French, the terms of which were set out in the Treaty of Tolentino, as well as a signifcant monetary indemnity, the Papal States were handed over to France and many of the treasures from the Vatican were taken to the Louvre.
[Ref: 42132] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Louis Philippe instructing his children at Orleans House.]
Lithographed & Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3, Wellington Stt. Strand.
Presented with the Atlas Newspaper of August 29th. 1830 [on stone].
Lithograph, supplement to the 'Atlas' periodical. Image 175 x 265mm. 7 x 10½".
An interior scene of domesticity at Orleans House, Twickenham, featuring at its centre the house's most famous resident Louis Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (1773 - 1850). Forced into exile from France in the period leading up to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Louis Philippe made this house his home in London between 1815 and 1817. Attracted to the tranquillity of the area he wrote to a friend: 'I bless heaven, noon and night that I am in my peaceful house in old Twick'. In 1844 he returned to England as King of the French, and visited his former residence accompanied by Queen Victoria. The pupils are portraits of his children.
For other lithographs of the same scene, see refs. 7988 and 8065.
[Ref: 23472] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Treaty of Campo Formio] Conférences d'Udine interompues.
F. Grenier. Litho: de C. Motte, rus des marais.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 280 x 330mm (11 x 13"), with large margins. Slight foxing in margins.
General Napoleon Bonaparte on the steps of a building, being stopped from leaving. After the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, the French and Austrians met at Udine to discuss the Treaty of Campo Formio, which ended the War of the First Coalition and divided the spoils of Venice between them, Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55870] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Capitulation de la Ville d'Ulm.
Martinet del. Lithog. de Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 320 x 430m (12½ x 17"), with large margins. Mount Stain.
Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback, surrounded by his officers, accepting the surrender of the Austrian garrison of Ulm (21st October 1805, the same day as the Battle of Trafalgar). Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55880] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vattle of Valvasone] Passage de Tagliamonto.
L. Gudin. Lithog. de Motte, rue des marais.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Printed area 360 x 440m (14¼ x 17¼"), with large margins.
Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback, surrounded by his officers, watching his army crossing the Tagliamento River to attack and defeat an Austrian army led by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen,during the Battle of Valvasone (16th March 1797). Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 55881] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Colonne Nationale. Fastes militaires de la France de 1792 à 1815.
Houite Sculp.
Paris, chez Binet, Rue Aubrey-le-Boucher, 34.
Engraving. Sheet 900 x 625mm (35½ x 24½"). A few repairs, laid on backing sheet.
Napoleon's triumphal column in the Place Vendôme, originally erected in 1810 but here showing the statue of Napoleon in military dress replaced by Louis-Philippe I (reigned 1830-46), because the first statue had been melted down at the Bourbon Restoration. The Paris Commune pulled down the whole column in 1871, but it was re-erected three years later with a copy of the original statue. The column was based on Trajan's Column in Rome, with scenes from Napoleon's career in a spiral up the colymn. Here the column is flanked tables of events grouped by month rather than year
[Ref: 36852] £420.00

Napoleon Le Grand. Cloire Nationale.
Victor Baltard del. E. Conquy sculp.
Rare engraving. Sheet 900 x 625mm (35½ x 24½"). A few repairs and creases from rolling.
A print of Napoleon's triumphal column in the Place Vendôme with colourful informational timeline. The Column was erected in 1810 but here showing the statue of Napoleon in military dress replaced by Louis-Philippe I (reigned 1830-46), because the first statue had been melted down at the Bourbon Restoration. The Paris Commune pulled down the whole column in 1871, but it was re-erected three years later with a copy of the original statue. The column was based on Trajan's Column in Rome, with scenes from Napoleon's career in a spiral up the column. Here the column is flanked by tables of events grouped by month rather than year. Different version see Ref: 36852
[Ref: 55904] £750.00

Les clefs de Vienne.
Girodet pinx.t Lith: de C: Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 444 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins.
The handing over of the keys of Vienna to Napoleon at the Schonbrunn Palace, as part of the 1805 treaty of friendship and co-operation, which was signed at the palace. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30836] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Bombardement de Vienne. la nuit du 11 au 12 Mai.
Hoehte del. Piringer sculp.
[Paris, c.1840.]
Etching with aquatint, sheet 240 x 325mm. 9½ x 12¾". Trimmed within plate.
Numbered 'Tom. I.' upper right. From a series of views of the Napoleonic Wars 1800-15 issued by Bernard Edouard Swebach (1800-70).
BNF: FRBNF40344234.
[Ref: 15522] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Pickens Sketches of Napoleon No.1. Violets. Napoleon, Wife and Son.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½''). Trimmed.
A puzzle prints in which the profiles of Napoleon, his wife Josephine and son Napoleon II are forms in the stems and leaves of a bouquet of violets.
[Ref: 49934] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene after the Battle of Vittoria or,- More trophies for White-Hall.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d July 10.th 1813 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") Time stained. Tear in bottom that goes into the plate mark. Laid on card.
Satire on the allied victory at the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) in which 151 cannon were captured. Wellington is pictured sitting on his white horse, looks down at three officers who heap the spoils of war at his feet. A soldier is drags a cannon downhill by a rope. Two asses are harnessed tandem to the gun-carriage with two Frenchmen astride them.
BM: 12071
[Ref: 55837] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Loyal Volunteers Of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, In 87 Plates.
Designed & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. and Dedicated by Permission to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
[London: Rudolph Ackermann, n.d., plates dated 1798 - 1799.]
Subscriber's copy, with large 4to, original marbled boards, rebacked, uncut; pp. viii incl. dedication, plus list of subscribers & foreign subscribers, and contents; hand-coloured etched titlepage & 86 hand-coloured aquatint plates, many heightened with gold or silver, total 87 as called for. Binding worn, plates generally good with well-preserved vivid colour, occasionally stained. Some offsetting of image to facing text.
The volunteer corps were established as a direct response to the perceived imminent danger of invasion by Napoleon's forces. A volunteer from each London regiment is placed by Rowlandson in a particular drill position, with an etched description below. The corresponding adjacent text sheet gives a brief history and description of the composition of the corps, and lists the commanding officers. Arguably the greatest of all military costume books, no mere record of uniforms but an important social document in its own right that should be viewed in the context it was published - a time of great national peril with Britain under threat of invasion from France.
Abbey Life In England: 379, "Later impressions can be recognised by not being heightened with gold".
[Ref: 7433] £4,900.00 view all images for this item

Bataille de Wagram. Le 6 Juillet 1809 le lendemain de la Bataille d'Enzersdorff....
A Paris chez la V.e Chéreau, M.de d'Estampes, rue St Jacques, No 10 aux deux Colonnes près la Fontaine St Severin. [n.d., c.1810.]
Engraving with bright colour. 305 x 420mm (12 x 16½"), with wide margins. Stain in title area.
The French crossed the Danube near Enzersdorff and attacked the Austrian army on the 4th July 1809, with an inconclusive result. On following day the more decisive Battle of Wagram started, lasting two days. In the end Napoleon defeated the Austrians, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition. It is regarded as one of the most important battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
[Ref: 33522] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Capture of Napoleon's Carriage at Genappe by Prussian Cavalry.
[Anon, c.1815]
Engraving with hand-colouring, rare; sheet 150 x 195mm (6 x 7¾"), Trimmed around image and title; glued to album sheet.
Following the Battle of Waterloo, Johannes Horn, who drove Napoleon's coach (or 'dormeuse') tried to bring the vehicle to safety. He drove from La Belle Alliance to near Genappe where the Prussian cavalry captured the carriage and left Horn for dead. The aftermath of the battle is suggested by the scattered cannons, barrels and cannonballs.
[Ref: 32294] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The unexpected meeting of Lord Wellington & Blucher at La Belle Alliance.
London, Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster row, June 22~ 1817.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
The Prussian field-marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, shake hands outside La Belle Alliance Inn to celebrate Napoleon's final at the Battle of Waterloo.
[Ref: 37128] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Plans of the Battle of Waterloo, at Different Periods on the 18th June 1815.
London, Published by John Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place, Feb.y 2nd 1816.
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 215 x 315mm (8½ x 12¼"). Trimmed to printed border, and mounted in album paper.
Maps of the battle at noon, 2pm and at the close of action. Published in John Booth's 'The Battle of Waterloo, Containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, with Circumstantial Details, Previous, During and After the Battle, from a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources, with Relative Official Documents, Forming an Historical Record of the Operations in the Campaign of the Netherlands'. He used the pseudonym 'A Near Observer'.
[Ref: 37303] £190.00

Battle of Waterloo. Bonaparte in his Retreat, Passing La Belle Alliance, After having witnessed the flight of his Imperial Guard, and the British in pursuit from the opposite height.
Drawn by Capt.n Geo. Jones, & Engraved by Mr S. Mitan for Kelly's Battle of Waterloo.
London, Pub. by Thomas Kelly, No. 53 Paternoster Row, March 15, 1817.
Engraving. Sheet 195 x 240mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed and mounted on album paper.
Napoleon galloping his horse, gesturing behind. From Christopher Kelly's 'The Memorable Battle of Waterloo'.
[Ref: 37126] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Terror & flight of Buonaparte after the Battle of Waterloo, leaving his hat & Sword in his Carriage.
London, Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster row, Feb. 29 ~ 1817.
Engraving, printed in red and hand-finished. Sheet 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
Napoleon galloping his horse, looking over his shoulder at the chasing troops.
[Ref: 37127] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Battle of Waterloo.
Published Aug.t 31 1816 by Thomas Kelly No. 53 Paternoster Row London.
Engraved map with some hand colour. Sheet 405 x 265mm (16 x 10½"), watermarked 1818. Original folds, one split, staining in title.
A plan of the battlefield, showing the deployment of the British & Belgian, Prussian and French troops. From Christopher Kelly's 'The Memorable Battle of Waterloo'.
[Ref: 37066] £140.00

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