Grosvenor Prints

[Meinhardt Schomberg] Maynhard Duke of Leinster, Count of Schonberg, & Mertola, Grandee of Portugal, General of their Mat.ies Forces of Great Brittain &c.
G. Kneller Eques pinx: J. Smith fec: & excud.
[n.d., 1693.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, ink stain in image near left arm, evidence of crack in printing plate in inscription area.
A three-quarter portrait of Meinhardt Schomberg (1641-1719) in long wig and armour, one hand on a long baton, a cavalry action behind. The son of Frederick Schomberg, he served with his father during the Williamite wars in Ireland, including the Battle of the Boyne, in which he led the crossing of the river, the turning point of the war. He was rewarded with the title Duke of Leinster and took British citizenship in 1691.
CS 156, ii of ii (with crack). Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68611] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Dr. Isaac Schomberg. From an Original Picture Painted by Hudson in the Posession of S.Edwards Esq.r.
Engraved by W.P.Sherlock.
Published by J.Sewell, cornhill, August 1st 1799.
Stipple engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins.
Portrait of Dr. Isaac Schomberg (1714 -1780), German physician.
[Ref: 68203] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Ioannes Schonerus. Carolostadius, excellens Mathematicus in Urbe Norimbergensi. Nasc. Carolostadii Francorum a.1477. d. 16. Ianuarii. Mor. Norimb. 1547. aet. 70.
[n.d. c.1680.]
Rare woodcut. 165 x 95mm (6½ x 7¾"). Creasing.
Johannes Schoner (1477-1547) the renowned and respected German polymath. He had a wide reputation all over Europe as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers. He is remembered as an influential pioneer in the history of globe making and as a man who played a significant role in the events that led up to the publishing of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus" in Nuremberg in 1543.
W: 2659-2.
[Ref: 29903] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Come child of misfortune - come hither_.
Moore.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Very rare etching. 150 x 125mm (6 x 5").
A scene depicting a classroom, one child appears to be running to the door, hands covering his ears, screaming. The teacher is running after them, holding a stick, whilst the class look in shock.
[Ref: 67180] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Going to School. [&] After School.
Maria Spilsbury Pinx.t. Edwd. Orme Excut. Chas. Turner Sculp.
[Published & Sold, Feby. 1802. by Edwd. Orme, Printseller to the King & Royal Family, No. 59 the corner of Brook Street, in Bond Street, London.]
Pair of mezzotints with etching, sheets 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾). Trimmed losing publication lines. Some surface dirt.
Two scenes of country life. Two young women standing in the doorway of a cottage; one is handing over an apple to a boy, on his way to school with a girl, drying her tears; to left, a young girl feeding a hen, cock and chicks. Two women sit under a veranda while the the two school age children read. The other child picks grapes of a vine.
[Ref: 60623] £360.00 view all images for this item

Black Monday or the Departure for School. [&] Dulce Domum or the Return from School.
Painted by W.R. Bigg A. Engraved by John Jones. Principal Engraver to his Royal Highness the Duke of York [&] Engraved by John Jones. Extraordinary Engraver to his R.H. the Prince of Wales, and Principal Engraver to his R.H. the Duke of York.
Pub.d as the act directs. Dec.r ye 1st, 1790 by W. R. Bigg No.11 Tavistock Row Covent Garden.
Pair of mezzotints. 485 x 610mm (19 x 24"). 'Black Monday' trimmed to plate, re-margined to two sides; 'Dulce Domum' trimmed into plate, re-margined on left.
Two of the most famous education scenes: the first shows two boys leaving for boarding school; the second shows the joyous greeting they receive from their family on their return. William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828) specialised in genre scenes, often depicting children and acts of charity. Because of the popularity of his paintings he could commission the best engravers to produce prints from his works, including Jones, Robert Dunkarton, William Ward and John Raphael Smith.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 55284] £450.00 view all images for this item

[A School Boy.]
Sr Joshua Reynolds Pinxit. John Dean Fecit
Published Oct. 31st 1777 by Jn Dean Church Street Soho
Mezzotint with very large margins, fine, platemark 395 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). First state before plate cleaned.
Engraving of one of Sir Joshua Reynolds' popular 'fancy pictures' of the 1770s, a schoolboy holding a portfolio. The first owner of the painting (which was recently sold by Sotheby's) was the great collector George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Hamilton p.156 i/iii; for the painting, see Sotheby's Old Master & British Paintings evening sale, 9 July 2014.
[Ref: 36505] £380.00

School Boys Giving Charity to a Blind Man.
Painted by W. Begg [Bigg]. Engrav'd by J.R.Smith.
London Publish'd Octr. 10. 1781 by J.R. Smith No.83 opposite the Pantheon Oxford Street, and J.Birchall No. 473 Strand.
Mezzotint. 460 x 560mm (18 x 22"), large margins. Repairs to margins.
After a painting by William Redmore Bigg RA (1755-1828) exhibited in the R.A. in 1778.
Frankau: J.R.Smith, 307.
[Ref: 56670] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The School for the Indigent Blind, St. George's Fields.
Published July 12, 1813, by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, N.º 53, Fleet Street London.
Engraving with fine hand colour. 300 x 445mm (11¾ x 17½"), large margins. Slight crease.
The School for the Indigent Blind was founded in 1799, for pupils aged 10 to 18, instructing them in trades such as basket-making, spinning, weaving and mat-making. This building, near the obelisk at St George’s Fields, was opened in 1812.
[Ref: 64331] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The School Mistress. In every village marked with little spire/ Embower'd in trees and hardly known to fame/ There dwells in lowly shed and mean attire/ A matron old whom we school mistress name/ Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame./ They grieven sore in piteous durance pent/ Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame/ And oft times on vagaries idly bent/ For unkempt hair or task unconn'd are sorely shent./ Vide. Shenston's School Mistress.
F. Wheatly R.A pinx.t. J. Coles sculp.t
London, Publish'd March 20th 1794, by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street.
Engraving, 430 x 505mm (16¾ x 20"). Small margins.
A scene from 'The Schoolmistress', a poem by William Shenstone (1714-1763).
[Ref: 48518] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The School of Eloquence.
A. Robertson fecit.
[c.1800, first published 1780]
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark approx 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), 'Ivy Mill' watermark, wide margins. Repaired tears, tatty;
'The interior of a fashionable debating society of the period; the members are the quality of both sexes' (Grego). One member uses an ear trumpet; another takes snuff. Social satire after an early drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, first published by Archibald Robertson in 1780. This later state has the publication line effaced.
Grego vol. 1, p.98; an early impression is in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
[Ref: 38625] £390.00

The School of Eloquence.
A. Robertson fecit [after Thomas Rowlandson].
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching with hand-colouring, 18th century watermark 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), very large margins. Small repaired tear in title, creases.
'The interior of a fashionable debating society of the period; the members are the quality of both sexes' (Grego). One member uses an ear trumpet; another takes snuff. Social satire after an early drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, first published by Archibald Robertson in 1780. This later state has the publication line effaced.
Grego vol. 1, p.98; an early impression is in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
[Ref: 56612] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The School of Projects.
[by Samuel De Wilde.]
Published for the Satirist, Octr 1st 1809. by S. Tipper Leaden (St.
Etching with aquatint, Sheet 205 x 370mm (8 x 14½"). Folds as issued. Trimmed within plate. Holes in right edge where previously bound.
A satire on some of the outlandish projects being touted to investors. On the left is a model of a bridge from the Earth to the Moon, a plan devised by Ralph Dodd, who is depicted boring a hole through the Earth, a satire on his plan to dig a dry tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury (before Brunel's Thames Tunnel). In the centre is Frederick Albert Winsor (1763-1830), pioneer of gas lighting, whose system was to be used to light both Dodd's tunnel and his proposed Strand Bridge. On the right is William Robert Henry Brown, manager of the Golden Lane Brewery, and also Chairman of the Hope Insurance Company and promoter of a Cattle Insurance Company. To his left is George Leybourne, a supporter of the cattle insurance scheme, said to have had a plan for making a sheep grow as large as an ox.
BM Satires 11439.
[Ref: 62374] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The School of Reform. Conjugation of the Verb to Reform.
CJGrant.
[Pub. Feb. 1831 by S Gans Southampton St. Strand.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 373 x 279mm. 14¾ x 11". Bit tatty at edges.
Charles Grey (1764-1845) as a schoolmaster standing on a low dais in profile to right, addressing nine schoolboys, or Tories. Brougham (1778-1868) stands full-face, as usher, holding a big birch-rod. Four pupils sit on the front bend behind which sit another four; Wellington (1769-1852) stands behind on a stool wearing a fool's cap, like an extinguisher, decorated with bells. Two of the pupils include Lyndhurst (1772-1863) and Goulburn (1784-1856), wearing spectacles.
BM Satires: 16586. See Ref: 30676 for similar print.
[Ref: 25720] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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[Frontispiece to 'The School of Venus: Or, the Lady's Miscellany: Being, a Collection of Original Poems and Novels Relating to Love and Gallantry'.]
Parr Sculp.
[London: E. Curll, 1739.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 140 x 75mm (5½ x 3") very large margins. Some spotting, mounted in album paper at edges
Promenaders and a sedan chair.
[Ref: 63581] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Maîtresse d'école.
[after Pierre Alexandre Wille]
[n.d. c.1780]
Engraving, plate 250 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Proof before letters. Small repaired tears in large margins.
A reverse copy of the print after Pierre Alexandre Wille (1748-1837) made by Jean Georges Wille (1715-1808). Half-length portrait of an old woman in a trompe l'oeil border. Her right hands holds a burch branch and rests on an open book her left hand points commandingly.
[Ref: 63053] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Schoolboys playing cricket.] Their's is the Sunshine of the Breast.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Cut and backed onto album paper. Album paper residue left on right side, close to image.
A scene depicting school boys, in a garden. Sitting under a tree, three boys are reading and writing, while in the background a game of cricket is played. the phrase 'Sunshine of the Breast' derives from Thomas Gray's 1747 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", a comment on the carefree days of childhood.
See also [Ref: 56252].
[Ref: 67359] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Schoolboys. [Master Henry Gawler. Master J.no Gawler.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R. Smith.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 6, 1778, by J.R. Smith, No.10 Batemans Buildings, Soho Square.
Mezzotint, paper watermarked. Plate 376 x 279mm (14¾ x 11"). Fine impression..
The sons of John Gawler, a solicitor; the elder, also John (on right, c.1764-1842), changed his name to John Bellenden Ker and became famous as a botanist, writing Recensio Plantarum (1801), Select Orchideae (c.1816) and Iridearum Genera (1827). The second highest peak in Queensland, Australia, is named Mount Bellenden Ker in his honour. Henry Gawler (on left, fl.1794), a barrister who married Lydia Frances Neale.
CS: 67. Hamilton: p.30. Russell: 67. From the Collection of Mary Palmer, sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds..
[Ref: 28507] £320.00

Petite Ecoliere. Dedié à son Excellence Monsieur le Baron de Groschlag Premier Ministre d'Etat [...]
Peint par Schenau de SAE de Saxe Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi 1771
A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins Par Son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Wille.
Engraving, platemark 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins.
Young schoolgirl holding a bird, seen through trompe l'oeil niche. After Johann Eleazar Schenau (also identified as Johann Elias Zeissig, 1737-1806), painter and etcher born in Saxony who trained in Dresden, went to Paris 1756-70. He returned to Dresden as a member of the Academy, professor there in 1774. Director of the Meissen drawing school together with G B Casanova 1776, on his own from 1795. Engraved by J.G. Wille, engraver and publisher who became Schenau's patron, buying several paintings from the artist including that from which this print derives (now in the Dresden collection).
[Ref: 40287] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Petite Ecoliere.] [Dedié à son Excellence Monsieur le Baron de Groschlag Premier Ministre d'Etat...]
[Peint par Schenau de SAE de Saxe Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi 1771]
[A Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins Par Son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Wille.]
Engraving, platemark 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Very scarce proof before all letters. Collector's stamp of Lewis Loyd bottom left.
Young schoolgirl holding a bird, seen through trompe l'oeil niche. After Johann Eleazar Schenau (also identified as Johann Elias Zeissig, 1737-1806), painter and etcher born in Saxony who trained in Dresden, went to Paris 1756-70. He returned to Dresden as a member of the Academy, professor there in 1774. Director of the Meissen drawing school together with G B Casanova 1776, on his own from 1795. Engraved by J.G. Wille, engraver and publisher who became Schenau's patron, buying several paintings from the artist including that from which this print derives (now in the Dresden collection). This impression was formerly in the collection of the banker and print collector Lewis Loyd (1811-91). Between 1840 and 1870 Loyd assembled a collection of prints distinguished by their fine condition and early states.
L.2802.
[Ref: 40288] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[A village schoolroom.]
[by Maria Spilsbury]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Crayon-manner etching. Sheet 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate, central fold.
A group of children, seated on stools and a settee, listening attentively to a girl standing. The scene is lit from a doorway to the right.
[Ref: 60734] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled schoolroom scene.] This Scene but shews us, how we first began; / How practise the same Lesson up to Man, / From earliest Date some stand ye Buts of Laught.r / Anf the School Blockhead is a Dunce hereafter...
Ph. Mercier inv.t et pinx.t. J. Faber fecit 1739.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739.
Scarce mezzotint. 280 x 330mm (11 x 13"). Trimmed to plate.
The interior of a boy's school, the master pulling a boy's ear, holding a whip in right hand, as other boys point and laugh. A pair with a scene of a girl's school.
CS 411. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67004] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Boys School. [&] A Girls School. In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Rutland.
Pasquilini Pinxit. George Keating Sculpsit.
Published Jan.y 13th. 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside London.
Pair of rare colour-printed stipples. Sheets 345 x 410mm (13½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. tears and damage repaired, surface wear.
A pair of classical Italian school scenes. These are the only prints listed in the BM's biography of Pasqualini.
BM 1865,0114.739 & 1865,0114.740.
[Ref: 51951] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Fores's Marine Sketches. Plate. 6. The Schooner Yacht Alarm, R.Y.S. 248, Tons. From the Original Picture in the possession of Joseph Weld Esq.re Lulworth Castle, Dorset. The Alarm as a Cutter of 193 Tons, won in 1830, The Ladies Challenge Cup, 250. Guineas, with 125. Guineas added. King's Cup 100. Guineas._ 1831, King's Cup 100 Guineas, _ 1832 King's Cup 100 Guineas, _1833, Torquay Challenge Cup, _1836, Torquay Challenge Cup, 1838, Queen's Cup 100 Guineas. _1843 Queen's Cup 100 Guineas, 1851 The 100 Guinea Cup of All Nations, at Ryde In 1852 the Alarm was lengthened by the Bow 20 Feet, and rigged as a Schooner.
J.M. Gilbert, Del.t G. Hicks, Lith.
Published November 5th 1852, by Mess.rs Fores, 41, Piccadilly, London.
Framed coloured lithograph, fine. 396 x 492mm. 15½ x 19¼".
Alarm, R.Y.S., built by Messrs. Inman of Lymington, 1829, for Joseph Weld, Esq., of Lulworth Castle, Dorset. Sold to G. Duppa, Esq., 1867.
NMM: PAH0459. Parker: 2231.
[Ref: 21587] £1,150.00

Schooner Yacht Dolphin. G.H. Ackers, Esqr. Winning the Queen's Plate at Cowes, August 17th 1839. To the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Yarborough, D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S.A. &c. Commadore of the Royal Yacht Squadron. This Print is respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's most obedient and very humble Servant, O.W. Brierly.
O.W. Brierly, del et zinc. Day & Hague, Lithrs. to the Queen.
Edmund Fry, London & Edmund Fry Jnr. Plymouth. [n.d. c.1839.]
Tinted zincograph, sheet 385 x 555mm. 15¼ x 21¾". Light soiling, small tears to extremities.
In the background are captioned 'Kestral', belonging to the Earl of Yarborough and B.Boyd's 'Wanderer'.
[Ref: 8582] £480.00

[Battles of Schooneveld.] Afbeeldinge Van De Twee Bloedige Zeeslagen gehauden op de 7 en 14 juny 1673, tussen de Maghtige Zee vlooten van Vranckryck en Engelandr, tegen die vande Vereen Nederlanden.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 180 x 295mm (7 x 11½"). Trimmed to printed border, losing letterpress, left corners slightly snipped.
An etched view of one of the Battles of Schooneveld (7th and 14th July 1673), from a Dutch broadsheet celebrating the victory of Admirals de Ruyter and Tromp over a combined French and English fleet led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Jean, Comte d'Estrées.
[Ref: 55457] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Count Schouvaloff.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Stipple with etching in colour. 230 x 151mm. 9 x 6". Cut.
Count Schouvaloff was one of Russia's foremost diplomats. He was Russian Ambassador to London in 1878, during the Berlin Conference. In 1895 he was transferred from his post as Russian ambassador in Berlin, which he filled for nine years, to the governor-generalship of Warsaw.
[Ref: 14443] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Civilization versus Nature.
A. Schramm. Penman & Galbraith, Lith, Adelaide.
[Adelaide, n.d., 1859.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Framed, visible area 170 x 245mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Worm trail outside image. Unexamined out of frame.
An Aboriginal couple talk to a European gold prospector breaking rocks. One from a set of four lithographs by Alexander Schramm (1813-64), a German emigrant to Australia, arriving 1849.
[Ref: 59623] £700.00

Bushing it. - Morning.
A. Schramm. Penman & Galbraith, Lith, Adelaide.
[Adelaide, n.d., 1859.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Framed, visible area 170 x 245mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Some toning. Unexamined out of frame.
A European hunter returns to his camp with a bird he has shot. One from a set of four lithographs by Alexander Schramm (1813-64), a German emigrant to Australia, arriving 1849.
[Ref: 59624] £700.00

Joh. Hier. Schroeter. Kön. Grossbrit.u. Chrf. Br. Lün. Ober Amtman zu Lilienthal. Gebohr. d.30. Aug. 1745.
CWestermayr fecit.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 82mm (5½ x 3¼"). Some fox marks & scratching in face area.
Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745-1816), German astronomer. In 1777 he was appointed Secretary of the Royal Chamber of George III in Hanover, where he made the acquaintance of two of William Herschel's borthers. He made extensive drawings of the features of Mars, which were lost during the Napoleonic Wars, and were not rediscovered until 1873. The lunar crater Schröter and the Martian crater Schroeter are named after him, as is Vallis Schröteri on the Moon. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29751] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Francois Schubert. [Franz Peter Schubert.]
C. Deblois, 1867.
Maxarine, Paris. [n.d., c.1867.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Faint offset. Trimmed.
Portrait of Francois Schubert (1797 - 1828), also known as Franz Peter Schubert, was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music.
[Ref: 63233] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Conferenzrath H.C. Schumacher. Director der Konigln. Sternwarte in Altona.
Drawn On Stone By C. Baugniet From A Picture In The Possession Of The Royal Society.
Published By J. Dent, 61 Strand, London [n.d. c.1845].
Lithograph. Sheet 452 x 375mm. Trimmed. Occasional foxing.
Astronomer, director of the Royal Observatory in Altona, a port on the Elbe river near Hamburg.
Not in W.
[Ref: 553] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Schumann.
Verlug v. Baumgartner's Buchhdllng in Lpzg. [n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 225 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Robert Schumann (1810 - 1846), German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist.
[Ref: 63253] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Hans Lautensack, Mahler in Nurnberg.
H.WGVGW. ISL 1554.
Engraving with etching. Sheet size: 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed inside plate.
A reverse copy of Hans Lautensack's portrait of Ulrich Schwaiger. Half-length, seated to the left, looking towards the viewer, holding a beaker. A window behind shows a view of the exterior landscape in the background. Lautensack (c.1520 - 1564/6) was a painter and designer of prints from Nuremberg.
[Ref: 37686] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Von einem wohlgebawten vnd fruchtbaren acter.
[by Balthasar Schwan.]
[Frankfurt: 1652.]
Engraving. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
A man with an ox team ploughs a field, with a harvest scene behind. Plate 39 of 'Glück und Unglück Spiegel', by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74).
[Ref: 60849] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Von grossem gut vnd Reichthumb.
[by Balthasar Schwan.]
[Frankfurt: 1652.]
Engraving. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
A winged demon wrapped in chains stands betweeen a man and his coffers and coin-bags. Plate 55 of 'Glück und Unglück Spiegel', by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74).
[Ref: 60850] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Von verheilung, betrüg und warfagenn der Sternscher und schwartkunstler.
[by Balthasar Schwan.]
[Frankfurt: 1652.]
Engraving. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
Practitioners of the dark arts. One man reads the entrails of a deer and another has flames spouting from a bowl. Plate 114 of 'Glück und Unglück Spiegel', by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74).
[Ref: 60851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Von der hoffnung eines guten gerücht und lobs nach dem tode.
[by Balthasar Schwan.]
[Frankfurt: 1652.]
Engraving. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
'The hope of a good reputation after death'. A man is being led away by Death, as a long-haired, web-fingered, monstrous figure rises from a hole. Plate 119 of 'Glück und Unglück Spiegel', by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74).
[Ref: 60852] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Von grossern zugebrachtem heurahtgut. Ich frewe mich dass mir mein hausfraw ein grosses heuratgut zugebracht hat.
[by Balthasar Schwan.]
[Frankfurt: 1652.]
Engraving. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
A man and his much older wife, pleased that she brought such a large dowry. Plate 70 of 'Glück und Unglück Spiegel', by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74).
[Ref: 60853] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Von grosser thorheit der Alchimisten vnd Soldtmacher. Ich hoff dürch die Alchimi reich zu werden und gross gut zu erwerbenn.
[by Balthasar Schwan.]
[Frankfurt: 1652.]
Engraving. 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper at corners.
An alchemist's workshop: ''Of the great folly of alchemists and mercenaries. I hope to make a great fortune through Alchemy''. Plate 113 of 'Glück und Unglück Spiegel', by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74).
[Ref: 60854] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Hungary] Mart. von Schwartner. Professor zu Pest. Gebohren zu Kesmark in Ungarn d. 1.st Mrt. 1759.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple. Plate 140 x 89mm. 5½ x 3½".
Martin von Schwartner (1759-1823) was a prominent historian and statistician in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was professor of diplomatics and library custodian at the newly founded university of Budapest. He studied at the University of Göttingen, and his major work, entitled 'Statistik des Königreichs Ungern', reflects a profound knowledge of the Göttingen historical statistical school, but also the English political arithmetic.
[Ref: 25987] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Field Marshal, Prince Schwartzenberg. Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies.
London Published July 11 -1814, by Hassell & Richards, 344, Strand.
Lithograph. 382 x 278mm. 15 x 11". Cut. Some scuffing.
Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg (1771-1820) was an Austrian field marshal. He entered the imperial cavalary in 1788, and due to his bravery he rose to become Major in 1792. In 1804 he was created the Fürst zu Schwarzneberg and a year later after cutting his way thought the hostile lines at Ulm, he received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa and later in 1809 he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece.
[Ref: 14473] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Gunpowder Discovered by the Monk Schwartz.
B. Rode Pinxit [c.1820]
Lithograph, scarce, sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"). Whatman 1821 watermark; trimmed; hole upper left.
The Franciscan monk Berthold Schwarz, who invented gunpowder in 1359, experimenting with explosive chemicals. Lithograph copied from a 1784 etching by Christian Berhard Rode (1725-97), which was one of the didactic illlustrations he produced for Johann Matthias Schröckh’s 'Allgemeine Weltgeschichte für Kinder', (Leipzig, 1781). The Devil's head on left.
[Ref: 41287] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Hanns Caspar Schwarz.
J.F. Leonard 1672.
Very early mezzotint. 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Thread margins.
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum describes Hans Kaspar Schwarz as a gardener in Nürnberg.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum MP 21945.
[Ref: 40700] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Clarissimi Déoq[ue] Repub: Optimè Meriti Herois D. Ottonis Henrici Comitis a Schwarzenberg... D. Wolfgango Jacobo Comiti a Schwarzenberg &c filio ac heredi dedicata. Ab sereniss. Bavar: Ducis Guilielmi scal: ptore Joane Sadelero.
[after Hans von Aachen?]
[Munich, c.1590.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 325 x 245mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, pin holes, repaired tears.
Otto Heinrich, Count of Schwarzenberg (1535-90), Councillor to the Emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II, and to William V of Bavaria, wearing a ruff and a leopard fur-lined coat, seated at a table with papers, a compass, a skull and a clock. The skull and dedication suggests this was engraved after Schwarzenberg's death in 1590, when Sadeler was court engraver in Munich. A head-and-shoulders oil portrait with the same features is attributed to Hans von Aachen (1552-1615).
[Ref: 55499] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Iacobus Schwarzmurer. Consul Reipublicae Tigurinae. Anno 1439. No.15.
I.Casp. Fuessli delin. S. Walch fec.
[Swiss, n.d., c.1750s.]
Fine mezzotint, 320 x 210mm. 12½ x 8¼". A fine impression with full margins; some spotting, uncut.
The sitter in rectangular masonry frame, arms to cartouche below. From a series of portraits of Consuls or Burgomasters of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland 1336-1678, after Swiss painter and author Johann Caspar Füssli (1706 - 1782).
See BNF FRBNF40355659.
[Ref: 19828] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Siege of Schweidnitz taken by his Prussian Majesty, April 16th 1758
Engraved for the London Mag: 1761
Engraving, platemark 190 x 255mm (7½ x 10"). Tears; folds as normal; pinhole lower centre.
The Siege of Schweidnitz (now Swidnica, Poland), between Austrian and Prussian forces during the Seven Years' War
[Ref: 38654] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Conradus Schwend. Eques Reipubl. Tig. Consul. anno 1489. obiit 1499. No.23.
J. Casp. Fuessli delineavit. S. Walch fecit.
[Swiss, n.d., c.1750s.]
Fine mezzotint, 325 x 215mm. 12¾ x 8½". A fine impression with full margins; some marginal spotting.
Portrait of Conrad Schwend, in rectangular masonry frame, coat of arms to cartouche below. From a series of portraits of Consuls or Burgomasters of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland 1336-1678, after Swiss painter and author Johann Caspar Füssli (1706 - 1782).
See BNF FRBNF40355659.
[Ref: 19829] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg] Joannes Schwichardus D.G. Archiep Mogun Sac Rom Imp Per Germaniam [...]
[n.d., c.1650]
Engraving printed from two plates, sheet 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Trimmed.
Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg (1553-1626), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, 1604-26.
[Ref: 43182] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Frontispiece. Young Man's Companion Or Book Of Knowledge.
London, Thomas Kelly [1837].
Engraving, sheet 215 x 115mm. 8½ x 4½". Some staining/spoiling.
Students in a library gather around a globe as a teacher explains geographical theory with the aid of a compass. The image also features brushes, easels and canvasses.
Frontispiece to Thomas Bartlett's ( 1789 - 1864) 'The Young Man’s Companion or, Book of Knowledge ... to which is prefixed, a brief history of the progress of knowledge ... Illustrated by engravings.'
British Library system number: 000216349.
[Ref: 9520] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

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