Grosvenor Prints

The Scythe, Man's Refreshment.
[n.d. 1790].
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint, 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Very fine.
Reduced copy of an earlier print, 'Rural Life' (one from a set of six) by Jan Faber after Philip Mercier. A boy sits drinking from from a tankard, resting his scythe on his knee.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for another impression see ref. 797
[Ref: 32343] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sea Air.]
C. Napier Hemy [pencil signature].
Published at Clare Street, Bristol by Frost & Reed Limited. Printsellers of Bristol and London, March 1st 1911.
Coloured photogravure, signed by the artist. 570 x 795mm, 22½ x 31¼mm. Tears in margins.
Charles Napier Hemy was the leading maritime painter of his generation. He was appointed Official Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron and was a prolific exhibitor at the Royal Academy showing one hundred and fifty-five paintings during his lifetime. He settled in Falmouth in 1881, and produced the majority of his finest works here. He built a floating studio and made countless studies of wave formations. Sir Frank Brangwyn RA wrote: ‘His knowledge of the sea was superb. As a draughtsman of wave forms he stands alone.’
[Ref: 10134] £650.00

Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Me[r]. Deuxieme Partie.
A Amsterdam, Ce vendent chez Johannes van K[eulen, M]archant de Cartes Marines, au bout du Pont Neuf, [...1682].
Engraved titlepage with letterpress, rare but with damage. Printed area 510 x 280mm, 20 x 11". Bottom right torn with loss to letterpress, abrasion affecting figures in the sky, damaged top left.
The decorative titlepage to a French edition of the second volume of Jan van Keulen's important sea-atlas 'Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel', first published the year before. It depicts various Europeans gathered around a large globe, with one holding up a blazing torch, representing the atlas, 'New Sea-Torch'. Others examine two large charts. Above are allegorical figures and the signs of the Zodiac. The atlas contained 130 charts by Claes Janszoon Vooght and launch the van Keulen family business, which lasted into the C19th. The second volume was dedicated to the seas of north and western Europe, with western coasts of Africa to the Canary Islands. Very important image of mapmakers and explorers pouring over the globe and charts.
[Ref: 22435] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La Troisiéme Partie.
A Amsterdam, Chez Johannes van Keulen, Marchant de Livres & Cartes Marines, au bout du Pont Neuf, au Pilote Couronne, 1682.
Engraved titlepage with letterpress, rare. Printed area 510 x 280mm, 20 x 11".
The decorative titlepage to a French edition of the third volume of Jan van Keulen's important sea-atlas 'Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel', first published the year before. It depicts an allegorical figure of Holland, with traders in the Indies on the left and the figures of Mercury and Neptune examining a compass on the right. Underneath a galleon battles three galleys. The atlas ('New Torch of the Sea') contained 130 charts by Claes Janszoon Vooght and launched the van Keulen family business, which lasted into the C19th. The third volume was dedicated to the Mediterranean.
[Ref: 22434] £380.00

[Sea atlas titlepage.] Le Neptune Francois, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines pour l'Usage de ses Armées de Mer.
A Paris, Chez Hubert Jaillot aux deux Globes, M. D.C. LXXXXIII. Avec Privilege du Roy [but Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1693].
Fine letterpress titlepage printed in black and red, with engraved vignette of a sea battle. Sheet 635 x 505mm (25 x 19¾") very large margins. Old ink mss. number top right.
The titlepage of the largest atlas of sea charts published up to that time. The vignette is signed by Jan van Vianen. The atlas was published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, with a false publication line perhaps to avoid customs duties abroad. A companion volume contained the famous sea charts etched by Romain de Hooghe, dedicated to William III, the Dutch king of England.
[Ref: 60957] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea atlas titlepage.] Cartes Marines a l'Eusage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretane.
A Amsterdam. Chez Pierre Mortier Libraire sur le Vygen Dam M. D.C. LXXXXIII [1693].
Fine letterpress titlepage printed in black and red, with engraved vignette of a sea battle. Sheet 635 x 505mm (25 x 19¾") very large margins. Old ink mss. number top right.
The titlepage to the magnificent atlas of sea charts etched by Romain de Hooghe, dedicated to William III, the new Dutch king of England. The suite of nine charts, described by Koeman as the 'most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam', included the three-sheet chart of the Mediterrean. The vignette is signed by Jan van Vianen.
Koeman: vol 4, p. 423-4, M. Mor 5.
[Ref: 60958] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea-battle between the Dutch & Spanish.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving, 365 x 465mm. Trimmed into image at top.
[Ref: 359] £460.00

[Sea Battle - British & Knights of Malta against the French?]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). Trimmed, margins painted black for use with an optical viewer.
An engagement between three ships, one flying the Union Flag, another with a flag of a white cross on a red background (the Knights of Malta or Denmark?), the third with a white flag at half-mast.
[Ref: 33836] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Sea Boy. "Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck, they youthful form! Rocks, winds, and waves, thy shatter'd bark delay; They heart is sad, thy home is far away." Pleasures of Hope.
W. Nicholson R.S.A. Pinxt. Robert Bell Sculpt.
Printed by A Mc Gashon. [n.d. c.1825.]
A rare engraving. 292 x 197mm. 11½ x 7¾".
A young boy hanging to the rigging of a ship. A poem written below.
[Ref: 15583] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Posture of a Sea Lion wn: Suddenly rowz'd or disturb'd a Lioness asleep by him & a Seal, in a moving posture
I. Pine Sculp:
[n.d. c.1780.]
Copper engraving. Image with title: 165 x 190mm. 6½ x 7½".
A sealion has awoken startled as the female remains asleep. A seal slips by towards the sea and shoreline where other seals and sealions swim. To the right in the background is a sealioness with her pup.
[Ref: 13957] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman Rejecting a Sea Monster.]
Drawn by I. Mortimer. Etch'd by I. Haynes.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan. 25 1780 by J. Mortimer Norfolk Street Strand.
Etching. Plate: 295 x 200mm (11½ x 8''), with wide margins.
A mythological scene in which a young woman fights of a grotesque sea monster. From a series of twelve etchings published posthumously by Mortimer's wife. After a drawing by artist and printmaker John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779).
[Ref: 48851] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldier Fighting a Monster.]
Mortimer del.t. Blyth Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾''). Foxing.
A mythological scene showing a man in armour fighting with a sea monster on the shore. After a drawing by artist John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779).
[Ref: 48852] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Sea Nymph [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Nude female waterskiing. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62507] £420.00

The Sea Pie Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. ''Now, Massa, Sea-Pie ready.''
P.Cruik sc.
[Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, and to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. W. Eden, Printer, 11, Queen Street, Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1842]
Etching. Sheet (at most) 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed as scrap, losing publication line.
A black cook stands at a stove.
[Ref: 62247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Trombe Di Mare. Gli Marinari Per Inveterato Costume Fanno In Certi Passaggi Una Cerimonia Chiamato Battesimo...
[Venice, c.1691.]
Copper engraving with very large margins, -printed from three plates. Total 440 x 270mm (17¼ x 10½").
Two illustrations within a separately-printed frame-like border: six sea-spouts; and a scene of sailors 'baptising' a new recruit making a new passage. This was published in Vincenzo Coronelli's 'Isolario dell'Atlante Veneto'. Coronelli (1650-1718), was Official Cartographer to both Louis XIV of France and the Doge of Venice, as well as being Father General of the Franciscan order.
[Ref: 30332] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

L'Entrée d'une Ville Maritime.
Lallemant pinx. Le Veau sc.
Se vend a Paris chés Basan et Poignant M.ds d'Estampes rue et Hotel Serpente. [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving on watermarked paper. Platemark: 335 x 430mm (13¼ x 17"). Very large margins.
A storm in a port, with a ruined classical arch and statue on the left, fortifications to the right, and a sailing ship battling the rough sea in the centre. After Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803), mainly a painter and draftsman of landscapes and genre works.
[Ref: 38736] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Sea-battle]
[c.1810, probably restrike of a plate first published c.1760.]
Engraving with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 275 x 395mm (10¾ x 15½`"). Trimmed along lower edge, probably losing text and (?)part of image.
[Ref: 45160] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

'Estuary Dawn' [pencil].
Winston Megoran [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1950.]
Aquatint with etching on thick paper, 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾".
Seabirds, possibly cormorants, in flight over water. Winston Megoran (1913 - 1971), born Newcastle upon Tyne; he exhibited at the RA.
[Ref: 27486] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

'Stormy Afternoon' [pencil].
Winston Megoran [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1950.]
Aquatint with etching on thick paper, with large margins; 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾".
Seabirds in flight over a beach, breakers rolling in below. Winston Megoran (1913 - 1971), born Newcastle upon Tyne; he exhibited at the RA.
[Ref: 27485] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Seafield Tower Fifeshire [in pencil.]
C.S. Kay [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1890.]
Etching with aquatint. 210 x 259mm. 8¼ x 10¼".
Seafield Tower is a ruined castle on the North Sea coast of Fife in Scotland. The castle was abandoned in 1733 by the Methven family.
[Ref: 15287] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Marchande de Moules. Provinces méridionales.
J. Madou fc. Lith. de Vanden Burggraaff, rue Royale. No.68.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand coloured lithograph. 241 x 190mm. 9½ x 7½". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
Mussel merchants, probably in Holland: three dogs chained to a cart with muzzles and wooden collars. On the cart is a large basket of mussels, which the and his mother are selling as they walk around the market place.
[Ref: 16214] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Well Matched.
H.L. Rolfe, del.t.
M. & N. Hanhart, Lith et Imp.t. 1856.
Lithograph. Sheet: 820 x 600mm (32 x 23¾"). Laid on conservation paper.
An extremely decorative still life scene of seafood and vegetables upon a table.
[Ref: 42359] £850.00

Seaford Cliff. As it appeared immediately after the explosion (by voltaic battery) Sept.ber 19th 1850
Miss Nanny del.t
Chapé & Lefevre lith 99 Guildford St. Russell Sq.e.
Lithograph and tintstone, very scarce; sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½").
The explosion at Seaford, Sussex in 1850, which was organised in order to blast away a huge mass of chalk cliff to create a large rock groyne and prevent pebbles from being transported from the Seaford Beach towards Beachy Head. As shown here, the event attracted vast crowds (including Charles Dickens, who wrote about it for 'Household Words'). The explosion took place successfully, but the chalk was blasted into very small fragments which, rather than retaining shingle at Seaford beach, merely accelerated the eastwards flow of sediment it was intended to prevent.
[Ref: 41284] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Seaham Church.
Richard Wallis 1784 sculp.
Rare etching. Sheet: 85 x 125mm (3½ x 5''). Trimmed, glue staining in corners.
A view of St Mary's Church in Seaham, County Durham.
[Ref: 50049] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Graphic Illustrations Of Animals, Shewing Their Utility To Man, In Their Services During Life And Uses After Death. Pl. 18. The Seal and Walrus.
Published by Thomas Varty, 31, Strand, London. [n.d., c.1850.]
Fine original hand coloured lithograph, sheet 360 x 415mm. 14¼ x 16¼". Vertical centrefold as normal. Mint
A central illustration of a seal and walrus, surrounded by nine vignette scenes of of their harvesting and products, including canoes, clothes, oil, glue and 'Ivory for Dentists use'. Drawn by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - ?1889), artist and sculptor of natural history subjects. In 1852 he was appointed director of the fossil department at the Crystal Palace, where he worked with Richard Owen on the famous models of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms.
[Ref: 13283] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Samuel Sealer of London(?) [in ink lower left.]
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼". Water stain and some spotting to sky.
A drawing from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9419] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vitello Marino Grande e Picciolo.]
[Venice: Alessandri & Scataglia, c.1775.]
Coloured etching. 360 x 270mm (14¼ x 10¾"), with large margins.
An illustration of seals from an Italian edition of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle'.
[Ref: 45020] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Sealyham.
Fred. H. Swoffer.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, titled and signed in pencil. 265 x 180mm (10½ x 7").
A sealyham terrier's head in an oval.
[Ref: 47818] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Man struggling with a scaly-legged monster.]
[Etched by Robert Blyth after John Hamilton Mortimer.]
[n.d., c.1770.]
Etching in brown. 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
A half man, half sea-monster about to be stabbed. The study for this print is in the British Museum collection.
[Ref: 10645] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Seamstresses] Les Brodeuses.
Designed & Drawn on Stone by J.J. Chalon.
London. Published by Rodwell & Martin New Bond St. Aug. 1 1820. Printed by Hullmandel.
Lithograph with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"), with wide margins.
Seamstresses at work in an open window. From the 'Costumes of Paris', a series of 24 plates by Swiss painter John James Chalon (1778-1854).
Abbey 108. See Ref: 54857
[Ref: 54514] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Search for Beauty.]
[Painted by Edwin Long R.A. Engraved by J. Cother Webb.]
London, August 7th, 1888, Published by Fairless & Beeforth, 126 New Bond Street W. Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1888 by Frank Hunter Potter, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington U.S.A.
Fine mezzotint on india paper with both artist's and engraver's signatures in pencil. 585 x 857mm. 23 x 33¾". Uncut. Mint.
Zeuxis choosing the ideal of beauty to represent Helen of Troy, companion to The Chosen Five ref: 14092.
[Ref: 14093] £420.00

The Search for Beauty.
Painted by Edwin Long R.A. Engraved by J. Cother Webb.
London, August 7th, 1888, Published by Fairless & Beeforth, 126 New Bond Street W. Copyright Registered. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1888 by Frank Hunter Potter, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington U.S.A.
Fine mezzotint on india paper with open letters. 585 x 857mm. 23 x 33¾". Uncut. Mint.
Companion to The Chosen Five in same state: see Ref:14077.
[Ref: 14089] £350.00

[A seascape; ships saluting near shore.]
P. Monamy Pinx. E. Kirkall Fe.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint with etching printed in blue ink, 190 x 250mm. 7½ x 9¾". A fine impression.
Men on shore in the foreground, two drawing in a net, the other watching as a ship approaches a fortress on cliffs to left, with billowing smoke form its canons shrouding its sides. Other ships follow in a line behind, and another ship closer in to right has men putting off in small boats from either side. This vessel appears to be firing its canons in salute also. After Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749). London-born painter Monamy (he was born in the Minories and baptized at St Botolphs Aldgate) 'emerges with Samuel Scott as one of the two leading figures in the first generation of British marine painters [...] he worked industriously for at least forty years and has left us a rich heritage of paintings illustrating the nation's naval history in the first half of the 18th century' (E.H.H. Archibald, 'Dictionary of Sea Painters').
NMM: PAD7500.
[Ref: 11704] £420.00

[ SEASCAPE - from the collection of Marquis Jean Baptiste Boyer d'Aguilles]
Montanie pinxit. S. Barras Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1709. ] Watermark in paper.
Rare mezzotint, 204 x 255mm. 8 x 10".
Seascape with ships being tossed about by a storm off a rocky coast. 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France, qui sont à Aix dans le cabinet de M. Boyer d'Aguilles...', was a series of 118 plates commissioned by Marquis Jean Baptiste Boyer d'Aguilles (1640-1709), and engraved by Coelemans and Sebastien Barras between 1690 and 1709. The original issues were published by Jacques Coelemans while the better known issue is by Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) who published a complete set of the plates with a description of each painting in 1744.
BM: 1855,0609.792.
[Ref: 17030] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Fishermen down by the shore.]
W H Sweet [in pencil outside the image.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Artists blindstamp in bottom left-hand corner. 331 x 161mm. 13 x 6¼".
Walter Henry Sweet (1889-1943.) A prolific West country artist who painted street scenes, moorland views and seascapes. This view of a seaside scene. Fishermen sit by the wall, lobster cages lie infront. Houses are up the top of the pathway where a donkey makes its way down.
[Ref: 14888] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Ver. [&] Aestas. [&] Autumnus. [&] Hyems.
le Blond excud Cum Privilegio [n.d., c.1680].
Set of four etchings, each c.285 x 360mm (11¼ x 14¼"). Vertical centre creases where folded, as normal.
Attractive representations of the four seasons. Each plate is inscribed with descriptive lines in Latin either side of titles. Probably engraved and published by Jean Le Blond (French; 1650 - 1709).
[Ref: 9467] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

Diagram Illustrating the Theory of the Seasons. The phenomena of the seasons is occasioned by the annual motion of the Earth...
Entered at Stationers Hall. [John Emslie.]
London: J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; Ackermann & Co., Strand; Reeves & Son, Cheapside. [n.d., c.1846.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Sheet: 295 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A diagram showing the Earth's movment around the Sun with small vignettes of cherubs illustrating the characteristics of the seasons.
[Ref: 42716] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Seasons] [Damon and Musidora.]
Angelica Kauffman pinx.t. Fran.s Bartolozzi sculp.
London Pub.d Feb.y 2. 1782 by F. Birchall No. 473 Strand, & G. Durand, Catherine Street.
Stipple, proof. Plate: 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene from James Thomson's poem 'Summer' from the work 'The Seasons' published between 1726-1730. The figure Damon comes across Musidora bathing but his delicacy so impressed her that she promised to marry him.
[Ref: 45940] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Seasons] - Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter.
H. Singleton pinx.t W. Bond Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1820.]
Set of four stipple engravings, Plate 153 x 158mm. 6 x 6¼".
Spring: threes youngsters picking flowers; Summer: a bird-seller with two held in a cage to his left, woos a young maiden who holds a rake; Autumn: a family harvest scene; Winter: an old lady seated sewing, with her daughter to the right and her partner smoking a pipe to the left. Charles Taylor printmaker and publisher, 1756 - 1823, in Holborn London from 1779.
[Ref: 22604] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The Seasons.] [Inside the angel's scroll:] Nature, attend! Join every living soul, Beneath the spacious temple of
P.W. Tomkins No.19 New Bond Street London. [After William Hamilton.]
Published as the act Directs June 10 1798.
Stipple. 385 x 261mm. 15¼ x 10¼". Some foxing and creasing.
One of the pages from "The Seasons" by James Thomson (London: 1797). James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright. He is known for his masterpiece 'The Seasons', some words of which can be seen on the scroll held by the angel; seated on a cloud with her wind spread and holding a lyre. It took some years before he published his set of four seasons together. He started off with Winter, first published in 1726, followed by Summer in 1727. He wrote Spring in 1728 and finally Autumn in 1730, when he eventually published the set of four together as 'The Seasons'.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17382] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Spring. [&] Summer. [&] Autumn. [&] Winter.
[Taylor, Holborn, excudit.] [n.d. c.1820.]
A set of four stipples, surrounded by decorative garlands. Plate 178 x 114mm. 7 x 4½".
Spring: a young girl pulling a floral-patterned shawl over her shoulders with a small boy holding on to her arm lower right. Summer: a woman holding a basket of fruit and small bunch of cherries in her right hand; a servant boy stands behind her holding up a parasol to protect her from the sun. Autumn: a lady, with ears of wheat in her hair, holds out a bowl in which a young girl places a bunch of grapes. Winter: a lady warms her hands over a small fire, with a girl standing to her right holding firewood over her head, poised to throw it onto the fire.
[Ref: 22907] £200.00 (£240.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The four seasons] Le Printeme; l'Eté; lLAutomne; L'Hiver
Carolus Eisen inv. de Longueil Sculp.
à Paris chés Daumont rue S. Martin, près S. Julien. Avec Privilége du Roi [c.1770]
Set of four fine engravings, each platemark 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheets at corners.
The four seasons represented by the courtship of a young couple. Very scarce set of engravings after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45074] £1,100.00 view all images for this item

Parental Affection.
Painted by W Hamilton R.A. Engraved by F Bartolozzi R.A., Historical Engraver to his Majesty.
Published as the Act Directs July 1 1795 by S W Tomkins & Co No 49 New Bond Street London.
Stipple. 390 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½").
Idyllic scene of a rustic family eating on a terrace outside their cottage. The plate was later used to illustrate James Thomspon's 'The Seasons', 1797.
De Vesme: 1797, iii.
[Ref: 28189] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Four seasons] Les Quatre Saisons. Le Printems. [&] L'Ete. [&] L'Automne. [&] L'Hiver.
J. Platier [signed on stone.] Chez Bauger & Cie. R. du Croissant, 16.
Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie [Paris, n.d., c.1840s].
Complete set of four lithographs, allegories of the seasons, sheets each c.360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11").
Social satires illustrating French seasonal activities. A street seller of flowers; a nearly naked river-swimmer whose clothes have been stolen; two intoxicated drinkers; and a shivering struggling artist inside his dilapidated studio/bedroom beside a canvas.
[Ref: 24308] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The four seasons] le Printems; l'Eté; l'Automne; l'Hyver.
C. Eisen inv.
A Paris chez Basan [c.1760]
Two engravings, each sheet approx. 100 x 155mm (4 x 6"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Putti performing activities associated with each of the four seasons. Engravings after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45073] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Autumn. Winter.
Published as the Act directs, by P. Barnaschina, No.4, Leather Lane, Holborn; Aug.st 9th 1799.
Coloured mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 130¾"). Laid on card, some scuffing in margins.
Two scenes representing seasons separated by a tree: Autumn shows a woman picking grapes and handing them to a little girl who stands holding out her apron on the left, while a second girl sits beside a basket of fruit on the right; Winter has a woman with a large muff walking arm-in-arm with a man wearing a top hat, with men skating and shooting in a wintry landscape behind. One of a pair with 'Spring & Summer'. All eight prints by Barnaschino listed on the BM site came from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
BM: 2010,7081.455; ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37583] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Seasons] Damon and Musidora. Thrice happy swain! [...] But love forbade. Vide Thomson's Summer.
J. Opie R.A. pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculp.t.
London Publish'd March 12.th 1796 by Tho.s Macklin, Poet's Gallery, Fleet Street.
Stipple. Platemark: 530 x 410mm (21 x 16¼"), with wide margins. Light foxing along bottom edge of sheet. Puncture holes for binding into wrappers along top margin.
Musidora, undressing, watched by Damon, who peers around the trunk of a tree on the left. An illustration to 'The Seasons', a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson (1700 - 1748). From Macklin's 'One hundred pictures/Prints illustrative of the most celebrated British Poets [...] with letter-press explanatory of the subject, extracted from the writings of the respective poets.'
De Vesme: 1441. IV.
[Ref: 38510] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Villager Oh! come, and while the rosy footed May [...] / Thomson's Spring.
Drawn by a Lady. Engrav'd by P.W. Tomkins late pupil of F. Bartolozzi
[London, Publish'd as the Act directs May 16, 1791 by P.W.Tomkins New Bond St.]
Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 255 x 170mm (10 x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line.
A woman walking and balancing a basket of flowers on her hat, her child by her side. Illustration of verses by James Thomson, whose 'The Seasons' was a popular source for artists favouring rural subject matter. Engraved from a design by Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734-1808) by P.W. Tomkins, who like many former pupils of Bartolozzi mentioned as much on their prints to benefit from Bartolozzi's reputation.
[Ref: 31961] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Advert.] Now Publishing, in Royal 4to. Price Nine, Shillings. Floral Illustrations of the Seasons, Consisting of Representations Drawn from Nature of some of the Most Beautiful, Hardy, and Rare Herbaceous Plants...
By Mrs. Edward Roscoe, Liverpool. Engraved by R. Havell, Jun.
Published by Baldwin & Cradock, Paternoster Row, for R. Havell, Jun. 79, Newman Street, Oxford Street. 1829.
Rare letterpress. Sheet: 225 x 140mm (9 x 5½''). Binding holes.
An advert for a series of botanical prints.
[Ref: 51049] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Damon & Phoebe. Young Damon stepped forward: he sung is her praise...
D. Harding delin.t. Delatree sculp.t.
London Pub.d August 24, 1783 by T. Macklin No 39 Fleet Street.
Stipple, printed in reddish-brown. 385 x 335mm (15¼ x 13¼"), with large margins. Mint.
The shepherdess Phoebe places a garland on Damon's head. He holds a recorder. An illustration to 'The Seasons', a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson (1700-48).
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60303] £320.00

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