Grosvenor Prints

Diagram illustrating the earth's annual revolution round the sun, and its diurnal rotation on its axis. Showing its position on the first of every month.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie
Published by J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. Aug.t 6. 1851.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Ink stamp on the back 'St Thomas's Schools Mount Vernon.'
Diagram showing why we have seasons with explanatory text.
[Ref: 56882] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Four Seasons.] M. 1. Le Printemps. [&] M 2. L'Eté. [&] M 3. L'Automne. [&] M 4. L'.Hiver.
Huquier ex.
AParis chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of four rare etchings, pt 18th century watermark. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), large margins.
Four rococo designs, each representing a season, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58931] £600.00 view all images for this item

[The Triumph of Time] Sum Tempus Volucre [...]
Mee. [Maarten van Heemskerck] In. v. PG. [Philips Galle] F.
[n.d., c.1565.]
Etching with engraving. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"). Narrow margins, mounted on album paper, damp stain, small sliver of paper pasted over top left corner.
The winged figure of Time sits in a chariot drawn by two deer, passing the ruins of a classical city accompanied by male figures of the Four Seasons running beside. 'Spring' holds a bow and a hooded falcon. From the series 'The Triumphs of Petrarch'
[Ref: 64985] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The earth's annual revolution round the sun, and its diurnal rotation on its axis. Showing its position on the first of every month.
Drawn & Engraved by John Emslie
Published by J. Reynolds, 174, Strand. Aug.t 6. 1851.
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼"). Light foxing.
Diagram showing why we have seasons with explanatory text.
[Ref: 56885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Four Seasons] Les Fleurs du Printems. [&] Les Dons de l'Eté. [&] Les Fruits de l'Automne. [&] Les Rigeurs de l'Hiver.
Se vend à Augsbourg chès J.J. Haid et fils [n.d., c.1780].
Set of four numbered mezzotints. Each c. 215 x 160mm (8½ x 6¼"), very large margins Repaired tears, creasing, foxing.
Four seasonal scenes depicting two young boys and a girl is outdoor settings throughout the year.
[Ref: 68135] £650.00 view all images for this item

Winter's Morning. [&] Summer's Evening.
C. Cranmer pinx.t. W. Barnard sculp.t.
London: Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1803, by W. Barnard, N.º 1 Fitzroy Square.
Pair of very fine coloured mezzotints, printed in colours. 480 x 615mm (19 x 23¾"), with large margins Some restoration, spotting and staining.
In 'Winter' a large family have breakfast in a cottage; in 'Summer' the family sit outside enjoying the weather, the children eating as the man smokes a pipe.
[Ref: 66659] £680.00 view all images for this item

[The Four Seasons] Spring. [&] Summer. [&] Autumn. [&] Winter.
Painted by R. Westall [2] [&] Painted by F. Wheatley [2]. Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to his Majesty.
Pub.d Feb.y 1. 1789 [2] by T. Simpson S.t Pauls Church Yard. [&] Pub.d April 9 1789 [2] by T. Simpson S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Set of four coloured stipples with etching, printed in colours. Each 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. Slight crease on Autumn.
Fine & rare set of four half-length portraits of women in seasonal dresses and hats. Spring features a rainbow, Summer a rose, Autumn grapes and Winter a massive muff. The set is a fine example of colour printing.
[Ref: 67425] £650.00 view all images for this item

[The Four Seasons.] Lente. [&] Zomer. [&] Herfst. [&] Winter.
by P. Boscetti & Co.
London. Pub.d by C.T. Stampa & Co., Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, Mar. 1. 1823.
Set of four mezzotint & line engravings with hand colour, small margins. Very scarce set. Each. c. 360 x 250mm, 14 x 9¾". Some wear to edges of all plates, two small worm holes in 'Zomer', repaired tears to 'Herfst'. Laid down.
A very scarce set of the Four Seasons, focusing on dress, with Dutch titles. Originally published by P.Boscetti & Co. in Amsterdam, after which Stampa acquired the plates. The firm seems to be a later incarnation of 'Charles Stampa and Son', who made barometers at Kirby Street c.1802-11.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christophe Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 28613] £900.00 view all images for this item

[The Four Seasons with verse by Cornelia van der Veer.] Sun in Gemini; bright Mistress of the Year / May; the Spring-Tide of Blessings that Appear... [&] In July the Sun postin in his trac' / Up to the top of rageing Leos Back; Tis parching Summer... [&] Ripe Autumn in October... [&] Aquarius; when the Cold age of Time / In January hath Seiz'd our North Clime...
't Amsterdam by Carel Allardt op den Dam inde Caardt-winkel. [n.d., c.1690.]
Set of four engravings, rare as a set, good impressions. Ea. c.530 x 425mm (21 x 16¾") very large margins. A few small repairs.
A fine set of allegorical portraits of the Seasons, each with a verse by Cornelia van der Veer (1639-1704), in Dutch, English & French. She is one of three most successful female Dutch poets of the second half of the 17th century.
[Ref: 51813] £2,800.00 view all images for this item

Spring. Line 83. [&] Summer. Line 88. [&] Autumn. Line 58. [&] Winter. Line 79.
Thomson del. Rhodes scu.t. [&] Thurston del. Armstrong sc.t. [&] Thomson del. Fitler sculp. [&] Hunter del. Armstrong sc.t.
Published by Vernor & Hood, April 6 1802, Poultry.
Set of four engravings. Each sheet 160 x 95mm, 6¼ x 3¾".
The Four Seasons in the country, relating to a poem.
[Ref: 22429] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

.Spring. [&] Summer. [&] Autumn. [&] Winter.
Ansell delint. Birrell sculpt.
Published as the Act directs, by J. Strachan, and W. Stewart, June 30. 1792. [&] August 1st. 1792. [&] Septr.1.1792. [&] Octr.1.1792.
A set of four copper engravings. 241 x 158mm. 9½ x 6¼".
The four seasons. Spring: a naked cherub tries to catch a butterfly. Summer: a naked cherub reclines on an old oak tree with his toes dabbling in the little stream. Autumn: a naked chreub holding a sickle and a pile of corn on his shoulder. Winter: a cherub wrapped in a shawl skating on the frozen stream.
[Ref: 16188] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[The Four Seasons.] Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter.
H.Singleton pinx.t. W.Bond sculp.t.
Jan.y 1st 1795 C.Taylor excudit, London.
Set of four stipples, printed in sepia. Each c. 150 x 155mm.
From the 'Temple of Taste'.
[Ref: 5546] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

August.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Some paper toning.
A three-quarter portrait of a pretty woman holding a fishing rod with a small fish on the hook, seen through a window; behind is the rest of her catch in a basket. From a series of 'Months'.
BM: 1868,0822.5025, 'illustration to an unidentified magazine'. See Ref: 41592, 59613, 59615 & 41591
[Ref: 59614] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Harvest Home. ''How Calm below / The Gilded Earth! the harvest reasures all / Now Gather'd in beyound the rage of Storms, / Sure to the Swain; the Cicrling fence shut up; / And instant Winter's utmost rage defy'd.'' Tomson's Autumn.
London, Publish'd Oct,r 17; 1785, by J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside. But later.
Coloured etching. 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼") very large margins. Some slight staining.
A young couple return to the farm after completing the harvest.
[Ref: 61015] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Autumnus.
Theodor Bernard invet: J. Sadeler Sculps:
[n.d. c.1580.]
Scarce engraving. Sheet 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed within plate, loss of image on right edge. Damaged.
A plate representing Autumn as a time for wine-making. In the foreground is a naked male personification, with wine leaves in his hair, leaning on a tub of grapes. Behind people pick grapes, tread them, barrel them up and cart them away. One of a set of the ‘Four Seasons’ engraved by Jan Sadeler (1550-1600) after Dirck Barendsz. (1534-92).
[Ref: 61335] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

L'Automne.
N. Lancret pinxit. Larmessin Sculpsit.
A Paris chez De Larmessin graveur du Roy, rüe des Noyvers a la 2.e porte cocher agauche entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1745.]
Fine etching, 18th century watermark. 335 x 380mm (13¼ x 15"). Small margins
A scene with women harvesting grapes, with a man grabbing one around the waist. Underneath are four lines of verse by 'M.r Roy Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel'. One of a set of Four Seasons shown at the Salon in 1745.
BM 1889,0318.36.
[Ref: 67948] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Autumn. Hence from the busy joy-resounding Fields, / In cheerful error, let us tread the Maze / Of Autumn, unconfin'd, and taste reviv'd, The breath of Orchard big with bending Fruit. / Vide Thomsons Seasons.
Published July 1.st 1796, by John Fairburn, 146, Minories, London.
Mezzotint. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Small margins.
A man shakes apples from a tree for a boy to catch in his hat, as a woman sits with a basket of fruit. Behind a field of corn is being harvested.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68822] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Autunno. Automne.
Dessiné par Hamilton. Direge par Suntach.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, rare. 270 x 290mm (10½ x 11½") very large margins.
An wine making autumn scene, with classical figures picking grapes to fill a vat, with a verse in Italian and French. From a set of four.
[Ref: 45371] £360.00

[Autumn.] [Delightful is the ripen'd year. [/] Que la maturité est agréable.
[Richard Westall. Francesco Bartolozzi.]
[Thomas Simpson.][1790.]
Stipple. Proof before all letters, Sheet: 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed.
An allegorical portrait of the figure of Autumn shown picking grapes.
De Vesme 719.
[Ref: 47254] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Autumn.
J: Mc.Ardell delin et fecit
London Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Fine mezzotint, 360 x 250mm. 14 x 9½". Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
A young woman holds a basket of apples. In the background several other figures can be seen helping to pick more fruit from the trees. One of the few prints engraved by McArdell from his own designs.
Gordon Goodwin, 'British Mezzotinters: James McArdell' cat. 224, only state. Not in Chaloner Smith.
[Ref: 15184] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Autumn. Now down the zediac sinks sols glowing beam...
[Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after Filippo Lauri?]
London, Publish'd Jan.y 1. 1800 by Anth.y Molteno Printseller to her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, No 29 Pall Mall.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand finished, rare. Sheet 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed to plate, laid on card, some surface wear.
A flying putto squeezes grapes to fill a cup held by a wingless putto below. A third sleeps, holding a thyrsus. A fine colour print.
[Ref: 45217] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Les Trésors de l’Automne.
Hubert de Geneve del. Pomel sculp. Déposé à la Bibliothèque.
à Paris chez Boulard, rue St. Martin, No. 84. [n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple and engraving, rare. 285 x 228mm. 11¼ x 9".
A small cherub in the vineyard, leaning up against a small grape bush and with a basket of fruit to the right; raising a glass of wine in celebration of the fruits of the harvest and Autumn.
[Ref: 19342] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Autumn] L'Automne
[after Charles Eisen, c.1770]
Fine engraving, proof before artists name & publication line; sheet 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A young man drinks wine, surrounded by goats and putti eating grapes. From a set of prints representing the four seasons after designs 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: 45072] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Les Delices de L'Automne. A Madame de Pompadour Dame du Palais de la Reine...par...J...Daulle.
Peint par F. Boucher. Grave par J. Daulle Gr. du Roy et de l'Academie Imperiale d'Auxbourg.
A Paris chés l'Auteur rue du Platre St. Jacques attenant le College de Cornouaille. A.P.D.R.
Copper engraving, sheet 390 x 460mm. 15¼ x 18". Lacking margins; one rust spot to image. Pinholes to extremities; tape over edges.
An allegory on the fruitfulness of autumn: a young man courting a young lady in a wooded landscape by offering her bunches of grapes. After the painting by François Boucher (1703 - 1770) for Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721 – 1764). Madame de Pompadour was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1750; her coat of arms to lower margin.
See BM 1866,0113.13.
[Ref: 26896] £320.00

Autumn [ms]
[after Edward Francis Burney]
[Pub. Jan 1 1812 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts 101 Strand London]
Stipple, sheet 145 x 250mm (5¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing text.
Autumn, represented by a nymph on a carriage, drawn through the clouds by two other nymphs. After Edward Francis Burney, from a series of seasons of the year.
[Ref: 34858] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

L'Automne. C.P.S.C.M.
Christ del.
à Augsbourg chez J.J. Haid et fils. [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. Plate 405 x 275mm. 16 x 10¾". Cut to the platemark along the bottom edge. Some creasing, laid to conservation tissue.
Probably from a set of four representing the Four Seasons as the number '3' lower right susgests. Johann Jakob Haid was a German painter and mezzotint engraver who died in Augsburg in 1767. His son, Johann Elias was also an engraver, and died in 1800.
[Ref: 17114] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

De Herfst voorfien van Druÿf, wordt vande Winter tydt, Die Scharp en Schraal is, om het mêegenot gevrÿdt.
G. Lairesse pinxit. J. Munnichuÿsen Sculp.
ex Formis Nicolai Visscher Cum Privelegio Ordinum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae. [n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving, with large margins. Plate 297 x 241mm. 11¾ x 9½".
Two naked putti, representing Autumn and Winter, one holding grapes, the other holly, beside a fire burning in a brazier
[Ref: 26527] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

July.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Tear just entering image on left, some paper toning.
A three-quarter portrait of a pretty woman picking fruit, holding the legs of a dead bird, seen through a window; behind is a man shooting birds in a field. From a series of 'Months'.
BM: 1868,0822.5024, 'illustration to an unidentified magazine'. See Ref: 41592, 36039, 59614 & 59615
[Ref: 59613] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

October.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Some paper toning.
A three-quarter portrait of a pretty woman in riding habit, stroking a dog's muzzle, seen through a window; behind a groom holds her horse. From a series of 'Months'.
See BM: 1868,0822.5025 for 'August' from the same series, 'illustration to an unidentified magazine'.
[Ref: 59616] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

September.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), large margins. Some paper toning.
A three-quarter portrait of a pretty woman picking grapes, seen through a window. From a series of 'Months'.
See BM: 1868,0822.5025 for 'August' from the same series, 'illustration to an unidentified magazine'. See Ref: 41592, 36039, 36040 & 17323
[Ref: 59615] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Spring?]
[n.d., c.1720.]
Fine and rare mezzotint. 160 x 205mm (6¼ x 8"). Narrow margins.
A naked woman in a chariot, wreathed in a garland of flowers by winged cherubs.
[Ref: 59587] £320.00

Spring. O Come! and what the rosy footed May [/] Steals blushing on, together let us tread [/] The morning dews, and gather in their prime [/] Fresh blooming flowers, to grace thy braided hair, [/] And thy lov'd bosom that improves their sweets. [/] Vide Thompson's Seasons.
Published June 1.st.1796 by John Fairburn, 146, Minories, London.
Hand coloured mezzotint. Plate: 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed. Damage to title area. Tears to margins. Paper tone. Marks to printed area.
Exterior scene in which a family gather flowers and a young boy finds a bird's nest. In the background a man fishes in a river and another pushes a barrow.
Ex: Collection the Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68483] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printems.
N. Lancret pinxit. Larmessin Sculpsit.
AParis chez De Larmessin graveur du Roy, rüe des Noyvers a la 2.e porte cocher agauche entrant par la rüe S.t Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1745.]
Fine etching. 335 x 380mm (13¼ x 15"), 18th century watermark. Narrow margins.
Three gardeners next to an ornamental waterfall. Underneath are four lines of verse by 'M.r Roy Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel'. One of a set of Four Seasons shown at the Salon in 1745.
BM 1889,0318.38.
[Ref: 67949] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Primavera Printemps. All’apparir della stagioni fiorita / Zeffiro torna a vezzeggiar il prato / E rinverde l’erbette inardita; / E s’allegra natura al molle fiato. / Graces à ton retour, tout sort de l’inertie / Tour prend une autre forme une nouvelle vie. / Aspect charmant! Tout rit: et l’homme avec son coeur / Porte au sein de l’Amour son sort et son bonheur.
Dessiné par Hamilton. Dirigé par Sunloch.
[n.d c.1800]
Copper engraving. 267 x 293mm. 10½" x 11½". Some spotting.
[Ref: 8766] £320.00

Les Prémices du Printemps.
Hubert de Geneve del. Pomel sculp. Déposé à la Bibliothèque.
à Paris chez Boulard, rue St. Martin, No. 84. [n.d. c.1840.]
Stipple and engraving, rare. 285 x 228mm. 11¼ x 9".
A small cupid holding an arrow, leaning on a case of more arrows and with a floral display behind him; in the distance a temple on the mountain.
[Ref: 19346] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printemps. [Spring.] La saison des Amours semble estre le printemps...[etc.]
N Arnoult fecit.
[Paris: Nicolas Arnoult, c.1685.]
Etching, sheet 305 x 210mm. 12 x 8¼". Trimmed into plate; two tears lower right.
A lady sits on a bench with her hands around an urn from which a shrub grows; a winged cupid drapes a garland of flowers over her while blowing air from his cheeks. From a series of allegorical representations of the seasons, published by Nicolas Arnoult (1681 - 1689; fl.).
[Ref: 13937] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Spring.]
Cesar Bassanus fecit.
[Published by] Domenico Falcini. [Italian, originally c.1610.]
Engraving on laid paper, with large margins. 380 x 480mm. 15 x 19". Very fine.
A family busily at work on a farm in a landscape; featuring goats, chickens and saluki-type dogs. In the sky above are three medallions containing astrological vignettes and captioned March, April and May. Presumably from a set of four allegorical representations of the seasons, by Cesare Bassano (?1583 - ?1648), engraver from Borgo San Sepolcro, Italy. This appears to be an 18th century impression, with signs of ware to the plate.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 16040] £550.00

Le Printemps. Der Frühling. Un beau bouquet de fleurs me fait un grand plaisir, Et je de tout mon coeur à mon amant le donne. Ah ! quand à mon coté, pour me bien divertir, Il conte ses amours, alors je le couronne. Der Blumen bunter Schmuck macht un=gemein vergnügt, Wenn Sich ein schönes Kind an selbigen ergözet, Und es, wenn Coridon an seiner Seite ligt, Durch einen Liebes-Trieb ihm einen Kranz aufsezet.
Joh. Esaias Nilson inv. et delin. Ioh. Phil. Koch sculps et excud. a.v.
[Augsburg, n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 335 x 425mm (13¼" x 16¾"). Fine impression.
A fine depiction of Spring, with two couples courting in a garden looked upon by putti, within a foliate border. Engraved and published by Johann Philipp Koch (1716-1796).
[Ref: 8495] £420.00

Spring [ms]
[after Edward Francis Burney]
[Pub. Jan 1 1812 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts 101 Strand London]
Stipple, sheet 145 x 250mm (5¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing text.
Spring, represented by a nymph on a carriage, drawn through the clouds by winged cherubs. After Edward Francis Burney, from a series of seasons of the year.
[Ref: 34859] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printemps.
G. Lairesse inv. J. Glauber fe.
Leon: Schenk exc:
Etching, large 17th/18th century watermark; platemark 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Very large margins.
Allegory of Spring: the goddess Flora (Psyche) resting against a tree, with Cupid and two putti on the left and a vase full of flowers on the far left. One of a series of thirty plates depicting mythological and historical subjects after Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711). Lairesse was a Dutch painter and etcher who worked for William and Mary amongst other illustrious patrons. A classicist and theorist (after going blind he wrote a major theoretical treatise, the Groot Schilderboek or 'Great Book of Painting'), he was known as the 'Dutch Poussin'. Most of his own etchings were originally published by Nicolaes Visscher, who published a collected edition under the title 'Opus Elegantissimum' in c.1675.
[Ref: 37350] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Printemps. L'Eclat des fleurs est peu durable, / La Beauté s'altere aisément; / Il n'est qu'un instant favorable / Et cet instant c'est le présent.
Rosa Alba Carriera pinxit. Lepicié Sculp.
a Paris chez l'Auteur rüe St Jacques au dessus des Jacobins APDR [n.d., c.1740.]
Etching. Sheet 195 x 135mm (7¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed within platemark.
Half-length portrait of a young woman, wearing a mantle in which she carries some flowers, which leaves her breasts exposed.
[Ref: 58243] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Spring]
Painted by W. Hamilton R.A. [...] Engrav'd by F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to his Majesty
London, Pub.d as the Act directs May 1 1793 by P.W. Tomkins No.49 New Bond Street.
Stipple, sheet 275 x 340mm (10¾ x 13¼"). Trimmed to platemark;
Allegory of Spring, with winged female flying over fields sowed with seeds for the new agricultural year. A ploughing scene. Engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after William Hamilton, although Calabvi & de Vesme claim that Bartolozzi contributed little to the print and that in the main it was executed by his pupil P.W. Tomkins (also publisher of the print).
Calabi & de Vesme 1795 undescribed state between i and ii
[Ref: 47653] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Spring] Printems
Eisen [in ms below image, c.1760]
Fine engraving, proof before artist name & publication line; sheet 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A young woman sits in the company of putti garlanding flowers. From a set of prints representing the four seasons after designs 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: 45070] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Spring. From the Original Picture of the Same Size painted by Filippo Lauri in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.Vol. II. No. 1.
Fillipo Lauri pinxit. G. Vitalba A. fortis J. Revenet perfectit.
Publish'd May 30.th. 1770 by John Boydell in Cheapside.
Engraving with some etching. Plate: 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12¼"). Very large margins.
An allegorical scene in which figures pick flowers and collect birds eggs. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38282] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Spring, Autumn.
Painted by R. Westall, Engrav'd by J. R. Smith
London Publish'd August 25th 1781 by J. R. Smith N 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street.
Magnificient pair of extremely rare colour printed mezzotints 630 x 465mm 24¾ x 18¼ inches. Printed in colours, trimmed to plate with added false margins of contemporary paper. Abrasions on verso from former mounting.
One of the most popular artists of his time, Richard Westall R.A. (1765 - 1836) is a very young artist at this time. There is a set of 4 listed Spring and Autumn by Westall while Summer and Winter are by Wheatley. These were engraved by Bartolozzi in 1790.
Unrecorded by D'Oench and Frankau:.
[Ref: 15639] £950.00 view all images for this item

Summer. From the Original Picture of the same Size painted by Filippo Lauri in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Vol II N.o. 2.
Filippo Lauri Pinxit. G. Vitalba A.fortis J. Ravenet perfecit.
Publish'd May 30.th 1770 by John Boydell in Cheapside.
Engraving with etching. Plate: 240 x 310mm (9½ x 12¼"). Very large margins.
A rural scene showing men, women and children collecting the harvest. From the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as a pioneering publisher of fine engravings.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38281] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Estate. Sien lodi, Estate a te. Diva pictosa, Adorna il vago crin d'aurate spiche, Che ampia messe donasti preziosa Dell'industre Cultor alle fatiche. Eté. Deja le laboureur de sa faucille avide Tranche l’epi dorè, prix de ses longs travaux. Mais Nasse obtiendra til de sa Lores timide Pour prèmices d’amour un de ces deux faisseaux.
Dessine par Hamilton. Dirige par Suntach,
[n.d. c.1780.]
A very rare engraving. Plate 267 x 291mm. 10½ x 11½". Large margins.
A rural farming scene in Summer.
[Ref: 14294] £320.00

Aestas. Sole niter tellus, formosa messibus aestas ridet, et algentes ore petuntur acquae.
Cum privileg. Bassan pinx. IS scalp.
[n.d. c.1580.]
Engraving, watermark, sheet 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11"). Trimmed to plate. Central tears on top and bottom edge going into image, stains on inscription area.
A summer landscape with a shepherd and a boy shearing lambs and a woman and three children eating in the foreground, harvest scene in the middle ground with farmers cutting wheat on the left, while others load a bull-driven cart with sheaves in the centre, and three farmers threshing the cereals next to a barn at right. A village and hills are visible in the background. This is one of ‘Four Seasons’, a series of four allegorical plates showing the seasons after Bassano, engraved by Jan Sadeler c.1580.
Hollstein: 507.
[Ref: 58985] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Summer. Engrav'd from an Original Painting of Van Goyen in the Possession of Mr Poyner at Islington.
Van Goyen pinx. Elliot sculp.
Publishd according to Act of Parliament & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside London.
Engraving. Plate: 290 x 420mm (11½ x 16½''). Small margins.
A Dutch rural landscape showing figures rowing boats, and looking after nets and baskets.
[Ref: 49904] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Summer. Now swarms the village o'er the jovial mead'...
Drawn by T. Hearne. Engraved by W. Ellis.
London: Published as the Act directs, 12 Aug. 1784, by W.m Ellis, No. 9 Gwynne's Build.gs Islington.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 345 x 375mm (13½ x 14¾"). SIGNED in ink by the engraver on reverse. Trimmed within plate, affecting publication line and signature on reverse, creasing, small tear taped.
An oval harvesting scene, one of a set painted by Thomas Hearne illustrating Thomson's poem 'The Seasons'.
The BM's example (1849,0328.73) is also signed by William Ellis.
[Ref: 68412] £320.00

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