Grosvenor Prints

Plan of Sevastopol.
Engraved at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton under the direction of Capt.n Cameron, R.E. L.t Colonel James R.E., F.R.C., M.R.I.A., &c., Superintendent.
Engraving, UNFINISHED PROOF, signed in pencil by the Superindentent. 680 x 970mm, 26¾ x 38¼".
A plan of the defences of the city, lacking any detail other than the walls. A pencil note by L.t Col. James explains: "The engraving of this plan will be proceeded with as soon as we receive accurate plans of the works, of the attack and of the town. Signed Henry James, R.E. 11 March 1856". James later became director of Topographical Dept. of the War Office. The map was eventually published in the 'Report on the Siege of Sebastapol', 1857.
[Ref: 10813] £230.00

Plan of Sevastopol and of the Attacks and Positions of the Allied Armies in 1854-5.
Surveyed & Drawn by Capt.n Cooke, Lieut.s Brine, Fisher, Elphinstone, Cumberland, Anderson, James, Scratchley, Donnelly & Baynes, of the Royal Engineers...
Lithographed at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton, in 1857, under the direction of Capt.n Cameron, R.E.
7 lithographic maps (of eight) with hand colour. Each map 610 x 920mm, 24 x 36¼". A few small tears, some soiling to edges of two maps.
A monumental plan of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, compiled by the Royal Engineers on a scale of six inches to a miles, published in the official report of the siege. The port itself fits into Sheet 3, with the defences of both sides coloured to demarque each army, green for the Russians, blue for the French and red for the British. The other sheets show the sprawling encampments of the Allies, with the British headquarters at Tractir Farm and the 'English Race Course' nearby, and the defensive arrays protecting the outer perimeters. Sheet six shows the Plain of Balaklava, site of the battle and famous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' on the 25th October 1854. The missing sheet is number eight, bottom right, showing the coast around the port of Balaklava.
[Ref: 10812] £550.00 view all images for this item

[Sketched prospect of Sevastopol.]
Published June 10 1854, by Paul and Dominic Colnagi & Co., 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, Publisher's to her Majesty.
Lithograph. 270 x 560mm, 10½ x 22".
Sketched prospect of Sevastopol during the Allied siege, the Crimean War
[Ref: 22874] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

The Keyplate to the Grand Picture of the Allied Generals and their Staff Officers Before Sebastopol. Painted by T. Barker Esq. K.L.H. from Photographs and Sketches taken in the Crimea expressly for this picture by Roger Fenton Esq. for Mess.rs Tho.s Agnew & Sons, of Manchester, and Mr John Garle Browne of Leicester.
Published May 18th, 1859 by Mess.rs Tho.s Agnew & Sons, Manchester, and Mr John Garle Browne, Leicester, The owners of the Picture.
Etched keyplate, scarce. 470 x 645mm (18½ x 25½"), laid on board for hanging under the original print. A little wear at the top in the title.
The keyplate with an index of 97 people and places on a hillside overlooking Sevastapol. Thomas Jones Barker (1815-82) based his painting on photographs by Roger Fenton (1819-69), whose 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death', showing a road littered with spent cannon balls, is regarded as the first iconic photograph of war. Fenton was commissioned to photograph the Crimean War by the publishers of this print, Thomas Agnew & Sons.
[Ref: 51398] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Seven We Together Make, /~ Count Us and Don't Mistake. / Welcome Brother, view us well, / And which you must resemble tell: / Our looks Relationship betray, / So you may either Grin or Bray.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Coloured woodblock, rare. Sheet 160 x 245mm (6¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Three grinning monkeys, dressed in clothes with feathered hats, each astride a mule. The viewer is the seventh person in the title.
[Ref: 32957] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Seven Bishops.] [Lettered beneath each oval portrait] 'Francis Ld Bpp. of Ely.', 'Will. Ld. Bpp. of St. Asaph.', 'Tho. Ld Bpp. of Bath & Wells.', 'Will.m Ld. Arch Bpp. of Canterbury his Grace.', 'Iohn Ld. Bpp. of Chichester.', 'Ionathan Ld. Bpp. of Bristoll.', 'Thomas Ld. Bpp. of Peterborow.'
[n.d. c.1688.] bit later.
Mezzotint, very large margins. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½").
The Seven Bishops, were imprisoned by James II for seditious libel over their opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence, however they were not found guilty. The bishops were: Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough; Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely; Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop Exeter and Winchester; John Lake, Bishop of Chichester; Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells; William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester; and William Sancroft, Bishop of Canterbury.
CS: 6 (page 1648).
[Ref: 30911] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Seven Bishops. Who for their adherence to the Protestant Religion, and the Laws of their Country exprest in a Petition to James the 2d [...]
M. van der Gucht sculp:
Printed and Sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill [c.1730]
Rare engraving, sheet 530 x 415mm (21 x 16¼"). Crease through centre; trimmed to platemark; glued to backing sheet, tear on right centre.
The Seven Bishops imprisoned by James II for seditious libel over their opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence (they were acquitted): Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough; Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely; Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop Exeter and Winchester; John Lake, Bishop of Chichester; Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells; William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester; and William Sancroft, Bishop of Canterbury. One of several similar versions of the same image, demonstrating its popularity both in Britain and on the continent.
[Ref: 45258] £450.00

The Cruel Death of the seven Brethren. II. Maccabees Chap.7.Ver.3. Then the king being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot.
B. Picart del. R.t Pranker Sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving. Plate 280 x 178mm (11 x 7"). Sheet trimmed.
Seven brethren with their mother were taken and tormented with scourges and whips. Their tongues were cut out and then they were brought alive to the fire where they were fried to death.
[Ref: 34693] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven Deadly Sins.] N 6. L'Orgueil. [&] N 7. L'Avarice. [&] N 8. Luxure. [&] N 9. L'Envie. [&] N 10. Le Gormandise. [&] N 11. L'Ire. [&] N 12 la Paresse.
Huquier ex.
AParis chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of seven rare etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), large margins.
Seven rococo designs, each representing a deadly sin, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58929] £700.00 view all images for this item

[Nuño Salido, tutor of the Seven Infantes of Lara, sees evil omens for them in this war] Resueltos los siete Infantes, caminan a la placa de armas [...] [parallel text in latin]
[Antonio Tempesta after Otto van Veen, 1612]
Etching, sheet 185 x 205mm (7¼ x 8"). Creased; plate number scratched out (in circle lower centre); later impression. Two stains in title.
Nuño Salido (on the right) warns the Seven Infantes against going to war. Athena, Greek goddess of warfare on the right. Plate twenty from a set of forty depicting the legend of the Infantes of Lara, who lived in the tenth century, and which relates how these seven brothers were betrayed by their uncle and slain by the Moors but were afterwards avenged by their half-brother, the Bastard Mudarra, son of the Lord of Lara and a Moorish lady.
[Ref: 32545] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[VII Petitiones Orationis Dominicae Correspondentes Ad VII Sacramenta, plates 1 to 6, of 7.] Prima Petitio. [&] Secunda Petitio. [&] Tertia Petitio. [&] Quarta Petitio. [&] Quinta Petitio. [&] Sexta Petitio.
[after Matthaus Greuter]
[n.d., c.1598.]
Six scarce engravings (of seven). Each 330 x 220mm (13 x 8¾"), some watermarked. taining at top, small margins.
Six of the seven plates of the series 'The Seven Petitions of the The Lord's Prayer and the Seven Sacraments'. Each plate illustrates an angel with scenes representing: (1) Baptism; (2) Confirmation; (3) Holy Orders; (4) Euchrist; (5) Penance; & (6) Marriage. The missing plate is (7) Extreme Unction.
[Ref: 66177] £2,300.00 view all images for this item

Seven Sisters Beachy Head [in pencil to left.]
Frank Harding [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Etching signed in pencil with large margins Plate 115 x 298mm (4½ x 11¾"). Paper tone.
A view of Beachy Head, the chalk headland immediately east of the Seven Sisters in East Sussex.
Ex Collection: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 29642] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Entering the Breach of the Moro Castle by Storm, the 30.th July 1762, between the Hours of 1 and 2 in the Afternoon._ 11.
P. Osbridge del. J. Smith sculp.
London printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Mapseller No. 53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1768].
Hand coloured engraving. Platemark: 172 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"). Fine hand colouring.
A reduced engraving of Plate 11 of 'Scenographia Americana', or, 'A Collection of Views of North America and the West Indies [. . .] From Drawings Taken on the Spot, by Several Officers of the British Army and Navy', a twenty-eight print series of North American landscapes from Quebec to Guadeloupe, first published in London in 1768. This plate depicts a British fleet approaching the fortification of Moro Castle, Cuba.
[Ref: 32505] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Roseau in the Island of Dominique, with the Attack made by Lord Rollo, & Sr. James Douglas in 1760. 10.
Arch. Campbell del. J. Smith sculp.
London printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Mapseller No. 53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1768].
Hand coloured engraving, very small margins. Platemark: 172 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"). Fine hand colouring.
A reduced engraving from plate 10 of 'Scenographia Americana', or, 'A Collection of Views of North America and the West Indies [. . .] From Drawings Taken on the Spot, by Several Officers of the British Army and Navy', a twenty-eight print series of North American landscapes from Quebec to Guadeloupe, first published in London in 1768. The French island of Dominique (Dominica) in the Caribbean was captured by a British amphibious force on 6 June 1761 during the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Lord Andrew Rollo commanded the land forces, which included the 22nd and the 94th Regiments of Foot, and Commodore Sir James Douglas led the Royal Navy squadron. France formally ceded possession of the island as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
[Ref: 32506] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

An exact Representation of the Attack made by the British Fleet, under the Command of Adm.l Keppel the 8th of April, 1761, at Port Andre, on the Island of Belle Isle. 9.
R. Short del. J. Smith sculp.
London printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Mapseller No. 53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1768].
Hand coloured engraving, very small margins. Platemark: 172 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"). Fine hand colouring.
A scene depicting the attack of Belle Isle off the Brittany Coast in 1761, during the Seven Years War. After an initial British attack was repulsed, a second landing was made, and after a six-week siege the island's main citadel at Le Palais was stormed, consolidating British control of the island.
[Ref: 32507] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Engagement between two of his Majesty's Ships Flamborough Cap.t Kennedy, and Boddeford Cap.t Skinner, of 20 Guns & 160 Men each, & two French Frigates La Malicieure of 36 Guns, and L'Omphale of 32 Guns & 300 Men each, on ye 4th, of Apr. 1760 near the Rock of Lisbon.
J. Hood del. J. Smith sculp.
London printed for Rob.t Sayer, Print & Mapseller No. 53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1768].
Hand coloured engraving. Platemark: 172 x 275mm (6¾ x 10¾"). Fine hand colouring.
A scene depicting the action which took place at the Rock of Lisbon during the Seven Years' War, between two Britsh ships, the Flamborough and Biddeford, and two French frigates, La Malicieure and L'Omphale.
[Ref: 32526] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Roseau in the Island of Dominique, with the Attack made by Lord Rollo, & S.r James Douglas in 1760. 10.
Arch. Campbell delin.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1770].
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 165 x 260mm (6½ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, affecting plate number.
A scene of the British amphibious assault on the french colony of Roseau on 6 June 1761 (not 1760 as the title) under Lord Andrew Rollo commander of the land forces, and Commodore Sir James Douglas of the Royal Navy, during the Seven Years War (1756-63). France formally ceded possession of the island as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. An engraving reduced from plate 10 of 'Scenographia Americana', or, 'A Collection of Views of North America and the West Indies [. . .] From Drawings Taken on the Spot, by Several Officers of the British Army and Navy', a twenty-eight print series of North American landscapes from Quebec to Guadeloupe, first published in London in 1768.
[Ref: 62929] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

72. The Egotist. When two silly Dogs Fight, in comes Pug & Steals the Bone.
to be had at the Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand. [London: Edwards & Darley, c.1760.]
Engraving. 80 x 110mm (3 x 4¼") large margins. Worm hole in right margin.
While England and France fence, Holland eats and drinks as much as he likes. A satire on the Seven Years' War. Published in 'A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757', a volume of seventy-five satirical prints with short descriptions.
BM Satires 3464.
[Ref: 53496] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Pleasures of the Turf. Birds of a Feather will flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier.
Publish' d according to Act Oct 27th 1756, by Edwards & Darly facing Hungerford in the Strand.
Etching. 85 x 115mm (3¼ x 4½"), very large margins. Worm hole in right margin.
Two gentlemen, one wearing a fool's cap, drive four turkeys and four geese along the London road. Apparently some noblemen had organised a race to prove whether geese or turkeys could run faster, which upset the general public who were more concerned with the uncertain progress at the start of the Seven Years' War. Plate 24 of ''A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1756 and 1757''.
BM 3407.
[Ref: 56465] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Minden, or Thornhausen, in Westphalia, where the allied Army, commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, obtained a glorious Victory over the French Army, commanded by Marshal de Contades, Aug.t 1759.
Goldar Sculp.t.
London: Engrav'd for Harrison's Edition of Rapin. Published as the Act directs Nov.r 5. 1785.
Engraving. 190 x 280mm (7½ x 11") very large margins. Creasing in margins.
At the Battle of Minden (1st August 1759) an Anglo-German army of six regiments of British and two of Hanoverian infantry, in line formation, unexpectedly withstood repeated French cavalry attacks.
[Ref: 61091] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The Battle of Minden] Plan de la Bataille de Tonhausen.
J. V. Schley, direx.
A la haye, chez Pierre de Hondt. 1759.
Engraving. 465 x 555mm (18¼ x 21¾"), with large margins Vertical fold as usual in centre. Some paper toning to sheet.
A detailed plan of the battle of Minden, fought between the French and Prussian-Hanoverian-British armies in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. An army fielded by the Anglo-German alliance commanded by Field Marshal Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, defeated a French army commanded by Marshal of France Louis, Marquis de Contades. In Britain, the victory was considered one of several fortuitous events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759. Ornamental title cartouche to centre right, with a guide delineating troop formations and details of composition of forces and extensive footnotes below.
[Ref: 32080] £520.00

The Battle of Minden, or Thornhausen, in Westphalia, where the allied Army, commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, obtained a glorious Victory over the French Army, commanded by Marshal de Contades, on the 1st of August 1759.
[Engraved by Peter Paul Benazech.]
Printed for T. Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard, John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, Tho.s Jefferys at Charing Cross, Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, Hen.y Parker & Eliz. Bakewell opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1765.]
Engraving with fine contemporary hand colour. 355 x 480mm (14 x 19"). Paper toned, several repaired tears in margin and title, margin lost lower left cor.ner
At the Battle of Minden (1st August 1759) an Anglo-German army triumphed after six regiments of British and two of Hanoverian infantry, in line formation, unexpectedly withstood repeated French cavalry attacks. One of a series of seven plates showing victories of Britain and her allies during the Seven Years's War (1756-63), engraved by Peter Paul Benazech after unknown artists.
[Ref: 52838] £260.00

The Battle of Rosbach, in Saxony, fought on the 5th November 1757, between the Prussian Army, commanded by the King, and the combined Army of Imperialists and French, commanded by the Prince of Saxe Hilburghausen and the Prince of Soubise.
[Engraved by Peter Paul Benazech.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, Hen.y Parker & Eliz. Bakewell opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill, John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, T. Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard, & Tho.s Jefferys at Charing Cross [n.d., c.1765].
Engraving with fine contemporary hand colour. 355 x 480mm (14 x 19"). Paper toned, tears taped.
Frederick the Great's army of 22,000 comprehensively beat a combined army of 42,000 in ninety minutes. One of a series of seven plates showing victories of Britain and her allies during the Seven Years's War (1756-63), engraved by Peter Paul Benazech after unknown artists.
[Ref: 52850] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Siege of Schweidnitz in Silesia by his Prussian Majesty in 1758.
[Engraved by Peter Paul Benazech.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, T. Bowles in St Paul's Church Yard, Tho.s Jefferys at Charing Cross, John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, Hen.y Parker & Eliz. Bakewell opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill [n.d., c.1765].
Engraving with fine contemporary hand colour. 355 x 480mm (14 x 19"). Paper toned, tears.
The successful Siege of Swidnica, which Frederick took from the Austrians. It was recaptured by the Austrians in 1761 and retaken again by the Prussians in 1762. One of a series of seven plates showing victories of Britain and her allies during the Seven Years's War (1756-63), engraved by Peter Paul Benazech after unknown artists.
[Ref: 52851] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Wood Scene, near Sevenoaks, Kent.
D. Cox Del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
[London, c.1823 by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line.
Two men standing on a country lane by a bridge.
[Ref: 57504] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Fair Lawn in ye County of Kent.
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins. Rare unfolded state. Stained; collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
The Fairlawne estate near Sevenoaks in Kent, purchased by Sir Henry Vane (1589-1655) for £4000. It now traverses Shipbourne and Plaxtol. Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38504] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

An Officer standing at ease. . . . The Seventeenth Regiment of Foot.
[Pub. by J. Carpenter & Co., Old Bond Street, Aug. 1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving, 225 x 165mm. 9 x 6½".
A military costume engraving, from a series published in the British Military Library or Journal.
Ogilby 134.24
[Ref: 11170] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The 7th (or the Queen's own) Regiment of Light Dragoons. The 8th (or the King's Royal Irish) Regiment of Light Dragoons.
[Pub. by J. Carpenter & Co., Old Bond Street, Nov. 1800.]
Hand-coloured, 225 x 165mm. 9 x 6½". Trimmed on right
A military costume engraving, from a series published in the British Military Library or Journal.
Ogilby 134.27
[Ref: 11167] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Higland Infantry. Seventy-sixth Regiment of Foot. Forty second Regiment of Foot.
[Pub. by J. Carpenter & Co., Old Bond Street, 1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving, 225 x 165mm. 9 x 6½". Creased.
A military costume engraving, from a series published in the British Military Library or Journal.
Ogilby 134.28
[Ref: 11166] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Seventy-Four Gun Ship Close-Haul'd with a Stiff Breeze.
Designed & Engraved by W. Elmes.
Published Septr. 14th. 1795, by John Fairburn, No.146, Minories, London.
Etching and aquatint, rare, image 145 x 215mm. 5¾ x 8½". Trimmed to plate.
Fine depiction of a three-masted British warship under sail.
NMM PAD6041.
[Ref: 23467] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bull Fight, Seville.
[Lithographed by Thomas Shotter Boys after David Roberts.]
[London Published Nov.r 1st 1836 by Hodgson & Graves, 6, Pall Mall.]
Coloured tinted lithograph. Image 360 x 475mm (14¼ x 18¾"), with large margins.
A view of Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla, with a bullfight in progress, with a picador in action. It was published in David Roberts's 'Picturesque Sketches in Spain', his first publication. Although the image is credited to Boys, it is known that Roberts worked on every stone. The success of this work enabled Roberts to finance his important excursion to Egypt and the Holy Land.
Abbey Travel 152.
[Ref: 55292] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Seville.
H. Swinburne del. Ellis sculp.t.
[London: Printed for P. Elmsly, 1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper, text sheet (in English & French) pasted as overlay.
A view of Seville, published in 'Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776 in which several monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot' by Henry Swinburne (1743-1803), an account of his travels with Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Spain was relatively unknown land. It was the first antiquarian book on Spain to be published in England, describing early Roman and Moorish architecture with historical background.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33308] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Seville.
J.J.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pencil, ink and watercolour. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Laid on album paper.
A flamenco dancer, with castanets.
[Ref: 39089] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mr John Sewell. late Bookseller of Cornhill.
Painted by Drummond. Engraved by Ridley & Holl.
Published by Ja.s Asperne at the Bible, Crown & Constitution, 32, Cornhill, 31 July 1806.
Stipple. 165 x 110mm, 6½ x 4½".
Portrait of John Sewell (active 1774-1802).
Not in the NPG.
[Ref: 19020] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de Sewen et du Lac de Lowerz vers le Rigi.
Winterlin del. Himely sc.
à Basle chez Birmann & Fils [n.d. c.1830].
Aquatint with etching on india paper 270 x 360mm (10¾ x 14¼").
Fine view beside a lake in Switzerland.
[Ref: 25951] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sewerby House, From the South West. The Seat of Yarburgh Greame Esq.r.
C. J. Greenwood Del.t. R. Groom litho.
Published by John Furby, Bookseller & c. High Street Bridlington. Printed by C. Moody, High Holborn. [n.d., c.1840].
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"). Slightly grubby in title.
An attractive view of Sewerby House, also known as Sewerby Hall, and grounds in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. John Greame was the first of the Greame family to live at the old manor house at Sewerby, purchasing it from Elizabeth Carleill on the death of his father in 1708. He built the present Sewerby Hall between 1714 - 1720, replacing the manor house which had existed on the site for many years.
[Ref: 33505] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Les Couseuses.]
[After Guido Reni. Engraved by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet.]
[n.d., c.1774.]
Engraving. Proof before letters impresson. Platemark: 445 x 560mm (17½ x 22").
Seven women sitting in an interior, sewing, two other women standing on each side of the room. After Guido Reni (1575 - 1642).
Provenance: Hooton Pagnell Hall, Yorkshire.
[Ref: 40343] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

"You aut-dacious feller if you don't mind what I say, -strue as goodness - If I don't send you for a Soldier!" "Ah! but Mother Screw, von't let me have it - cos you never paid for the last soft roe'd un-as she trusted yet, my old Gander!!!"
London. Pud by A. Park, 47, Leonard St. Finsbury. [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 292 x 228mm. 11½ x 9". Laid on album sheet.
Sewing woman telling a young boy off; social satire.
[Ref: 21405] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A satire on the different sexes.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"). Trimmed to printed border, foxing.
Possibly Americana. A scene in a drawing room: on one side are the young women in their party dresses, with a flock of cherubs with bows above their heads, representing romantic thoughts; on the right the batchelors are fixated on a game of cards, with a demon with a bat's head and wings and coiled serpent's tail, skin marked with the suit symbols, breathing down on them.
[Ref: 57386] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Der Todfengraber.
[Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm (3¼ x 5¼"). Large margins.
A scene in which a sexton removes the bones from a large comunal grave to make way for new bodies, a barrow of bones rests beside him. An illustration from 'Etwas für Alle...' by Abraham à Santa Clara (1644-1709).
[Ref: 38911] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Habitation A Mahé, (Seychelles)
Paris del. Himely sc. de Sainson Edit. Finot imp.
Aquatint on india, plate 295 x 380mm (11½ x 15") with very large margins. Blind stamp with 'La Favorite' in the bottom margin. Some spotting in margins.
Part of a series "Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de l’Inde et de la Chine de la corvette de sa Majeste La Favorite execute pendant les annees 1830,1831,1832 sous le commandement de M. Laplace". Published in Paris in 1835 under the direction of Louise Auguste de Sainson. Under the command of Laplace, La Favorite explored Indian Ocean and the route to the Indies via the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and Malaysia, into the China Sea (1830-1832). A view of a house in Mahé; the largest island in the Seychelles archipelago, in the Indian Ocean off East Africa. The uniformed crew of the Favorite interact with the locals in an open space surrounded by a cluster of buildings. Trees and mountains can be seen in the distance.
[Ref: 54884] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Revd. Seyer, Bristol]
W.Pether delt. et sculpt.1816.
[n.d. c.1816]
Mezzotint. Plate 318 x 254mm.
Samuel Seyer (1757-1831), historian of Bristol, known for his 'Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and its Neighbourhood, from the Earliest Period Down to the Present Time' (Bristol, 1821-23).
CS: 31 before II.
[Ref: 4618] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Noon. R. Seymour's Fishing Subjects. No. 2
The last design & drawing on Stone by R. Seymour. J. Graf Printer to Her Majesty.
London. Published June 10th 1839 for the Proprietor by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand.
Lithograph, printed area 215 x 230mm. 8½ x 9".
Humorous fishing scene by Robert Seymour (1798-1836) and published posthumously by Ackermann.
DNB
[Ref: 16273] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Seymour] Illustrissimus Nobilissimus Potentissimus Princeps Carolus Dux Somersetensis...
J. Riley pinx: J. Smith fec:
[Cambridge University Press, 1688.]
Mezzotint. 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"), very large margins.
Portrait of Charles Seymouth (1662-1748), 6th Duke of Somerset, best known for rebuilding Petworth House. Macaulay described him as ''a man in whom the pride of birth and rank amounted almost to a disease''. From David Loggan's 'Cantabrigia Illustrata'.
CS 235, ii of ii.
[Ref: 52628] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Her Grace The Dutchess of Somerset.
P Lelij Eques pinxit.
Sold by Alex Browne at ye blew ballcony in little Queen Street. [nd. c.1680] But later.
Mezzotint, 340 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"), with large margins. Taped into mount at top. Uncut.
Elizabeth Seymour, duchess of Somerset (1667-1722), courtier and politician, as a child. Lely's painting is at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, with other versions at Castle Howard and Syon House. Elizabeth became duchess when she married for the second time, to Charles Seymour, after her first husband Thomas Thynne was murdered at the behest of Charles, Count Königsmark (she denied any knowledge of the plot but the scandal remained associated with her). She became a close associate of Queen Anne.
CS37. Turner B46 II of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64984] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Her Grace The Dutchess of Somerset.
P Lely Eques pinxit
Sold by Alex Browne at ye blew ballcony in little Queen Street.
Mezzotint, sheet 340 x 255mm (13¼ x 10"). Trimmed to plate; lower right corner missing and repaired, losing some text; other repairs to edges.
Elizabeth Seymour, duchess of Somerset (1667-1722), courtier and politician, as a child. Lely's painting is at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, with other versions at Castle Howard and Syon House. Elizabeth became duchess when she married for the second time, to Charles Seymour, after her first husband Thomas Thynne was murdered at the behest of Charles, Count Königsmark (she denied any knowledge of the plot but the scandal remained associated with her). She became a close associate of Queen Anne.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS: 37.
[Ref: 34126] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset] The Queen of the Tournament.
Edw.d Corbould. T.W. Huffam.
London, S. Hollyer 34, Penton Place, Pentonville [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint. Sheet 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Trimmed within plate, surface wear at edges, publication line indistinct.
A portrait of Georgiana Seymour (1809-1884), grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and wife of the Duke of Somerset, in medieval dress, leaning from a box with a winner's wreath in her hand. She was crowned 'Queen of Beauty' at the Eglinton Tournament, a re-enactment of a medieval tournament staged by Archibald William Montgomerie, the 13th Earl of Eglinton.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66953] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Jeanne Seymour Reine d'Angleterre femme de Henry VIII.
d'apres Holbein.
A Paris rue St. Victor chez Duflos. [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with hand colour. 277 x 167mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 2132] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Jane Seymour Queen of Henry VIII.
P. Lely pinxit. J. Houbraken sculps. Amst 1746.
Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini 1747.
Engraving. Sheet 360 x 225mm (14 x 9"). Trimmed to platemark, mounted on album paper.
Jane Seymour (c. 1508-1537), third of King Henry VIII's wives. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child (later Edward VI), depicted on the plinth under this portrait. From Thomas Birch's 'Heads of the Illustrious Persons of Great Britain'
[Ref: 41974] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Ieanne Seymour. Ie montai fur le trone...
Adr.n vander Werff pinx. Vermeulen sculps.
[Rotterdam, c.1710]
Engraving. 315 x 180mm (12½ x 7¼"), paper with large margins and 18th century watermark.
Bust length oval portrait of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour (c.1508-37). She wears a gable headdress, pearls and gown with square neckline. In a medallion suspended under arch with ballustrade and part of a carpet below. Plate from Isaac de Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre' (1697-1713) from design with allegorical elements and verses in French, by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722), acclaimed as the most important Dutch Master during his lifetime, although his reputation declined from the late 18th century onwards.
[Ref: 64025] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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