Grosvenor Prints

Saint Louis côté du couchant. France Pittoresque.
[E.F. Buttura.]
[n.d. c.1835.]
Engraving. 164 x 222mm. 6½ x 8¾".
Saint Louis was established in 1659 by French traders and it was dedicated to King Louis XIV. This view of the French fort at the mouth of the Senegal River.
[Ref: 20329] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[The Death of Sennacherib.] Impia qui dudum convicia iecerat Assur Samherib a natis ceditur ecce suis. 4. Reg. 19.
[After Maarten de Vos.]
[Gerard de Jode.][1585.]
Engraving. Sheet: 195 x 290mm (7¾ x 11½''). Trimmed. Laid on album sheet on left.
A biblical scene showing the death of Sennacherib at the hands of his two sons. From Gerard de Jode's 'Thesaurus Sacrarum Historiarum veteris testamenti...' 1585.
[Ref: 49737] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Destruction of Sennacherib. Byron.
Painted and engraved by Welby Sherman.
Published by T.Larkin 27 Chapel St Pentonville.
A very rare mezzotint, with hand colour. Sheet 145 x 225mm (5¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, slight surface soiling.
A scene from Lord Byron's 'The Destruction of Sennacherib', showing the Assyrian besiegers struck down under the walls of Jerusalem.
BM 1982,0619.3, ''the only known impression''.
[Ref: 67060] £390.00

The Five Sisters.
B.C.B.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Pencil sketch on card with blind stamp 'Turnbull's Superfine London Board', sheet 195 x 220mm (7¾ x 8¾").
Portraits of five young women, named underneath as the five senses.
[Ref: 45766] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Five Senses.] N 1. Le Toucher. [&] N 2. L'Ouie. [&] N 3. L'Odorat. [&] N 4. Le Gout. [&] N 5. La Vüe.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of five rare etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Mint.
Five rococo designs, each representing a sense, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58928] £750.00 view all images for this item

Seeing. La Vue.
Drawn by L. Schiavonetti. Engraved by I. Geremia.
London, Published March 1 1801, by Mess.rs Schiavonetti N.º 12 Michels Place Brompton.
Stipple, partially printed in colour. Sheet 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Trimmed top and bottom, bit messy.
A woman in white classical dress lifts a veil to look at herself in a mirror. From a set of the Five Senses.
[Ref: 67873] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Seeing. La Vüe.
[n.d., c.1780]
Mezzotint. 110 x 145mm (4½ x 5¾"). Trimmed within the platemark.
A half length image of a woman looking at her reflection in the mirror.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32412] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Smell] L'Odorat.
C.D. In.
J. Gole fec. et Exc. cum Privil. Amstelodami. [n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint with large margins, very scarce. 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7¼").
An interior scene satirising allergories of the Five Senses: here a man vomits on the floor as a boy holds up his shirt to expose his bare bottom. Two of the three onlookers are holding their noses.
Holl 263. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Goust. Mon goust n'est pour la confiture Je fuis l'art, Je suis la nature & Sy Je ne Seaurois changer Le bon fruit m'est tant agreable Que je me tiendrois miserable Sy lon me Privoit d'en manger. [&] Lovie. Parmy tant & tant de merueilles Qui Rauissent Par les oreilles j'estimois la voix seullement Mais ce Lut a tant d'armonie Quand je le touche & le manie Que Je le trouue aussy charmant. [&] La Veve Pour se mirer dans la fontaine Narcisse en receut pour la peine un mal dont il n'a peu guerir & celle cy qui n'est moins belle Dedans ce miroir Infidelle Trouue un mal qui la fait mourir. [&] L'Atovchement Beaute de tant d'atrais Pourueue Qui nous Peux blesser par la veue & guerir par l'atouchement. C'est animal jraisonnable Plus que toy Paroist secourable Te donnant du Soulagement. [&] L'Odorat Jayme l'oillet sur toute chose Pour luy Je quitte & Lis & Rose Leur odeur ne me peut toucher Auant que d'estre separee De ceste fleur tant desireè Je me veux laisser deschirer.
designe par Huret. grave par Ragot.
de l'impression de Mariette Avec privilege. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 299 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼". Trimmed close to platemark. Two small stains in bottom left of 'Le Goust'.
A set of the Five Senses. Taste: a maiden inside a room with plates around her, and in her left-hand she holds a small section of pear. [&] Hearing: a maiden strums a lute; an open books sits on the table next to her in front of a mirror. [&] Sight: a woman stands in front of a mirror with a small box of rings behind on the dresser and hair pins and a clip on the table below the mirror. [&] Touch: a woman pets a small dog sat on a cushion on top of a dresser, whilst in her right-hand she delicately holds a handkerchief. [&] Smell: a woman staning next to an ornate vase with lillies and roses, pulls one towards her nose to smell; in her left-hand she holds a glove.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: P.14,396; 14,395; P.14,399; 14,397; & P.14,398.
[Ref: 21722] £950.00 view all images for this item

Sensual love,- or A Sop in the Pan.
[Engraved by Charles Williams after Thomas Rowlandson.]
[London Published May. 31. 1807 by T Tegg Apollo Library in Cheapside.]
Songsheet, coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 215mm (9 x 8½"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, losing verse and publisher's inscription. Bit time stained.
An enormously fat cook sits by a kitchen fire, caressing a young man, to whom she has given 'a sop in the pan', a slice of bread placed under roasting meat to catch the juices. He eats the delicacy, but looks warily at the cook.
BM Satires 10928, 'One of several prints by Rowlandson published by Thomas Tegg in 1807'.
[Ref: 51904] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sword, Rennes.]
W. Harding. Invt. F. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
Publish'd 13 April 1787, by W. Palmer No.163 Strand.
Stipple and etching printed in brown ink, sheet 360 x 325mm. 14¼ x 12¾". Trimmed, cut inside platemark, some foxing.
Illustration in a roundel of 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' (1768) by Lawrence Sterne - the Marquis reclaiming his sword. Scene inside the court room at Rennes, Brittany, France, with two judges and a clerk seated to left, the Marquis unsheathing his sword; to right stand his family.
De Vesme 1422, III of IV.
[Ref: 21147] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Nampont & Maria. Vide Yorick's Sentimental Journey Vol. 1. Page 124. From the Original Picture, in the Possesion of Commodore James. To whom this Print is inscribed by his very humble and Obedient servant. George Carter. [&] Maria. Vide Yorick's Sentimental Journey Vol. 2.d. Page 170 [...]
George Carter pinxit. V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty fecit. [&] George Carter pinxit./ J. R. Smith fecit.
Published May 9th, 1774 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London. [&] Published April 25th 1774 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside, London.
Scarce pair of mezzotints with large margins. Each 440 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"). Unexamined out of frames. Slight toning.
Two scenes from Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy' written and first published in 1768: the character of Nampont, whole-length, sitting on ledge of dilapidated building, looking down at his open satchel and hat at right; a donkey can be seen lying dead beneath row of trees to the left; a wicker basket is in the foreground, lower left; and Maria, as played by Miss Carter (Smith), with a poodle.
Whitman 179; Chaloner Smith: 151 & CS: 35; Frankau 65 II of II; O'Dench 37 II of II. Ex Collection: The Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 29169] £690.00 view all images for this item

[The Sword, Rennes.]
W. Harding. Invt. F. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
Publish'd 13 April 1787, by W. Palmer No.163 Strand.
Stipple and etching printed in brown ink, 375 x 350mm. 14¾ x 13¾". Trimmed close to plate, some surface dirt.
Illustration in a roundel of 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' (1768) by Lawrence Sterne - the Marquis reclaiming his sword. Inside the court room at Rennes, Brittany, France, with two judges and a clerk seated to left, the Marquis unsheathes his sword; to right stand his family.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection. De Calab 1422 II of IV.
[Ref: 18274] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Seapoys. of the 3d. Battalion at Bombay.
Pub.d Accor.g to Act Octr. 22. 1773 by MDarly Strand.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7".
Indian infantrymen (sepoys), front and rear view, in the service of the army of the British East India Company; in uniform, holding muskets with bayonets. Numbered '16' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14097] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ludovicus Septallius. Louys Septal.
NDL [overlapping in image area.]
[n.d. c.1695.]
Engraving. 203 x 152mm. 8 x 6". Trimmed.
Ludovicus Septallius (1553-1633), a philosopher, physician, pharmacologist and professor at the University of Pavia.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 21484] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[September.]
Paul Drury, fecit [pencil signature].
[London: Garton & Cooke, 1987.]
Etching, signed by the etcher, second edition, limited, 25/100 (only 80 for sale). 100 x 130mm (4 x 5"). With order form, prospectus and original invoice.
A woman and child collecting apples, oast houses behind. An authorised 2nd edition of an etching first published as a limited edition of 75 in 1928. Paul Drury (1903-1987), President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He made some 92 prints of which about a half were portraits. According to the prospectus, 'This was the only plate, among his few pastoral Etchings, Drury felt unable to cancel'.
[Ref: 64297] £380.00

September. Libra dies noctesq, pares suspendit in astris, / Et medio Phoebus cernitur ire gradu [...]
Joachimius Sandrart Pinxit, C.V. Dalen Sculpsit [c.1645]
Engraving, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Very rare.
Plate from a set of the Twelve Months after paintings made by Joachim von Sandrart for the Old Palace Schleissheim, Munich, 1642-3). Each plate has a person engaged in a seasonal activity and a zodiac sign somewhere in the composition (Libra scales in the upper centre here), with Latin verses by C. Barlaeus.
For a set of all twelve months see ref.42822
[Ref: 47309] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Sequel to the Knights of Baythe, or the One Headed Corporation. See Liberty's Champions still Loyal and true ...
[Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale?]
[n.d., c.1763 bit later.]
Coloured etching, J. Whatman watermark. 230 x 400mm (9 x 15¾") large margins. Tear entering plate on right, staining on right edge.
Satire on the loyal address of the Corporation of the City of Bath in response to the Peace of Paris. Figures include Temple, Pitt, Newcastle, Sir John Sebright in the costume of Falstaff, Charles Churchill, John Wilkes, Ralph Allen (identified by a raven and postboy on his head) and a devilish Lord Bute.
BM Satire 4007: ''The devil and facial types, particularly that of Bute, are reminiscent of those in satires by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale''.
[Ref: 54417] £360.00

Belgrade.
G.Hering del_ J.B.Pyne Lith.
[Published by Thomas McLean, c.1838.]
Lithograph. 405 x 230mm (16 x 9"), with large margins. Edges chipped.
View of the Dunabe River in Belgrade, the capital and largest city of Serbia. Plate 20 from a series of 26 lithographs, titled 'Sketches on the Danube, Hungary and Transylvania' by George Hering. The views illustrate Hering's tour to Hungary and Transylvania in 1835, countries then little known to the English. It is dedicated to Count Szenchenyi, the leading Hungarian light of his day.
Abbey 79.
[Ref: 65296] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Srednik przy ujsciu Dubissy do Niemma. (G. Kowienska).
Rys. z natury Napoleon Orda.
Lit. w Lit. M. Fajansa w Warszawie. [n.d. c.1875.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 255 x 300mm (10 x 11¾"). Repaired tear on left.
Seredžius in Lithuania, one of about 260 sketches by Napoleon Orda lithographed by Alojzy Misierowicz and published in Warsaw by Maksymilian Fajans in the 'Album widoków historycznych Polski' ('Album of Polish Historical Landscapes'), 1873-1883. Orda (1807-83), a Polish-Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer and artist, went into exile after the failed November Uprising of 1830 against Russia, only returning in 1856 after a pardon from tsar Alexander II.
[Ref: 38976] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Serena. Sweet Evalina's fascinating power...
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J. Jones.
Pub.d as the Act directs, March 1. 1790, by J. Jones, No.75, Great Potland Street.
Stipple. Plate: 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), very large margins
A young woman, sitting whole-length to front reading, candle on table at left, wearing plain white dress and cap with large blue ribbon. Illustration for Hayley's 'Triumphs of Temper'. After Romney's painting illustrating Hayley's 'Triumphs of Temper'. It has sometimes mistakenly been called a portrait of Honora Sneyd (later Mrs Edgeworth), because of a striking but accidental similarity which is mentioned several times by Anna Seward, a friend both of Mrs Edgeworth and Romney (see Arthur Chamberlain, 'George Romney', 1910, Appendix II).
Horne: 111
[Ref: 48690] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Serena.]
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J. Jones.
Pub.d as the Act directs March 1. 1790, by J. Jones, No.75, Great Portland Street.
Stipple, proof before title with large margins and collector's mark. Plate 381 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Foxing.
A young woman, sitting whole-length to front reading, candle on table at left, wearing plain white dress and cap with large blue ribbon. Illustration for Hayley's 'Triumphs of Temper'. After Romney's painting illustrating Hayley's 'Triumphs of Temper'. It has sometimes mistakenly been called a portrait of Honora Sneyd (later Mrs Edgeworth), because of a striking but accidental similarity which is mentioned several times by Anna Seward, a friend both of Mrs Edgeworth and Romney (see Arthur Chamberlain, 'George Romney', 1910, Appendix II).
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute. Horne: 111, i/ii.
[Ref: 29135] £320.00

[Sergius, Prince and Princess Gagarin, with their child.]
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxt. Caroline Watson sculpsit, Engraver to her Majesty.
Published according to the Act of Parliament, Aug.t 2, 1785; by Caroline Watson, Fitzroy Street.
Stipple. Plate 240 x 175mm (13½ x 7"). Crease running horizontally through the centre of the plate.
Prince and Princess Gagarin or the Rurik Dynasty in Russia.
Hamilton: p.63. i of ii.
[Ref: 53567] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

La Serinette.
Boily pinx. Honoré Sculp.
AParis chez Roger M.d d'Estampes, Rue des bons enfants a l'entrée du cloitre Honoré. [n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. 510 x 370mm (20 x 14½"), with large margins.
A half-dressed woman and her maid listen to a music box on her dressing table.
[Ref: 45015] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Last Effort of Tipoo Sultan at Seringapatam.
Drawn by B. Clayton. On Stone by Dean & Co.
London, Dean & Co. Threadneedle Street. [n.d., 1847.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 160 x 235mm (6¼ x 9¼''), large margins.
A scene depicting the Siege of Seringapatam 1799, with the final counterattack by the troops of Tipu Sultan. From Julia Corner's 'The History of India & China'.
[Ref: 59520] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

East View of Seringapatam.
Home del. Fittler direx.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
East view of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganthaswamy temple consecrated around 984 CE. Later, under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66327] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

N.N.E. View of Seringapatam from Capt.Sibbald's Redoubt.
Home del. Fittler sculp.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. Under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66328] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

West View of Seringapatam from the middle of the River.
Home del. Fittler direx.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganthaswamy temple consecrated around 984 CE. Later, under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66329] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Distant View of Seringapatam from Meadows Redoubt.
Home del. Fittler direx.t.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. Under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66330] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

North View of Seringapatam.
Home del. Fittler sculp.t.
[Published as the Act directs by R.Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, London, S.W.Sharp, Madrass, Feb.y. 1794.]
Etching. Sheet 225 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"). Trimmed into plate losing publication line.
View of Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana, a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. Under the British rule, the city was renamed to Seringapatam.
[Ref: 66336] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Seventy Third Regiment. Storming of Seringapatam 4th May 1799. For Cannon's Military Records.
[after Captain Alexander Allan.]
[London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1851.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Framed. Sight size 120 x 185mm (4¾ x 7¼"). Mounted over left edge, unexamined out of frame.
The 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot shown as part of the storming party at the siege of Seringapatam, during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. A copy of the aquatint by Cardon and Schiavonetti (1802), published in the ''Historical Record of the Seventy-Third Regiment: containing an account of the formation of the Regiment from the period of its being raised as the Second Battalion of the Forty-Second Highlanders in 1780 and of its subsequent services to 1851'.'
[Ref: 66852] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[India] The Death of Tippoo Saib at the taking of Seringapatam.
H.Richter delin. Amb:se W.Warren Sculp.
Published as the Act directs March 20, 1802 by J.Stratford No.112, Holborn Hill.
Engraving. 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"). Some time-staining.
A scene depicting a soldier grabbing the fallen Tippoo Saib (1751-99) by the strap around his chest with rifle in hand, as he attempts to raise his sword in defense, soldiers storming through arch behind.
[Ref: 66921] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Britain's Triumph._ The two Sons of Tipoo Sultan delivered as Hostages to Earl Cornwallis.
Publish'd Oct.r. 18 1792 by J.Johnson St Pauls Church Yard.
Rare engraving. Sheet 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"). Trimmed. Some damage to lower right corner.
A scene depicting the two sons of Tipu Sultan being handed over to Lord Cornwallis as hostages at the termination of the war in the East Indies in 1792.
[Ref: 66922] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Storming of Seringapatam _ May 4.th 1799.
W. Heath del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Pub. Nov.r 1815 by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.
Fine hand coloured aquatint with accompanying letterpress, 210 x 295mm (8¼ x 11¾"), with large margins. Mint.
From, 'The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815.' The siege of Seringapatam (5 April -4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore, led by Tipu Sultan.
[Ref: 67653] £490.00

Peace in India or the Conquest of Seringapatnam.
Published 18th Nov.r 1799 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Engraving writing sheet, very scarce item with large margins. 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½") Very tatty extremities; edges browned.
A writing sheet surrounded by vignettes of the Battle of Seringapatnam (Srirangapatna), 1799.
[Ref: 31788] £650.00

Guil: Sermon Medicinae Doctoris Et Regis...Aetatis Suae 42. Let Loilists Carpe at what is past and don, Brave Sermons Acts shall live in face of th'Sun: Great Monk Restorer of his Country's Peace, Declares from his his Dropsie Soon did Cease. I.A. M.D.
W. Sherwin ad vivum deli. et sculpeabat.
1671.
Engraving. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper at edges.
William Sermon (1629 - 1679), physician and inventor of medicines. In 1669 he was summoned to Newhall in Essex to attend George Monck, Duke of Albermarle, for dropsy. On 12 July Monck gave him a certificate of his cure, and Charles II then sent letter to the University of Cambridge requesting them to grant Sermon a medical degree; he graduated M.D. a year later. Plate to his 'The Ladies Companion, or, the English Midwife'. 1671.
W:2703-2.
[Ref: 67717] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Guil: Sermon Medicinae Doctoris Et Regis...Aetatis Suae 42. Let Loilists Carpe at what is past and don, Brave Sermons Acts shall live in face of th'Sun: Great Monk Restorer of his Country's Peace, Declares from his his Dropsie Soon did Cease. I.A. M.D.
W. Sherwin ad vivum deli. et sculpeabat. 1671.
Engraving, scarce. 140 x 82mm (5½ x 3¼"). Cut; creases and stains. Damaged.
William Sermon (1629?-1679), physician and inventor of medicines. In 1669 he was summoned to Newhall in Essex to attend George Monck, Duke of Albermarle, for dropsy. On 12 July Monck gave him a certificate of his cure, and Charles II then sent letter to the University of Cambridge requesting them to grant Sermon a medical degree; he graduated M.D. a year later. Frontispiece to his 'The Ladies Companion, or, the English Midwife', which 'portrays the author at the age of forty-two as dark-eyed, bewigged, and in a doctor's gown, with a round face, and a slighly disdainful smile; the antiquary Anthony Wood called Sermon 'vain and conceited'' (DNB).
W:2703-2.
[Ref: 28868] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Magic No. 2. The Serpent Charmer. Hold the picture to the fire & the Serpent will be charmed a beautiful Green colour.
London, published by Orlando Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street. Of whom may be had Winter & Domestic Amusements, containing the above & several hundred other curious & entertaining experiments. [n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 220 x 170mm (8½ x 6½").
An untreated optical print, showing a figure charming snakes, with a cityscape behind. The colour of the print should transform when held in front of light.
[Ref: 37347] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A substitute for the Sea Side, or the Serpentine as it might be. Punch's Pocket book for 1858.
John Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1858.]
Coloured etching, 120 x 305mm (4¾ x 12"). Folded as issued. Some time stains.
An illustration depicting a nineteenth century whimsical scene as a crowd of people are depicted enjoying seaside leisure activities; swimming, bathing and even building sand castles, though not at the seaside but instead at the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London. By John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63840] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Extraordinary Exploit On Tuesday the 17th of January 1826, Mr. Henry Hunt Jun.r for a bet of 100 Guineas made with a Noble Lord of sporting celebrity drove his Father's Matchless Blacking Van with four blood horses upon the Ice over the Serpentine at the broadest part[...]
Ingrey & Madeley Lithog. 310 Strand
J. Limbird 143 Strand [1826]
Scarce lithograph, sheet 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners. Bottom left corner made up.
Illustration of a man driving a van across the Serpentine river in London's Hyde Park for a bet. The text assures us that 'he accomplished the hazardous task in the grandest style without the smallest accident'.
[Ref: 39595] £480.00

A Chasse-Maree, with a View of the Citadel of Palais at Belleisle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1807 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, large margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Extensive tear repaired.
A fast lugger, designed to get fish ashore as fast as possible, off Le Palais, a fortified port on the island of Belle Île, Britanny. Plate 32 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31904] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A Collier, with a View of the South Foreland.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, small margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼").
A collier, a coal-carrier, at anchor of South Foreland, the closest part of the British mainland to Europe, just north of Dover. Plate 20 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31895] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Cutter, with a View of South Sea Castle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom right. Some creasing. Holes near bottom edge where previously bound.
Small boats off Southsea Castle, the fort built by Henry VIII to protect Portsmouth. Plate 19 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (and so perhaps explaining the coastal defences shown here). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 53540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Dutch Fishing Boat with a View of Helvoit Sluys.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint, small margins. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tears.
Fishermen of Hellevoetsluis in South Holland. Plate 34 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres. Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31901] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Sloop, with a View of Calshot Castle.
Dom.k Serres R.A. del. J. Clarke & J. Hamble sculp. Edw.d Orme Excudit.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1, 1806 by Edw.d Orme, Printseller to the King, 59, Bond Street London.
Aquatint. 285 x 440mm (11¼ x 17¼"). Repaired tear bottom on right.
A sloop passing Calshot Castle, near Fawley, Hampshire. A device fort, Calshot was built by Henry VIII to help defend Southampton, using stone from Beaulieu Abbey. Plate 18 of the 'Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing' by Dominic Serres and his son John Thomas Serres, published during the Napoleonic Wars (perhaps explaining the presence of Calshot Castle in this scene). Both were marine painters to the king, and John was the Master of Drawing at the Chelsea Naval School and, according to the title page of the 'Liber', 'Marine Draught-man to the Honourable the Board of Admiralty'.
Abbey Life 345.
[Ref: 31900] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Serval. Felis Serval.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13¾"). Backing card spotted.
An illustration of a pair of servals, an African wild cat golden fur spotted in black. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 45770] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Stubenmadgen. Servante. [Maid servant.]
Gezeichnet v. C. Brand Prof. Gestochen v. [?] Mark?
[n.d., 1810.]
Etching, sheet 335 x 250mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed within plate. Foxing. Tear in title area.
Plate to a set of 'Cries of Vienna', after Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694 - 1756), who seems to have been a drawing master at the Vienna Academy.
[Ref: 11581] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Servant Maid in China. Servant de la Chine. 30.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark. Sheet 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9½"). Large margins. Printer's crease top right.
A full-length portrait of a woman, whole-length standing, she holds in her right hand a basket of fish. Plate 30 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62835] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Bijwijven van den [Mikado] - Nebenweiber des [Mikado].
T. Ernleben
[P. Fr. B. Von Siebold. Leiden 1832-52.]
Lithograph. 235 x 324mm. 9¼ x 12¾". Cut.
Servants of a Mikado, a Japanese Imperial head of state. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at the age of 27, he demonstrated his skills in medicine. His reputation allowed him to go beyond Deshima and to buy a house outside Nagasaki. Published in "Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern: jezo mit den südlichen Kurilen, Krafto, Koorai und den Liukiu-Inseln, nach japanischen und europäischen Schriften und eigenen Beobachtungen bearbeitet," a publication depicting for the first time on a large scale, the ethnography and geography of Japan.
[Ref: 19246] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Caught at Last. Serve Him Right. The punishment awarded by the ladies, to the artist who made those impertinent drawings about Crinoline!
London: Published March 17th, 1859, by Read & Co., 10, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street.
Hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"). Scarce. Glued to backing sheet.
A satire depicting a man trapped under a large Crinoline by five women, each taunting him. Crinoline was a stiff fabric which first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the term had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel, designed to support the skirts of a woman’s dress in the required shape. The crinoline was the subject of much ridicule and satire, particularly in Punch magazine. Dress reformers did not like it either — they seized upon the cage aspect of the crinoline and claimed that it effectively imprisoned women.
[Ref: 32414] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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