Grosvenor Prints

The Life of a Soldier.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Woodcut. Sheet size: 265 x 215mm (10¼ x 8½"). Light creasing.
Six individual scenes on one sheet depicting various stages of the life of a British soldier; Enlisting, Drilling, Wounded in Battle, In Hospital, In Battle again - taking a French Eagle, Promoted and at the head of a Forlorn Hope, taking a Fort.
[Ref: 36185] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Soldier of the Strelitz Guards under Arms. Soldat du Corps des Strelits sous les Armes. 65.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins. Small colour mark on bottom right of plate.
Portrait of a man, whole-length standing directed slightly to the left, looking to the right. A horn is hanging from his belt and he holds a large axe over his right shoulder with his right hand. Strelitz is in northern Germany. Plate 65 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: 62843] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Scene from the ballet of 'the Soldier's Dream'.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph in fine contemporary hand colour, sheet 160 x 260mm. 6¼ x 10¼".
Semi-caricatured dancers performing on stage. The performers and their characters are captioned below the image. A rare lithograph.
[Ref: 13320] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Farewell & The Return.]
[n.d, c.1812.]
Pair of colour-printed stipple engavings. Sheets 225 x 165mm, 9 x 6½". Trimmed within plate.
A pair of fine colour prints, showing a cavalryman taking leave of his tearful wife and child and his joyous return.
[Ref: 20545] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Packhorse with Soldiers.] To Colonel William Butler, this plate is humbly inscribed by his much obliged, and most obedient servant Robert Blyth. From an original drawing of Mortimer, in the collection of Richard Payne knight Esq.r.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
London publish'd as the act directs June 23, 1784 by J. R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street.
Engraving printed in brown ink with large margins, Platemark: 340 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾"). Very small fox mark on right side inside platemark.
Banditti scene after John Hamilton Mortimer. The drawing is in the British Museum collection (1975,U.1591.3) along with many other objects from the collection of connoisseur Richard Payne Knight.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28421] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Le camarade met de l'eau dans son Vin?...
Charlet [signed in plate.] Lith de Villain.
Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs [Paris, n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph, sheet 310 x 240mm. 12¼ x 9½".
Two uniformed French officers drinking wine at a table outside. Lithograph by Parisian illustrator Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792 - 1845), printed by Villain from a series of humorous military subjects"Cahier de fantasies par Charlet".
[Ref: 22404] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers by a Rail Track.]
[G H. Barnard]
[n.d., c.1945]
Etching. 180 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"), Unicorn watermark.
A view in which two soldiers stand in conversation near a ruined building and a railtrack.
[Ref: 44725] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Alarm.]
Hans Meid 13. [Signed in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 170 x 260mm (6¾ x 10¼''). Staining and creasing.
A band of mounted soldiers race through a gate with spears. By German impressionist artist Hans Meid (1883-1957).
[Ref: 48041] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers in the Field.]
D. Redman Lithog. W Heath 165 New Bond Street.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 400 x 292mm (15¾ x 11½"). Trimmed to the image with damage at the bottom.
A very scarce print of French infantry soldiers drinking in the foreground with a barrel of beer to the side; more soldiers relax to the left-hand middle-ground; an officer on horseback appears to the left middle-ground. In the background infantry troops march.
[Ref: 52221] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Soldiers Courtship. To the Right Hon.ble Hugh Earl Percy, &c. &c. &c. Lieu.t General of His Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the Fifth Reg.t on Foot; the following Plates, representing the Life and Death of a Soldier, are most humbly Inscribed, by his Lordship's much obliged and most obedient Servant Robert Blyth. / From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
A drunken but light hearted scene of two soldiers and two women together, lounging in a courtyard. One woman has a child resting in her lap. The first in a set of four prints, the series titled 'The Life and Death of a Soldier'.
[Ref: 53971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Soldiers Family. From Original Drawings of Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etched by R. Blyth. London, Published as the Act directs, May 1.st 1781, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1781.
Etching. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾"), with very wide margins.
Soldier seated with his wife and family under a cliff side, with two other soldiers, one seated the other standing behind.
[Ref: 53972] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Petits! Petits! Petits!
Published by H. Berthoud, 54 Regents Quadrant, 1826.
Fine coloured lithograph. Printed area 135 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½"), with large margins. A little staining in margins.
A foraging cuirassier lures a chicken from a hen-house as another prepares to kill it with his curved sword.
[Ref: 55894] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Tiens ferme.
Published by H. Berthoud, 54 Regents Quadrant, 1826.
Fine coloured lithograph, watermark J. Whatman, Turkey Mill 1827; Printed area 135 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½"), with large margins. A little staining over inscription.
A foraging curassier holds a pig by the tail, aided by an infantryman.
[Ref: 55895] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Soldiers in the Wood.]
Charlet. Lithog de C de Lasteyrie.
[n.d. c.1818.]
Lithograph. 246 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Cut, some spotting.
In a wooded landscape; three soldiers in a group; other soldiers behind them.
[Ref: 31178] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Soldiers Quarreling at Dice. From the Original Picture of the same Size, Painted by Valentini, in the Collection of S.r James Lowther, Bar.t.
Engraved by Capt.n Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar. 1. 1769. [But later]
Etching, 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼").
An argument amongst five soldiers playing dice, engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. See also [Ref: 38187].
[Ref: 68481] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Soldiers Quarreling at Dice. From the Original Picture of the same Size, Painted by Valentini, in the Collection of S.r James Lowther, Bar.t.
Engraved by Capt.n Baillie.
J. Boydell excudit, Mar. 1. 1769 [but c.1800].
Etching, 295 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"). Margins foxed.
An argument amongst five soldiers playing dice, engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) after Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
[Ref: 12243] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Soliciting a Vote.
Painted by R.W. Buss. Engraved by [****]
London Published June 1834 by Ackermann & Co, [****] Strand.
Finely coloured mezzotint, proof before title. 400 x 500mm, 15¾ x 19¾". Trimmed to plate, some wear to edges, lettering faint.
A canvasser attempting to win over a voter, painted by Robert William Buss (1804-75), best known for illustrating Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers' and his painting, 'Dickens' Dream'. The Literary Gazette reviewed the painting: "In this performance, considered as a work of art, the talents of Mr Buss are seen to greater advantage than in any of his former productions. The satire is pungent; and the extremes of servility on the one hand, and insolence on the other… are admirably portrayed".
[Ref: 17025] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Solicitor General for the French Republic.
IC. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub. Febr.y 18. 1793 by SW Fores No.3 Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked. 362 x 272mm (14¼ x 10¾"). Trimmed to platemark. Slight crease centre.
Fox opposed the war with France (12 Feb.) in a speech defending himself against 'the imputation of being the abettor of France . . .', but maintaining that the French decrees and actions were not grounds for war; he accused the Ministry of acting aggressively towards France. Fox, wearing the rags of a sans-culotte under a long legal gown, stands directed to the left, looking down and to the right with an expression of sly meditation. He wears bands and a large legal wig, with tattered stockings on his otherwise bare legs. Across his corpulent figure stretches a tricolour belt inscribed 'Republicanism'. He stands on a floor of black and white squares. An owl looks down upon him from a perch. In his right hand is a scroll, the brief of the Republic.
BM Satires 8305.
[Ref: 52368] £320.00

[The Death of Solinzeb.]
J. Northcote delin. T. Gaugain fecit.
Publish'd March 1786, by T. Gaugain No.4 Little Compton Street, Soho, London.
Fine stipple in brown ink with very large margins. Plate 394 x 346mm (15½ x 13½"). Proof before title; laid on album sheet.
In a roundel, a man in oriental dress lays on a leopard skin and expires in the arms of his daughter, after being wounded in the chest. On the right, a European officer attends the wounded man, while a battle rages in the background. In the final state lines from the French author Jean Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) are added below the image to represent the last words of the wounded man: he does not fear death, welcomed as a gentle sleep, but he fears for his daughter's future.
From the Northcote Albums, Christie's South Kensington.
[Ref: 28380] £350.00

[Ammon/Amun] Ammon in Nitra Squallentis cultor eremi [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 145 x 190mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty-six from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28044] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Anub with angel] Maguns Anub pietate fuit, coelestia purce [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty-four from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28041] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Apelles] Moribus, atqz anima pietate insignis Apelles [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honervogt [ex, 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; stained top right.
Plate seventeen from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28031] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Apollonius] Solivagus postquam primis errasset ab annis [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; staining on right.
Plate eight from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28016] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St Helenum of Egypt] Mundities Helenum stimulavit pectoris, omnem [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate ten from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28018] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St Ciomus] Etsi non paucis Ciomus foret obsitus annis [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 145 x 185mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty-five from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28043] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Didymus] Tanta fuit Didymo sancta constantia vita [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate thirteen from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28023] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Elias] Pregravis Helias oetate, trementiaqz cegre [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J. Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; 'Elias' in manuscript above number 14.
Plate fourteen from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28024] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Saint Eulogius] Maluit Eulogius desertas quaerere fedes [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honevogt ex
Engraving, sheet 145 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; stained top right.
Plate sixteen from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28029] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eromicolarum [title page] Per antiquissimi Patrem D. Hieronimum eorundem primarium olim conscripta: iam vero primum oeneis Laminis idqz
et picart fecit [after Maarten de Vos]
A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636
Engraving, sheet 160 x 205mm; 6¼ x 8". Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet; slight staining
Title page to a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Raphael Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies.
[Ref: 28008] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[St Hilary praying.] Hilarion fugieus fugieu gaudia mundi [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 190mm; 5½ x 7½". Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
Plate three from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28011] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St John Chrysostom, in monk's habit praying in a cave] Duxit Joannes rigidam sine crimine Vitam [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 185mm, 5½ x 7". Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
Plate six from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28014] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St John] In squallente ipcu Johanes vixit [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J. Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; staining top and bottom.
Plate eleven from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28020] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Macarius in his cave] Mundanum fugiens strepitum Macharius, orta [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J. Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty-two from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28039] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Macarius with animals] Alter Alexandrinus erat Macharius illi [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty-three from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28040] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[St Malchus of Syria praying] Acta prius sucrat ciu vita monastica Malchus [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
Honervogt ex [1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 185mm, 5½ x 7". Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
Plate five from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28013] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Hermit praying in the wilderness] Or deserta colens paucis accessa flagrantes [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28036] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Origen] In tristi Nitrae deserto habitacula factis [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honervogt [ex, 1636]
Engraving, sheet 145 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; stained top right.
Plate eighteen from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28034] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St Paphnutius] Duxit ad extremam Paphnutium [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 190mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; staining right and bottom.
Plate twelve from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28021] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[St. Paul praying] Tempore quo Decij fervebat soeua tyramis [...]
et picart fc [after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 190mm; 5½ x 7½". Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet.
St. Paul, who retired to Arabia for about three years of prayer and solitude. Plate one from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies.
[Ref: 28009] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Piammon of Dioclus] In nomore inculto rigidi prope litora ponti [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
[A Paris Chez Jac: Honervogt Rue St Jac. a la: Ville de Coulogne 1636]
Engraving, sheet 145 x 185mm (5½ x 7½"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet.
Plate twenty-eight from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28046] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Spiridion] Tanta fuit Didymo sancta constantia vita [...]
[after Maarten de Vos]
J Honevogt ex.
Engraving, sheet 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet; stained top right.
Plate fifteen from a series of engravings depicting various hermits in the wilderness. These were first engraved by Jan and Martin Sadeler after Maarten de Vos c.1585. A set of copies by Nicolaas de Bruyn were published by Thomas de Leu in around 1606. The present item is from a later set of copies, some of which are signed 'et picart fc'.
[Ref: 28028] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Jacques de Sollisel Querry to the Present French King for his Great Horses. Authors & Books a common Grave do find / Ours stands unshaken by the General Storm / His work preserves the Glory of his mind / And th'artful Sculptor saves hsi outward form.
[n.d., c.1695.]
Engraving. Sheet 270 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
The frontispiece portrait from Jacques de Solleysel's 'The Compleat Horseman', an English edition of 'Le Parfait Maréschal', translated by William Hope and first published in London in 1696. de Solleysel (1617-80) wrote several treatises on dressage and cavalry.
[Ref: 60400] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Amelia van Solmes, Princess of Orange] Amalia Dei gratia principissa Arausionensium; Comitissæ Nassaviæ...
[after Anthony van Dyck.]
Balthasar Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Amelia von Solms-Braunfels (1602-75), wearing low cut dress, pearl jewellery and a large lace collar. She was maid-of-honour to Elizabeth Stuart, the exiled Queen of Bohemia, until her marriage to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. One of a series of portraits after Anthony van Dyck, via engravings by Pieter de Jode II and others.
[Ref: 56397] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Quem docuit nervis numeros aptare sonoros, Arte nova et varios Musica cura modos, Solnizium genii commendat honore tabella Quem meritis clarum reddere fama cupit. Cis studio gratus Batavis, licet advena, terris Pluribus ut facies nota fit, aere nitet.
H. van der My pinx. 1743. P. Tanjé sculps.
[n.d. c.1743.]
Engraving. Plate 152 x 103mm. 6 x 4".
Anton Wilhelm Solnitz (c.1708-1752) was a German-Bohemian composer, who spent most of his musical life in the Dutch Republic. His Sinfonia in A for strings and continuo and a Sinfonia in G-Mill for strings and continuo are preserved and still performed.
[Ref: 24865] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Judgement of Solomon.] Dedié a Monseigneur Edouard Colbert. [...].
Inventé at peint A. Coypel. Gravé par G. Audran, avec privil du Roy, ce vend a Paris rue S. Jaques aux 2 piliers d'or.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet size: 570 x 650mm (22¼ x 25½"). Cut to image. Laid on 18th century backing sheet. Central vertical crease. Stained in title area.
The judgement of Solomon, with the King surrounded by counsellors, seated on a throne set on a sculpted base. At the right, a soldier seizes the child as woman trys to stop him. Lettered below with titles, a dedication to Eduard Colbert, and a quotation from the Bible (Job XII, 16) in Latin and in French. After French historical painter Antoine Coypel (1661 - 1722).
[Ref: 38445] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[The Judgement of Solomon.] Sapientiam a Deo pos Tulat
[After Maarten van Heemserck, 1554]
Engraving, sheet 255 x 195mm (10 x 7¾"). Trimmed; paper loss lower left; glued to backing sheet. '1 Kings 3.5' in ms. Damaged.
'In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee' (I Kings 3:5). Biblical illustration after Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), Dutch artist in Italy during the 1530s who produced many drawings for prints. He was the first Dutch artist to work with the printmaking industry in this way, leaving the execution of the prints to professional printmakers in order to increase his production. His admirers included Rembrandt, who had a collection of prints after Heemskerck which sometimes inspired his own work. Jewish interest.
[Ref: 40466] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Solomon and the Temple of Jerusalem.] Ecce vides altris sublimia templa columnis, Et clari imprimis nobile regis opus. 3. Reg. Cap.6.
[Jan Collaert I.]
[Gerard de Jode.][1585.]
Engraving. Plate: 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A biblical scene showing King Solomon standing in the building site of the Temple of Jerusalem. From 'Thesaurus Sacrarum Historiarum veteris testamenti...'. Engraved by Johann Sadeler I (1550-1600).
[Ref: 49728] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train with Camels that bare spices, and very / much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him / of all that was in her heart. I. Kings, Chap. X. verse 2.
Printed for & Sold by Roake & Varty, Map & Printsellers, No. 21 Strand, London. [engraved c.1800, but printed c.1820]
Rare. Mezzotint, 340 x 255mm, 13½ x 10".
The Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon.
[Ref: 8574] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pirogue de L'Île de Bouka. Pirogue des Arsacides. Atlas du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse. No 9.
Peron delin. Perée sculp. Dien Scripsit.
[Paris: H.J.Jansen, 1800.]
Engraving. 305 x 445mm (12 x 17½"). Narrow margins top and bottom.
Native canoes of the Solomon Islands. In 1788 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse set sail from Botany Bay and was never seen again. Despite the upheaval of the French Revolution the National Assembly was moved to send an expedition in search of their lost hero, 1791-3, under Chevalier Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Despite finding no trace of La Perouse, losing its commander and many crew to scurvy, and finally splitting between royalist and republican factions, the expedition was judged a success because of the important observations made by the expedition's scientists, especially in Australia. This account, compiled by the expedition's botanist, Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière, was published as 'Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse', with natural history plates by Redouté and Audebert. The work even has its own abbreviation in botantical literature, 'Voy.Rech.Perouse'.
[Ref: 52625] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Judgement of Solomon.] Ad Testem, in Iudicio, Naturam vocavit Sapientiss. Salomon et vera Mater Filium dimidiari non est passa.
[after Pietro Aquila.]
[Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, c.1675.]
Engraving. Sheet 235 x 270mm (9¼ x 10½"). Trimmed close to printed border on three sides, into inscription area at bottom, losing publication line, mounted on album paper, old ink mss. in title area. Damaged.
The Judgement of Solomon, showing a soldier about to cut the baby in half. Jewish interest.
[Ref: 40495] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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