Grosvenor Prints

A Kalmuck Smoking Party.
Burney del. Thornthwaite sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Dr. J. Trusler, Octo.r. 1788.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
View of a Kalmuck smoking party. The Kalmucks, or Kalmyks were a western Mongol people who migrated to Russia in the seventeenth century. They lived a nomadic life travelling around the lands between the Don and the Volga Rivers. Illustration from Dr John Trusler's 'The Habitable World Described' (c1788-1806).
[Ref: 32139] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Smoking Pipes.]
[n.d. c.1780.]
Etching. Plate 120 x 76mm (4¾ x 3"), with very large margins.
Man in profile, facing right, with stick under his arm; he smokes one pipe, whilst another sticks out the top of his hat.
[Ref: 52462] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Two smoking soldiers]
[Anon., c.1880]
Chromolithograph, printed area approx. 230 x 200mm (9 x 8").
Cigar image.
[Ref: 44010] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Turkish Woman Smoking on a Sofa.] Femme Turque qui fume sur le Sopha.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
A Turkish woman in a suggestive mode. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47014] £330.00

Prise de Smolensk.
Champion del. Lith de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 444 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins. Tear into lower edge.
The Battle of Smolensk, the first major battle of the French invasion of Russia, which took place on August 16-18, 1812. Napoleon led the Grande Armee against the strong Russian force under Barclay de Tolly; it was a decisive French victory. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30795] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

How Smooth Brother, Feel Again.
W. Hamilton R.A. del. T. Gauguin sculp.
London Publish'd May 1789, by J. Brydon, Charing Cross.
Stipple. Plate: 200 x 240mm (8 x 9½''). Trimmed to plate.
A scene showing children playing together.
[Ref: 48072] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Entrance to the Cave of Smowe.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. March, 1, 1820.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
The entrance of Smoo Cave, located at the eastern edge of the village of Durness, on Scotland's most northerly coastline. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36074] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Wounded Smuggler.
Madeley lith.
Pub.d by J. Williams, 129, Strand. [n.d., c.1835.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 255 x 180mm (10 x 7''). Trimmed.
A scene in front of a fire in which several figures including a black man crowd around a wounded smuggler, sitting in a chair.
[Ref: 50029] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Singerie] The Smuggler.
Drawn & etched by H. Heath.
Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet St, May 1828.
Etching, printed in sepia. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"), large margins.
A monkey dressed as a smuggler, guarding a cave full of contraband.
[Ref: 56021] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Smugglers Alarmed. Fly No 6. [&] Smugglers Attacked.
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
[Published by F. Glover, Water Lane, Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of lithographs. Sheets 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed, losing publisher's inscriptions.
Two scenes: in the interior of a cottage the smugglers hear the approaching excise men; then the door is forced open and shots are fired. From 'The Fly' magazine.
[Ref: 52066] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Smuglers, hideing a Cargo.
Pub. Jan 30, 1800, by, S.W. Fores, No.50 Piccadilly._Prints and Drawings lent to Copy.
Aquatint. Plate 266 x 203mm. 10½ x 8". Tear in lower edge.
Smugglers unloading barrels and hiding them in the cellars of the abbey. Uncoloured aquatint with the moon shining through the arch of the ruined abbey. Fores transparencies were popular amusements in the late 18th and early 19th century. S.W. Fores was son of a cloth merchant. Founded his business as a print seller in 1783, specialising in caricatures.
[Ref: 23219] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Smugglers Attack'd. From the original Picture in the Collection of Tho.s Sam.l Jollife Esq.r To whom this Plate is respectfully inscribed by his oblidged and obedient Servant B.B.Evans.
S.r Fran.s Bourgeois Pinx.t R.Earlom Sculp.st 1792.
Published [***] 1793 by B.B. Evans in the Poultry, London.
Mezzotint, open-letter proof. 500 x 665mm. Some restoration, part of publication line erased.
Companion to 'Smugglers Defeated'. Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1753 - 1811) was commissioned to found a Royal Collection for the Polish king Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in 1790. In 1795 the King was forced to abdicate, leaving the collection in the hands of Bourgeois. When he died he left the collection to Dulwich College, with £10,000 to build a gallery. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was England's first public art gallery.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 744] £650.00

Smugglers Defeated. From the original Picture in the Collection of Noel Desenfans Esq.r C.G.P. To whom this Plate is respectfully inscribed by his oblidged and obedient Servant B.B.Evans.
Sir F. Bourgeois pinx.t. R.Earlom sculp.
Published May_1st 1798 by B.B.Evans, in the Poultry,_London.
Mezzotint. 500 x 665mm. Some restoration.
Companion to 'Smugglers Attack'd'. Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1753 - 1811) was commissioned to found a Royal Collection for the Polish king Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in 1790. In 1795 the King was forced to abdicate, leaving the collection in the hands of Bourgeois. When he died he left the collection to Dulwich College, with £10,000 to build a gallery. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was England's first public art gallery.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 745] £625.00

[Smuggling] What Cheer Brother, mayhap you'r taking an observation? / Not I bless you, I'm only taking a bit of a sketch._
Drawn on Stone by B.R. Baker.
Printed at the National Gallery of Practical Science._ Adelaide Street, London. [n.d., c.1825.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼").
A smuggler points his pistol at an artist sheltering under a cliff.
[Ref: 52063] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Smuggling] Bless Me what a fine Cordial!! / "Cordial! that's no cordial! why it is a drop o real Hollands.
Drawn on Stone by B.R. Baker.
Printed at the National Gallery of Practical Science._ Adelaide Street, London. [n.d., c.1825.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼").
A bluff smuggler gives a weedy man a sample from his cask. The 'National Gallery of Practical Science, Blending Instruction with Amusement' contained some 250 machines, devices and models such as a pocket thermometer, a gas mask, an oxyhydrogen microscope, a steam gun and, later, demonstrations of daguerreotypes, electricity and magnetism. It was situated in the Lowther Arcade, a glass-domed arcade near the Strand in London's West End until the 1840s, now the site of Coutts' Bank.
[Ref: 52062] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Building of a Cutter. [&] Chace of a Cutter. [&] Unlading of a Cutter. [&] Dissolution of a Cutter. From an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr Newton.
Painted by J. Kitchingman. Engraved by B.T. Pouncy.
Published as the Act directs March 1st, 1783, B. T. Pouncy, Pratt Street, Lambeth. [&] Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1st, 1783, B. T. Pouncy, Pratt Street, Lambeth.
Set of four etchings with engraving and large margins. Each c.265 x 330mm (10½ x 13").
A set of four oval scenes of the life of a smuggler's cutter from its construction until it is wrecked.
NMM: PAD6022.
[Ref: 35606] £750.00 view all images for this item

Smyrna. No. 20, Sacred Cabinet.
W. Clark, lith, 202, High Holborn.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½'').
A view of the important port town of Smyrna (now Izmir) on the Aegean coast of Turkey.
[Ref: 49886] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Arthur Smyth Lord Archbishop of Dublin 1771.
Francis West Pinx.t. James Watson Fecit.
[n.d., c.1771.]
Mezzotint. 375 x 280mm (14¾ x 11"), large margins. Trimmed into arms at bottom, new margin added.
Three-quarter portrait of Arthur Smyth (1706-1771), standing in a library, one hand resting on an upright book. He served as Archbishop of Dublin from 1766 until his death in 1771, which this portrait was probably published to commemorate.
CS 131; Goodwin 83. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state ii of ii, 'Commas after names burnished from plate but still just visible'.
[Ref: 65853] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Gulielmus Smyth. Episc: Lincolns: Primus Walliae Praefes Academiae Oxon: Cancellarius Aulae Regiae & Coll AEnei Nasi Fundm Unus Ao Di 1512. / Hanc Effigiem Revdo Viro Roberto Shippen S. T. P. iftius Coll: Principali Dignissimo a Tabula. in suis Edibus Asservata factam.
Summa cum Humil & Observanntia D.D.D. J.Faber.
[n.d., c.1712.]
Very fine mezzotint. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Mint.
Portrait of William Smyth (c.1460 - 1514), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire.
CS 34 I of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65044] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Gulielmus Smyth. Episc: Lincolns: Primus Walliae Praefes Academiae Oxon: Cancellarius Aulae Regiae & Coll AEnei Nasi Fundm Unus Ao Di 1512. / Hanc Effigiem Revdo Viro Roberto Shippen S. T. P. iftius Coll: Principali Dignissimo a Tabula. in suis Edibus Asservata factam.
Summa cum Humil & Observanntia D.D.D. J.Faber.
[n.d., c.1730.] Printed and Sold by Tho.s Bakewell next door to the Horn Tavern in Fleetsreet
Very fine mezzotint. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Backed onto album paper at corners.
Portrait of William Smyth (c.1460 - 1514), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire.
CS 34 III of IV. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65050] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[William Smyth] A Petty-Professor of Modern-History, brought to the light.
Cambridge del.t. London Sculp.t [James Gillray].
Publishd March 20th. 1810. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of William Smyth (1765-1849), a poet and historian who became Regius Professor at Cambridge in 1807. He is shown lecturing to sleeping or yawning students.
BM Satires 11590.
[Ref: 59375] £750.00

Gulielmus Smyth Episc: Lincoln:s Primus Walliæ Præses Academiæ Oxon: Cancellarius Aulæ Regiæ & Coll: Ænei Nasi Fund.ru Unus Aº Dº 1512.
[after Wilhelm Sonmans.]
Summa cum Humili: & Observantia D.D.D. J. Faber. [n.d., c.1715.]
Mezzotint. 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"), with large margins.
William Smyth (or Smith, c. 1460-1514), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1493-6), Bishop of Lincoln (1496 until his death), Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1500-c.1502), Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches and co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford. One of a set of portraits of founders of Oxford Colleges after portraits by Wilhelm Sonmans (d.1708), now in the Bodleian Library
CS 34.
[Ref: 51981] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Smyth.]
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.
Publish'd Mar. 15 1789, by F. Bartolozzi & C.o.
Stipple with etching, proof before title, 18th century watermark; 380 x 300mm (15 x 11¾") with small margins. Repaired nicks in margins.
Three-quarter length portrait of Charlotte, Lady Smyth (1776-1823), seated wearing black broad-brimmed hat with white feathers and black transparent shawl, with her two daughters holding their brother up between them.
De Vesme 1221 iii of iv. Provenance Brussels Gentleman's Club.
[Ref: 60347] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Smythe.] The honourable Thomas Smith Knight, late Embassador [...]
Pub Mar 1.1797 by W.Richardson York House 31 Strand.
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed into left side of plate.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe (or Smith, c. 1558 - 1625), English merchant, politician and colonial administrator. He was the first governor of the East India Company and treasurer of the Virginia Company from 1609 to 1620 until enveloped by scandal.
[Ref: 66932] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Snake in the Grass. Fann'd by the summers gentlest wind... R.B. Cooper.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by J.R. Smith.
London Pub.d Sept.r 24, 1787 by J.R. Smith, N.º 31 King Street, Covent Garden.
Stipple, printed in brown, 18th century watermark. Sheet 320 x 250mm (12½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, abrasions in unprinted area top right, crease top right.
A bare-breasted nymph reclines, her right arm raised to cover part of her face with her hand. To her left Cupid tugs on the sash of her dress; to the right is a snake.
Frankau 326, ii of ii, D'Oench 288, Hamilton p.158.
[Ref: 65647] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Snap Dragon. 165.
Publish'd Dec.r 12th. 1795. by Laurie & Whittle, N° 53, Fleet Street London.
Etching and stipple with hand colour, 18th century watermark. 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾") very large margins.
Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table playing the parlour game. A man holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin.
BM Satires 8778. See 51746 for black and white version.
[Ref: 60996] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Snap Dragon.
Publish'd Dec.r 12th. 1795. by Laurie & Whittle, N° 53, Fleet Street London.
Etching with stipple. 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"), large margins. Edges chipped and brittle.
Six country people surround a flaming bowl on a small round table. A man holds a terrified cat over the bowl to force it to pull out a raisin.
BM Satires 8778.
[Ref: 51746] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Snape.
Whitby pinx.t. Godby sculp.
London, Publish'd by the Author, May 1, 1791.
Stipple. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Edward Snape (b.1728), a farrier, holding an book illustrating blood vessels. In 1766 Snape proposed the establishment of a 'hippiatric [horse] infirmary' as a school for the 'instruction of pupils in the profession', which eventually opened in Knightsbridge in 1778, the same year he published a print, 'A Muscular Preparation of a Horse', on which he described himself as 'Farrier to their Majesty’s & the 2nd Troop of the Horse Guards' with an address in Berkeley Square. In 1791 he published 'A Practical treatise on farriery including remarks on all diseases incident to horses', which had a second edition in 1805.
[Ref: 43391] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Snell] Carolus Snellius / Ars Illucens Luso
P. La Vergne inv.t. G. Bickham sculp.t
[1712]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"). Trimmed; glued to backing sheet at corners.
Charles Snell (bap.1667-1733), writing master who 'became a bright star in a contemporary galaxy of writing-masters' (DNB). Initially apprenticed to a senior writing-master, William Brooks, Snell was known for his critical attacks on writing-masters with elaborate styles, and he promoted a simpler and more standardized mode of handwriting suitable for commercial houses. Frontispiece to Snell's second book, 'The Art of Writing in its Theory and Practice', 1712.
O'D 2; for Brooks see ref 38868. Ex: The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection.
[Ref: 38871] £320.00

Sneyd Park near Bristol.
S.Anstie del. Clark & Duborg sculp.
[n.d., printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1807.]
Sepia aquatint. 300 x 410mm. Neat old ink mss. in lower margin.
[Ref: 438] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Rev. William Sneyd &Mrs Emma Cecil] No. XXIII. The Frail Cecilian. No. XXIV. The Reverend Adulterer.
London, Published by A. Hamitlon Jun.r. Fleet Street, 1 Sep.r. 1790.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Small margins.
Two portraits busts set in ovals. On the right a Rev. William Sneyd and on the left Mrs Emma Cecil (neé Vernon). Sneyd was employed by Henry Cecil, MP for Stamford as his curate and shortly after Emma Cecil and Sneyd began their adulterous relationship, eventually running away to Exeter together where they lived under the false name of Benson. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
[Ref: 38579] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Snipe.
Archibald Thorburn. Drawn by A. Thorburn. Swan Electric Engraving Co.
Published by Lawrence & Bullen Ltd, 16, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden WC.
Photogravure. 305 x 445mm (12 x 17½"), with large margins. Crease in margin.
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), Scottish artist specialising in painting animals and birds, especially in a sporting context.
[Ref: 52175] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Chasse De La Becassine. [Snipe Shooting].
Peinte par G. Morland. Dirigee par A. Suntach.
Publieé les 15 Aout 1792 par Antoine Suntach.
Stipple with large margins. Platemark: 270 x 315mm (10 ½ x 12¼").
Winter scene with a man aiming a rifle to right to shoot a bird out of the sky, his dog, below at left watching the prey. Two other men can be seen with their guns on the snow in the background. After English painter, George Morland (1762/3 - 1804) renowned for his scenes of English rural life and picturesque landscapes. Engraved and published by Italian reproductive stipple engraver, Antonio Suntach (1744 - 1828). Part of a series of nine hunting scenes, including some plates after Ibbetson.
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. See 33225
[Ref: 33230] £380.00

Snipe Shooting.
G. Morland pinx.t. C.Catton jun.r fecit.
London Pub.d Feb.y. 10th. 1789 by T.Smith No. 35 New Bond Street.
Aquatint, printed in brown 1st issue. 355 x 430mm (14 x 17") large margins. Some restoration.
A man holding a gun advances to right on a flying snipe with his dog.
Siltzer p.166.
[Ref: 63025] £390.00

Snipe Shooting.
H. Alken del.t. I. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"), with very large margins.
A scene in marshland in which two men and their dogs flush out snipe. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46241] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Snipe Shooting.
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint, Arthur Ackermann framed. Visible sheet area 202 x 254mm. 8 x 10". Frame 394 x 439mm. 15½ x 17¼". Slight offsetting.
Two gentlemen standing at the edge of a marsh plain, with lighthouse in the background. Accompanied by two dogs, one man looks up trying to spot snipe. Plate 27 from 'National Sports of Great Britain'.
Siltzer: p.70.
[Ref: 25713] £350.00

Snipe Shooting.
Painted by Heywood Hardy, Goupil gravure.
Printed in Paris & Published April 1st 1895 by Boussod Valadon & Co. Publishers, Successors to Goupil & Co. Paris_London_The Hague. Berlin Verlad von Boussod, Valadon & Co. New York Published by Boussod, Valadon & Co.
Photogravure. 590 x 755mm.
Very fine shooting scene with retrievers.
[Ref: 3022] £680.00

Snipes. 3.d Plate of the British Feather Game.
C.Turner del.t et sculp.t.
London Published March 1 1810 at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 365 x 435mm, 14¼ x 17¼".
From a series of fourteen prints "British Feather Game", depicting English game birds, all engraved by Charles Turner and published 1810-12. Other birds in the series were painted by James Barenger (1780 - 1831), nephew of William Woollett.
Not in Whitman. Siltzer: pg. 79. See Ref: 8669
[Ref: 8670] £780.00

Snips.
Rowlandson Invenit 1815.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Small margins.
A woman and man are hard at ironing inside a room; another man sits by an open hearth warming the irons ready to swap; a yawning cat is sat behind him. At the window a woman shouts.
[Ref: 52347] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Snob!
Drawn from Nature and on Stone by John Corbet Anderson. Printed by Stannard & Dixon.
London, Published by John Corbet Anderson, May 15th 1855.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 315 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"). Tear in right edge taped.
A portrait of a cobbler ('snob' being an archaic name for the trade) at work seen through a window, clay pipe in his mouth..
[Ref: 67684] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Canton] Sketch from the Wall on the Morning after the Grand Attack.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with very wide margins.
A prisoner being carried on a bamboo pole, wrists and ankles tied. From Part III (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52714] £320.00

On the Wall, Canton.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Slight tear in top margin.
Two Europeans wearing kepis and natives including a water carrier. From Part II (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52715] £320.00

Military Train Coolies Going Home.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Tinted lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14½"). Trimmed. Bit messy. Repaired tear at bottom.
A group of Chinese porters going home at sunset. From Part III (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52710] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Group of Coolies on the road at Dinner.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with very wide margins.
Workers eating lunch with chop sticks. From Part III (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52712] £320.00

A Funeral. Mode of Carrying the Coffin.
W.R. Snow Del.t. M. & N. Hanhart imp.
Dickinson Bro.s Lith.s 114 New Bond Street [1860.]
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 230 x 340mm (9 x 13¾"), with very wide margins.
From Part II (of III) of William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong.William Roger Snow's 'Sketches of Chinese Life & Character', based on a visit to Hong Kong. Snow was an army officer when he visited Hong Kong. However in 1875 an affair with an Irish actress ruined his career and, rather than be posted to a backwater, he left his wife and disappeared. Under the alias Clifford Merton he worked as an author and illustrator of both adult and children's literature, until his wife found and exposed him in 1881. After another disappearance and name change, Richard André continued to write and illustrate books, as well as working in photography and the publishing business.
[Ref: 52713] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Snow Piece.
Printed by Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller at No 53 in Fleet Street London. [n.d., c.1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Trimmed to plate.
A adult snowball fight, in a rustic setting. Plate 9 from Sayer's 'Twelve Views in Middlesex and Essex, Drawn from Nature'.
[Ref: 32385] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Snow Piece.
London, Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 Oct.r 1779.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 280mm (7 x 11").
A winter scene showing figures having a snowball fight while a woman with a pipe collects twigs.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46839] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Major Ralph Snow.
[I. W]hood de Bloomsb: sqr. pinxt. pro Zacha. Chambers de Scaccar. Reg. Genero. Cui hanc Tabulam D D: Alex: Vanhaecken [fe.]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Trimmed within the image, losing part of inscription at sides, laid on board.
Ralph Snow (1670-1744), writing master, holding a sheet with 'La plume' written in florid lettering. He was one of the four dedicatees of George Bickham's 'A poem on writing', c.1727. Although Chaloner Smith only lists this state the BM has a proof before title, without the armillary sphere in the background.
Chaloner Smith 15.
[Ref: 52600] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Snowden, in the Vale of Llan Berus, in Caernarvon Shire. [No.73 in ink]
J. Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand 1750. Price 1s.6d.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 350 x 481mm (13¾ x 19"). Trimmed unevenly along platemark lower edge, losing edge of publication line.
A view of Snowden, in the Welsh valley of Llanberis; travellers on horseback to the right and goats resting. From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
[Ref: 29400] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Copy on an Inscription engraved upon a Gold Watch, value 30 Guineas. Presented to M.r Ralph Leconby Snowden of Greta Bridge [...] for upwards of Four Years Superintendent of Police, over 32 Townships in the District of Gilling West. July 20. 1843.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Rare etching on card. Sheet 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6").
Snowden had a reputation as a dogged and precise detective. In 1845 he published 'Snowden's Police Officers, Constables Guide and Magistrates Assistant', which became a standard text for the police.
[Ref: 62242] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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