Grosvenor Prints

[10 illustrations from Dickens's Bleak House.] Frontispiece. [&] The Ghost's Walk. [&] Sunset in The long drawing-room at Chesney Wold. [&] Tom All Alone's. [&] A new meaning in The Roman. [&] Shadow. [&] The Lonely Figure. [&] The Night. [&] The Morning. [&] The Mausoleum at Chesney Wold.
[Drawn by Phiz.]
[London: Bradbury & Evans, c.1853.]
Ten steel etchings. Ech c. 230 x 140mm, 9 x 5½".
Ten illustrations by Phiz (pseudonym of Hablot Knight Brown) for Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House'.
[Ref: 27536] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Ten plates from Charles Dickens's Bleak House.]
[H.K. Browne ('Phiz').]
[London, 1853.]
Set of ten loose wood-engravings, including frontispiece, after H.K. Brown. Proofs on india paper, with captions. Each c. 225 x 140mm. 9 x 5½". Fine impressions, with occasional marginal foxing.
Bleak House was published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Charles Dickens' (1812-1870) finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. At the novel's core is a long-running litigation in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), painter and illustrator; known as 'Phiz'.
[Ref: 27398] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Bleak House.] The Ghost's Walk.
[Drawn by Phiz.]
[London: Bradbury & Evans, c.1853.]
Steel etching, sheet 220 x 155mm, 8¾ x 6". Slight surface soiling.
An illustration by Phiz (pseudonym of Hablot Knight Brown) for Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House'. The 'Ghost's Walk' was a terrace of the house.
[Ref: 27528] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Bleak House.] The lonely figure.
[Drawn by Phiz.]
[London: Bradbury & Evans, c.1853.]
Steel etching, sheet 155 x 220mm, 6 x 8¾".
An illustration by Phiz (pseudonym of Hablot Knight Brown) for Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House'. Lady Dedlock flees her home, battling through a snow storm near brick kilns, having fled her home.
[Ref: 27531] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Bleak House.] A new meaning in the Roman.
[Drawn by Phiz.]
[London: Bradbury & Evans, c.1853.]
Steel etching, sheet 220 x 155mm, 8¾ x 6". Slight surface soiling.
An illustration by Phiz (pseudonym of Hablot Knight Brown) for Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House'. 'The Roman' is a figure on a pained ceiling, apparently pointing down at a bottle on a sidetable.
[Ref: 27527] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Bleak House.] Night.
[Drawn by Phiz.]
[London: Bradbury & Evans, c.1853.]
Steel etching, sheet 155 x 220mm, 6 x 8¾".
An illustration by Phiz (pseudonym of Hablot Knight Brown) for Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House'. A gas-lit scene during the search for Lady Dedlock.
[Ref: 27533] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

Master.
R. Van Bleeck pinx.t. P.V.B. 1751.
Mezzotint. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Narrow margins.
An oval portrait of a young boy in van Dyck costume. A pair to 'Miss'. Engraved by Peter van Bleeck (c.1695-1764) after his father Richard (1670-c.1748).
CS 12. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65827] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Miss. [&] Master.
R. Van Bleeck pinx.t. P.V.B. 1751.
Pair of mezzotints. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Narrow margins.
Oval portraits of a young girl in a fur-trimmed robe and a lace collar and a young boy in van Dyck costume. Engraved by Peter van Bleeck (c.1695-1764) after his father Richard (1670-c.1748).
CS 12 & 13. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65830] £380.00 view all images for this item

Richard Van Bleeck, Pictor.
Si. Ipse pinxit, 1753. P. Van Bleeck jun.r fec.t 1735.
1735.
Mezzotint. Very fine impression. Platemark: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾").
After a self-portrait by Dutch Golden Age painter Richard Van Bleeck (1670 - 1748), three-quarter length, sitting at a table to right, looking towards the viewer, gesturing with left hand towards a palette on the table. A large nude torso is seen behind, half obscured by a curtain.
Chaloner Smith. 10.II
[Ref: 39398] £360.00

Bleeding Neptune or a Scotch Experiment !!
[after Isaac Cruikshank, c.1805]
Etching, sheet 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"). Trimmed around image and text; glued to backing sheet.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville bleeds Neptune from his forearm, while Alexander Trotter collects the guineas spouting from his left arm. Melville, the first lord of the Admiralty, and Trotter, paymaster of the navy, were investigated for financial irregularities in their management of the navy. When the commission's report came out in March 1805 (shortly before the Isaac Cruikshank print which this etching copies), Melville was cleared of lining his own pockets, while Trotter's financial speculations were in fact successful and standard practice amongst civil servants of the day.
BM Satires 10380 (copy)
[Ref: 37532] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

M.e. N. de Blegny. Conseiller Medecin Artiste ordinaire du Roy et de Monsieur.
J. Hainzelman adviuum fec.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 120 x 65mm (4¾ x 2½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Nicolas de Blégny (1652 - 1722), French essayist, historian and barber surgeon. He was appointed surgeon of Queen Maria Theresa of Spain in 1678, then physician of King Louis XIV in 1682.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 64445] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon:ble S.r John Blencowe Knight, One of the Justices of hur Maj.ties Court of Comon Pleas. Anno Dom: 1711.
Cloysterman pinxit. W. Sherwin sculpsit.
Iohn King excudit. [n.d. c.1715.]
Copper engraving. 393 x 280mm. 15½ x 11". Cut.
Sir John Blencowe (1642-1726) was a judge and politician. He served as Baron of Exchequer, Judge of the Old Bailey and Member of Parliament for Brackley. He was one of the Justices of Law in the Court of Common Pleas during the reign of Queen Anne. After John Closterman (1660-1711).
[Ref: 24805] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

J.no P. Blencowe [facsimile signature].
J. Linnell 1841.
Etching. 275 x 225mm (10¾ x 9") very large margins. Paper toned.
John Prescott Blencowe [1778-c.1841], a merchant of St Margaret's Place, King's Lynn, Norfolk, several times mayor.
[Ref: 42172] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Blenheim. His Grace John Duke of Marlborough In ye Year 1704 finding the French Frontier in ye Low Countries, covered with unpassable Lines & Rivers [...]
[Anon., c.1810]
Engraving with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 270 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). 'J. Whatman 1809' watermark'; trimmed inside platemark lower edge; large margins on 3 sides.
The Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704), fought in Blindheim, Germany, in which Allied forces ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army. From a series of 'the victorious battle of the immortal prince John duke of Marlborough'. John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two Allied commanders.
[Ref: 45154] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A North View of Blenheim House & Park, in the County of Oxford, one of the Seats of the Duke of Marlborough, w.th ye Monument which was erected in Memory of the late Duke. [parallel text in French]
Jno. Boydell delin & sculp
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell Engraver; at the Unicorn, the corner of Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1752.
Engraving, platemark 265 x 435mm (10½ x 17"), with very large margins.
View of Blenheim House in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Following his victory at the Battle of Blenheim (known on the Continent as the Second Battle of Höchstädt) during the war of the Spanish Succession in 1704, the commander John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough was given land and £240,000 to build a palace as a gift from Queen Anne and the nation. Work on Blenheim Palace began the following year, to designs by Sir John Vanbrugh, although it was not completed until 1733, eleven years after Marlborough's death. He was commemorated by the 'Column of Victory' seen in the middle-ground of this print, which shows Marlborough dressed as a Roman general.
[Ref: 41188] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Blenheim.] Vue et Representation de la Bataille de Hochstedt donnée le 13 D'aoust 1704.
Huchtenburg, Pinxit et Excudit.
[n.d., c.1705.]
Engraving. Sheet: 545 x 630mm (21½ x 24¾''), with large margins. Central, vertical crease as normal.
A view of the Battle of Blenheim which took place during the War of Spanish Succession between France and the Grand Alliance. The battle was an important victory as it ensured the safety of Vienna and prevented the collapse of the Grand Alliance. It was an important victory of the de facto leader of the allied forces, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlbough, who was handsomely rewarded for his triumph. A key below the title identifies various towns and important elements of the battle
[Ref: 50856] £360.00

[Battle of Blenheim.] Schlacht.
Abrah: Trentwet Ornam. del. Joh. August Corvinus sc.
Cum Gratia et Privileg. Sac. Caes. Majest. Ieremias Wolff excudit. Aug. Vind.
Engraving. Sheet: 435 x 360mm (17 x 14"). Trimmed, vertical crease. Creasing not visible from front.
A view of the Battle of Blenheim fought on 13th August 1704 during the War of Spanish Succession. The allied victory led by the Duke of Marlborough secured Vienna and was a turning point in the war. The scene is decorated with a ornate border, with a plan of the battle above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42960] £320.00

The Glory of old England. The following Character of her late Majesty Queen Anne was Written by her Grace Sarah Dutchess of Marlborough & is cut Round this Pedestal Erected at Blenheim. / Queen Anne was very Graceful & Majestic in her Person... all this I know to be true Sarah Marlborough 1738.
Printed & Published according to Act of Parliament.
Engraving. 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"). Folded as issued, repaired tear, backed with paper.
An illustration of the marble statue of Queen Anne by John Michael Rysbrack, shown with a backdrop of the exterior of Blenheim Palace. Commissioned by Sarah Churchill, it was installed in the bow window of the gallery (now the Library) in 1738.
[Ref: 39943] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Blenheim MDCCIV Part the Second. This Plate shews I. The Confederates pursuing the Elector of Bavaria and Marshal Marsin who fled with their Horse on their left wing [...]
[after Louis Laguerre.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 275 x 325mm (10¾ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of the surrender of Marshal Tallard to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, at the Battle of Blenheim, 2nd August 1704 (13th August in the Gregorian Calendar), during the War of the Spanish Succession. From a series of 'the victorious battles of the immortal prince John duke of Marlborough', by Louis Laguerre (1663-1721). This version was probably published for propaganda during the Seven Years' War (1756-63). See 45159 for coloured version.
[Ref: 56314] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Blenheim MDCCIV. Part the Second. This Plate shews I. The Confederates pursuing the Elector of Bavaria and Marshal Marsin who fled with their Horse on their left wing and carried off 17,000 of their Wounded men, including 1,000 Officers. [...]
[after Louis Laguerre.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12¼`"). Trimmed inside platemark and glued to backing sheet.
A view of the surrender of Marshal Tallard to John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, at the Battle of Blenheim, 2nd August 1704 (13th August in the Gregorian Calendar), during the War of the Spanish Succession. From a series of 'the victorious battles of the immortal prince John duke of Marlborough', by Louis Laguerre (1663-1721). This version was probably published for propaganda during the Seven Years' War (1756-63) .
[Ref: 45159] £320.00

The Glorious Battle of Blenheim August the 13 1704.
A. Benoist inv. et del. G. Scotin Sculp.
Published by Cl. du Bost, September ye 22 1735, According to Act of Parliament.
Engraving, sheet 320 x 395mm (12½ x 15½"). Fold through middle; trimmed to plate.
Early and detailed representation of the famous Battle of Blenheim (known on the Continent as the Second Battle of Höchstädt), during the war of the Spanish Succession, when the Allied army under Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy crushed a French-Bavarian army thereto regarded as invincible.
[Ref: 38461] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Blenheim] Plan der Roemrugtige Veltslag can Hochstet door de Geallieerde Gewonne op den 13 Augusti 1704. Plan de la Glorieuse Bataille d’Hochstet Gagnée Par Les Alliez le 13 Aout 1704.
J. v. Vianen fecit.
[The Hague: Jean Rousset de Missy, 1729.]
Engraved map. 480 x 435mm (19 x 17") very large margins. A few tears in margins, some taped, some spotting.
A plan of the Battle of Blemheim (or Höchstädt, 13th August 1704), in which the Army of the Grand Alliance, led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy, decisively beat a Franco-Bavarian army that was on route to attack Vienna. From ''Histoire militaire du prince Eugène de Savoie, du prince et duc de Marlborough, et du prince de Nassau-Frise, où l'on trouve un détail des principales actions de la dernière guerre et des batailles et sièges commandez par ces trois généraux''.
[Ref: 61398] £380.00

[The Battle of Blenheim] The English wading thro' the Morass, and making the Attack upon the Village of Blenheim [...]
[Anon., c.1810]
Rare engraving with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 270 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). 'J. Whatman 1809' watermark'; trimmed inside platemark lower edge, large margins on 3 sides.
The Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704), fought in Blindheim, Germany, in which Allied forces ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army. From a series of 'the victorious battle of the immortal prince John duke of Marlborough'. John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two Allied commanders.
[Ref: 45157] £320.00

[Blenheim Palace] View near the High Lodge.
C.W. Radcliffe del et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[Oxford: James Wyatt & Son, 1842.]
Tinted lithograph, with large margins, rare. Printed area 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾").
A view through the woods towards the High Lodge. From 'The Palace of Blenheim' by Charles Walter Radclyffe (1817-1903), a book dedicated to John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-83), grandfather of Winston Churchill.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 34919] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Blenheim Palace] From Private Gardens.
C.W. Radcliffe del et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[Oxford: James Wyatt & Son, 1842.]
Tinted lithograph with large margins, rare. Printed area 275 x 375mm (10¾ x 14¾").
From 'The Palace of Blenheim' by Charles Walter Radclyffe (1817-1903), a book dedicated to John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-83), grandfather of Winston Churchill.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 34921] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Blenheim Palace] Monument. [&] Rosamond's Well.
C.W. Radcliffe del et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[Oxford: James Wyatt & Son, 1842.]
Tinted lithograph with large margins, rare. Printed area 400 x 260mm (15¾ x 10¼").
Two views on one sheet: the Column of Victory & Rosamund's Well, named after Rosamund Clifford, a mistress of Henry II. From 'The Palace of Blenheim' by Charles Walter Radclyffe (1817-1903), a book dedicated to John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-83), grandfather of Winston Churchill.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 34922] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Blenheim Palace] High Lodge. [&] Cascade.
C.W. Radcliffe del et lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[Oxford: James Wyatt & Son, 1842.]
Tinted lithograph with large margins, rare. Printed area 400 x 260mm (15¾ x 10¼").
Two views on one sheet: High Lodge & the Cascade, the water flowing from the Great Lake. From 'The Palace of Blenheim' by Charles Walter Radclyffe (1817-1903), a book dedicated to John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-83), grandfather of Winston Churchill.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 34923] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Blenheim Triumph] The Glory of the Confederate Armes, Illustrated in A Blazonry Description of 128 Ensigns, and 25 Standards, taken from the French and Bavarians, in the Famous Battle of Blenheim, by the Forces under the Comand of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. ye 2d of Aug.st O.S. 1704. Which Colours were brought into Her Maj.ty's Tower of London, & thence Carried in Triumph thro ye said City being now placed in Westminst.r Hall [...]
R.t Spofforth Sculp.
[n.d., c.1705.]
Engraving with original partial hand colour. Sheeet 640 x 480mm (25¼ x 19"). Framed. Some restoration
A record of the battle flags captured at the Battle of Blenheim, the hugely important victory won by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession. Under the text is a small view of the battle with a five-point key. The Duke returned to England on the 14th December (Julian calendar); the flags (recorded elsewhere as 110 cavalry standards and 128 infantry colours) were borne in procession to Westminster Hall in early January, 1705. The British Museum has a version engraved by Spofforth in French, dedicated to Prince George of Denmark (BM 1927,1008.389).
[Ref: 57226] £780.00

[Blenheim Triumph] The Glory of the Confederate Arms, Illustrated in a Blazonary Description of 128 Ensigns, and 35 Standards, Taken from the French and Bavarians, in the Famous Battle of Blenheim, by the Forces under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the 2d. of August, O.S. 1704 Which colours were brought into Her Majesties Tower of London, and from thence carried in Triumph through the said City, being now placed in Westminster-Hall. With an Inscription...
London: Printed and s[old by J.] Bradford at the Bible in Fetter-Lane. [n.d., c.1706.]
Extemely rare woodcut broadsheet with letterpress. 600 x 470mm (23½ x 18½"). Laid on old linen, damaged with some loss.
A broadsheet commemorating the Duke of Marlborough's victories at Blenheim and Ramillies, fought during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). At the top is a portrait of the Duke, within a garland, surrounded by trophies; down the sides are representations of the flags taken from the defeated French and Bavarian troops with, edged with an ornamental border; at the bottom is a scene of the British ally Prince Eugene of Savoy's victory at Hochstadt.
[Ref: 25993] £950.00

"Aviation." Louis Bleriot. (The First to Fly the Chanel.)
F.W.
Supplement to "The Throne and Country." August 7, 1909.
Chromolithograph, sheet 360 x 250mm (14¼ x 9¾"), large margins. Tears to edges, some creasing and surface dirt. Messy.
Full length portrait of Louis Charles Joseph Bleriot (1872 – 1936) French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
[Ref: 56967] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

La Blessé. Le Bon Génie, Journal des Enfans, 2e. année, No.44. Lith. No.10.
Marlet del. Lith. de Marlet.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph, rare. 165 x 204mm (6½ x 8"). Creases and offsetting, cut.
The injured soldier, helped by three children. One of a series published in a children's magazine.
[Ref: 29684] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

A Blessing. May the blessing of God await thee...
J.T. Wood [n.d., c.1840.]
Etching on porcelain card. 60 x 95mm (2½ x 3¾"). Some oxidisation of bottom edge, laid on album paper. Damaged.
A blessing within a foliate border.
See: Ref: 56335
[Ref: 56338] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Blessings of Military Law-Givers.
[Monogram of Paul Pry - John Phillips?] Esq.r.
Pub by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St. Strand, July 28 1829_Sole publisher of Paul Pry's Caricatures.
Etching with fine hand colour. 240 x 355mm (9½ x 14"). Trimmed to printed border and laid on album paper.
A court scene with the accused (a coachman) being the only civilian, the judge and lawyer all wearing huge bearskins. Wellington stands next to the accused, dressed as a Grenedier Guard. According to the prosecutor, the coachman was guilty of 'breaking the line of a Corporal's guard, my Lud, to the great damage and detriment of the military honor of this vast empire'. A satire of Wellington as a military autocrat. Although 'Paul Pry' was initially a pseudonym of William Heath (1794-1840), this print is a pirate, probably by John Philips. Eventually Heath gave up the monogram because of its wide use.
BM Satire 15841.
[Ref: 55413] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington] Woman. The Greatest Social Gift.
E.T. Parris J.B. Forrest
Engraved for this Work [c.1850]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼").
Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington (1789-1849), author. Marguerite's best-known book is her 'Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron', initially published in installments in 1832-3 before appearing in one volume eleven years later. It was based on Marguerite's daily encounters with Byron after they both settled in Genoa in 1823. Engraved after a portrait by Edmund Thomas Parris (1793-1873), whose drawings were published alongside verses by Marguerite in 1836-8.
[Ref: 41384] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Draught of Blewfields Lagoon on the Moskito Shore.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, No.53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, Jan 1.st 1788.
Engraving with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Paper toning.
A rare plan of Blewfield's Lagoon on the east coast of Nicaragua. Abraham Blauvelt (Blewfield) was a Dutch privateer and explorer, who was responsible for mapping much of the east coast of Central America in the 1630s. Blauvelt was first recorded exploring the coasts of present day Honduras and Nicaragua in service of the Dutch West India Company. He later travelled to England in an effort to gain support to establish a colony in Nicaragua near the city where Bluefields, Nicaragua presently stands. Around 1640 Blauvelt became a privateer serving the Swedish East India Company and in 1644 he commanded his own ship successfully raiding Spanish shipping from a base in southwest Jamaica, today known as Blewfields Bay, and selling the cargo and prizes to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (New York). After peace between Spain and the Netherlands was reached with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Blauvelt, unable to stay in New Amsterdam, instead sailed to Newport, Rhode Island in early 1649 to sell his remaining cargo. However the colonial governor seized one of Blauvelt's prizes and with his crew arguing over their shares, the local colonists, fearing that Rhode Island would acquire a reputation of trading with pirates, forced Blauvelt to leave the colony. For the next several years Blauvelt commanded a French ship called La Garse, later living among the natives of Cape Gracias a Dios near the border of Honduras and Nicaragua, until the early 1660s when he was recruited for Christopher Myngs' raid on the Spanish colony of Campeche Bay in 1663.
[Ref: 30439] £420.00

"When A Man's A Little Bit Poorly," The Celebrated Comic Song as Sung by Mr. C. Taylor, The Words by T. Hudson, The Music Arranged by J. Blewitt.
Jos. Lisle Delc.
London. Published by T.E. Purday, 50, St Pauls Church Yard, Successor (in this branch of the business) to Collard & Collard (late Clementi & Co)
Etching with music verso, platemark 280 x 230mm (11 x 9"). Small margins. Repaired tear on right.
A man in various stages of an illness. Cover to a popular ballad by composer Jonathan Blewitt (1782-1853), the son of a prominent organist, who is said to have been taught by Haydn! In his later career Blewitt wrote pantomimes, musical plays and light operas for most of the London theatres, and hundreds comic songs and ballads in the Irish style. Etched by Joseph Lisle (1828 - 1830; fl), satirical designer and lithographic draughtsman. He worked for Tregear, and occasionally published his own work.
[Ref: 40075] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Blight.
Drawn on purpose by George Simpson.
[?London. Published April 12th 1806 by Jeffery, Pall Mall.]
Stipple, rare. Sheet 200 x 110mm (8 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing publisher's inscription.
Portrait taken during a famous murder trial at the Session House, Newington. Richard Patch was accused of shooting Isaac Blight, his former master. Such was the interest in the case that special accomodation was made for two sons of George III to attend, the Dukes of Cumberland and Sussex. Patch was found guilty and was sentenced to death & dissection. A full account of the trial was also published.
For Simpson's portrait of the murderer see 13585.
[Ref: 44302] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Schools of the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, Avenue Road, _ Regent's Park. H.E. Kendall, Jun.r Arch.t F.S.A. 33 Brunswick Square.
E.T. Dolby, lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1847.]
Tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 350 x 440mm (13¾ x 17¼"). Small tear in edge taped, slight soiling.
A view of the exterior of a purpose-built building, designed by Henry Edward Kendall (1776-1875), opened 1847. Avenue Road, between Swiss Cottage and Regent's Park, is now known as 'Billionaire's Row', with an average house price of £21 million.
[Ref: 67109] £380.00

The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green. Engraved from the Original Picture in the Possession of Thomas Heathcote Esq.r to whom this Plate is Dedicated by his most Obed.t Humble Serv.t W.m Ward.
Painted by W.m Owen. Engraved by Will.m Ward Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Duke of York.
London Pub.d April 2, 1804 by Mess.rs Wards & Co, No. 6, Newman Street.
Mezzotint. 600 x 485mm (23½ x 19"), with large margins. Surface abrasions in inscription area. Small tear on left.
A grey-haired beggar in a rustic setting, his pretty daughter standing with one had on his shoulder and the another open and outstretched. A scene from a popular Elizabethan ballad ('The Blind Beggar of Bethnall Green'), in which the beggar gives a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding to a knight. The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel (infamous for its connection to the Kray twins) is reputed to be the site of his begging. A version of the ballad was recorded by Ewan McColl for the Riverside anthology 'Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection'.
CS 95. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd. Frankau 30.
[Ref: 49970] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green. Engraved from the Original Picture in the Possession of Thomas Heathcote Esq.r to whom this Plate is Dedicated by his most Obed.t Humble Serv.t W.m Ward.]
[Painted by W.m Owen. Engraved by Will.m Ward Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Duke of York.]
[London Pub.d April 2, 1804 by Mess.rs Wards & Co, No. 6, Newman Street.]
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 560 x 475mm (21¾ x 18¾"). Very fine colour. Trimmed to image on all sides, title reinstated in manuscript, laid on thick paper.
A grey-haired beggar in a rustic setting, his pretty daughter standing with one had on his shoulder and the another open and outstretched. A scene from a popular Elizabethan ballad ('The Blind Beggar of Bethnall Green'), in which the beggar gives a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding to a knight. The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel (infamous for its connection to the Kray twins) is reputed to be the site of his begging. A version of the ballad was recorded by Ewan McColl for the Riverside anthology 'Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection'.
CS 95. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd. Frankau 30.
[Ref: 49971] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green. Engraved from the Original Picture in the Possession of Thomas Heathcote Esq.r to whom this Plate is Dedicated by his most Obed.t Humble Serv.t W.m Ward.
Painted by W.m Owen. Engraved by Will.m Ward Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Duke of York.
London Pub.d April 2, 1804 by Mess.rs Wards & Co, No. 6, Newman Street.
Mezzotint. 600 x 485mm (23½ x 19"). Thread margins, tears entering plate on right. Slight vertical crease.
A grey-haired beggar in a rustic setting, his pretty daughter standing with one had on his shoulder and the another open and outstretched. A scene from a popular Elizabethan ballad ('The Blind Beggar of Bethnall Green'), in which the beggar gives a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding to a knight. The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel (infamous for its connection to the Kray twins) is reputed to be the site of his begging. A version of the ballad was recorded by Ewan McColl for the Riverside anthology 'Great British Ballads Not Included in the Child Collection'.
CS 95. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd. Frankau 30.
[Ref: 49969] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green.]
[Painted by Wm Owen.] [Engraved by Willm Ward Mezzotinto Engraver to his Roual Highness the Duke of York.]
[London. Pubd. April 2 1804 by Mess.rs Wards & Co. No.6 Newman Street.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters. Plate 601 x 482mm. 23¾ x 19". Trimmed along lower edge; creasing.
Open landscape; the old man seated directed to left, white hair dishevelled by the wind, holds out hat in right hand. Pretty Bessie stands by him, facing front; a large hat, low bodice; her left hand on the beggar's shoulder, with the right she indicates his supplicating action; to right, corner of cottage.
Ex Collection: Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Frankau: 30. CS: 95.
[Ref: 27651] £380.00

A Blind Girl teaching her Blind Brother to read.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. 183 x 127mm. 7¼ x 5". Laid on album page.
Seat on a balcony with a view over the sea, a blind young lady holds a braille book and teaches her blind brother to read. More books on the table in front
[Ref: 24193] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Blind Leading the Blind. From the Original Picture of the same size, Painted by Jacopo Robusti, commonly called Tentoretto; In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield.
Tentoretto pinxit. Gab.l Smith sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit, London, 1767.
Engraving. Platemark: 290 x 365mm (11½ x 14¼"). Very large margins.
A group of three blind figures, walking on a hill to the left. The leading figure takes the hand of an elderly man,, both men with staffs and hats, as a boy follows behind. A dog is chained to a cup hung at the elderly man's hip. A landscape view in seen in the background.
Ex: Collection of Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 39475] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Blind Plaintiff, lame Defendant Share The friendly laws Laws impartial Care; A Shell for him, a Shell for thee, The middle is the Lawyers Fee.
London Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No.53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 17 April 1779.
Mezzotint, very scarce. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Some damage.
Satire on lawyers; a well-dressed lawyer standing in front of a table covered with papers, books and a dish of oysters, on the right, settles a dispute between two poor men over an oyster; he eats the oyster itself, taking it from a knife that he holds to his mouth, and holds out the empty half-shells to a blind man and to a hunchback, who angrily shakes one of his crutches; a picture of lawyers on the wall behind.
[Ref: 25868] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

L'Aveugle Joueur de Violon.
Dav. Wilkie Peint. Jazet Sculp.t
A Paris, chez Jazet. Faub.g St. Martin, No.71, et Ch.les Bance, Rue J.J. Rousseau, No.10. Déposé à la Direction. [n.d. c.1820.]
Aquatint with etching. 300 x 394mm (11¾ x 15½"). Soiling to right corner,
The blind violinist: rustic interior with at left a blind man sitting on a chair and playing violin for a family of country folk; one of the boys mocks the musician by pretending to play on bellows.
[Ref: 31313] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Blind-man's Buff.
[Robert Cruishank fecit.]
[Pub.d by G. Tregear St Peters Alley Corn Hill.] [n.d., c.1825.]
Aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed to image and glued to backing sheet, with title pasted below.
A rowdy game of blind-man's buff at a soirée, with a blindfolded man causing havoc by seizing the dress of a fleeing woman, knocking over an elderly man and knocking a tray of glasses out of the black servant's hands.
[Ref: 43851] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Blind-man's Buff.
Robert Cruikshank fecit.
Pub.d by G. Tregear St Peters Alley Corn Hill. [n.d., c.1825.]
Fine aquatint with hand-colouring, sheet 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album sheet.
A rowdy game of blind-man's buff at a soirée, with a blindfolded man causing havoc by seizing the dress of a fleeing woman, knocking over an elderly man and knocking a tray of glasses out of the black servant's hands.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 53386] £320.00

Blindmans Buff.
London, Published as the Act directs by S. Fryett, 41, Banner Street, St. Lukes.
Hand coloured aquatint with etching. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman. 1826.' Platemark: 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Repaired tear in lower right corner. Small tear in upper edge.
A vibrant scene with a group playing a game of blind man's buff outside a cottage, in the clearing of a wooded area. The blindfolded figure is seen in the centre, with a number of people surrounding him, with one young woman crouching behind him, so not to be caught. In the foreground to the right, two men are seen eating and drinking, gesturing towards the game. In the lower left, a dog chews a piece of meat on the floor.
[Ref: 36663] £490.00

[Hunting scene after Thomas Blinks.]
Thos. Blinks [Signed in pencil]. T. Blinks [within plate].
Published by The Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W.133 New Bond Street - New York 14 East 23rd Street. [n.d., c.1890.]
Photogravure printed in colour. Rare. Blind stamp in lower left corner, 'Berlin Photographic Society. 23.' Platemark: 650 x 320mm (25½ x 12¼"). Grubby in margins. Very light foxing in margins.
A young woman in Edwardian dress leads three other hunters on horse-back over a fence. Fields can be seen in the distance. After British sporting and animal painter, Thomas Blinks (1860 - 1912), who worked in Abbey Road and exhibited paintings at the RA from 1883.
See ref: 37686
[Ref: 37687] £320.00

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