Grosvenor Prints

The New Steam Carriage... It has been constructed by Mr Goldsworthy Gurney, the Inventor and Patentee.
G. Morton Del.t. Pyall Sculp.t.
Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket.London. [n.d., c.1828.]
Coloured aquatint. 300 x 440mm (12 x 17¼"). Time staining at edges, very slight central crease.
A large steam-driven coach passing an ale-house on the London to Bath road, with passengers including a kilted soldier. In the background are amazed spectators and a windmill. In July 1829 a steam coach built by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793-1875) ran from London to Bath and back at an average speed of 14mph, double that of a horse-draen coach. However the introduction of heavy tolls for his vehicles and Gurney was bankrupted with debts of £232,000.
[Ref: 49010] £680.00

The New Steam Carriage!!
[n.d., c.1828.]
Coloured aquatint, scarce. Printed border 115 x 215mm (4½ x 8½"). Trimmed, title excised and replaced, laid on album paper.
A large steam-driven road vehicle, with a driver and eight passengers, overtaking a horse-drawn coach. A scene with a similar carriage, but with an ale house looming large, was engraved by Pyall after G. Morton and published by McLean c.1828.
[Ref: 44561] £390.00

The Steam Coach.
[G. Davis.]
Published by J. Didsbury 22 Southampton St. Strand. [n.d., c.1820.]
Extremely scarce lithograph, with hand colour. Sheet size: 235 x 285mm (9¼ x 11¼"). Diagonal crease and small stains.
Goldsworthy Gurney’s Steam Carriage passing the gates of Hyde Park, with passengers onboard including a mother and child peeping out through the window of the carriage in the centre, and a boy playing a trumpet towards the front. There are four chimneys at the rear of the coach. Passers by, including one figure on a donkey, can be seen looking at the coach.
[Ref: 52100] £480.00

The Steam Engine. 29.
[Reynolds; n.d. c.1860.]
Coloured engraving. 215 x 280mm. 8½ x 11". Fold through centre of image, as normal.
A double-acting condensing rotative engine. The development of the steam engine in the 18th century was fundamental in paving the way for the Industrial Revolution. From Reynolds' 'Pictorial Atlas of Arts, Sciences, Manufacturers and Machinery'.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. In the Science and Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 20630] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Scraps relating to steam engines.]
[c.1843.]
Six items laid on thick paper, including a letter, a written slip, two news clippings, a patent for an engine and a lithographed sheet of illustrations of engines.
The letter is an offer to submit a tender by the Glasgow firm Tod & Macgregor, builders of steam engines; the slip part of a prospectus for the fitting of a ship; one newspaper clipping relates to the sea trials of HMS Rattler, the first British (and arguably global) screw-driven warship, the other about the launch of an iron schooner for the Baptist Missionaries to Africa; the patent describes the 'Cambrian Patent Steam Engine', designed by Aspinall, Jones & Co, Smethwick, and the illustration seems to give examples of its use.
[Ref: 37789] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Steam Fire Engine. 34.
[Reynolds; n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 215 x 280mm. 8½ x 11". Fold through centre, as normal.
Horse-drawn fire engine patented by Shand, Mason & Co; a reputable fire engine production company. From Reynolds' 'Pictorial Atlas of Arts, Sciences, Manufacturers and Machinery'.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 20636] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Proposed Steam Navigation Dock at the Mouth of the River Lea.
Sketch'd by S. Hemming, Engineer.
Printed by W.N. Vear 24 Tabernacle Row [c.1827]
Lithograph, printed area 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Slight marking on right.
Unrealised plan for a steam navigation dock where the river Lea meets the Thames (known as Leamouth). Designed by Samuel Hemming (1800-76), civil engineer whose plans also included a horse-drawn railway from the nearby East India Dock (see ref. 46935).
[Ref: 46937] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Steam Omnibus.
J. R. Barfoot.
William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, sheet 170 x 215mm. 6¾ x 8½". Sheet trimmed, laid onto album page.
A steam omnibus operating on the Paddington to City of London service. Despite the introduction of the first steam omnibus in 1833, horse-drawn buses, first introduced in London in 1829, remained more common and survived until 1912 when they were superseded by the new motorised omnibuses. Numbered 'No.42' lower left.
[Ref: 14856] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Ephemera relating to Steam Packets on the Thames.]
[n.d., c.1831]
Two pamphlets. Largest: 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾''). Creasing and foxing.
Two printed pamphlets one 'Steam Packet Companion from London Bridge to Gravesend, Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate and Ramsgate; with a Picturesque Description of Each of the Above Places and a Correct Chart of the River' and 'A New Picturesque Steam-Packet Companion in an Excursion to Greenhithe, Northfleet, Gravesend, The Nore, and Herne Bay'. Each has illustrations of the Thames, Thames Tunnel, and tourist destinations along the Thames.
[Ref: 49469] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bateau à vapeur. Chemin de Fer.
[Schaarbeek, Hemeleers & Van Houter, c.1860.]
Two wood engravings on one sheet. Sheet 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"). Creases, nicks to edges.
A naive popular print, illustrating a paddle steamer and steam locomotive.
[Ref: 58587] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Steam Conveyance on a General Iron-Rail-Way. By the Author of Observations on a General Iron-Rail-Way.
Eng. & Prin.d by Palethorpe Nott.m. Published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. London.
London, [n.d. after 1825].
Engraving. 395 x 320mm (15½ x 12½"). In mount. Creasing. Repaired tear in right edge going into the plate mark.
Three examples of steam trains with accompanying text extracted from 'Observations on a General Iron-Rail-Way'.
[Ref: 55112] £320.00

Steamed Out, or the Starving Stage-Coachman and Boys.
George Cruikshank.
[London: David Bogue, 1847.]
Etching. Sheet 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A portly but broken-down coach driver, heading an assortment of thin post boys and others, begs from a well-dressed family at a window. Behind a locomotive crosses a viaduct. Railway interest. From 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 58728] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The First Steamer From Marseilles to Genoa.
Day & Son. Lith.rs to the Queen [n.d., c.1860].
Tinted lithograph with large margins, rare. Printed area: 205 x 335mm (8 x 13¼").
A scene depicting a crowded steam ship in open water, with a number of smaller vessels surrounding it.
[Ref: 32070] £350.00

Steamer off Dover. Proof.
[Robert Brandard]
[n.d. c.1842]
Etching on chine collé, plate 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"), with margins. Foxed in margins. Small margins.
A sea view focussing on a steamship. Robert Brandard (1805-62) was a landscape engraver, etcher, lithographer, miniature painter and watercolourist. son of engraver and copperplate printer Thomas Brandard (d. 1830).
[Ref: 61151] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

Steel Engravings in Nineteenth Century British Topographical Books.
A Bibliography Compiled by Merlyn Holloway.
Holland Press London 1977.
4to, blue cloth gilt; pp. vii + 206. Bonhams ink stamps on front endpaper.
A biliography listing the plates of topographical books by the likes of Allom, Brayley, Shepherd and Tombleson.
[Ref: 45207] £45.00

Steel-engraved book illustration in England.
Basil Hunisett.
London: Scolar Press 1980.
4to, blue cloth gilt, with illus. d/w; pp. xvi + 263, with b/w illustrations. Ownership inscription on endpaper.
An analysis of the use of steel engraving in books.
[Ref: 59742] £50.00

[Richard Steele] M.r Steele.
J. Thornhill pinxit. G. Vertue sculpsit.
[n.d., 1714.]
Engraving. 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Narrow margins, mounted in album paper at edges.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), Irish writer who often used the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of 'The Spectator'. He was also a prominent member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club.
Alexander: 101
[Ref: 63591] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Steele] Mr. Steele.
G. Keller Eques pinxit. J. Simon fecit.
Sold by I. Tonson in the Strand. [n.d., c.1730.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Thread margins. Time stained.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), Irish writer and politician, co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of 'The Spectator'. He was also a prominent member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, which had been founded by the publisher of this portrait, Jacob Tonson.
CS: 141, i of ii.
[Ref: 34133] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Steenwyk door den graef van Rennenberg vergeefs belegert in den Jaaren MDLXXX, en MDLXXXI.
Jan Luyken invenit. et fecit.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet 275 x 345mm, 11 x 13¾". Mounted on album paper, torn.
A view of the city of Steenwijk under siege by George van Lalaing, count Rennenberg (c. 1550-81), with troop battling around the main gate. The Protestant Netherlands were in revolt against their Catholic Spanish overlords, but as a Catholic himself, Renneberg fought for the Spanish. He failed to capture Steenwijk and was killed at Groningen in 1581. His replacement, Francisco Verdugo, captured Steenwijk in 1582.
[Ref: 26731] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

S. Michaels Church Steeple, Dorsetshire. East Window.
Jas Powell & Sons Whitefriars Glass Works, London E.C.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Ink and watercolour, cut to image and laid on card with ink titles. Card 330 x 210mm (13 x 8¼"). A few small marks.
A presentation design for a window in the church of St. Michael & All Angels, Steeple, by James Powell & Sons, owners of the Whitefriars Glass Works. In the mid 1850s the company had developed a glass that copied medieval stained glass and, with an aggressive marketing campaign, became the most prominent supplier of church glass, especially for commemorative windows after the Great War. Powell and Sons continued to make stained glass until 1973. This window is still extant.
[Ref: 61233] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Rather Fast Steeple Chase. M.r Punch's Pocket book 1864.
[John Leech]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1864]
Coloured etching, sheet 125 x 315mm (5 x 12½"). Folded as issued. Title page loose.
Women riding side saddle jump over a stream, one has fallen in and is heading towards the bank. Illustration for Follies of the Year by John Leech, a series of coloured etchings from Punch's Pocket Books, 1844–1864, published by Bradbury Evans & Co. John Leech (1817 - 1864), draughtsman on wood, comic illustrator, lithographer, etcher and painter; born at London. He contributed to 'Punch' between 1841-64, and also practised book illustration, including Dicken's 'Christmas Carol.'
[Ref: 63853] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Steeple Chase Cracks. Une Course au Clocher.
D'Orschwiller Pinx. Régnier, Bettannier, Morlon lith.
New York_Pub.d by W. Schaus, 749 Broadway. Paris, François Delarue, rue JJ. Rousseau 18. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860, by W. Shaus in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York. Imp. F.ois Delarue, Paris.
Coloured lithograph. 528 x 856mm. 20¾ x 33¾".
A satire on horse-racing: jockey monkeys riding dogs in a race.
[Ref: 20677] £520.00

Derby Course The Steeple Chase Game.
[Anon., British, n.d., c.1860.]
Folding lithographic board game, scarce, original green paper-covered boards; 'Rules' within the oval track incorporating seven hand-coloured illustrations of horse riding and fences/obstacles; vignette cornerpieces. Total 425 x 235mm, 16¾ x 9¼". Corners bumped, boards a little scuffed and stained. Two halves of print detached at hinge.
A fine example of popular Victorian family entertainment.
[Ref: 23270] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Ouverture du Steeple-Chase. La Mode 10 Avril 1841. Rue Tailbout No.28.
J. Platier [signed in plate.] Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16.
Chez Aubert gal. Vero-Dodat. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie [Paris, n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, sheet 265 x 340mm. 10½ x 13½". Trace of centrefold. Some light spotting.
Riders (at least two are portraits) are thrown from their horses into a river; a crowd watches in the distance at right, frogs simultaneously hopping into the water. From a Paris periodical, 'La Mode', printed from the same stone as item 22417 (a reissue?).
[Ref: 22418] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Extraordinary Steeple-Chase. For One Thousand Sovereigns between Mr. Osbaldeston's 'Clasher' and Capt.n Ross's 'Clinker'. From Great Dalby Windmill, to within a mile of Tilton on the Hill. (The 5 miles was done in 16 minutes). Dedicated with Permission to Geo. Osbaldeston, Esq.r, and the Gentlemen of the Pytchley Hunt, By their very obliged & obedient servant. R. Ackermann.
Engraved by Mess.rs H. Alken & E. Duncan. London, published 1830, by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand_ and R. Ackermann Jun.r, 191 Regent Street. From a Painting by E. Gill of Northampton, in the possession of G. Osbaldeston, Esq.
London, 1830.
Scarce & fine hand coloured aquatint. 505 x 760mm (20 x 30"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Scene of the steeplechase horse race between horses Clasher and Clinker, ridden by George Osbaldeston (1786-1866) and Dick Christian (1779-1862) respectively. Osbaldeston, an MP for East Retford 1812-1818, was renowned for his racing abilites. His victory at the 1826 steeplechase race depicted here won him 1,000 guineas. Christian had a relatively respectful career in the country caring for and riding horses, though he died impoverished.
Siltzer: p. 332.
[Ref: 55109] £1,250.00

[ANS;Steeplejack/Builder] H.W. Palmer, Builder & Contractor of Repairs to Church Spires and Chimney Shafts, 4 Prospect Place Union Road Rotherhithe, London, S.E. "Dear Sir I herewith enclose you my card and beg to inquire if you need any repairs done to your Chimney Shaft or Lightning Conductor and if so I should be glad to send you an estimate of the cost on the most reasonable terms. I am yrs truly H.W. Palmer." London, April 20th 1883.
Rare ANS, ink on ruled paper, addressed to 'Mr. Towgood St Neots Paper Mills'; with engraved billhead/letterhead. Total sheet 330 x 200mm, 13 x 8". Folds; lower right corner chipped.
Builder's headed ledger sheet used as a letter of introduction soliciting business, the letterhead illustrated with vignettes of a scaffolded chimney stack and church steeple.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16512] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

George Steevans. Esq.r F.R.A.S. Born May 10th O.S. 1736: Died Jan.y 22.d 1800. Engraved from a Portrait Painted by Zofanii in 1774.
Painted by Zoffanii. The face engraved by W. Evans.
Published Sep. 1800. by S. Harding No. 127, Pall Mall.
Stipple. Plate: 225 x 150mm (9 x 6''). Trimmed to plate.
A portrait of Shakespearean commentator George Steevens (1736-1800) shown with his pet dogs.
[Ref: 48671] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

George Steevens Esq.r F.R.S. &c. &c.
Painted by Zoffany. Engraved by T. Hodgetts.
London, Published for John Murray, Albemarle Street, March, 1816. To face p.271.
Mezzotint and engraving, with large margins. Plate 380 x 272mm. 15 x 10¾".
Portrait, almost half length in an oval, directed to left with left hand tucked into his jacket, looking towards the viewer with a slight smile, wearing a dark suit and pale wig tied at the nape of his neck. Plate to Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities, vol. 3, facing p 271. The 'Typographic Antiquities' was begun by Ames and continued by Dibdin, with augmentations by Herbert: four volumes were published 1810-19, printed by William Savage for Millar. The edition was never completed. George Steevens (1736-1800) was an English Shakespearean commentator. He collected a valuable library, rich in Elizabethan literature and a large collection of Hogarth prints; his notes on said subject were incorporated in John Nichol's Genuine Works of Hogarth. In 1767 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 25572] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

George Steevens Esq.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet 117 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed, mounted on album sheet.
George Steevens (1736-1800), commentator on Shakespeare. With Samuel Johnson he published the 10-voume 'The Works of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators', 1773. This is a drawing of his monument by John Flaxman, with an inscription commemorating his Shakespearian labours, in Poplar Chapel.
[Ref: 19021] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Monument to George Steevens.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving, proof before letters? 280 x 225mm (11 x 9"), with large margins. Small tear in right margin, paper soiled.
John Flaxman's monument to George Steevens (1736-1800), the commentator on Shakespeare, in Poplar Chapel. With Samuel Johnson he published the 10-voume 'The Works of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators', 1773; now at "The Courtauld".
[Ref: 44350] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Karl Steffensen 1816. 1888.
Joh. Burger sc.
Engraving, 335 x 260mm.
A portrait of the philosopher Karl Steffensen (1816 Flensburg - 1888 Basel.)
[Ref: 8407] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Steibelt.
E Quenedey.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve des petits Champs No.15 à Paris. Déposé.
Rare Aquatint. Plate 250 x 186mm. 9¾ x 7¼". Some rubbing.
Daniel Steibelt (1765-1823) was a German pianist and composer. He started studying music until his father forced him to join the Prussian army, which he later deserted to begin a nomadic career as a pianist before settling in Paris. He eventually began to split his time between Paris and London, and later started on a professional tour in Germany. In 1808 he was invited by the Tsar Alexander I to St Petersburg, succeeding Francois-Adrien Boieldieu as director of the Royal Opera in 1811, where he remained for the rest of his life.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17260] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Stein Am Rhein.
[Frankfurt, Matthias Merian, 1642.]
Copper engraving. Sheet 205 x 310mm, 8 x 12¼". Trimmed close to plate mark.
Plan of Stein Am Rhein, in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland., published in the 'Topographia Helvetia'.
[Ref: 16479] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eduard Stein. Schauspieler bey dem Leipziger Stadttheater.
Lith v. Kreihuber. Ged. im Lith. Imst in Wien.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 336 x 241mm. 13¼ x 9½".
Eduard Stein (1794-1828, Franz Mathias vos Treuenfeld), was an actor from 1817 to 1828 at the Leipzig Theatre.
[Ref: 16564] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Monument erige aux illustres membres de la famille imperiale de Russie, qui ont daigne honnorer la ville de Carlsbad de teur presence. Pour son altesse imperiale le grand prince Michel de Russie avec le plus profond respect.
taille par Leopold Huttner a Carlsbad 1835.
Hand stencilled design through black paper, laid on to satin-covered card with embossed gilt border. Presented in contemporary green paper covered boards, oblong folio (390 x 480mm, 15¼ x 18¾") with remains of crown and initial 'M' labels on cover. Facing the design glued to inside front cover the stencilled description above form the same black template; also dedication label in ink to Prince Michael with decorative gilt border overlaid. Binding scuffed, paper covers torn and partially missing at extremities. Spine damaged at top and bottom.
A truly unique representation of a monument erected in Karlsbad, Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire), to the Russian royal family. It took the form of a landscaped garden feature, apparently with a plaque at its centre commemorating members of the Imperial family and their illustrious predecessors. This was evidently presented to the infant Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich (1832 – 1909) the fourth son and seventh child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia.
[Ref: 9430] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Mr. James Stephen, Author of the Considerations on Imprisonment for Debt. Veritas a Quocunque dicitur a Deo est.
W. Thomson delin.t. W. Dickinson fecit
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March the 1st 1771 by W. Thomson in Warwick Court Grays Inn.
Mezzotint, very scarce, with very small margins; platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Glued to backing sheet; creases and small tears. Slight spotting.
Portrait of author James Stephen (1733?-1779). Only engraved likeness, after William Thompson (c.1730-1800), a portrait painter whose work is now known mostly through prints. Stephen and Thomson were incarcerated together in the king's bench prison, where Thompson's angry protests against his imprisonment gained him a certain notoriety.
CS 78; O'D 1.
[Ref: 31323] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Stephens] Attached. [Armorial shield]
W. P. J. Lodder Pinx. W.m Bond Sculp.
E Orme Excudit. [n.d. c.1850]
Stipple, sheet 155 x 110mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed. Some light surface dirt and foxing.
A half-length oval portrait of Mrs. Stephens, facing and looking to the right, with one hand resting on her cheek. The British Museum has suggested this could be the wife of Philip Stephens, or FG Stephens, however it is most likely she is Jane Tryphoena 'Grannie' Stephens (1812-96) a British actress who became famous as she became older.
[Ref: 65168] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Stephens. Proof.
Robt. Cooper Sculpt.
London: Published by W. Cribb. Tavistock St. Covent Garden Jany. 1. 1818.
A very fine coloured stipple. Printed in colour on backing sheet. 328 x 228mm. 13 x 9". Publication line rubbed. Trimmed to the plate.
Catherine Stephens (1794-1882), soprano known as 'Kitty'. She was Susanna in the first London production of the 'Marriage of Figaro', opposite John Liston, 1819 and Effie Deans at the premier of 'Heart of Midlothian' the same year. She retired in 1835 and three years later became the second wife of George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, who was in his eighties and lasted just over a year.
Harvard: Vol. I:3. p.433.
[Ref: 14332] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Rayner Stephens [facsimile signature].
Painted by Garside. Engraved by W. Reed.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Stipple. 230 x 150mm (9 x 6") large margins.
Joseph Rayner Stephens (1805–1879), Scottish Methodist minister, campaigner for factory reform and the anti-Poor Law movement. He supported the separating of the Church of England and the State.
[Ref: 51622] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Old Locomotive Engine, constructed by the late George Stephenson, for Killingworth Colliery.
Published by W. Fordyce, Newcastle [n.d., c.1850].
Wood engraving. Printed area 165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾").
[Ref: 56963] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

George Stevenson, Esq.re. To the Proprietors of the Liverpool & Manchester Rail Road, this Portrait is respectfully inscribed By their obedient and humble Servant Moses Haughton.
Moses Haughton del.t. Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. lithog.
London: Published by M. Haughton, 51 Great Marlborough St. [n.d. c.1820]
Scarce lithograph sheet 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Tapped into mount.Some surface dirt and very light foxing.
Half-legth seated portrait of English civil & mechanical engineer "Father of Railways", George Stephenson (1781 - 1848), he holds a picture of a train in his left hand. He wears a waistcoat, cravat and double breasted jacket.
[Ref: 58919] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

George Stephenson, Esq.r Standing on Chat-Moss.
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.
London Published May 23rd 1849, by Henry Graves & Comp.y Printsellers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint. 810 x 515mm (32 x 20"). Staining in margins.
Full-length portrait of George Stephenson (1781-1848), standing on the bog that threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. After attempts to dump spoil failed when it dissapated, Stephenson took advice from East Anglian marshland specialist Robert Stannard, and created a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone that could ''float'' over the moss. This revolutionaty solution can be seen behind Stephenson in this portrait.
[Ref: 48185] £480.00

GW: Stephenson Engineer. [facsimile signature]
Painted By H. P. Briggs, Esqr: R.A. Engraved By C. Turner, A.R.A.
London, Published for the Proprietor June 7, 1838, by Mr. Turner, 50 , Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 419 x 313mm. Repaired hole, creases and tears within the plate margin.
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 - 12 August 1848) was an English mechanical engineer who designed a famous and historically important steam-powered locomotive named Rocket and is known as the 'Father of British Steam Railways'. The Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm), originally called 'Stephenson gauge', has become the standard gauge for the majority of the world's railways.
[Ref: 946] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

GW: Stephenson Engineer. [facsimile signature]
Painted By H. P. Briggs, Esqr: R.A. Engraved By C. Turner, A.R.A.
London, Published for the Proprietor June 7, 1838, by Mr. Turner, 50 , Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 419 x 313mm. Very mild stain from old mount, crack in platemark, small hole reinforced.
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 - 12 August 1848) was an English mechanical engineer who designed a famous and historically important steam-powered locomotive named Rocket and is known as the 'Father of British Steam Railways'. The Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm), originally called 'Stephenson gauge', has become the standard gauge for the majority of the world's railways.
[Ref: 947] £380.00

Geo Stephenson [facsimile signature].
[Painted by J. Lucas. Engraved by T.L. Atkinson.]
[Published by H. Graves & Co. 1849.]
Mixed method engraving, proof before letters. 810 x 520mm. Printed on india paper. Light age toning to paper.
From a picture belonging to the Institution of Civil Engineers. George Stephenson [1781 - 1848] commenced his working life as a cowherd, later working in coalpits. His mechanical mind was noticed by his employers and by 1812 he was an engine-wright earning 100 pounds a year. In 1813 he was commissioned to design a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway. He was to become instrumental in the construction of many of the English railways, hence his nickname 'the father of railways'.
[Ref: 3966] £520.00

[George Stephenson.]
S.M. Litten [pencil signature].
Published by The Museum Galleries, 26, Museum Street, London, W.C. Copyright. 1922.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½") very large margins.
Seated portrait of engineer George Stephenson, the inventor of the first steam locomotive, after Henry William Pickersgill, now in the National Portrait Gallery.
See NPG 410.
[Ref: 57860] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Stephenson].
[Engraved by F. Holl].
[n.d. c.1860].
Stipple engraving, proof before letters. Sheet 443 x 348mm.
Robert Stephenson FRS [1803 - 1859], civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed railway and locomotive engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually joint efforts of father and son. After the crayon drawing by George Richmond.
W: 2824.
[Ref: 380] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Stephenson, Esq.re M.P.]
Painted by John Lucas. Engraved by Sam.l Bellin.
[Henry Graves & Co., 1853.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before facsimile signature and title. 785 x 500mm. Printsellers' blindstamp. Some staining of edges.
Robert Stephenson FRS, 1803-1859, designer of the 'Rocket' steam engine (1829), Chief Engineer for the London and Birmingham Railway (1833-1838), Chief Engineer of the Britannia Bridge (1845).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 3968] £650.00

The Mariners Church, Welclose Square, Supplied by the Revd. G.C. Smith, and Ministers of Various Religious Persuasions.
Drawn & Engraved by E. Duncan.
Published for the Proprietors at 19, Welclose Square, East Smithfield & 105, Leadenhall Street. [n.d., c.1830.]
Rare Etching with aquatint, sheet 130 x 210mm. 5 x 8¼". Trimmed to plate; corners clipped, rubbed.
Exterior view of the old Danish and Norwegian Church, Wellclose Square, Stepney, which became the British and Foreign Sailor Church in 1845. The entrance gate to the church has a sign above it 'Mariners Church'. Figures in the foreground; Stepney is now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Built in 1696, Caius Gabriel Cibber was the architect. The church was demolished in 1870.
[Ref: 18297] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Cath.e Stepney [facsimile signature].
A.E. Chalon R.A. S. Freeman.
London, Published by Henry Colburn, Dec.r 1837.
Rare stipple on chine collé. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with large margins. Spotting on backing sheet.
Half-length portrait of novelist Catherine Pollok (1778-1845), who wrote novels under her married names of Catherine Manners and Catherine Stepney.
[Ref: 63294] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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