Grosvenor Prints

William Strahan Esq.r. From a painting in the Posession of John Spottigwoode Esq.r.
Chamberlayne pinx.t. Leney sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 140 x 85mm (5½ x 8¼"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of William Strahan Esq.r. (1715 - 85), Scottish printer and publisher, as well as a politician who served in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1784. He was also a correspondent and later a close friend of Benjamin Franklin.
[Ref: 68204] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Prospectus Palatii Regii Somerseti Cum Ecclesia S. Mariae Londini.
[Italian, c.1770s.]
Very fine copper engraving, 325 x 430mm. 12¾ x 17". Crease in middle, uncut.
View of the Strand showing Somerset House and St Mary le Strand with horse-drawn wagons and carriages passing along the street; also a rest station for drivers of sedan chairs in front of the church. Title in Latin and Italian. An Italian copy in reverse of the 1753 engraving published by Robert Sayer in London.
See Guildhall Libray Record: 29557.
[Ref: 15857] £360.00

[Improvements to the Strand around St Clement's Church]
V. Woolthorpe sc. 29 Fetter Lane.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 265 x 450mm (10½ x 17¾"). Trimmed close to printed border, laid on album paper.
A record of an attempt to redevelop the northern side of the Strand at St Clement's Church, detailing the layout of the houses. The Strand east of the church is still called 'Pickett Street'.
[Ref: 61732] £160.00

Eagle Tavern and Coffee House Bath & Liverpool Hotel. near Somerset House, Strand.
Millar del. P. Mazell Sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 190 x 195mm (7½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
View on the Strand looking towards St Mary-le-Strand, with a carriage outside the Eagle Coffee House and Tavern, marked by an eagle sculpture above the door.
[Ref: 57642] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The] Strand.
[T.S.Boys Del et Lith.]
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with fine hand-colour. Sheet 415 x 315mm, (16¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed losing artist line. Damage losing 'The' in title. Laid on board.
A view down the Strand reveals three churches receding westward: St Mary-le-Strand in the foreground, followed by St Clement Danes, and finally the newly built St Dunstan in the West with its Gothic crown. To the right, a glimpse of Somerset House appears alongside elegantly curved shopfronts. In the foreground stand several figures, including a Welsh milkmaid, while to the left a carrier’s cart is visible. From Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Abbey Scenery 239.21.
[Ref: 68972] £550.00

Admodum Reverendis, Amplissimis, Clarissimisq. Viris, Curatoribus ex Authoritate Senatus delegatis ad extruenda Quinquaginta illa Templa qua Hortante et Auspicante ANNA fælicis Piæq memoriæ Reginâ Londini instaurari cæperunt, Prospectum hunc Templi S.tæ Mariæ in Vico dicto The Strand. Debito Obsequio D. D: Jacobus Gibbs Architectus.
Jo: Harris Sculpsit.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Engraving 600 x 450mm, 23½ x 17¾". Splits in folds.
South west view of St Mary le Strand as proposed by the architect James Gibbs, which was not as completed. It shows a statue of Queen Anne above the portico which was abandoned on her death in 1714. St Mary-le-Strand was James Gibbs' first public building, the first of the fifty new churches built in London under the 'Commission for Building Fifty New Churches', at a cost of some £16,000. Building started in February 1715, but work was halted because of the Jacobite rebellion. Gibbs, a secret Catholic and widely believed to have Jacobite sympathies, was dismissed as Surveyor to the Commissioners for building New Churches in August 1715 but was allowed to complete the church without pay. The steeple was completed in September 1717, although the church was not consecrated for use until 1 January 1723. Gibbs complained about how the commissioners changed his plans, including the addition of the steeple, which meant Gibbs was 'obliged to spread [the church] from south to north, which makes the plan oblong, which should otherwise have been square'.
[Ref: 9029] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The New Church in the Strand London. La Nouvelle Eglise dans le Strand a Londres. 1719.
Dd.Lockley Sculp.
[Published by Joseph Smith, c.1720.]
Engraving 440 x 575mm Centre crease.
South west view of St Mary le Strand with figures and a horse-drawn-coach on the Strand. One of the oldest parishes in London, it stands dominating a roadway which since prehistory has been the main artery to the west from the City of London.
[Ref: 3936] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross.
T. S. Boys Del et Lith.
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with fine hand-colour, sheet 350 x 545mm. (14 x 21½"). Tear on right. Cut to image.
A view of the Strand from Charing Cross. St Martin in the Fields can be seen on the left; beside it is Morley's Hotel and beyond that the corner turret of Nash's West Strand improvement. On the right side, with twin lead-capped turrets and a central lion, is Northumberland House which survived until 1874. From Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Adams: 196.20
[Ref: 68976] £380.00

South Front of St. Mary's Church, Strand.
Publish'd Decr. 10th 1796, by T. Malton.
Hand coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 410 x 310mm. 16" x 12¼".
St. Mary le Strand at the eastern end of the Strand, London. From 'A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, illustrated With the most interesting Views, accurately delineated And executed in Aquatinta by Thomas Malton', 1792 - 1801. Thomas Malton (1748 - 1804) was an architectural watercolourist and teacher of Thomas Girtin and Joseph Mallord William Turner; also an aquatinter, notably after his own designs of London views.
Abbey Scenery: 204, 43.
[Ref: 15855] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Strand on the Green. [in pencil] 'One of the quaintest and least spoilt places on the Thames is Strand-on-the-Green, below Kew Bridge on the Middlesex bank. The view from the interesting old houses is charming on account of the pretty eyot in the middle of the river. The inhabitants are chiefly watermen, but artists and writers have also lived in the very quaint houses. Zoffany, the painted, died at Strand-on-the-Green in 1810, and Joe Miller, the wit, lived there. The Maltster's building on the left-and important feature from an artistic point of view-was recently pulled down'.
J. Alphege Brewer.
[n.d. c.1900]
Etching. 156 x 228mm. 6 x 9".
[Ref: 14367] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Etchings of William Strang & Sir Charles Holroyd being a Lecture delivered to the Print Collector's Club on Wednesday 5th April 1933
by Campbell Dodgson C.B.E., Hon. R.E.
Publication Number Twelve. The Print Collectors' Club. 5A Pall Mall East, London, S.W.I. MCMXXXIII [1933].
Book: 8vo (249 x 185mm). Limited edition 212/500. Illustrated catalogue of 61 pages. Board and cloth binding with Print Collectors' Club emblem stamped on front. Binding worn. Some spotting.
William Strang [1859-1921 and Sir Charles Holroyd [1861-1917].
[Ref: 10333] £25.00

[Sir John Strange] I. Strange Eq. Avr. S. Scrinior. Magister Reg. Maiest. A Secr. Consiliis Ob. XV, Cal. IVN. A.D. MDCCLIV. Aet. LVIII.
J, Houbraken Sculp.
[n.d., 1755.]
Etgraving and etching. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 6¾") very large margins.
Sir John Strange (1696-1754), Master of the Rolls from 1750 until his death, published as the frontispiece to his 'Reports'. His epitath says "Here lies an honest lawyer and that is strange".
[Ref: 64225] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[India] Sir Thomas Strange, Knight L.L.D. Recorder, afterwards Chief Justice for Madras.
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty. Member of the Roman Academy of St. Lukes & of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. Engraved by Charles Turner, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.
[London, Published Feb.y 1. 1820, by C. Turner, 50, Warren St. Fitzroy Square.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 710 x 430mm (28 x 17"). Trimmed to plate, top and bottom edges ragged, rendering publication line illegible. Messy at bottom.
Full length portrait of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1756-1841) in judical robes. From 1789 to 1797 he was the sixth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; in 1798 he was appointed Recorder of Fort St. George (Madras), becoming Chief Justice with the introduction of the Supreme Court two years later. An important Indian judge.
Whitman 546. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66173] £460.00

The Strangers at Home.
Published March 4th 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching, watermark Russell & Co, 1798. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½").
Three men at a table in a well-furnished room, drinking and singing a drinking song, text underneath.
BM Satires 9110.
[Ref: 54481] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Colonel Giles Strangways of Melbury Sampford in Dorsetshire. The rest Fame speakes, and makes His Virtues Known By's Zeale for th'Church, and Loyalty to th' Throne. The Artist in this Draft, doth Art excell: None but Himselfe, himselfe can paralell. But if his Steel could His great Mind express, That would appear in a much nobler Dress.
D. Loggan ad Vivum delin.
[n.d. c.1665].
Engraving. 200 x 300mm.
Royalist M.P. for Dorset d.1675.
[Ref: 3942] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Fox Strangways] [facsimile signature] Colnaghi's Authentic Series.
Ed Hayes Pinx.t. J.A. Vinter , Lith. Day & Son & Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published April 11th 1853 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & C.º 13 & 124 Pall Mall East _ Publishers to Her Majesty. Depose Paris Goupil & C.ie.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 420 x 270mm (16½ x 10½"). Tear in edge repaired, surface soiling.
Three-quarter portrait of Brigadier Thomas Fox Strangways (1790-1854) of the Royal Artillery, in uniform. a gloved hand on the hilt of his sword and the other holding his fur shapka. At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he was wounded so badly he was not expected to live. Nearly forty years later he was in command of the Royal Artillery during the Crimean War, when a shell took off his leg during the Battle of Inkermann, causing his death an hour later.
[Ref: 66961] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Femme d'un Docteur de Strasbourg. Je suis scavant autant que belle, Je charme l'esprit et le coeur; Comment ne serios-je pas telle, Puisque mon Epoux est Docteur?
A Paris chez N. Bonnart, rue S.t Jacques, a l'aigle, avec privil.
Paris [n.d. c.1675]
Engraving. 275 x 19mm (10¾ x 7½). Trimmed to platemark and laid on paper. Some creasing in the margins staining in lower left margin.
A woman dressed in clothing appropriate for a doctor's wife. Printed by Nicolas Bonnart (c. 1637 - 1718), the son of Henri Bonnart. He was largely active between 1664-70 and moved his printing business to St. Jacques Rue in 1674. From an album of 215 prints depicting different French costumes of the period, the majority are published by members of the Bonnart family.
[Ref: 54722] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Abcontrasetung der Schacht so Zwischen den Strasbügischen Und Leharingischen an.º 1592 den 25 aügüsti Gerhalten Worden, alles Weiter In Beÿ Legenden Verzeihnüss, aüs gesühret.
[n.d., c.1600.
Scarce copper engraving. Sheet 210 x 285mm (8¼ x 11¼"). Damaged. Edge chipped, a short tear and a few old repairs and losses.
A map-view of a battle between the armies of Strasbourg and Lorraine, 25th August 1592, with the topography displayed as a map, but the battle graphically. A large profile of Strasbourg has the Cathedral shown prominently. This battle was fought during the religious wars that swept Germany (Strasboug had become Protestant in 1532); after this battle it was decided that the Cathedral should be shared between Protestants and Catholics, with a Bishop for each denomination.
[Ref: 56174] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Horloge Astronomique de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg. Construite en 1842 par J.B. Schwilgué.
Dessiné d'après nature par J. Burck. Imp.t. Lith.e en couleurs E. Simon à Strasbourg.
Se trouve chez E. Simo, Imp.r Lith.e à Strasbourg.
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 490 x 350mm (19¼ x 13¾''), with very large margins.
An interior view of Notre-Dame in Strasbourg, showing the large astronomical clock. There has been a clock in the cathedral since the 14th century, this is the third. The clock has a perpetual calendar, orrery and a display showing the sun and the moon and solar and lunar eclipses.
[Ref: 49601] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Fireworks at Strasbourg] Représentation des Edifices et Decorations Elevés, et du Feu d'Artifice exécuté le 5 Octobre 1744 sous le bon plaisir et en presence de Sa Majesté Louis XV, par les Ordres du Magestrat de Strasbourg, sur la Riviere d'Ill, et en façe du Palais Episcopal où Sa Majesté.
Inventé dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis Graveur de la Ville de Strasbourg. Gravé par J.B. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy.
[n.d., c.1745]
Etching. 450 x 770mm (17¾ x 30¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark and centrefold margin repaired, faint damp stain affecting margin and title area on left.
A massive fireworks display outside the Episcopal Palace, Strasbourg, with spectators lining the river. In 1744 Louis XIV travelled to Germany to join his army fighting the War of the Austrian Succession. He fell ill, so gravely that his chaplain could blackmail Louis into giving up his mistress before receiving absolution. When he recovered a five-day party was held, with the events recorded in 'Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi, à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville', with this being plate 5 of 11.
[Ref: 54038] £650.00

Straelzondt, een wytberoemde en machtige stadt in Pomeren. Stralsunda, urbs potentissima et celeberrima in Pomerania.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld. C.P.
[n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving with very large margins. Plate 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼").
Stralsund, in northern Germany, showing a large windmill & gardens. Plate to Schenk's 'Hecatompolis' (1702), which included one hundred profile views of cities throughout the world.
[Ref: 28703] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Stratford upon Avon. The grave of Shakespeare is situated between the windows seen in the chuch. ''His good remembrance lies richer in your thoughts, than on his tomb.''
G.F. Robson del.t. W.J. Bennett sculp.t.
London Published Jan.y 20, 1822, by S. & I. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place.
Aquatint, rare. Sheet: 500 x 400mm (19¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate. Marking in margins.
A moonlit scene in looking up the Avon to the church at Stratford-on-Avon where William Shakespeare is buried.
[Ref: 44880] £350.00

Stratford on Avon. The Home of Shakspeare [sic].
Published by Rock & Co. London. [c.1865.]
Attractive souvenir booklet of six steel engraved views, oblong 12mo, stitched into original printed card wrappers; embossed upper cover. Binding scuffed and rubbed, upper cover with large chip.
No text save captions; all plates numbered, five dated.
[Ref: 18574] £90.00 view all images for this item

The House at Stratford on Avon, in which Shakespeare was born.
Drawn on Stone by N. Whittock Oxford. Printed by Redman, London.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾"), with good margins.
The 16th-century half-timbered house on Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, believed to be William Shakespeare's birth place. An early British lithograph. David J. Redman was a former employee of Georg Johann Vollweiler, who sold the secret of lithography to Colonel John Brown in 1807. Redman's plan of Bantry Bay of 1808 is the earliest known lithographic map.
[Ref: 31023] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon.] 18. [This building is a double two-storey gabled house. The room in which Shakespeare was born overlooks the street. The house once contained sixteen rooms, although now the attic floors have been removed to make room for a museum containing relics and documents relating to Shakespeare. The house is typical of those occupied by well-to-do tradesmen in the sixteenth century. The eastern portion was purchased by John Shakespear, the father, in 1556; the western half, which contains the room in which Shakespeare was born, was not purchased until 1575, although occupied by the family some years earlier. On his death, Shakespeare left the house to his sister, Joan Hart, and it remained in the possession of the Hart family until 1808, when it was purchased by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust In 1857-8 the Trustees carefully restored the building as nearly as possible to its original condition. The house has been a place of pilgrimage for thousands of visitors, and in the room in which the poet was born may be seen many signatures on the walls and windows, including those of Kean, Thackeray, Dickins and Sir Walter Scott. Nearly 150,000 persons visit this buidling annually, including many Americans.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Ethcing. 254 x 282mm. 10 x 11¼".
[Ref: 14606] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Grammar School, Stratford-on-Avon.] 23. [The Grammar School at Stratford-on-Avon is situated in the upper floor of the Guildhall. It was here that Shakespeare was educated, and it has been suggested that it was in the hall below that he had his first introduction to the drama, when it was visited by companies of strolling players. John Shakespeare, his father, was the High Bailiff (1569). The School was originally the School of the Guild of the Holy Cross, and as early as the reign of Edward I, this was a flourishing society associated for mutual benefit-religion, social and educational work. It was founded by Thomas Jolyffe centuries before the inhabitants obtained a Charter for the transference of the estates of the Guild to themselves. It is sometimes miscalled King Edward VI. School. The building was constructed in 1473, and was used for meetings of the Corporation down to 1842. Behind the Guildhall is the former "Pedagogue's House," now school-rooms, which was built about 1428.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 281 x 259mm. 11 x 10¼".
[Ref: 14611] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Harvard House.] 22. [Harvard House in the High Street of Stratford-on-Avon was the home of Katherine Rogers, afterwards Harvard, the founder of the American University of that name. It was carefully restored in 1909. Beneath the front window are inscribed the initials of Thomas and Alice Roger, parents of Katherine Rogers. Apart from its associations for Americans, the house is remarkable as a very fine and ornate example of late Elizabethan timber-work, anticipating the style known as Jacobean. The entire front is covered with a profusion of carved ornament, to such an extent that little of the timber frame has been left plain. Above the bracket heads on the ground floor is the carving of a female head, somewhat mutilated, and possibly intended to be Queen Elizabeth. Other parts of the house are of later date, a fire in 1595 having destroyed parts of it. The upstairs parlous is notable for beautiful oak panelling and for its period furniture.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 285 x 252mm. 11¼ x 10".
[Ref: 14610] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Shakespeare's Birthplace.]
W H Sweet [pencil signature.]
[British, n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, 170 x 270mm. 6¾ x 10½".
Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house in Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years. It is now a small museum open to the public and a popular visitor attraction, owned and managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Walter Henry Sweet (1889-1943), prolific Devon artist who painted street scenes, moorland views and seascapes. With Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp to lower margin.
[Ref: 27383] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Anne Hathaway's Cottage.] The Cottage at Shottery, near Stratford-Upon-Avon, Where Shakespeare wooed and won his wife, Anne Hathaway; Whose Name Has Suggested the Following Exquisite Jeu de Mots.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Broadside, woodcut and letterpress on blue paper. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Small stain at top edge, corners chipped.
A flyer for visitors to Anne Hathaway's cottage, Stratford-on-Avon. The 'Jeu de Mots' is a pun on Anne's name, ''Anne hath a way'.
[Ref: 61089] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Strath-naver, Sutherlandshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. May, 1, 1820.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman. 1819'. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A view of the mouth of the River Naver, and Loch Naver in Torrisdale Bay, Scotland. Small boats can be seen laying out netting to the left, with a number of fisherman inspecting their catch on the shore. The River Naver is the largest river in Sutherland, famous for Salmon fishing. 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: 36072] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[General Tom Thumb, in his carriage.]
[Dean & C.o Threadneedle S.t][n.d. c.1845]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 175 x 260mm (6¾ x 10¼") Trimmed and glued to scrapbook paper. Some surface dirt.
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 -1883), better known by his stage name ''General Tom Thumb'' in one of his custom built carriages, drawn by ponies, the coachmen children. Onlookers watch amused. Stratton often rode around in his carriage in the cities he was performing in as advertising.
See rference 61738 fro framed version.
[Ref: 58569] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his Character as Napoleon is 12 Years Old. 25 Inches High and Weighs 15 Pounds. Gen. Tom. Thumb.
London J.T. Wood, 33, Holywell Str. Strand. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Bit messy, 'E.B.J.' in ms lower left.
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), known on the stage as General Tom Thumb, was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
[Ref: 37654] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

General Tom Thumb, in his carriage.
[Dean & C.o Threadneedle S.t][n.d. c.1845.]
Hand coloured lithograph. Framed, sight size 220 x 270mm (8¾ x 10½") Trimmed at bottom, losing publication line. Unexamined out of frame.
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 -1883), better known by his stage name ''General Tom Thumb'' in one of his custom built carriages, drawn by ponies, the coachmen children. Onlookers watch amused. Stratton often rode around in his carriage in the cities he was performing in as advertising.
See reference 58569 for unframed version.
[Ref: 61738] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his Character as Napoleon, is 12 Years Old. 25 Inches High and Weighs 15 Pounds.
London J.T. Wood, 33, Holywell Str. Strand. [n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), known on the stage as General Tom Thumb, was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
[Ref: 48993] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Charles S. Stratton known as General Tom Thumb, the American in Miniature. [Facimile signature.] Born Jan.y 11th 1832. He is smaller than any infant that ever walked alone, is 25 inches in height and weeights only 15 Pounds!
Baugniet 1844. Baugniet lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 365 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Creasing in text at bottom. Trimmed
A portrait of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-83), aged 14. Known as General Tom Thumb, he was a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. His routines included impersonating characters such as Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as singing, dancing and comical banter.
[Ref: 60364] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles S. Stratton, General Tom Thumb.] [Le General Tom Pouce.] d'après nature.
F. Grenier. [Imp Lemercier R. de Seine, 57 à Paris.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph with some hand colour. Sheet 255 x 340mm (10 13½"). Trimmed, losing title, repaired tear, some soiling.
The American dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 - 1883) in front of a coach presented to him by Queen Victoria during his visit to England during the 1840s, complete with ponies and boy coachman and footman. Standing by Stratton's side is the archetypal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Stratton's patron. By François Grenier (1793 - 1867), painter, lithographer, pupil of David and Guérin.
[Ref: 58043] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Eduard Strauss.
Vanity Fair, August 29 1895, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Chromolithograph, sheet 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10").
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), conductor and composer. The third son of Johann Strauss the Elder, Eduard wrote over 320 orchestral dances and marches.
[Ref: 41392] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Fig 1 Pasmore's Patent Machine for cutting Straw. Fig 2 Pasmore's Patent Mill for splitting Beans, crushing Barley, Oats, Malt &c
[c.1810]
Engraving, sheet 150 x 215mm (6 x 8½").
Agricultural machinery designed by Thomas Pasmore of Doncaster to cut straw for cattle and crush grain. Probably published in an agricultural magazine.
[Ref: 43689] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Strawberries. Covent Garden.
[London: Richard Phillips, 1808.]
Coloured engraving with very large margins. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"), watermarked 1808. With text sheet.
A woman with a basket of strawberries on her head, handing out a portion in a 'pottle', a conical wicker basket, at sixpence a pottle plus a penny deposit for the bottle. Published in 'Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis'.
[Ref: 34001] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Strawberry Girl.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by Tho.s Watson.
Publish'd Nov 1st 1774 for W.Shropshire, No. 158 & T.Watson, No 142, New Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"), very large margins.
Portrait of Theophilia Gwatkin (1782-1844). Her mother, also Theophilia (neé Palmer 1757-1848), was the niece of Reynolds and also modelled for him.
Goodwin, 52, iii of iv. CS 43, ii of iii. See [Ref: 66380]. See also [Ref: 68019], [Ref: 68022] & [Ref: 68020] for Theophilia Palmer.
[Ref: 61380] £370.00

The Cottage at Strawberry Hill [Reversed.].
J.B. del. John Watts Fecit.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Sepia aquatint. 125 x 165mm. Narrow margins, laid on card.
All the lettering is reversed.
[Ref: 3406] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Farm Yard and Printing House at Strawberry Hill. the Seat of the Hon. H. Walpole.
Drawn and Etch'd by E. Edwards.A. Engrav'd in Aquatinta by F. Jukes.
London Published as the Act directs [n.d., c.1790.]
Etching and aquatint with original hand colour, image 180 x 232mm. Trimmed to image top and sides.
View in the grounds of the fancifully 'Gothic' villa of Horace Walpole, a folly which he purchased in 1748 and rebuilt in stages to his own specifications, expanding the little property from five acres to forty-six over the years. Walpole built the Printing House in 1757. In September 1759 he wrote to the Earl of Strafford “…I have begun to build a new printing-house, that the old one may make room for the Gallery and Round Tower.” It was finished at the end of October when he wrote again to Strafford “My new printing-house is finished, in order to pull down the old one, and lay the foundations next summer of my round tower.” It was in use by the end of the following May. Although it possessed no Gothic features, it was probably the most important building as it was the headquarters of Walpole’s private press, “the Offinia Arbuteana or the Strawberry Hill Press.” The first book issued from the press was an edition of the Odes of Thomas Gray (1757), Walpole’s old schoolfriend. Amongst Walpole’s own works printed here were the Mysterious Mother (1768), a blank-verse drama, and the Essay on Modern Gardening (1785). A work particularly important for its documentary value was issued from the press in 1774. This was Walpole’s 'Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham, with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities etc'. The 'Description' was subsequently revised and reprinted in 1784, accompanied by engravings.
[Ref: 8004] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Stray'd Child Restored. L'Enfant Retrouvé.
Painted by J. Ward. Engraved by S. Young.
London, Published May 20. 1798. by S. Morgan, 216 Holborn.
Mezzotint. 600 x 485mm (23½ x 19"), with very large margins.
The second of a pair of images depicting the loss and then rediscovery of a child, after 'The Stray'd Child'. The child is handed back into her mother's arms while her father looks to the heavens, relieved, and two older girls rush around overjoyed. In the street behind them figures continue about their business.
[Ref: 56762] £320.00

Yours sincerely Tho.s Streatfeild of Chart's Edge.
Painted & Drawn on Stone by Herbert L. Smith. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph on chine collé. 460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Backing paper torn and soiled.
Rev Thomas Streatfeild (1777-1848), an antiquarian whose 50 volumes of writings on the history of Kent (now in the BM) resulted in only one published volume, The History of Blackheath, for which he executed several wood engravings. Chart's Edge was the house he designed and built in Westerham.
[Ref: 48446] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Seat of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord William Russell, Streatham Surry.
Drawn & Engraved by J. Hassell.
London Pub.d by J. Hassell 1st. May 1804
Engraving, platemark 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾") very large margins.
The seat of William Russell on Streatham High Road, with St Leonard's church on the left. The house was later demolished and the site is now occupied by the English Martyrs Catholic Church. Streatham is now part of the south London borough of Lambeth but formerly in the county of Surrey. Plate from a set of 'Notable English Places' by John Hassell (1767-1825) showing notable residences in and around London. The text which accompanies the plate in the full volume notes: 'the house appears to have undergone a total change in its external form, about the beiginning of the last century, and is now receiving considerable additions and improvements, from its present proprietor, Lord William Russelll, to whom it was presented by his brother, the late Francis Duke of Bedford, during his life-time.'
For a complete volume of 'Notable English Places' see ref. 7430.
[Ref: 44480] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Street Scene by Night.]
Pauline Baumann [pencil signature.]
[British, c.1930s.]
Scarce lithograph on laid paper, image 315 x 250mm.
A night view of a busy building where the viewer sees all the activity in the lighted rooms above the commercial premises below. Two women walking along the poorly illuminated pavement seem exagerated in size compared to the hairdresser's window the pass. The artist appears not to have made many prints but was known as a painter, printmaker and teacher. Baumann was particularly noted for her etchings, engravings and lithographs and lived in London where she studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Arts. Her work is represented in the collection of the Museum of London.
See Guichard: Appendix 1, p.70: "Baumann, Miss C.A.P."
[Ref: 18841] £480.00

[Strength] La Force. R 10.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), centred around an elephant.
[Ref: 59584] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Strephon & Chloe.
J.Bretherton f. New Bond Street No.134. Mr.Bunbury del.
Publish'd 28th Nov. 1772
Etching in outline. 280 x 220mm. Very small margins.
BM Satire 4755.
[Ref: 1086] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Strephon & Myra. O Myra, Why_ Are you so shy!_Thou nature's best invention! [/] Your Stephron sues, _Can you refuse_To yild to his pretention.
Published 26 Nov.r. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London.
Stipple. Sheet: 160 x 135mm (6¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Scene set within an oval in which a young man leans over a reclining woman while holding her face in his hands. Strephon is the name often given to the lover in pastoral verse, a genre which flourished during th 18th Century, while the name Myra is also a name of poetic invention. The manner in which Strephon holds Myra and leans over her is slightly unsettling, which along with the verse beneath which lacks much of the idealism of pastoral poetry, serves perhaps, to satirise the pastoral genre.
[Ref: 35103] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Market House Church Stretton. 1832.
Lithograph on india with very large margins. Sheet 279 x 380mm (11 x 15").
The half-timbered market hall which was erected in The Square of Church Stretton, Shropshire, in 1617 by Bonham Norton. This was taken down in 1839 and replaced in 1840 by a second building funded by public subscription, itself demolished as unsafe in 1839.
[Ref: 34740] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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