Grosvenor Prints

[Hunting. 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. 21.' Platemark: 645 x 320mm (25¼ x 12¼"). Very light foxing in margins.
A young man in hunting dress rides directly towards the viewer, with another figure following, behind to the right. 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: 37687
[Ref: 37688] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

''The Run of the Season.'' Messrs. Frost & Reed, have the honour to invite [ink mss.] & Friends to view a series of Four Important Pictures ''Found'', ''Gone'', ''Check'' & ''Finish'' by M.r Thomas Blinks which are now on Exhibition at the Gallery 12, Clare Street, Bristol.
[n.d., c.1887.]
Rare etched invitation. 130 x 200mm (5 x 8") on card.
An invitation to see four hunting pictures by Blinks, illustrated with foxhounds with riders in the background. The four were published as mixed-method engravings in 1887.
See BM 2010,7081.6629 for the published plate this detail comes from.
[Ref: 62313] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Rabbit Boy]
Thos. Blinks [Pencil signature].
Berlin Photographic Company, 1899.
Photogravure on india paper. 310 x 340mm.
[Ref: 685] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Pheasants. After Thomas Blinks.]
Thos. Blinks [Signed in pencil]. T. Blinks [within plate].
Copyright 1904, by Photographische Gesellschaft.
Photogravure printed in colour. Rare. Blind stamp in lower left corner, 'Berlin Photographic Society. PP.' Platemark: 580 x 380mm (22¾ x 15").
A flock of pheasants in flight over a field, two birds falling as they are shot. After British sporting and animal painter, Thomas Blinks (1860 - 1912), who worked in Abbey Road and exhibited paintings at the RA from 1883.
[Ref: 37689] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bliss-and Ton. No. 2. Sketches from the King's Theatre.
[by John Doyle.]
London: Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, June 1, 1835. Printed by Lefevre & Koller.
Lithograph. Sheet 250 x 220mm (9¾ x 8½").
A portrait of two opera-goers in a box.
[Ref: 53707] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Blockhaus entre Hernani et Tolosa. Les Français avaient construit sur les grandes routes d’Espagne des petits forts en bois-occupés par de l’infanterie destinée à escorter les courriers et à protéger les convois.
Bacler-d'Albe ft. Lith de G. Engelmann.
[n.d., 1820-2.]
Lithograph. 266 x 356mm (10½ x 14").
One of the forts built by the French on the road between Hernani and Tolosa in the Basque Country, Spain, for the infantry destined to escort and protect any convoys. From 'Souvenirs pittoresques du Général Bacler d'Albe. Tome II, Campagne d'Espagne', a collection of landscapes by Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761-1824) drawn during the Napoleonic Wars. A soldier, cartographer and painter, Bacler d'Albe was a close companion of Napoléon Bonaparte from Toulon in 1793 until 1815. Napoleon's will tasked him with the education of his son Napoleon II.
[Ref: 17313] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Blockhead and Boot Of all ye Fools that Pride can Boast...But Blunders on from its to ill.
[n.d. c.1762.]
Etching. 120 x 127mm. 4¾ x 5". Paper toning and foxing. Small nicks to the edges.
Pocket-sized satire. A centre pole rises from a large jack-bute. The person bowing profoundly before the boot is Arthur Murphy. Coming down the stairs is the Duke of Cumberland armed with a whip, followed by Edward, the Duke of York.
See BM Satires: 3977**.
[Ref: 17567] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Farmyard scene.]
Abraham Bloemaert inven. Fre: Bloem Sculp.
N. Visscher exc.
Etching printed on 17th century watermarked paper, platemark 130 x 185mm (5 x 7¼").
From a set of rural scenes with morals below in latin.
[Ref: 32539] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Farmyard scene]
AB [Abraham Bloemaert]
Etching 17th century watermarked paper, platemark 130 x 185mm (5 x 7¼").
From a set of rural scenes with morals below in latin.
[Ref: 32540] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Cow in a cabbage field.]
[Engraved by Boëtius Adamszoon Bolswert after Abraham Bloemaert.]
[n.d., c. 1611.]
Etching. Collector's embossed mark; 115 x 145mm (4¼ x 5¾").
From the 12-plate series 'The Animals'.
[Ref: 41723] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Franics Blomefield, A.M F.R.A. Copied from an old print, originally Engraved as the portrait of another person, but preserved & highly valued by the late Mr Thomas Martin as a striking likeness of the Norfolk Topographer.
Engraved by G.Dawe.
Published June 1, 1805 by William Miller, Albermarle Street, London.
Mezzotint. Sheet 210 x 125mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed and some time-staining.
Portrait of Francis Blomefield (1705 - 1752), Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.
[Ref: 68267] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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Blondin's Gigantic Arena. Dimensions. Length of Fence 400 English feet. Width of Fence 800 English Feet. Height of Fence 8 English Feet. Length of Tent 250 English Feet. Width of Tent 200 English Feet. Height of Tent 50 English Feet. [Accompanying Sheet]: Explanations of further measurements and details of erecting the tent.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet size: 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"). Very slight central crease.
Jean François Gravelet Blondin (1824-1897) was a French tight-rope walker and acrobat. Blondin went to the United States in 1855 to perform with the Ravel troupe in New York City. It was in 1861 that Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace. His success continued with a series of performance at the Crystal Palace in 1862, and elsewhere in England, and on the continent. His final performance was in Belfast in 1896 and a year later he passed away in Ealing aged 72.
[Ref: 40011] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Blondin's Gigantic Arena. Dimensions. Length of Fence 400 English feet. Width of Fence 800 English Feet. Height of Fence 8 English Feet. Length of Tent 250 English Feet. Width of Tent 200 English Feet. Height of Tent 50 English Feet. [Accompanying Sheet]: Explanations of further measurements and details of erecting the tent.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Very scarce lithograph 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), and etched sheet folded in half 280 x 256mm (11 x 10").
Jean François Gravelet Blondin (1824-1897) was a French tight-rope walker and acrobat. Blondin went to the United States in 1855 to perform with the Ravel troupe in New York City. It was in 1861 that Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace. His success continued with a series of performance at the Crystal Palace in 1862, and elsewhere in England, and on the continent. His final performance was in Belfast in 1896 and a year later he passed away in Ealing aged 72.
[Ref: 56068] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Bloodhounds.]
Henry Wilkinson.
Etching signed by the artist. 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Edition: 9/250.
An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and scenes.
[Ref: 47903] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Bloodhound - 'The Veteran'.]
HD 1921. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Copyright Frost & Reed, Ltd. 1921.
Etching, limited edition of 250 signed proofs. 430 x 410mm (17 x 16¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A circular image of a bloodhound head. As the plate was destroyed at the end of the printing this etching is most uncommon.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele. See 20834 for unframed version.
[Ref: 52124] £950.00

[Bloodhound - 'The Veteran'.]
HD 1921. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Copyright Frost & Reed, Ltd. 1921.
Etching, limited edition of 250 signed proofs. 430 x 410mm (17 x 16¼"). Uncut sheet, mint.
A circular image of a bloodhound head. As the plate was destroyed at the end of the printing this etching is most uncommon.
Not in PSA.
[Ref: 20834] £950.00

[The Sentinel.]
HD 1913. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Published at 8, Clare Street, Bristol by Frost & Reed Ltd. Printsellers of Bristol and London April 2nd. 1913 Berlin Stiefbold & Co. Postdamerstrasse 40 Copyright. Copyright by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol England) in the United States of America.
Etching on vellum, remarque proof, limited edition of 300 signed by the artist. 375 x 650mm (14¾ x 25½"). Frame with Frost and Reed label with the print's details. Unexamined out of frame.
A bloodhound lying down yet alert, with a remarque of a gauntlet. The plate was destroyed at the end of this print run so this etching is most uncommon.
[Ref: 50011] £1,200.00

[Bloodhound head]
Herbert Dicksee [signed in pencil.]
[Fine Art Society?, c.1900]
Rare etching, signed artist's proof. 435 x 365 (17 x 14½"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'O.W.P. & A.C.L.'.
O.W. Paper & Arts Co. Ltd. was established by the English painter John William North (1842-1924) in 1895 to create fine paper for artists. It was used by printmakers including Whistler and Strang.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 52657] £1,350.00

[Detectives.] No.1.
Maud Earl.
Copyright 1902, by Photographische Gesellschaft. Published by the Berlin Photographic Company Berlin - London W. 133 New Bond Street_New York 14 East 23rd Street.
Photogravure. Plate 304 x 375mm. 12 x 14¾".
Bloodhounds, 'Panther' & 'Champion Wandle Welcome'. Owner - A. Croston-Smith Esqr.
No.1 British Hounds & Gundogs.
[Ref: 15998] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bloodhounds seizing their Prey_ie_Bow Street Patrole upon Private Business. "Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, Almighty hunter and his prey was Man". Pope.
Pub.d July 1816 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching, printed on 1817 watermarked paper; Plate: 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Tears and creasing in edges, paper tone. Crease through print.
A satrical print showing two theives being caught and held by two Bow Street Runners while a third runs off to the left. The Bow Street Runners were London's first police force. Watch & clock maker's shop to left.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43644] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

L'Homme Condamne a la Peine ou Talion
[French n.d., c.1780.]
14 colour-printed stipples cut to image and pasted onto a card, title underneath. Total 590 x 750mm (23¼ x 29½"). Some surface wear.
An extremely rare series of images illustrating a fable in which animals get revenge on Man the hunter. Around the outside are ten matching hunting scenes, including coursing, ferreting, goat shooting, hunting a bull with dogs and lion hunting. (The two scenes in the top corners differ in being identifiable mythological scenes: top left is Saint Eustace's vision of a stag with a crucifix lodged between its antlers; top right is Actaeon turning into a stag.) The two larger central scenes show a hunter and his dogs being led into a court headed by a lion, and the hunter being cooked on a fire, basted by a bear and goat, while his dogs are lynched as collaborators.
[Ref: 51971] £780.00

A Bloomer - one that will ''go ahead''.
[n.d., c.1851].
Writing sheets, 4pp. with a coloured lithographic front cover. Cover 240 x 195mm (9½ x 7¾"). Some creasing, small tear.
A woman woman wearing bloomers races her cart down a street, with her male passenger losing his top hat. A rare satire of the introduction of 'bloomers', loose Turkish-style trousers for women. More comfortable than the stiff pettycoats and long skirts of the period, they came to be seen as symbols of feminist reform. Driving past shop front "The transatlantic express". An early feminist image.
[Ref: 64181] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bloomerism in the Ascendent, or Men no longer Lords of the Creation.
London. - Published by G. Purkess, Compton Street, Soho [n.d., c.1851].
Scarce wood engraving & letterpress. Sheet 350 x 500mm (13¾ x 19¾"). Trimmed at bottom affecting publication line, wear at edges, creases.
A rare satire of the introduction of 'bloomers', loose Turkish-style trousers for women. More comfortable than the stiff pettycoats and long skirts of the period, they came to be seen as symbols of feminist reform. In the six scenes on this sheet, the adherents of bloomerism take on the characteristrics of men as they smoke, race horses, brawl, skate, etc. An early feminist image.
[Ref: 63484] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Progress of Bloomerism; or a Complete Change. Punch's Pocket book for 1852.
John Leech [in image]
[London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1852]
Coloured etching, sheet 125 x 315mm (5 x 12½"). Folded as issued. Some time stains. Small holes in fold where bound.
A rare satire of the introduction of 'bloomers', loose Turkish-style trousers for women. More comfortable than the stiff pettycoats and long skirts of the period, they came to be seen as symbols of feminist reform. The adherents of bloomerism take on the characteristrics of men as they talk, smoke and ride a rocking horse not side sadle. 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: 63857] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Miss Bloomfield.
Adam Buck del. T Cheesman Sculpsit.
London Published April 25, 1803 by William Holland. No.11, Cockspur Street, (removed from Oxford Street).
Hand-coloured stipple with etching, and large margins. Plate 297 x 209mm. 11¾ x 8¼". .
Portrait of a young woman, almost full-length, three-quarters to left with head in profile, left hand to hip; wearing white, low-necked, short-sleeved dress, hair tied back in Grecian style, with long diaphanous scarf fastened to a band in her hair and trailing down on either side, which she holds up with her right hand.
[Ref: 28168] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Blooming Gleaner and Amourous Justice.
London Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard.
Engraving. 420 x 350mm, 16½ x 13¾". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A middle-aged man with a gout-afflicted leg approaches a pretty young harvester.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 8821] £330.00

The Blooming Peach and Shrivell'd Apple, or Amorous Notions at Fourscore.
Printed for Carington Bowles. Map & Printselleer, No. 69 in St. Paul's Chruch Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs [date erased].
Coloured mezzotint. 246 x 350mm. Minor surface rubbing and crease on lower right.
No. 271. This number means it was part of a series probably issued by Bowles and Carver c.1780.
BM: 4536.
[Ref: 137] £350.00

A View of the Foundling Hospital. Vue d'Hopital des Enfants Trouves.
L.P. Boitard Delin. Parr sculpt.
Published 12.th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleeet Street, London.
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"), with large margins. Slight oxidation of colour at edges.
The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 in London, north of Great Ormond Street and west of Gray's Inn Lane, by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the 'education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children.' The plate engraved by Nathaniel Parr (fl.1723 - 1760) after Louis Philippe Boitard (1733 - 1767; fl.) in 1753.
[Ref: 64327] £320.00

The North Prospect of Mountague House.
Iames Simon Fecit.
Printed for & Sold by I. Smith in Exeter Change in ye Strand [n.d. c.1715].
Engraving. 470 x 590mm (18½ x 23¼"). Central fold as published.
Façade of Montagu House, looking across the forecourt, later the British Museum; a fountain in foreground, statues, shrubbery and lawned areas in forecourt.
[Ref: 26385] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Southampton or Bloomsbury Square. 18.
Published according to Act of Parliament 1754 for Stowes Survey.
Engraving. 345 x 465mm (13½ x 18¼). Some creasing.
An elevated view of Bloomsbury Square looking north towards Bedford House, with Hampstead, Highgate and Islington in the background. It is one of London's oldest squares, developed for the 4th Earl of Southampton in the early 1660s.
[Ref: 62822] £320.00

Sir Henry Blosset K.t. Chief Justice of Bengal. Proof.
Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. _ Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1822.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255 (14¼ x 10"), large margins on 3 sides. Narrow bottom margin.
A half-length portrait of Sir Robert Henry Blosset (1776-1823). He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta in 1821, and received the customary knighthood in 1822, but died within a few months, at the age of 4 and was buried in St John's Church, Calcutta.
CS 10, i of ii. Russell 10, ii of iii. Frankau 32, i of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65988] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sir Henry Blosset K.t. Chief Justice of Bengal.
Painted by J. Jackson Esq.r R.A. _ Engraved by W.Ward A.R.A. Engraver to His Majesty the Duke of York.
[n.d., c.1822.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255 (14¼ x 10"), large margins.
A half-length portrait of Sir Robert Henry Blosset (1776-1823). He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta in 1821, and received the customary knighthood in 1822, but died within a few months, at the age of 4 and was buried in St John's Church, Calcutta.
CS 10, ii of ii. Russell 10, iii of iii. Frankau 32, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65990] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Tomb of Sir Henry Blount? ]
Printed & Sold by Tim: Jordan & Tho: Bakewell at y.e Golden Lion in Fleetstreet [n.d. c.1720.]
Mezzotint. 150 x 200mm (6 x 8"), with large margins. Slight creasing.
Effigies of a knight in armour and his wife, lying with hands clasped in prayer. The BM's example has a pencil note suggesting this is the tomb of Henry Blount (1602-82) and his wife Hester in Trinity College chapel, Oxford. However the style of tomb seems anachronistic.
BM 1851,1213.664.
[Ref: 60151] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Henry Blount.] Loquendum cum vulgo sentiendum cum sapientibus.
D. Loggan ad Vivum delin et sculp.
1679.
Engraving. Sheet size: 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed to image. False borders. Glued to album sheet at corners.
A portrait of the traveller and landowner Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682). Half length, to the right, looking at viewer, wearing a jacket with small collar tied at the neck with a ribbon. In an oval on a pedestal with a motto on ribbon at top, and a coat of arms below. Blount travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was the author of 'Voyage into the Levant' published in London in 1634.
[Ref: 33848] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Blouzelind. The peerless maid that did all maids excel. -Gay
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton Fecit
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching on 18th century laid paper, sheet 435 x 345mm (17 x 13½"). Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811) with line from 'The Shepherd's Week’ (1714) by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The line is from the beginning of 'Friday; or, the Dirge', in which Bumkinet mourns the death of Blouzelind: 'As the wood pigeon cooes without his mate, / So shall my doleful Dirge bewail her fate. / Of Blouzelinda fair I mean to tell, / The peerless maid that did all maids excel.'
For proof before letters see ref. 16983.
[Ref: 37965] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Blouzelind.]
Mr. Bunbury del. Js. Bretherton f. [ink mss.]
[London: J. Bretherton, 1781.]
Hand coloured etching, proof before letters on 18th century watermarked laid paper, sheet 380 x 340mm. 15 x 13". Trimmed to plate.
A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a landscape, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet; behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811), illustrating ‘Sweet William's Farewell To Black-Ey'd Susan: A Ballad’ by John Gay (1685 - 1732). The lettered state of the print in inscribed with a line from Gay: 'The peerless maid that did all maids excel'. The print is a pair with 'Susan'.
[Ref: 16083] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

John Blow, Doctor of Music.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving and etching, laid on album page. 140 x 84mm (5½ x 3¼"). Cut.
John Blow (1648-1708), the English baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. It is thought that his Venus and Adonis influenced Henry Purcell's later opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1687 he became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral and in 1699 he was appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.
NPG: D31306.
[Ref: 34597] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Blucher. Copied from a Bust, Modeled at Paris, by M. Bosin.]
[Engraved by Charles Turner.]
[Pub. Aug.t 1814, by R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.]
Mezzotint, proof before all letters with large margins. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. It is based on a bust by François Joseph Bosio.
[Ref: 33005] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Blucher. Born at Rostock Dec.r 16.th 1742. Decided the Eventful Battle of Waterloo, June 18.th 1815 and Died Sep.r 10.th 1819. His Martial Glory Filled the World. Emori Domuit Ferum Qui Nappoleonta.
Engraved by J. Swaine after a Drawing from Life by F. Rehberg Esq.r.
Pub.d by J. Swaine Engraver, 84 Dean St.t. Soho Square London.
Engraving. Proof. Sheet: 220 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. Blucher faces to the left, smoking a pipe. A view of La Belle Alliance below portrait.
[Ref: 42157] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Blücher] To his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge This Print of Prince Blucher, in the Costume of D.r in Civil Law of that University, is Humbly Dedicated, by His Royal Highnesses most obedient Servant W. Mason.
W. Mason del.t. J. Swaine sc.
Pub.d Oct.r 5 1815 by W. Mason, near the Hospital, Cambridge.
Aquatint. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"). Scuffing lower right. Bit dusty.
Portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated.
[Ref: 34262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

G.L. von Blucher. Field Marshal of the Prussian Forces from an Original Drawing by Her Royal Highness Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia.
London: Pub: March 10 1814 at R. Ackermanns Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Rare stipple. 305 x 255mm (12 x 10"), with large margins.
Sketch portrait of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Marshal of the Prussian armies at the battles of Liepzig and Waterloo, in which the French, under the personal command of Napoleon, were defeated. The artist, Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820) was consort of William V of Orange and mother of King William I of the Netherlands, the founder of the present Dutch monarchy.
[Ref: 35332] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Highness Prince Blucher of Wahlstadt General Field Mrshall of the Prussian Armies, Victor of Lutzen, Bautzen, Hainan, Katzbach, Möckern, Leipzig, Wartburg, Brienne, Loan, Montmartre, Ligny, and Co-Victor of Waterloo and Paris.
Engrav'd by C.Turner from the picture painted by C.Back of Breslaw, for Her Highness Princess Blucher.
Published London 1st August 1815 by R.Ackermann, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint. Sheet 615 x 510mm. A few small tears, laid on paper. Image scratched between the front feet of the horse.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian Field Marshal, whose arrival at Waterloo saved the day for Wellington. Published less that three months after the battle.
Whitman: 47. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 478] £580.00

Blue Beard.
John Parry. On Stone by J. Brandard. M. & N. Hanhart Chromo. lith Printers.
[n.d., c. 1860.]
Chromolithograph, with gilt highlights. Sheet (at most) 365 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed as scrapsheet, laid on album paper.
The cover of a music sheet, depicting the Bluebeard character as an Ottoman rather than the European of early versions of the story. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, regularly staged a pantomime version from 1798.
[Ref: 33879] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Buds and Blossoms. Blue Bells.
Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway. Printed by F. Alvey Brandon's Row, Newington. [n.d. c.1840.]
Very fine hand-coloured lithograph, with added gum arabic. 350 x 246mm. 13¾ x 9¾".
Two girls in Scottish costume, seated on the grass, one holding bluebells.
[Ref: 24195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Hall, Blue Coat School. Plate 10.
Rowlandson & Pugin del. et sculpt. Hill, Aquat.
London. Pub March 1, 1808 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
A view inside the hall of the school at Blue Coat School, London. Two students wearing blue coats stand on platform in centre of hall, with scholars and elegantly dressed figures seated around edge. A large "figure painting" can be seen across the top half of the wall above the panelling on the right. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.10.
[Ref: 62752] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Le Geai blue (mâle) Garrulus cristatus (Vieillot) ½ nature. Le Pic à baguettes dorées (femelle) Picus auratus (Gmelin) ½ nature. Amérique Sept.le.
Edouard Travies.
Imp. par Lemercier. Paris E. Savary et C.ie place du Louvre 10. [n.d. c.1857.]
Fine hand-coloured lithograph. 370 x 540mm. 14½ x 21¼". Few spots.
A blue jay and a golden winged woodpecker, from Edouard Traviés (1809-1865) 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables'.
[Ref: 21906] £420.00

[The Blue Mosque Cairo]
Signed in pencil M. Sherlock. Artists Proof 9/30.
[n.d., c.1947.]
Etching. 350 x 250mm (14 x 10").
Marjorie Sherlock (1897-1973). Part of a series Cairo and Egyptians subjects etched and exhibited after the Second World War in Glasgow.
[Ref: 53656] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Bluwe Shrike.] Pie-grièche Bleue. Lanius bicolor (Gmelin.) Grandeur naturelle. de Madagascar.
Edouard Traviés. Imp. Lemercier a Paris.
Paris, Victor Delarue, Place de Louvre, 10. [n.d., c.1857.]
Lithograph with exceptionally fine hand colour. Printed area 310 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Wear to edges.
A blue skrike of Madagascar pearched on a creeper eying a butterfly. Edouard Traviès (1809 - 1865) was one of the greatest ornithological artists of the 19th century, painting the birds in their natural habitat. His finest work was 'Les Oiseaux Les Plus Remarquables par leurs formes et leurs coleurs. Scenes variees de leurs moeurs & de leur habitudes'.
[Ref: 33883] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Grand Dramatic Romance of Blue-Beard or Female Curiosity, As now performing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with unbounded Applause, the words by George Coleman the Younger, Esq.r, the Music Composed and Selected by Michael Kelly.
London, Sold at Preston's Music Warehouse 97 Strand & at Kelly's Musical Saloon 9 Pall Mall [n.d., c.1798].
Engraved titlepage. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). With ink stamp 'MK' (Michael Kelly's music shop?), large margins (tatty) on 3 sides. In ink at bottom right border J. Hill? Split in image area, tear at top taped, edges chipped, paper soiled. Old ink mss in image, lower inscription area and margin.
The cover of the music to an opera with lyrics by George Coleman the Younger (1762-1836) and music by the famous Irish tenor Michael Kelly (1762-1826). An example of the complete book in the University of Western Ontario has the same 'MK' stamp.
[Ref: 63661] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Peter Blundell. Founder of Tiverton School, 1604._Died 1601. From a Portrait given by Thomas Whitmore Esq.e of Apley Park, Shropshire, To Robert Newton Incledon Esq.e and by him to the Trustees of the School.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Engraving. 381 x 330mm. 15 x 13".
Peter Blundell (c.1520-1601) was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. Dying in 1601 having never married and with no children, he left his inheritance to fellow clothiers, their families and his employees. He also created several charitable trusts and gave funds to build Blundell's School, to be a free grammar school.
[Ref: 24743] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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