Grosvenor Prints

La Grande Sultane. Liefhebbers van iets raars, beschouwd eens dees Sultane...
I. Cole Fc: et ex: Amstelo dami. Cum Privil: Ord: Holl: et West-frisice. [n.d., c.1700.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. Plate: 255 x 180mm (9 x 7''). Small margins.
A portrait of an Eastern sultana in ornate robes and holding a flower.
[Ref: 48890] £320.00

A Sultana.
London Published by James Cawthorne, 24 Cockspur Street 1812. [But 1813.]
Coloured aquatint with fine colour. 255 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"). Tear entering plate on right.
A costume plate from John Cam Hobhouse's 'A Journey Through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople'. Hobhouse (1st Baron Broughton, 1786-1869), met Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, and travelled with him through Italy, Greece and Turkey, a journey which resulted in this book. Hobhouse became Byron's executor after the poet's death in 1824. Despite being imprisoned in Newgate for writing a Radical pamphlet in 1819 Hobhouse became a successful Whig politician, serving in government as Secretary at War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and President of the Board of Control. He became a Privy Councillor in 1832.
Abbey: 202.
[Ref: 34549] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sultanie; een Stadt in Arak of Erak, gelegen aen den voet van den berg Taurus. Sultania, Urbs ad Taurum Montem exstructa, Parthiae Veteris Urbs praecipua.
Pet. Schenk. Amst. C.P.
[n.d. c.1740.]
Copper engraving. Plate 216 x 266mm. 8½ x 10½".
Sultana is a town in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
[Ref: 17085] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Asiatic Researches. Inhabitants of the Poggy or Nassau Islands.
Published by I. Sewell &c. Feb. 1. 1801.
Rare engraving. Plate: 150 x 200mm (6 x 8''). Marking.
A portrait of two inhabitants of Sumatra. The male figure is covered in tattoos.
[Ref: 47956] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Site sur la Cote de Sumatra.
Dessine par L. Le Breton, lithe. par P. Blanchard. Lith. de Thierry freres, Paris.
Gide Editeur. [1846.]
Sepia tinted lithograph, sheet 350 x 540mm. 13¾ x 21¼". A good impression, on a full sheet.
A village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Numbered 'Pl. 154' upper right. From 'Voyage au Pôle sud et dans l'Océanie, sur la corvette L'Astrolabe et La Zélée, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, sous le commandement de M. Dumont-d'Urville.' Publisher's blindstamp below title.
BNF: FRBNF40706045. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18762] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Village House in Sumatra. [&] A Plantation House in Sumatra.
W. Bell del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t.
Published by W.Marsden, 1810.
Two aquatint plates on one sheet. Each c. 290 x 240mm. Printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1810.
From Marsden's "The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants".
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 8341] £340.00

S.W. view of the Island of Tappanooly on the S.W. Coast of Sumatra.
Drawn of the Spot by Capt. Trapaud. J.Wells Aquatint.
Publish'd 1st March 1788. as the Act Directs.
Aquatint. 450 x 325mm.
Abbey: 417.
[Ref: 6175] £690.00

Place du Village de Rajah - Bassa. (Ile Sumatra.)
Dessine par Goupil, lithe. par P. Blanchard. Lith. de Thierry freres, Paris.
Gide Editeur. [1846.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 345 x 540mm (13½ x 21¼").
Scene in a village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Numbered 'Pl. 153' upper right. From 'Voyage au Pôle sud et dans l'Océanie, sur la corvette L'Astrolabe et La Zélée, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, sous le commandement de M. Dumont-d'Urville.' Publisher's blindstamp below title.
BNF: FRBNF40706045.
[Ref: 18760] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Sumatra] Aladin, (Sultan) Roi d'Achem.
Touze
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos rue St. Victor [n.d. c.1780]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 279 x 167mm.
From 'Recueil d'estampes représentant les grades, les rangs et les dignités suivant le costume de toutes les nations existantes' by Pierre Duflos, published 1779-84. The original colour is particularly fine, with gold leaf highlights.
[Ref: 1925] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Summer] Sommer. L'Etè. Aestas.
P. Mercier pinx. J.S. Negges Sc. et exc.
Cum Gratia et Privil. S.C.M. Acad. Fr. A.A.L.L. [n.d., c.1740.]
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") large margins. Damage to margins and inscription area, laid on card.
A very decorative image showing a young woman leaning against a tree, holding a wildflower and a fan. A German copy of an English print by Purcell.
[Ref: 60191] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Summer. From a Picture painted by N. Drake, in the Possession of John Vavasour Esq.r.
N. Drake Pinx.t. V. Green, Engraver to his Majesty fecit.
Published April 22.d 1776 by N. Drake, York
Rare mezzotint, with engraved inscription plate, total printed area 380 x 425mm (15 x 16¾"). Repaired tear centre top.
Landscape with three naked women about to bathe in a forest stream, with lines from James Thomson's important poem 'The Seasons' below. Engraved after Nathan Drake (1726-78), York-based artist. Valentine Green also engraved a 'Winter' after Drake to accompany it.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66135] £480.00

Summer Amusement.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at N.o.69 in S.t. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act direct, 25 Sep.r. 1782.
Handcoloured etching. Printed area: 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Frame: 430 x 340mm (17 x 13½"). Unexamined out of frame. Staining.
A scene in a tea-garden in which some figures stand in conversation, some play bat and ball, and a servant, who looks as if he might trip, carries a tea-tray.
[Ref: 40332] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Les Agremens De L'Este. Graves d'après le tableau Original peint par Watteau de la meme Grandeur.
Watteau Pinxit. Jaques de Favanes Sculp
a Paris chez Gersaint M.d Pont N.D. Et chez Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Very fine engraving, platemark 260 x 330mm (10¼ x 13") with large margins. Very slight foxing.
'Summer Amusements', after Antoine Watteau ( 1684 - 1721): a group of figures in a glade, next to a fountain with putto riding a dolphin. Plate 131 to 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy', also known as the 'Recueil Jullienne' after Jean de Jullienne (1686 - 1766), a Parisian collector and patron of the arts who owned some 450 drawings by Watteau which he had engraved after the artist's early death. It was largely through this collection of engravings that Watteau's reputation was spread in the years following his death.
[Ref: 40281] £320.00

Summer Evening.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A view of a rural landscape, a field near East Bergholt, after a oil painting by Constable now housed in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 7. Shirley: 6. Osbert Barnard: II of V.
[Ref: 44387] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Summer Evening.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint on india. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins.
A view of a rural landscape, a field near East Bergholt, after a oil painting by Constable now housed in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832.
Wedmore 7. Shirley: 6. Osbert Barnard: I of V.
[Ref: 50865] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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A Summer Evening Repast. To W. Wilson Esq.r This Plate (Engraved from a Drawing in his Possession.) is humbly Dedicated by his Obliged Serv.t J. Harris.
W. Burgess Delin.t J.W. Edye Aqua Tint.
London: Publish'd Oct.r 6.th 1788, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, & No.8 Bread St. near the Royal Exchange.
Very fine & scarce hand-coloured aquatint. 437 x 559mm (17¼ x 22"). Repaired tear to right.
A rural scene, a picnic in the countryside: three children and a woman standing to the right, an older woman seated behind, and a man to the left smoking a pipe and behind him a large jug and some good; by his feet lies a dog.
[Ref: 28673] £550.00

Summer Morning.
Painted by John Constable R.A. Engraved by David Lucas.
London, Pub.d by M.r Constable, 35 Charlotte S.t Fitzroy Square 1831.
Mezzotint. Plate: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight foxing.
A rural landscape with a milkmaid and cows on Dedham Vale, after an oil painting by Constable now in the V&A. From about 1829 Constable and Lucas worked together on a series of mezzotints after sketches and paintings by Constable called 'Various Subjects of Landscape...' published in parts between 1830 and 1832. In 1843 Charles Robert Leslie published his 'Memoirs of John Constable Esq. R.A'. He obtained directly from the Constable family 186 sets of 22 images of the Various Subjects of Landscape in return for 30 copies of his book. This mezzotint is one of those; "see Tate John Constable, David Lucas".
Wedmore 6. Shirley: 26. Osbert Barnard: III of VI.
[Ref: 44381] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Soleil. De La Sphere. Figure XLVIII.
[after Alain Manesson Mallet.]
[Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683.]
Engraving. 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with letterpress. Time stained.
An illustration of the Sun after Kircher, shown above an Italianate landscape. From Mallet's classic five-volume work 'Description de l'Univers'.
[Ref: 56840] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
The Midnight Sun over the cliffs of North Cape, Norway, visible from 14th May to 31st July. Plate 65 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56788] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The Sun] Schema corporis Solaris, prouta P P Kirchero et Scheinero Roma Anno 1635 observatum suit.
[after Athanasius Kircher & Christoph Scheiner.]
[n.d., c.1680.]
Engraving. Sheet 185 x 200mm. Repairs, time stained. Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margin at top.
A plan of the surface of the sun, based on the work of Jesuits Athanasius Kircher (1601-80) and Christoph Scheiner (c.1573-1650) as published in Kircher's 'Mundus Subterraneus', 1665. A key labels the solar axis, the solar equator, the northern and southern poles, sunspots and solar prominences (clouds of smoke).
[Ref: 56859] £160.00

Le Soleil et ses principaux phenomenes. Pl. V.
[After John Emslie] Depose. Kiessling & Comp a Bruxelles.
Librairie de W. Nitzsche a Hall, Wurttemburg. [n.d., c.1862].
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 230 x 285mm (9 x 11¼").
Large image of the Sun with several sunspots, and smaller diagrams at the top showing the relationship of the Sun and Earth during the day and night and at different seasons. Small vignettes at the bottom give artistic renderings of a Transit of Mercury, The Sun at Midnight at the North Cape of Europe and an Annualar Eclipse. A bar down the left hand side of the main image shows the comparative size of the planets as seen from the Sun and a bar on the right shows the changing appearance of sunspots on different parts of its disc. One of twelve from the French version of the Astronomischer Bilder Atlas 'Astronomie Populare en Tableaux Tansparents', from Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1862.
[Ref: 56898] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Parhelia _ No 2.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
Parhelia (or 'sun dogs') are an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the Sun. Plate 96 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56789] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Eclipse of the Sun.
[London: David Bogue, c. 1845.]
Coloured lithograph on card. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Edges clipped at corners.
A solar eclipse over a Middle-Eastern landscape. Plate 60 of 'The Beauty of the Heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe' by Charles F Blunt.
[Ref: 56790] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Just as the Sun went down. A Pathetic Incident of War Time. Words and Music by Lyn Udall. Sung with Great Success by Miss Nellie Gannon.
H.G. Banks Lith.
Charles Sheard & C.o, Anglo-American Music Publishers, 196, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. New York: M. Witmark & Son, 8 West 29.th S.t [n.d., c.1900].
Lithograph. Sheet 355 x 250mm (14 x 10¼") Small tears in edges.
The music sheet cover showing two British soldiers lying by a field gun under a shredded Union flag, looking at lockets with their sweethearts' hair as they die. The pith helmet suggests the scene is during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Lyn Udall (1870-1963) was an American composer. 'Just as the Sun Went Down' was first published in 1898, with a cover relating to the Spanish-American War. The song was successful: other cover illustrations show the tanks and biplanes of the First World War.
[Ref: 62917] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sol. Interea magnum Sol circumvolvitur annon Terrarumque suis flammis opera omnia lustrat. Aeneid lib. 4.
Raphael Urbinos pinxit. Carlo Lasinio inc.
Si vendono da Nicola d'Antoni in Via del Corso No.35. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 335 x 510mm (13¼ x 20"). Repairs top margin, publication line weak, creases lower title.
Helios (or Apollo) in a chariot drawn by four horses. From 'I Sette Pianeti dipinti da Raffaele d'Urbino nella Sala Borgia del Vaticano', after designs by Raphael in the Sala dei Pontefici.
[Ref: 60383] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Magnitude of the Sun, the Primary and Secundary Planets, and the Distances of the Secundaey Planets from their Primary Ones;
Deduced from the Latest Observations by S. Dunn. Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences.
London. Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 June 1786.
Engraving with mezzotint detailing. 360 x 560mm (14¼ x 22"), very large margins. Repaired tear in lower centre fold in margin.
A diagram comparing the sizes of the Sun and planets, and illustrating the distances of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn from their satellites. From ''A New and General Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with its application to Geography'' by Samuel Dunn (1723-94). He taught at the Maritime Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row in Chelsea. The use of mezzotint on such scientific diagrams is unusual.
[Ref: 57111] £450.00

[The surface and appearance of the Sun.] Astronomy. Plate 3.
Engraved & Printed in Colour by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. [n.d. c.1855-77.]
Chromolithograph. 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Central crease as normal.
Four diagrams illuminating the 'Paths of the spots across the disc of the sun at different peiods of the year', 'the zodiacal light', 'solar spots, viewed with high magnifying power' and the 'apparent magnitude of the sun as viewed from the various planets'. Plate 3 of Blackwood & Sons' 'School Atlas of Astronomy' by Scottish borthers William and Alexander Keith Johnston who established their own printing business in Edinburgh after training under globe maker James Kirkwood. The Atlas included eighteen coloured plates of celestial bodies, first published in 1855, the final edition was published in 1877.
[Ref: 56915] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

That Celebrated Horse, Sunbeam.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Wood engraving, very scarce. 113 x 163mm. 4½ x 6½". Cut, laid on album sheet.
Sunbeam (c.1855) produced by Sunflower and Chanticleer, of great pedigree from her mother's side whose sire was Bay Middleton, the undefeated thoroughbred racehorse whose victories included two British Classic Races. He was twice the leading Sire in Great Britain and Ireland.
[Ref: 20848] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Sunbury, up the River Thames. No.2.
J. Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside. Price 1.s. [n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving, printed on 18th century watemarked paper. Plate 260 x 431mm. 10¼ x 17". Large margins.
A view of Sunbury-on-Thames, in Surrey. Punts, boats and merchant vessel seen on the River Thames.
See Ref: 859. Collage: k1274478.
[Ref: 25623] £350.00

A View of Sunbury, up the River Thames. No.2.
J. Boydell Del. & Sculp.
Pulish'd according to Act of Parliament by J. Boydell at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside. Price 1s. [1770.]
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 260 x 425mm (10¼ x 16¾").
A view along the River Thames at Sunbury, from "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England and Wales". John Boydell's 'Collection of Views' was made after he turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The first collection was issued in 1770, and included some plates by printmakers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.2.
[Ref: 29295] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Quinze Ans de Voyages Autour du Monde, par le Capitaine Gabriel Lafond (de Lurcy). Aniere (Détroit de la Sonde).
Lith. par S.t Aulaire et Freeman.
Lith de Rigo frères, Pass: Saulnier, 19. [n.d., c.1840.]
A rare tinted lithograph. Sheet: 375 x 520mm (14¾ x 20½"). Vertical crease.
A view of the Sunda Islands in North Sumatra with figures in the foreground. An illustration from 'Quinze Ans de Voyages Autour du Monde' by Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy who departed on his second voyage around the world in 1828, his description of his travels was published in 1840.
[Ref: 46712] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Iles de la Sonde, Java - Sunda Islands, Java. Océanie. V. Pitt. No.22.
A. St. Aulaire. Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie.
Publié par Aubert, Place de la Bourse, 29. [n.d. c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. 290 x 201mm (11½ x 8").
Images of Javan costume: Pirogues of the natives; court-attire; bridegroom and bride; natives of various classes; habitations of the natives. A summary paragraph describing the land, population and resources.
[Ref: 52461] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Three engravings published in the Carlton House Magazine] Sunday Work which ought to be prohibited [&] The Bakers Sunday Triumph [&] The Rev.d G.H.J. Esq.r
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Three engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Three prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine'. 'The Bakers Sunday Triumph' shows bakers rejoicing while the Albion Mills (a steam-powered flour mill in Southwark, inspiration for William Blake's ''dark satanic mills''; the fire is illustrated in Ackermann's Microcosm of London) burns behind them, in celebration of George III's act forbidding the baking of bread on Sundays. This plate was a reissue of a print by Barlow after Collings titled 'Conflagration! Or the Merry Mealmongers', published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791. It is likely that the other two plates were also reissues.
BM Satires 8482 (Bakers Sunday Triumph)
[Ref: 45862] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Sunday before Confirmation. Parson_What did your Godfathers & Godmothers then for you?_Boy_Nothing, Sir, Rot'em for I never had none.
F. delt.
[Thomas McLean.]
Hand-coloured etching, watermark 'J. Whatman 1825'. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet.
A comic scene in a church in which a scruffy boy stands out from a line of children and converses with a vicar.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 50724] £100.00 (£120.00 incl.VAT)

Sunday Evening.
H. Bunbury del.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Very fine hand-coloured etching. 120 x 151mm. 4¾ x 6".
A scene at home. An old man sits in a high-backed chair with his wife asleep next to him. A boy reads at the table, with another woman sitting beside him. A dog and cat fight in the middle of the room.
See BM Satires: 5084.
[Ref: 16081] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

East Street Chapel, St. Neots. Sunday Evening Lectures Will be delivered upon the following Subjects:-- 1878... [Four October/ November dates with lecture titles follow.]
D.R. Tomson, Printer, St. Neots. [1878.]
Letterpress broadside advertisement, very rare, sheet 285 x 225mm. 11¼ x 8¾". Folds, some staining. Chip and tear from upper edge.
Advertising an upcoming series of lectures with a strong religious theme, for the moral nourishment and improvement of local residents.
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: 16467] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Sunday Morning.]
[Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane. Engraved by Geo. Hunt.]
[London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 335mm (9 x 13¼"). Trimmed into image, losing all inscriptions.
The interior of a busy barber's shop, centred on a scared man being shaved with a cut-throat razor, which has nicked his face, lips and nose. On the wall behind are prints, including Egerton's caricature 'Number One or Blood for Blood', also set in a barber's shop, also engraved by the Hunts.
Hickman: p.96, first published by Hunt c.1825.
[Ref: 58241] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sunday Sabbatarianism] The Political Drama. No 5. Illustrations of Sir Andrew Agnews New Act. Things Not to be Done on the Sabbath.
Printed and Published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market [n.d., c.1836.]
Woodcut with letterpress. Sheet 410 x 280mm (16 x 11"). Laid on album paper at corners
Four satirical scenes of what might happen if one of the Sabbath Observance Bills of Sir Andrew Agnew (1793-1849, MP for Wigtownshire) was passed. Top left a policeman says he has to get permission from the Bishop to intervene to stop a man hanging himself. Top right a man is stopped from calling the midwife. Agnew introduced four bills during his seven years in Parliament, prompting Charles Dickens to write that his motivated was resentment that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life.
[Ref: 54420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Lord's Prayer. Belief. & Ten Commandments. Hallelujah.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving on porcelain card. Sheet 70 x 110mm (2¾ x 4¼").
A Sunday School card with the three texts in tiny writing.
See Ref: 48813 & 48814
[Ref: 48812] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Life of Christ.
Pub. by J.T. Wood, 9 Curriers Hall Court, London Wall. [n.d., c.1850.]
Steel engraving on porcelain paper. Sheet 155 x 95mm (6 x 3¾").
A Sunday School card with vignette scenes of the Life of Christ; the texts of The Lord's Prayer and The Belief; and the word 'Bible' in micrography.
See: Ref: 48812 & 48814
[Ref: 48813] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Beauties of the Holy Bible.
Engraved, Printed & Published by H. Green, 7 Neviles Court, Fetter Lane, London
Steel engraving on porcelain paper, printed in blue. Sheet 95 x 140mm (3¾ x 5½").
A Sunday School card with vignette scenes of the Life of Christ.
See Ref: 48813 & 48812
[Ref: 48814] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Hymns. By B.J. Montgomery Esq. for the Sunday School Jubilee Sep. 14, 1831. Anniversary of the Birth-day of R. Raikes, Esq. the Founder of Sunday Schools.
Sold at the Sunday School Union Depository 5 Paternoster Row [c.1831].
Letterpress broadside handbill; engraved lettering below steel-engraved portrait of Robert Raikes, and sitter's facsimile signature. India(?) paper on card, sheet 175 x 110mm, 7 x 4¼". Lacking margins, with corners rounded (as issued?).
Two columns of six verses each, captioned 'Monmouth' (left) and 'Cranbrook' (right). Robert Raikes (1735 - 1811) was a journalist and promoter of Sunday Schools. These bills would have been issued by the regional headquarters of his foundations throughout the country to celebrate his birthday. A philanthropist and businessman, Raikes campaigned for prison reform and devoted himself to establishing Sunday Schools. In 1780, he founded the first formal, free Sunday School in Gloucester. As editor and owner of the Gloucester Journal he was able to use his own newspaper to promote the idea that Sunday Schools could prevent juvenile delinquency, religious ignorance and unemployment by teaching children to read and write.
See item Ref: 16769 for a similar Newcastle imprint.
[Ref: 27923] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Sunday School Jubilee to be Celebrated on Thursday Sepr. 8th. 1831. In Commemoration of the Founding of Sunday Schools by R. Raikes Esqr.
Sold at the Sunday School Union Depository No.20, Quay Side Newcastle upon Tyne. [c.1831.]
Letterpress broadside handbill/frontispiece? with steel engraved portrait of Robert Raikes by W. Collard. Sheet 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½".
Robert Raikes (1735 - 1811) was a journalist and promoter of Sunday Schools. A philanthropist and businessman, Raikes campaigned for prison reform and devoted himself to establishing Sunday Schools. In 1780, he founded the first formal, free Sunday School in Gloucester. As editor and owner of the Gloucester Journal he was able to use his own newspaper to promote the idea that Sunday Schools could prevent juvenile delinquency, religious ignorance and unemployment by teaching children to read and write.
[Ref: 16769] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Sunderland Pier, Durham.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Watermarked 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1821'. Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of Tynemouth with the ruins of Tynemouth Priory, the lighthouse and fishing boats. 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: 35966] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

West View of the Stupendous Iron Bridge Built over the River Wear in Sunderland by Row.d Budron Esq.r M.P. under the immediate inspection of Mr T. Wilson Engineer.
Engraved by T.A. Kidd N.Castle on Tyne.
Jan.y 1. 1805. Published by W. Tarn, Sunderland.
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 215mm (5¾ x 8½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper at edges.
The world's second iron bridge, opened 1796.
[Ref: 42019] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Sunderland.]
[by Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy.]
Published by Hills & Co, Printsellers, Sunderland, Nov.r 1st 1888.
Scarce etching. 430 x 560mm (17 x 22") with large margins. Limited edition 85, Artists Proof 35, Before Letters 50; Printsellers' Association blindstamp.
An extremely rare view of the River Wear at Ettrick's Quay, Sunderland, half-a-century before it was cleared for the creation of Corporation Quay (1932). The original painting by Hemy (1850-1937) is in the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
[Ref: 51970] £420.00

West View of the Stupendous Iron Bridge Built over the River Wear in Sunderland by Row.d Budron Esq.r M.P. Span of the Arch 256 F.t Height 100 F.t Cast Iron 214 Tons. Worked Iron 46 Tons. Foundation Stone Laid 24 SEp. 1795. Opened 9 Aug. 1796.
Published by T. Robson [c.1805]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½"). Trimmed, losing part of publication line.
The world's second iron bridge, opened 1796.
For similar view of the bridge see ref.42019.
[Ref: 46025] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Wearmouth Bridge] A South East View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland in the C.o of Durham. Built by Roland Burdon Esq.r M.P. Span 236 Ft, height 100 Ft, Spring of the Arch 33 Ft, It is supposed to be the Largest Arch in the World - The Foundation Stone was laid 24th Sept, 1793 & the Bridge was opened 9th Aug.t 1796.
R. Johnson Delt. A.Hunter Scult.
[n.d. 1796]
Rare engraving. Sheet 355 x 420mm (14 x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tears.
A view of the first Wearmouth Bridge, shortly after it opened, showing that masted ships could pass underneath it easily. It was the second major cast-iron bridge in the world, but twice as long as the Severn Iron Bridge, with an unprecedented single span of 236ft. The bridge was designed and built by the engineer Thomas Wilson, sponsored by Rowland Burdon.
[Ref: 54167] £650.00

Pray M.r Gardener What Is The Language Of The Flowers To Day? Och! Its Not To Be Mistaken Madam; This Sunflower Was Red, This Morning, But It Was So Jealous Of Your Ladyships' Beauty, That It Has Turn'd Entirely Yellow.
Dean & C.o Threadneedle S.t. [n.d. c.1833]
Hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 410 x 235mm (16¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed and glued to blue scrapbook paper.
An ugly woman asks her Scottish gardener about the flowers. The gardener gives a flattering reply. Her black servant smiles in amusement.
[Ref: 62032] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Where are You A Driving too Spooney?
[Monogram of an open hand] del.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 220 x 160mm (8¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A man wearing fashionable sunglasses walks into the handle on a butcher's tray, poking himself in the eye. On the tray is a beef heart and kidneys.
[Ref: 61326] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

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