Grosvenor Prints

Ein tatuirter Mann aus Nukahiwa.
[Honegger.]
[Schinz, c.1845.]
Lithograph. 327 x 228mm (12¾ x 9").
Head and shoulder portrait of a tattooed man of Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia. From Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's "Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen".
[Ref: 29505] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Tavern in an Uproar; M.rs Bonniface shewing more Pluck than her ''good Man'' by backing her husband against Bob Hit-a-Body ripe for mischief; A case for the Phrenologists.
Designed & Etched by Theodore Lane.
[London: Knight & Lacey, and Pierce Egan, 1827.]
Coloured etching. 130 x 220mm (5 x 9"). Trimmed on three sides, hole in right edge, some staining, colour faded.
A scene of a tavern brawl, from ''Pierce Egan's Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase, the Ring and the Stage''.
[Ref: 63955] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Tavern Scene.] From a Painting by D: Teniers, in the Collection of Sir James Lowther, Bar.t
Teniers pinx.t Wbaillie Sculp.t
Publish'd 23.d Dec.r 1771.
Mezzotint, 445 x 340mm. 17½ x 13¼". Later issue c.1800. Margins foxed.
Tavern scene with a card game taking place, after David Teniers II (1610-90), Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell, ‘Baillie, William (1723–1810)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
[Ref: 12253] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

In Vino Veritas. Vot Femme Voyez-Vous, J'La Connais Mieux Que Vous. Your wife, I Know Her Better Than Ye Do Yourself.
F. Grenier [in image]. F. Grenzier del. Litho de Ch. Motte.
[n.d. c.1830's]
Scarce lithograph, sheet 200 x 230mm (8 x 9"). Embossed stamp of C Motte.
In wine, there is truth. A tavern scene. A man drunkenly admits to another that he has been with his wife.
[Ref: 61671] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Tavern scene.]
[n.d., 1680.]
Mezzotint, 235 x 190mm. Very fine early proof.
Tavern scene reminiscent of Teniers and Ostade, with three men sitting at benches with a fourth standing and holding a jug.
Collection J. H. Anderson.
[Ref: 12001] £420.00

[Tavern scene.] V, II. p: 182.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 127 x 82mm. 5 x 3¼".
A drinking scene inside a tavern. Men and women sitting and standing drinking into the night, one particular man standing near to the large fire, smokes a pipe whilst gazing across at a woman seated next to a magician. Behind the curtain another man tries to sleep.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18820] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Interior of an inn, Dutch School.] From the Original Picture by Gd. Dou in the Possession of Wm. Baillie Esqr.
WBaillie fecit.
Publish'd 1st. Janry. 1774.
Mezzotint printed in brown and black, 355 x 250mm. 14 x 9¾". Small hole to title area. Repaired tear lower right.
Two soldiers in plumed hats at a table; the nearer of the two lighting his pipe from a candle, the other holding a piece of straw, tickling a woman under the nose, who sits sleeping beside them. A serving-woman enters the room at left, carrying a lamp and pitcher. After Gerard Dou (1613 - 1675), who worked in Rembrandt's studio as a young man and went on to become the first and most famous of the Leiden 'Fine' painters. Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Clayton and McConnell, ‘Baillie, William (1723–1810)’. DNB.
[Ref: 21781] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Isaac Taverner and Mother Newton.
W. J. White. delt. et sc.
Published, March 20th. 1819. by W. J. White.
Etching on india laid paper, 130 x 100mm. 5 x 4".
A rustic couple conversing beside a leafless tree in a rural landscape; cottages in the distance behind a fence to left. From "Sketches of characters consisting of whole length portraits with picturesque or topographical back-grounds, and distinct plates illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Middlesex to which are added, biographical and historical notices" by William Johnstone White (1804 - 1829; fl.), engraver, painter, print publisher and printseller.
[Ref: 19216] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Baptiste Tavernier. Baron d'Aubornne en Suisse, fameaux Voyageurs fils d;on illustre, Geographe il mourut a Moscov en 1689, age de 89 ans.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 - 1689), French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant, travelling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668.
[Ref: 64141] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Jean Baptiste Tavernier Escuier Baron D'Aubonne, Age de LXXIV Ans, 1679. De Paris, a Delly, du Couchant a l'Auroure,/ De fameux Voiageur courit plus d'une fois [...]
Joan Hainzelman ad vivum del et sculp cum privil Regis 1679
A Paris chez ted. hain sur le petit pont à l'echarpe blanche.
Engraving, sheet 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed inside platemark and glued to backing sheet.
Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) French adventurer and pioneer of trade with India, who published an account of his travels through Persia. He is best known for the discovery and sale of the 118-carat blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668. Lost during the French Revolution it is believed that it was recut as the famous 'Hope Diamond'. Stated here as 'from the life' by the engraver Johann Hainzelman but elsewhere said to be after a portrait by Nicolas de Largillière.
[Ref: 34238] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Johann Baptista Tavernier Ritter und Freyherr von Aubonne Seines Alters LXXVII Jahr MDCLXXXI.
J.C. Böcklin August: Sculpsit Geneve 1681.
Engraving. Printed on 17th century watermarked paper with Collector's mark verso, area 290 x 175mm (11½ x 7"). Trimmed into image on left.
Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) a French traveller and pioneer of trade with India, who published an account of his travels through Persia. He is best known for the discovery and sale of the 118-carat blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668. Lost during the French Revolution it is believed that it was recut as the famous 'Hope Diamond'.
Collector's mark: L.3852 (unidentified stamp also found on prints in the Musée Lorrain, Nancy, and Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam).
[Ref: 29722] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Ioh. Bapt. Tavernier. Ritter u. Freyherr von Aubone, Geb: zu Paris 1605 gestorb: zu Moskau 1698.
Westermayr f.
[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]
Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 89mm (5½ x 3½").
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1698) the French diamond merchant, traveller and pioneer of diamond trade with India. He is best known for the discovery and sale of the 118-carat blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668; this was stoel in 1792 and re-emerged in London as the Hope Diamond. He travelled a lot around the Middle East, in particular Persia. The portrait was published in 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.
[Ref: 29752] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Call'd for the Income Tax? Income Devil! Why did'nt I make my income a plaguey deal under 150. Certainly you did, sire; but the commissioners do not consider it a sufficient sum for such a Gentleman, and so have kindly put you down at 250.
[n.d., c.1820.] Dean & Cº Threadneedle St.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 255 x 230mm (10 x 9"). Trimmed.
A satirical scene depicting a man with a cigarette in his mouth, sat backwards on a chair. Stood in front of him is a taxman, holding a large book.
[Ref: 67221] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Tax Gatherer.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving on chine collé. Sheet 385 x 280mm (19 x 11"). Trimmed, crease on right hardly showing.
A tax gatherer stands at a cottage door, demanding money from a widow. His terrier dog looks menacingly at a small wheeled horse toy.
[Ref: 56529] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Tax Payer. We do want Reform _ at any rate a change _ things cannot be worse.
London, July 1831. Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet St.
Etching. Sheet 285 x 190mm (11¼ x 7½"). Trimmed close to image and around title.
A ragged man stands in a delapidated room.
[Ref: 62276] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Pay Rent and Taxes Indeed! And no Wote. I Wish They May Get It.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Trimmed, corners snipped, laid on album paper.
A satirical portrait of a tinker, a bag of household items over his shoulder, and a bellows and chair under his arm.
[Ref: 57796] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[The Empire's Cricketers: Famous Players and Their Characteristic Attitudes Executed in Crayon.]
[after Albert Chevallier Tayler, with biographies by George William Beldam.]
[London: the Fine Art Society, 1905.]
Folio, contemporary cloth gilt; 48 chromolithograph plates, each with a text page. One biography sheet supplied from another example; bookplate on front pastedown.
The full set of 48 portraits of prominent cricketers, including by W.G. Grace, by Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925). Tayler took photographs of the cricketers in order to catch their poses, which he then reproduced in chalk. Using chromolithography these were then printed on olive/grey paper and issued in weekly instalments. His 48 chalk portraits were exhibited at the Fine Art Society when the set was completed in 1905.
[Ref: 53846] £1,400.00 view all images for this item

[Rev. John James Tayler] Ever faithfully yours, J.J. Tayler [facsimile signature]. Subscribers Copy.
Painted by J.P. Knight, R.A. Engraved by T. Oldham Barlow, Victoria R.d Kensington.
[n.d., c.1867.]
Mezzotint on chine collé. Sheet 490 x 380mm (19¼ x 15"). Trimmed into plate, tear through signature.
Three-quarter seated portrait of Unitarian Minister John James Tayler (1797-1869), tutor at Manchester College. The oil, painted 1867, is in the collection of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66470] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Thomas Tayler, Twenty Two Years Master Of Lloyds Coffee House. Died 6th. June 1796, aged 50.
W.R. Bigg A.R.A. pinxt. Gate St. Lins. Inn Fields. W. Ward sculp.
Publish'd Novr. 1st. 1796. as the Act directs.
Mezzotint. 355 x 285mm. Some evidence of rubbing to the mezzotint on what is otherwise a fine impression. Two small tears to right paper edge, well outside plate.
Thomas Tayler [1746 - 1796], Master of Lloyd's Coffee House. The coffee house that Edward Lloyd opened in 1687 near the Thames on Tower Street was a favourite haunt of men from the ships that moored at London's docks. The house was 'spacious, well built and inhabited by able tradesmen' according to a contemporary publication. It grew so popular that in 1691 Lloyd moved it to much larger and more luxurious quarters on Lombard Street. Nat Ward, a publican whom Alexander Pope accused of trading vile rhymes for tobacco, reported that the tables in the new house were 'very neat and shined with rubbing.' A staff of five served tea and sherbet as well as coffee. Lloyd's coffee house served from the start as the headquarters for marine underwriters, in large part because of its excellent mercantile and shipping connections. In 1771 seventy-nine of the underwriters who did business at Lloyd's subscribed £100 each and joined together in the Society of Lloyd's, an unincorporated group of individual entrepreneurs operating under a self-regulated code of behavior. These were the original Members of Lloyd's; later, members came to be known as 'Names.' The Names committed all their worldly possessions and all their financial capital to secure their promise to make good on their customers' losses. That commitment was one of the principal reasons for the rapid growth of business underwritten at Lloyd's over the years. In 1774 the 'Subscribers to Lloyd's' occupied new premises at the Royal Exchange at Cornhill. By the turn of the century the traditional club of marine underwriters had become an international market for insurance risks of almost every type. Lloyd's pre-eminence as a world centre for insurance had been established.
CS: 83. Only state. Frankau: 288. Only state.
[Ref: 655] £490.00

Taylor Turn'd Lord.
Rowlandson 1812.
[Thomas Tegg, c.1812.]
Coloured etching. 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"). Trimmed to plate on left, crease, stains.
A tailor, over-dressed in court attire, moves his premises from Fleet Street to Grosvenor Place, having found royal patronage. His erstwhile neighbours laugh at his pretentions.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 63396] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Top right sheet of Isaac Taylor's 'Dorset Shire'.]
[Ross-on-Wye, 1765.]
Engraved map, one sheet of six. 590 x 470mm (23¼ x 18½"), very large margins. Central crease as normal. Uncut.
One sheet of the first large-scale map of Dorset. engraved by Isaac Taylor (1730-1807) from his own survey. It covers Cranborne, Blandford Forum, and Wimborne Minster in unprecedented detail, with vignettes of the 'Observatory at Horton and 'Shirborne Castle' in panels at the top.
[Ref: 48925] £320.00

[Bottom right sheet of Isaac Taylor's 'Dorset Shire'.]
[Ross-on-Wye, 1765.]
Engraved map, one sheet of six. 590 x 470mm (23¼ x 18½"), very large margins. Central crease as normal. & other central crease. Uncut.
One sheet of the first large-scale map of Dorset. engraved by Isaac Taylor (1730-1807) from his own survey. It covers Poole Harbour, Swanage, Studland, Corfe, Worth Matravers and Wareham in unprecedented detail, with the 'Characters' (key) bottom right.
[Ref: 48926] £520.00

[Top central sheet of Isaac Taylor's 'Dorset Shire'.]
[Ross-on-Wye, 1765.]
Engraved map, one sheet of six. 590 x 470mm (23¼ x 18½"), very large margins. Central crease as normal. Uncut.
One sheet of the first large-scale map of Dorset. engraved by Isaac Taylor (1730-1807) from his own survey. It covers Shaftesbury, Sherborne, and Cerne Abbas (marking the position of the 'Giant') in unprecedented detail, with a vignette of the 'Lullworth Castle' in a panel at the top.
[Ref: 48927] £420.00

Brook Taylor, L.L.D. & R.S.S. 1714.
R. Earlom [after Hans Hysing?].
[n.d., c.1780.]
Mezzotint with etching. 205 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Laid in album paper at edges.
An oval portrait of mathematician and barrister Brook Taylor (1685-1731). The original, in the collection of the Royal Scociety, is attributed to studio of Hans Hysing (1678–1753).
CS 39A (a&c) i of i. Wellcome: 2888; Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67596] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edgar Taylor Esq. F.S.A. Author of Waces Chronicle of the Norman Conquest, The Book of Rights, Lays of the Minnesingers, &c. &c.
Painted by E.U. Eddis Esq.e. Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.
London. Published August 10.th 1841 by M.r Turner No 50 Warren St. Fitzroy Squ.e.
Rare steel mezzotint, printed on chine collé. 390 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Some staining. Cut to platemark.
Edgar Taylor (1793-1839), solicitor, author and translator. In 1823 he anonymously produced the first English version of Grimms' Fairy Tales, illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Whitman 552, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iii.
[Ref: 65241] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Edgar Taylor Esq. F.S.A. Author of Waces Chronicle of the Norman Conquest, The Book of Rights, Lays of the Minnesingers, &c. &c.
Painted by E.U. Eddis Esq.e. Engraved by C. Turner A.R.A.
London. Published August 10th 1841 by Mr Turner No 50 Warren St. Fitzroy Squ.e.
Rare mezzotint. 390 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"), very large margins. Damp stain in margin.
Edgar Taylor (1793-1839), solicitor, author and translator. In 1823 he anonymously produced the first English version of Grimms' Fairy Tales, illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Whitman 552, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 42113] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Edward Taylor, Professor of Music in Gresham College. Sheriff of Norwich in 1820.] Proof B L.
Painted by R.S. Tait Esq. Engraved by H.E. Dawe.
Published by Charles Muskett, Norwich & by J.E. Nickolls, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint on india, proof before title. 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"), with very large margins.
Edward Taylor (1784-1863), a singer, lecturer & writer on music and Gresham Professor of Music. He translated many of Louis Spohr's operas from German to English.
See NPG: D6932 for published state.
[Ref: 42112] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Edward Taylor, Professor of Music in Gresham College. Sheriff of Norwich in 1820.
Painted by R.S. Tait Esq. Engraved by H.E. Dawe.
Published by Charles Muskett, Norwich & by J.E. Nickolls, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Mezzotint on india. Plate 356 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Fine impression.
Edward Taylor (1784-1863) was a lecturer and writer on music; Professor of music in Gresham College.
NPG: D6932.
[Ref: 20091] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeremy Taylor.]
[possibly after Pierre Lombart.]
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 175 x 150mm (7 x 6"). Repaired tear. Folds and creasing through image as normal.
Portrait of Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667), a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. The print depicts Taylor in clerical dress standing on a pedestal on which is written "Mercurius Christianus" and holding a book in his right hand. behind is a landscape with the figure of Christ in the clouds, a ray of light reaching Taylor lettered, "Ad te quacunque vocas dulcissime Jesu" (To you, wheresover, speaks the most sweet Jesus"). In the lower right, a devil emerges from the mouth of hell holding a candle and offering a bag of money to Taylor. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.
[Ref: 67026] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Taylor. Esqr. F.R.S. & c. & c. & c.
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. Engraved by Charles Turner A.R.A.
London Published January 17, 1831 By Mt. Turner, 50, Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 500 x 350mm (19¾" x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, edges soiled, creasing & small tear in inscription area.
John Taylor (1779-1863), land surveyor and civil engineer best known for his mining interests, the Tavistock Canal and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway.
Whitman 553, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66451] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

John Taylor. Esqr. F.R.S. & c. & c. & c.
Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. Engraved by Charles Turner A.R.A.
London Published January 17, 1831 By Mt. Turner, 50, Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 500 x 350mm (19¾" x 13¾"), with large margins.
John Taylor (1779-1863), land surveyor and civil engineer best known for his mining interests, the Tavistock Canal and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway.
Whitman 553, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66452] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Taylor. Esqr. F.R.S. & c. & c. & c.]
[Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. Engraved by Charles Turner A.R.A.]
[London Published January 17, 1831 By Mt. Turner, 50, Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 500 x 350mm (19¾" x 13¾"), with large margins. Some foxing.
John Taylor (1779-1863), land surveyor and civil engineer best known for his mining interests, the Tavistock Canal and the Redruth and Chasewater Railway.
Whitman 553, ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66453] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[John Taylor.]
J. Smart pinx.t. J. Dixon Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 280mm (10¼ x 11"). Framed. Trimmed to plate. Unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Sir John Taylor (1745-86), a fellow of the Royal Society who was created a baronet of Lysson Hall in Jamaica. Taylor became a baronet on 1st September 1778. In the same year he married an heiress, Elizabeth Godden Houghton. His eldest brother became a Jamaican attorney who represented the large number of absentee plantation owners and he was reputedly the richest person in Jamaica. Taylor lived in London but died in Jamaica in 1786.
Chaloner Smith: 33.
[Ref: 50430] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Johannis Taylor.
F.H. van Hove sculp.
[n.d., c.1687.]
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed to image.
A half-length portrait of mathematician John Taylor with a celestial model on table. Rare frontispiece to 'Thesaurus Mathematicus'.
W 2890.
[Ref: 46329] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Joannes Taylor Medicus, in Optica Expertissimus, Multisque in Academiis Celebermis Membrum.
Chevalier Ryche Roma Pinx. J. Faber Londini Fecit.
[n.d., c.1745.]
Mezzotint. 360 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"), large margins. Tear entering plate on right taped.
Portrait of John Taylor (1703-1772), self-proclaimed Ophthalmiater Royal to King George II, and surgeon-oculist to the Pope, the Emperor and a mythical Princess of Georgia. He was a coucher, or cataract surgeon, who performed removal of cataracts by breaking them up into pieces, although he often left town before his patients' bandages had been removed. Among his victims was Bach, who he reportedly blinded and who fell ill with fever and died less than four months later.
CS 342. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67536] £320.00

John Taylor.
Painted by Sir John Watson Gordon. Engraved by W.A. Cox.
Published by The Gainsborough Galleries Liverpool. Copyright 1923.
Colour printed mezzotint. Plate 438 x 285mm. 17¼ x 11¼".
This portrait of John Taylor ( fl. 1807 - 1825) and his caddy is one of the greatest golfing images. It shows Taylor, in his red captain's jacket, about to tee off on the original course of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on Leith Links, two miles north-east of the city centre. In 1744 this group (then known as 'the gentlemen golfers') had drawn up the first official rules for a tournament which were to form the basis for the modern game of golf. The club moved to Musselburgh in 1836 and further down the coast to Muirfield at the end of the nineteenth century. This is from an impressive oil painting by Sir John Watson Gordon (1788 - 1864) in the National Galleries of Scotland. Gordon was training to become an army engineer when, encouraged by his uncle, the painter, George Watson, and Raeburn, who was a family friend, he decided to become an artist. His first works were subject pictures but, after Raeburn's death in 1823, he established himself as the leading portrait painter in Scotland. His style was at first closely based on Raeburn but was later more influenced by his admiration for Velázquez. After Raeburn's death in 1823, Watson Gordon became Scotland's leading portrait painter.
National Galleries of Scotland: PGL 342.
[Ref: 19893] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ioanes Taylor, Medicus In Optica Expertissimus Multisque In Academiis Celeberrimis Membrum &c &c XXX Anno. Effigiem Taylor libi qui demissius ab alla est...Dignum, Cui laudes Saecula longa Canant.
Ph. Endlich ad viv. del. et sculp.
Amst. 1735.
Rare engraving. 265 x 190mm. 10½ x 7½". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
John Taylor (1703-1772) was an itinerant ocultist and surgeon-ocultist to King George II, and claimed also to be Ophthalmiater Royal to the Pope and to the Emperor, along with a multitude of royalties, including a mythical Princess of Georgia and the Viceroy of the Indies. He was the first and last ophthalmologist to travel from court to court of Europe with a cavalcade of outriders and supporters. He was a physician who conducted early research into the nature and treatment of cataracts and other problems of the eye.
W: 2891-2.
[Ref: 24672] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

All the Workes of Iohn Taylor The Water Poet Being 63 in number Collection into one volum By the Author With Sundry new Additions Corrected, Revised, and newly Imprinted.
T Cockson Sculp
1630 [bit later]
Engraving, 185 x 280mm. 7¼ x 11".
Frontispiece to an edition of works by John Taylor ('The Water Poet', 1578-1653), with a portrait of the author. Born in Gloucester, Taylor moved to London in the 1590s and served an apprenticeship to a waterman, ferrying passengers on the Thames. He later occupied prominent positions in the Watermen's Company. Besides epic boating expeditions in England and Scotland, Taylor travelled widely in Europe, and produced a considerable amount of travel-writing. He published his 'Works' in 1630, and lacking a patron dedicated it to 'the world'. Later years saw him take part in an expedition, sponsored by the Crown, to survey the upper Thames, before his fortunes faltered. Taylor died in poverty and was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. Engraved by Thomas Cockson (1591-1636 fl.).
Bernard Capp, ‘Taylor, John (1578–1653)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
[Ref: 15811] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Leonard Campbell Taylor R.A.
By Cyril G.E. Bunt.
F. Lewis Publishers Limited. [1949.]
8vo, hard covers; pp. 9, with coloured illustrated labels. Slightly damaged binding.
A concise introduction to the work of English painter Leonard Campbell Taylor, R.A.
[Ref: 59928] £10.00

Richard Taylor [facsimile signature.]
T. H. Maguire. 1851. [etched in plate]
[M & N Hanhart]
Lithograph on octagonal chine collé. Sheet: 610 x 445mm (24 x 17½"), very large margins. Minor foxing.
A seated half length portrait of Richard Taylor (1781-1858) from the Ipswich Museum Portraits series published by George Ransom in 1852: the sixty portraits of distinguished men of science were commissioned to commemorate the foundation of the museum in 1846. Taylor was an English naturalist and printer, publishing notable science journals and magazines.
W2892-2
[Ref: 57872] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Major - General Zachary Taylor. President of the United States.
From an Original Daguerreotype. Engraved by John Sartain.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848, by Mess.rs Sartain & Sloanaker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mezzotint. 832 x 628mm. 32¾ x 24¾".
Full length portrait of Zachary Taylor, standing beside his horse and facing forward. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States of America from 1849 to 1850 and was an American military leader. Taylor was the last President to hold slaves while in office. He was known as "old rough and ready" and had a forty-year military career in the United States, serving in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War and the Second Seminole War.
[Ref: 23333] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Taylors Race, or Who's in first for the Cabbage.
Jan 11th 1786.
Jan 11th 1786. Pub by W. Holland No 50 Oxford. Str.t.
Coloured etching. 175 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Narrow margins. Horizontal crease.
Two taylors on geese ride towards a man holding a cabbage on a pole. Cabbage is a term used for the leftover fabric from cutting out a pattern. The satire was first publised in 1780 with the publication inscription 'Pub. by T.Colley St Martin's Court Cranborn Alley. E.Hedges No.92 under the Royal Exchange', the remains of which are still visible in the lower right.
Not in BM
[Ref: 54464] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A group of chemical instruments.]
[After Mulholland by H. Mutlow.]
[n.d., c.1801.]
Engraved bill head/trade card, proof, sheet 120 x 205mm. 4¾ x 8". Trimmed, soiled. Some creasing and two holes.
For a trade-card and bill of sale for Friedrich Christian Accum and Alexander Garden, 'experimental chemists' at 11 Old Compton Street, Soho, London. Several chemical instruments are grouped together as if on a table.
BM Registration number: D,2.260.
[Ref: 9512] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[LINEN DRAPERS] Bot. of Woollett & Co. Drapers, Haberdashers, Hosie[rs]...[remainder missing.]
Webb & Son, Sc. Snow Hill, London. [c.1830]
Fragment of steel engraved illustrated billhead, vignette of a large retail premises, with some aquatint. Sheet 85 x 130mm, 3¼ x 5". Cut and glued to backing sheet
A view of Woollett & Co drapers and haberdashers in Albert Terrace.
[Ref: 56065] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[CUTLERS] Bought of G. Palmer, Cutler to His Majesty, and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, No.1, St James’s Street.
[LONDON, ca. 1814]
Engraved billhead, with Royal Arms on the left, and commercial mottos in 3 of the 4 corners. 320 x 186mm (72 x 185 platesize). In excellent, clean condition; creased where sometime folded for posting.
The bill, dated 1814, for £6/1/-, is made out to Lady Augusta Leith. Among other things, she paid 3 shillings and sixpence for a corkscrew.
[Ref: 5906] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[LINENDRAPERS] Bo.t. of Procter & Brownlow Linen Drapers. Great Variety of Table Linen, Sheeting, Bed Furniture with all sorts of Fancy Articles.
[LONDON, ca. 1740]
Engraved billhead, with vignette on left: “68” in an oval, with the address ‘Late Lane’s, Corner of Water Lane, Fleet Street.’ 135 x 236mm. Soiled, wrinkled, torn in half, repaired with randow strip of old paper and wax seals.
This piece, in slightly distressed condition, has done well to survive and preserve the information it carries. Bears a short manuscript account; dated 22 July 1746.
[Ref: 5910] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[LINENDRAPERS] Bought of Nathn. Holford, Linen Draper, Corner of Bridge Street, Parliament Street, Westminster. A New Assortment of all kinds of Linen Drapery.
[LONDON, ca.1790]
Engraved billhead, with engraved vignette of a sheaf of corn, on the left. 117 x 209mm.
The account is rendered in ink, and dated Jan 11 1796
[Ref: 5912] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[DYER / SCOWERER] To J.S.Elliott Successor to S.Stiles Silk-Dyer and Scowerer To His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. 108 Jermyn Street St James’s.
[LONDON, ca. 1810]
Engraved billhead. 110 x 200mm. Dusty along one margin, folds, central stab-hole.
Made out in ink to Mrs Willis, dated Janry. 1. 1811, receipted by Ellis. Two items on the bill, including 2 prs of Silk Stockings at 2 shillings.
[Ref: 5913] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[DYER] To S. Adams, Silk, Linen & Woollen Dyer. At the Unicorn No.5 in the Minories, near Aldgate. NB. Furniture of all sorts Clean’d & Dy’d.
[LONDON, ca. 1810]
Engraved billhead, with vignette arms and unicorn rampant, on left side. 140 x 160mm; (plate: 47 x 148). Folds, otherwise clean and excellent.
Manuscript bill to Mr (John) Forbes, for various dying (e.g. a white silk net veil dyed black, 2s/6d), dated Feb. 24th 1812.
[Ref: 5914] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[RAG & BONE MAN] J.Smith, Rag, Bone & Bottle Dealer, Orchard, opposite the Red Bull, Peckham. J. Smith begs respectfully to acquaint the inhabitants of Peckham and its vicinity, that he is now giving the Highest Prices for all Articles in the above Line. The following amusing Dialogue between Mrs Wasteful and Mrs Saveall, exhibits at once the advantage derived by saving and sending your old stores to the above house … [dialogue, etc. in 2 columns] … Dealer in Coals, Coke, Wood and Potatoes.
[PECKHAM / LAMBETH, ca. 1843]
Half-sheet, printed (by Dailey, Printer, New Cut, Lambeth) on paper and mounted on an album sheet. 123 x 188mm.
A contemporary collector has dated this 1843, in pencil.
[Ref: 5917] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Quick Search

Search by Ref. Number

Browse by Subject

Browse by Artist

Browse by Engraver

New - Catalogue 152

Catalogue 151

Catalogue 150

Advanced Search