Grosvenor Prints

Louis Valentin. Dr. Medecin / Né le 14 8bre 1758 / Mort a Nancy le 11 Fevrier 1829
Dess au Physionotrace et gravé par Quenedey rue des petits Champs No.15 a Paris 1816
Etching and aquatint with large margins, platemark 115 x 95mm (4½ x 3¾"). Late impression.
French doctor Louis Valentin. This print was made by Edme Quénedey (1756 - 1830) during the sitter's lifetime and reissued with addition text after his death. Quenedey, a miniature painter and engraver, made much use of the physionotrace, a mechanised drawing instrument that could reproduce the outline profile of a portrait. It was invented by Gilles-Louis Chretien, who engraved Quenedey’s portraits from 1787 to 1789, in 1786. Chretien and Quenedey founded a very successful portrait studio in Paris together in 1788. Between 1786 – c.1810 there were only two studios in Paris which produced a relatively small number of physionotrace engravings. Consequently very few of these intriguing portraits are preserved today. Because of their origins and the realism physionotrace portraits have, they can be seen as true photo-graphic objects and are therefore classified as a forerunner of photography.
[Ref: 35221] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.] You may smile as you please, and anoint well with grease [/] Your ugly old Phizz, and false hair [/] You may dress out quite gay, yet that's not the way [/] To keep up a Juvenile air...
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 215 x 180mm (8½ x 7").
An example of a cruel Victorian Valentine, which pokes fun at a spinster attempting to cling on to her youth.
[Ref: 43797] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

The Valentine. Fac-simile of a sketch by G. D. Leslie, R.A.
[George Dunlop Leslie].
[n.d., c.1900].
Chromolithograph. Sheet size: 505 x 395mm (20 x 15¾"). Bottom left corner torn. Horizontal creases where previously folded as normal.
A young maid reading a Valentines note. After George Dunlop Leslie RA (1835 - 1921). Leslie was an English genre painter, author and illustrator.
[Ref: 32484] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Humours of Valentine's Day.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 90 x 110mm (3½" x 4¼). Trimmed.
A black pageboy gives a message to his mistress depicting a heart pierced by arrows and the word 'Snowball'.
[Ref: 57260] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Valentine,]
Cecil Aldin [in image and signed in pencil by the artist].
Printed and Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 4 Middle New St. London EC. 4. [n.d., c.1925.]
Very rare chromolithograph, sheet 540 x 440mm (21¼ x 17¼"), large margins. Blindstamp for Fine Art Trade Guild.
A scene outside the George Inn, on Borough High Street in London, a woman reads a letter. Below, a coaching scene. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870 - 1935), artist and illustrator, was born in Slough, the son of a builder, and studied at the South Kensington school of Art. He worked as a comic illustrator in the 1890's before achieving great success as a sporting artist. He retired to Majorca in 1930.
[Ref: 65636] £350.00

[Valentine.] Why did you court her suddenly?[/] And why so soon "propose" [/] Why lead her to the altar [/] To be led by the nose?
[n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
A Victorian valentine criticising a man's decision to get married.
[Ref: 43811] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine] Youthful in years and not deformed to view / With heart devoted constantly to you...
[n.d., c.1830.
Writing Sheet; lithograph with very fine hand colour. Sheet folded as issued, front 245 x 205mm (9¾ x 8").
A young woman in a flower garden overlooking a river is presented with a valentine by Cupid.
[Ref: 55723] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Although a Lion you appear, [/] You're more than half an Ass I hear.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼").
A cruel Victorian valentine, poking fun at a man shown with a cigar and a cane. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 43808] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[A young woman reading a valentine.]
London, Published August 22nd. 1866, by Moore, McQueen & Company Limited 25, Berners Street, Oxford Street; Pairs, chez François Delarue, Editeur, 18, Rue J.J. Rousseau.
Mixed method engraving, proof before title, 720 x 515mm. 28¼ x 20¼".
A young woman reading a love letter by a fire place, a rose having fallen to the ground, while her father works in a back room. A fine impression.
[Ref: 8489] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] Without beauty of person or mind, / For such graces admirers find; / Such fantastic sport will not do, / Of Folly and ugliness too.
Published by G. Gilbert 2 Green Ardour Court of Bailey.
Rare woodcut with letterpress text. Sheet 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Small tear in edge, paper stuck down on unprinted area. Messy.
A woman with voluminous sleeves, carrying an umbrella.
[Ref: 54599] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Ah! now I well know what it was that I smelt, [/] It was the bottle-nosed, rabbit mouthed dealer in felt...
[n.d., c. 1850.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Creasing.
An example of a cruel Victorian Valentine, whose intended recipient is a felt dealer who is depicted ironing.
[Ref: 43796] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Victorian valentine] My dear, I trust you will pardon me and not think me wanting in modesty when I declare to you my unalterable attachment to yourself an attachment that emboldens me to enquire anxiously after your health/ AND HOW'S YOUR POOR FEET?
[Anon., c.1850]
Wood-engraving wth hand-colouring, folded, sheet 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
Typically spiteful Victorian valentine card.
[Ref: 40383] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Vinegar Valentine] This creature is willing to marry, / Can you resist the temptation? / Why ladies to you so tarry? / His match is not in the nation. / Take him & mould him as you please. / What all refuse! ain't he the cheese?
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured woodcut. 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¼").
A writing sheet shows a satire of a man wearing a monocle and checked trousers. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 63286] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.]
[American?, n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9").
A woman looks out of her window to see three winged hearts with men's heads bearing down on her.
[Ref: 53232] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] A Beauty in the Green & Yellow Leaf.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, image 210 x 125mm, on folded sheet.
A dog lover. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7059] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Your Portrait: Conceited Pup with Ugly Face / Ti's Plain You'r One of the Bull Dog Race.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 440 x 185mm (17¼ x 7¼") . Folded.
With a dog's face, with monocle & pipe.
[Ref: 7027] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Deceit.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 445 x 145mm. Folded, 3 small worm holes.
A woman with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7030] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] An Engraver, you may be by trade, / But withal you're a curious blade, / Whose rule every night, is to go to bed tight, / That the bloom on your nose my ne'er fade. / Chop away, cut and butcher your block, / Never listen again for a knock, / For you in my eyes, I loath and despise / As the ugliest sheep in the flock.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet.
A wood-engraver, smoking a pipe. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] You cry your Fish so loud and shrill / Turbot, Mackarel, Plaice and Brill, / And on the women passing by, / Your leer and cast a fishy eye; / Now who on earth would ever wish / To Have a man who smells of fish.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7066] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

You will be likely getting married, If your intentions out are carried, This little picture do not scorn, It shows a likeness of your first-born.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress. 254 x 190mm. 10 x 7½".
A white hand holding a black baby.
[Ref: 27167] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

With a most pious look and canting croak, / You make Good Templarism nothing but a cloak; / But, pray take care how you carry on your game, / Or, sure as fate, 'twill bring disgrace and shame.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress, sheet 250 x 185.
In front of an advert for 'Good Tipplers Gin'.
[Ref: 7071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hearken Not to the Voice of the Siren.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 630 x 255mm. Folded.
A woman with a fish's tail.
[Ref: 7035] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

'Me Thinks 'tis my Glass, not my Brother.' Shakespeare.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 635 x 250mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7055] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Mongrel.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 565 x 220mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7056] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Will music win your heart to love?
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Printed area 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4") on front of paper folded once. Some creasing.
A valentine. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 44361] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] No use on me to spend your smiles, / I really must resist your wiles; / It may be rude but I decline / A Girl of such a public line, / Barmaids who'll flirt with any spoon / Will bring a man to sorrow soon.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
A bottle-nosed drinker rejecting the advances of a barmaid with a body of a bottle & cask. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7065] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Valentine.]
[n.d., c. 1880.]
Manuscript poem with print overlaid, glued to scrap album page, 180 x 260mm.
A love poem for St. Valentine's Day, with two stanzas either side of an excised coloured lithograph showing an officer and his beloved. Christmas/ New Year cards glued to verso of album page.
[Ref: 7423] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Haste thee with this Valentine, thou silly man of letters, / And try to do the best you can to serve and please your betters. / For I'd sooner live an old maid or else give up the ghost, / Than wed a grinning postman, as stupid as a post.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress, image 210 x 165mm, on folded sheet.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7070] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Postman, ha, what a guy! [/] Who prigs the Letters on the Sly; [/] Do not think I shall e'er incline [/] To have a chap like you for a Valentine.
W.S. Fortey, Steam Printers, Monmouth Ct. [n.d., c.1830.]
4 pp. with coloured wood engraving on the front. Front 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Holes in top edge, some creasing and spotting.
A letterhead vinegar valentine featuring a postman with a roseate nose.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64194] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Which is the Puppy?
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 220 x 175mm.
[Ref: 7057] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Your principles in vain you boast / You look just like Salvation's Ghost.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 560 x 220mm. Folded, some wear.
A Salvation Army trumpeter.
[Ref: 7029] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

One who can give a stab in the back.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, printed in green, sheet 380 x 85mm. Folded, three small worm holes.
A woman with serpentine tongue & tail.
[Ref: 7034] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] You'd like to be a Swell, I see, [/] But really it won't do; [/] The right is whay you wish to be, [/] The left, my love, is you! [/] No. 30.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 220 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼").
A vinegar valentine featuring a man with two faces, one good-looking, the other grotesque. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

As a Tailor's Goose, you're more known than admired...
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 370 x 250mm. Folded.
A dandy goose.
[Ref: 7037] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Two to one on Blue Jacket, / 'Gainst any other horse say. / For if I win I take it, / And if I lose I never pay.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 200 x 130mm, on a folded sheet.
A dishonest bookmaker at the races.
[Ref: 7064] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Venomous Reptile!
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 540 x 205mm. Folded, a few small tears.
A immaculately-dressed man with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7031] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] A Wolf in Sheep' Clothing.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 365 x 250mm. Folded, some spotting at edges.
Holding a bible and an umbrella. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7028] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Valentine's Day.
Painted by George Morland. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Nov.r 15.th 1787 by J. Dean Bentick Street Soho.
Rare mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Repaired tears, crack in top platemark, creases.
A scene outside a cottage, with an old woman leaning out over the door, advising a young woman who sits in front, holding a ribbon and gesturing towards a young man, who turns to walk away, looking back over his shoulder, his cane under his arm.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 64870] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Valentine's Day.
Painted by George Morland. Engraved by J. Dean.
Published Nov.r 15.th 1787 by J. Dean Bentick Street Soho.
Rare mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼").
A scene outside a cottage, with an old woman leaning out over the door, advising a young woman who sits in front, holding a ribbon and gesturing towards a young man, who turns to walk away, looking back over his shoulder, his cane under his arm.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Sotheby's 1997.
[Ref: 64871] £380.00

[A pair of grotesque figures.]
Lewis Marks Del.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of hand-coloured etchings. Sheet: 245 x 180mm (10 x 7''). Laid on album sheets, cockling.
A pair of grotesque portraits of a man and a woman with huge, ugly heads. Portraits like these, with unkind verses below, were often given as Valentines.
[Ref: 50465] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine] Baker. Baker, Baker, do you know, / Your head is like a lump of dough, / And though you may think I speak rough, / Your nose is like a penny puff.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 445 x 140mm (17½ x 5½"). Tear touching title, pinhole.
A humorous valentine.
[Ref: 54503] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Valetta, from the Quarantine Harbour. Malta. Valetta,-dal Porto di Quarantina, Malta.
L.t Allen, Rl. Engineers. W. Wallis.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris. [n.d. c.1841.]
Steel engraving. Sheet: 280 x 190mm, (11 x 7½"). Tears in lower edge.
A view a of ports of Valetta with Fort Saint Elmo on the shoreline.
[Ref: 39798] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Valetta, _Malta.
T.C. Dibdin. Drawn from Nature by Lieut. H.E. Allen, Rl. Engrs Js. Tingle.
Fisher, Son & Co. London & Paris, 1836.
Steel engraving, sheet 220 x 290mm. 8¾ x 11½".
A view of Valetta on the island of Malta, from the approach to the harbour.
[Ref: 26332] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Her Majesty The Queen Dowager Adelaide. Entering Malta Harbour on Board H.M.S. Hastings 30th Nov.ber 1838.
Drawn and Lith.d by C. von Brocktorff. Malta.
[n.d., c.1838.]
Very scarce hand coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 365 x 520mm (14¼ x 20½"). Central vertical crease. Taped to mount.
A scene at Valletta Harbour, Malta, depicting Queen Adelaide on board H.M.S Hastings, greeted by crowds of joyful supporters both in boats and on the waters edge. The fortifications of the city can bee seen in the background. A year after her husband William III's death, Queen Adelaide cruised the Mediterranean and visited Malta, where she was received enthusiastically. Apparently there was no Anglican church at Malta, and she was ultimately responsible for founding and endowing the Anglican Cathedral of St Paul at Valetta, Malta (she laid the foundation stone in 1839).
[Ref: 38030] £620.00

[Towing into Grand Harbour, Valetta.]
William L. Wyllie [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, signed in pencil. Plate 165 x 381mm. 6½ x 15".
A steam tug towing a tall-ship into the Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta. William L. Wyllie (1851-1931) was born on July 5th 1851, in London. He attended Heatherley’s art school until the age of fifteen, leaving to study at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Turner Medal at the age of eighteen. In the early 1870’s Wyllie became an illustrator for the Graphic and also held several exhibitions at the galleries of the Fine Art Society. In 1889 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited his work in 1901. Wyllie spent much of his time at sea working for the White Star Shipping Line. He also served in the Royal Navy during WWI, painting seascapes and coastal landscapes. His etchings and watercolours showing working life on the Thames and the Medway brought him widespread popularity. Later in his life he played an important role in the restoration of the Victory. Wyllie died on the 6th April 1931 in Hampstead, and scouts from the 1st Portchester Sea Scout Troop, which he had founded, rowed his coffin across Portsmouth Harbour for his burial at Portchester Castle.
[Ref: 26596] £850.00

[Saint John's Co-Cathedral] The Vault _ Il Sotterraneo.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾") very large margins. Several repaired tears in edges.
The crypt of Saint John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, containing the tombs of Grand Masters, including Fra' Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle (1531-95) and Jean de la Cassière (1572-81), shown here.
[Ref: 58091] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A small town in a wooded valley.]
J. Koller 1776 [in ink].
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 200 x 290mm (8 x 11½").
[Ref: 51383] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Valley Farm, Semur.]
Malcolm Osborne. [Signed in pencil.].
Etching. 140 x 325mm (5½ x 12¾"). Slight crease across top right corner. Very large margins.
Malcolm Osborne [1880-1963] was born in Frome, Somerset. He studied at Bristol School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, under Sir Frank Short. When Short retired in 1924 he succeeded him as head of the etching and engraving school. Osborne produced just over a hundred prints, including British and European land and townscapes.
[Ref: 38927] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Valley of Rocks, Linton, Devon.
Drawn, Printed & Published by G. Rowe, Cheltenham.
[n.d. c.1840]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 117 x 225mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Tears to backing sheet restored.
View of rocky cliffs by the sea with seagulls flying over the water.
[Ref: 62956] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Charles de Valois Duc D'Angoulesme Pair de France Comte D'Auvergne.
Champagne pinxit. Aeg. Rousselet sculp.
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. Sheet: 330 x 255mm (13 x 10''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Central crease.
A half-length portrait in an oval of Charles de Valois, Duke of Angouleme (1573-1650), illegitimate son of Charles IX and Marie Touchet.
[Ref: 49704] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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