Grosvenor Prints

[A tiger's head.]
Gape [after Samuel Howitt].
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching on chine collé. 165 x 185mm (6½ x 7¼") very large margins.
An impressive image of a plate in Samuel Howitt's 'New Work of Fables & Animals'.
[Ref: 64055] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A tiger drinking.]
Aglaiis Bauvenne [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1880.]
Etching, signed by the etcher. 255 x 335mm (10 x 13¼"), with large margins, 'MBM' watermark.
A tiger drinking at a waterhole, after Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)?
[Ref: 64063] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Tiger
Peint par Murphy [but George Stubbs]. Gravé par Renbé.
à Ausbourg dans le Negoce de l'Academie des Arts [n.d., c.1800.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½") Trimmed into image on three sides.
A reverse copy of 'The Tigress', after the mezzotint by John Murphy after George Stubbs, 1798.
Not in C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 63345] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Tyger.
Painted by Ja.s Northcote; Engraved by Jn.o Murphy.
Publish'd May 1, 1790 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, closed letters. 485 x 605mm (19 x 23¾"), with very large margins.
A fine impression of this scene of a prowling tiger in a cave, staring at the viewer. To the right is the head of a dead wolf. A fantastic image of 18th century mezzotint art.
[Ref: 61190] £6,800.00

[The Manchurian Tiger. Plate II. (Felis tigris mongolica).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 171 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½").
Two Siberian tigers, from Manchuria, found primarily in the Sikhote Alin mountain region. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30176] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Tiger
J. Collett del et inv.t. Smith sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs. [n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 185mm (5¼ x 7¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
A recumbent tiger with a bone.
[Ref: 51342] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Tigress.
J.J. 1836. [J. Jebb]
Lithograph. Sheet 320 x 225mm (12½ x 8¾") Trimmed, laid on album paper, stained.
Head of a tigress
The BM example, 1930,1125.2, has the pencil mss. 'From a sketch taken at the Zoological Gardens. J. Jebb."
[Ref: 46403] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Tiger]
Z.G.
Lithograph, printed area approx. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Ms. in pencil, largely erased and illegible.
[Ref: 43376] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Spring Bow.
On Stone by Major Parlby. Sketched on the Spot by [printed Arabic signature.]
[1850.]
Coloured lithograph highlighted in gold leaf, sheet 190 x 280mm. 7½ x 11". Slightly soiled.
A tiger inadvertently walking into a trap beside a watering hole in India. To the left, a bow is primed to fire an arrow when the trip-wire is touched by the animal. Plate to Fanny Parks's (Mrs. Parlby) 'Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East', 2vols., London: Pelham Richardson, 1850.
Abbey Travel: 476, 31.
[Ref: 10281] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Bengal Tigers and Cubs.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15"). Trimmed into image at sides, into title at bottom.
A tiger, tigress and three cubs.
[Ref: 64058] £360.00

[Bengal Tigers.]
Evert van Muyden '87. [in plate]. E. van Muyden [signed in pencil].
[1887.]
Etching on vellum, signed by the artist. 420 x 315mm (16½ x 12½"). Mount burn, taped stain in top margin, crease in margin.
Bengal Tigers at a riverside, with a remarque of a tiger's head bottom left. Evert Louis van Muyden (1853-1922), born in Italy to Swiss parents. In 1894 the Art Institute of Chicago held an exhibition of over 200 of his 'Water Colors, Sketches, Pen Drawings and Etchings' including four states of this print. It was also illustrated in Frederick Keppel's 'The Golden Age of Engraving', 1910.
[Ref: 50330] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Bengal Tiger.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Frost & Reed Ltd, Bristol & London, 1915.
Etching, signed artist's proof. 190 x 350mm (7½ x 13¾"), with large margins, Frost & Reed blind stamp. Mint.
A pacing tiger, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 52085] £1,250.00

[A Tiger.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [signed in pencil].
[London: Frost & Reed, c.1920.]
Etching., signed by the artist. 198 x 445mm (7¼ x 17½").
A reclining tiger.
[Ref: 9334] £1,150.00

[A Tigress.]
Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
London, Published December 1st 1891, by C. E. Clifford & Co. 200 Piccadilly W.
Drypoint etching on vellum, limited edition of 225 signed proofs. 580 x 495mm (22¾ x 19½), with Printsellers' Association stamp. Unexamined out of frame
Dramatic head of a snarling tigress, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1891.
[Ref: 12055] £950.00

[The Jungle Pool.]
H.D. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
[Frost & Reed. n.d. 1921.]
Etching, Artist's Proof, limited to 150 impressions signed in pencil by the artist, printseller's blindstamps. 205 x 305mm (8 x 12").
A tiger drinking from a pool.
[Ref: 30317] £950.00

[Thirst.]
H.D. 1911. [in image] Herbert Dicksee [signed in pecil]
Copyright 1911 by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Etching, sight size 350 x 705 (17¾ x 27¾"). Wormholes. No longer framed.
Two tigers drinking. The remarque is a cobra.
[Ref: 62498] £950.00

[Siesta.]
HD. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1918.]
Etching, signed artist's proof. 180 x 280mm (7 x 11"), with very wide margins.
A tiger lying in the sun, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918.
[Ref: 31763] £850.00

[Mary Tighe.]
Comerford after Romney pinx.t Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculp.t
Published as the act directs May 10. 1811, by Longman & Co: Paternoster Row.
Stipple. 292 x 217mm. 11½ x 8½".
Mary Tighe (1772-1810) was an Anglo-Irish poet. In 1805 she published 'Psyche', a six-canto allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas, which was admired by many and praised by Thomas Moore. She suffered a serious attack of tuberculosis in 1805 and survived another five years.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute.
[Ref: 24360] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary Tighe]
Commerford after Romney pinx.t. Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculp.t.
[Published as the act directs May 10. 1811, by Longman & Co: Paternoster Row]
Stipple proof before title. Sheet 175 x 110mm (7 x 4½").
Bust portrait of Anglo-Irish poet, Mary Tighe (1772 - 1810). Her long hair flows loosely over her shoulders, and she wears a headband. This image is based on a miniature by Comerford, which was inspired by a painting by Romney In 1805 Tighe published 'Psyche', a six-canto allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas, which was admired by many and praised by Thomas Moore. Frontispiece to 'Psyche'.
[Ref: 65193] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Tight Lacing.
R.S. J.H.
Pub.d 5 Mar.h 1777 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho who has a great variety of humorous Prints. Price One Shilling.
Etching. Plate: 310 x 225mm (12¼ x 9"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A scene in a bedroom in which a maid strains to pull her mistresses corset as tight as possible while her mistress holds onto the bed post.
BM 5452
[Ref: 44758] £350.00

Tight Lacing, or Fashion before Ease. From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possession of the Proprietors.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 25th Aug.t 1777.
Mezzotint with fine hand-colouring. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, small tears at top taped, damp stains..
A husband, servant-maid and black page-boy join forces to try and fasten a lady's bodice. A toy spaniel on the bed looks on in amusement, while a monkey in the foreground points to an open book inscribed 'Fashions Victim a Satire'. After John Collet (c.1725-80), painter and prolific designer of humorous scenes for print publishers.
BM Satires 4552.
[Ref: 58488] £480.00

The Distress of Tigranes, before Cyrus, on finding his Father the King of Armenia, Mother, Wife, and Children, Prisoners. In the Collection of his Majesty.
Painted by Benn. West Esqr. 1769. Histl. Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by Jas. Fittler.
Published March 25th. 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell: No. 90 Cheapside London.
Engraving, image 425 x 590mm. 16¾ x 23¼". Lacking margins, and trimmed close to image on three sides, laid down.
An imaginatively reconstructed scene from antiquity: Tigranes stands in the centre of a camp beside his horse, waving his fist angrily in the direction of his father, who stands with head bowed before the carriage in which the rest of his family sit; Cyrus the Great (c.590/80 BC - 530 BC), ruler of the Persian empire listens, seated on a rock at the entrance of his tent at right, his soldiers and advisors surrounding; cliffs and sea in background. Royal coat of arms below image. After Benjamin West (1738 - 1820).
[Ref: 23929] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Tigress.
Engraved by John Murphy by Permission of Mr. George Stubbs from the Picture Painted by himself and in his Possession.
London, Published July 27, 1798 by J. Murphy, North side Paddington Green.
Coloured mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 610mm (19¼ x 24"). Trimmed to platemark. Very slight hole above tiger's head.
A very rare mezzotint, probably engraved from the life-size portrait of the Royal Tiger in Stubbs's possession when he died. The painting had originally been engraved by John Dixon in 1772; however that mezzotint plate had been destroyed, so John Murphy was allowed to engrave a new plate. A beautifully-coloured example of one of the finest images produced in the history of mezzotint.
Lennox-Boyd 133: ii of ii.
[Ref: 54787] £4,500.00

[Fishing on the Tigris.]
Charles W. Cain. [signed and numbered 58/75.]
[n.d., c.1930]
Etching. 212 x 105mm. Very fine in original mount.
Charles William Cain [1893-1962] A student of Camberwell School of Art and then an illustrator/cartoonist for the Johannesburg Star until WWI when he joined the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia the Armistice, and entered the Royal College of Art under Frank Short 1920-1.
[Ref: 26920] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tigris Night - Ezra's Tomb]
84.90 Charles W Cain [pen and ink signature, with CW monogram in image]
Etching on pale green paper, Unidentified 'KG' collector's stamp verso. From the 2nd Mesopotamin set. Platemark 255 x 380mm (9¾ x 15").
View on the Tigris river, which flows from Turkey through Iraq and into the Persian Gulf. The site depicted is believed to be the burial place of the biblical figure Ezra. The etcher Charles William Cain (1893 - 1962) travelled in the Middle East, and lived in Baghdad for some years. A student of Camberwell School of Art, he was then an illustrator and cartoonist for the Johannesburg Star. During the Great War, he served with the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia until the Armistice. In 1920-21, he studied at the Royal College of Art under Frank Short.
[Ref: 46586] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Inhabitants of Tikopia.
Toroske pinxt. J. Bull sculp.
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 220 x 140mm. Some stain spots, one particularly prominent lower edge of image.
Tikopia is a small and high island, in the Southwestern pacific Ocean. Covering an area of 2 square miles, the island is the remnant of an extinct volcano. Tikopia's location is relatively remote. It is sometimes grouped with the Santa Cruz Islands. Administratively, Tikopia belongs to Temotu Province as the southernmost of the Solomon Islands. From 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 7441] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Vue de L'Ile Tikopia.
de Sainson pinx. J. Arago Lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, c.1833.]
Lithograph, sheet 330 x 520mm. 13 x 20½".
A party of French sailors rowing towards the island of Tikopia in the south-western Pacific Ocean. Covering an area of 2 square miles, the island is the remnant of an extinct volcano; it is the southernmost of the Solomon Islands. Numbered 'Pl.172' upper right; from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829. Publisher's blindstamp below title. After Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887).
NLA: 2719150. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18748] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Tikopia. 1. Pakavé, 1er. chef de l'île. 2. Jôo lascar du Bengale. 3.4. Naturels de Tikopia. 5. Tatouage de la potrine.
de Sainson pinx. A. Maurin lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, 1833.]
Lithograph. Printed area 385 x 255mm.
Portraits of natives of the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Solomon Islands group. From 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829.
[Ref: 8182] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Tilbury Fort, in the County of Essex.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published 2d. March, 1773.
Copper Engraving, 180 x 270mm. 7 x 10½". Tipped into album page.
Tilbury Fort is on the north, Essex, bank of the River Thames and was built to defend London from attack from the sea, particularly during the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Dutch Wars. Numbered '8' upper right.
[Ref: 9155] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Tilbury Ness.] Essex. Sheet LXXXVIII Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, tears, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of the Thames at Tilbury Ness, marking Northfleet Hope and Gravesend Rach, with part of Tilbury Docks. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority, noting sales.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10966] £180.00

This View of the Parsonage House, &c. West Tilbury, Essex, is Drawn and Lithographed; and presented to the Rev. James Hargreaves, M.A. by his Friend and former Coadjutor, the Rev. D.N. Walton, M.A. late Curate of Handsworth, Staffrdshire.
April 19th, 1845.
Printed at T.Underwood's Lithographic Establishment, 78½ High St. Birm.m.
Lithograph on india paper, laid on sheet with title. Printed area 370 x 51mm.
From the Watt Collection.
[Ref: 6427] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

William Tilden by Helen Wills. Forehand Chop.
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching signed by artist. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with very large margins in original mount.
Portrait of William Tilden (1893 - 1953) playing tennis. Tilden was an American tennis player nicknamed 'Big Bill'. He held the world number one spot for six years, 1920 - 1925. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who was a renowned tennis player herself, painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54836] £350.00

[Seven untitled views of Tilgate Estate.]
[n.d., c1830.]
Seven scarce matching lithographs, most titled in pencil. Various sizes, largest 190 x 230mm.
The woods, ponds and farms of Tilgate Estate, now home to Tilgate Recreational Park.
[Ref: 59925] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[John Tillotson] Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Iohannes Tillotson Providentia Divina Archiepiscopus Canturiensis totius Angliæ Primas et Metropolitanus Serenissimis Principibus Regi Gulielmo et Reginæ Mariæ á Secretioribus Consilijs.
Maria Beal pinx. R. White Sculp.
Sold by B. Dickinson against Exeter Change in ye Stran[d]
Engraving. Sheet 390 x 270mm (15¼ x 10½"). Trimmed just within plate, affecting the title and publication line, edges built out with album paper.
John Tillotson (1630-94), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death.
[Ref: 59363] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Tilson, Painter. Grandson to the Bishop of Elphin, Pupil of Sr. Peter Lely. And a Friend of Dahl. He studied in Italy successfully the best Painters: He died in Lincolns Inn Fields, aged 36, and was buried 25.th Nov.r 1695 at St. Dunstans in the West. Vide. Walpoles Anecdotes.
Henry Tilson pinx.t H. Meyer sculp.t
[n.d. c.1820.]
Stipple. 375 x 299mm (14¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed inside plate. Bit messy.
Henry Tilson (1659-1695), the portrait painter. He studied under Sir Peter Lely and then worked for him. After Lely's death in 1680, Tilson went to Italy with Michael Dahl. On his return to England, Tilson obtained some repute as a painter of portraits in oil and crayons. He was very well connected, and was on his way to a successful career, when he shot himself in 1695, through disppointment in love.
NPG: D39620.
[Ref: 31063] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Tilted Wagon. The following pleasant Couplets were written in a Tilted Waggon, between Hambledon and Bishops Waltham, Hampshire; by Signor Jiggorini, Knight of the Three Periwigs and Poet-Laureat to the Hambledon Waggon. 385.
Publish'd March 12. 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple, set in letterpress. Sheet 325 x 235mm (12¾ x 8¾"), watermarked 'Pine & Thomas 1814'. Trimmed within plate at sides, small hole in image. Crease at bottom.
A song sheet describing a romance in a covered wagon.
BM Satires 10499.
[Ref: 54369] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Timber merchant.]
[by William Pickett.]
[Pub.d June 4th by T. Clay, 18 Ludgate Hill.]
Aquatint with hand colouring. Sheet approx 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to image; glued to album sheet.
Workers moving timber. From Pickett's 1812 book of 'Ninety-Six Speciments of Cottages-Bridges-Castles-Churches [...] Intended to facilitate the Improvement of the Student, and to aid the Practitioner, in Landscape Composition'. Aside from its function as an educational volume, the scenes in the book also provide many unusual views of London in the early 19th century.
Abbey (Life in England) 168.
[Ref: 32305] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Timber Carters.
Painted by Wolstenholme. Engraved by Reeve
Pub.d May 1 1812 by W.D. Jones, Repository of Arts, Cambridge.
Very scarce aquatint, with hand-colouring 370 x 450mm (14½ x 17¾"), with wide margins, paper watermarked 'Fellows 1808'. Slight creasing.
Rural woodcutting scene after animal painter Dean Wolstenholme, the elder (1757-1837). Wolstenholme didn't move to London until 1800, but exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1803, and while best-known for fox-hunting scenes, he also painted various other rural and sporting subjects.
[Ref: 37552] £450.00

Spectator.
Smirke del. Heath sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. July 22 1786
Engraving, platemark 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"), large margins.
Time, holding a scythe, painting a mural. Engraving for 'The Spectator' of a design by Robert Smirke (1753-1845), painter and illustrator, who specialised in literary themes. Smirke depicted a great number of Shakespearean subjects and provided illustrations for literary and historical texts such as Hume's 'History of England', Dr Johnson's 'Rasselas', the 'Arabian Nights', and 'Don Quixote'.
Not in Heath/
[Ref: 42078] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegory of Time's effects on Egypt's monuments.]
[Loutherbourg delin.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into image at sides, mounted on album paper.
A winged figure of Chronos flies through the monuments of Egypt, his scythe cutting a statue down from its plinth. A sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza can be seen behind.
[Ref: 42167] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Oblong folio, original printed wrappers; etched pictorial title and six plates, complete, interleaved with tissue; with 4pp. list of publications by Robins. Wrappers chipped and worn, some spotting of plates,
Each plate has multiple satires relating to time.
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 51767] £320.00 view all images for this item

Illustrations of Time by George Cruikshank.
London: Published May 1st 1827 by the Artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville ~ Sold by J.s Robins & Co, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row.
Etched title page. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate.
The decorative titlepage with a central vignette of a winged figure of 'Time' dining on artifacts of the world, including an elephant!. The titlepage of a set of six plates with multiple images of time (see Stock 51767).
BM Satires 15469.
[Ref: 60359] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[All Ages have had their particular Vices.]
[Engraved by Pierre Daret.]
[London: E. Bell et al, 1721.]
Engraving. 180 x 150mm (7 x 6"), set in text. Sheet slightly trimmed at top.
An allegorical scene, with four men of different ages representing both the seasons of the year and the different ages of a lifetime, with a flying putto with a sundial representing time. Bottom left is Ouroboros, the snake devouring its own tail, representing the cyclicality of life, an Alchemic symbol. A plate from Marin Le Roy Gomberville's 'The Doctrine of Morality; or, A View of Human Life, According to the Stoick Philosophy', as translated into English by T.M. Gibbs.
[Ref: 28614] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Time. 'Tis I who measure vital space _
S. Shelley pinx.t. W. Nutter Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Oval portrait of an old man with wings. The line of verse comes from John Gay's 'Fable XIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time'.
[Ref: 54201] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Time assisted by the love of Vertue, dispells the truth of painting out of the Clouds of ignorance.
L. Testelin Pinxit.
J. Smith ex [c.1720]
Mezzotint on wove paper, platemark 255 x 230mm (10 x 9") very large margins. Later impression.
Allegory of time pushing away clouds to reveal a female figure with brushes and palette, personifying painting. Mezzotint after Louis Testelin (1615-65), decorative painter none of whose work survives, but who contributed works to decorative schemes at the Palais du Luxembourg, and the château of Fontainebleau. This print is supposed to be based on an etching after Testelin's design by Girard Audran, which illustrated the 'Sentiments des plus habiles peintres' published in 1680 by Testelin's brother Henri.
[Ref: 40218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui Dieu confond les projets des superbes. Cantiq. de la Vierge Luc.1. Le Temps découvre la Verité, laquelle soutenüe par l'Amour de la Vertu, Confond et reverse la Calomnie, l'Envie, et la Sourberie.
F. Roëttiers invenit. N. Tardieu sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving, in ink verso Dr. H Mesurier Eastwood Hay. Plate: 375 x 225mm (14¾ x 9''), with large margins. Tears in margins and manuscript in lower margins.
A allegorical scene showing the allegorical figures of Time, Truth and Love defeating the figures of Calumny, Envy and Deceit.
[Ref: 50380] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Timely Caution. Arm yourself sweet Maid; with jealous caution...through the Fence of Decency, & triumph in the Plunder of Innocence.
Published 12th. May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple. Plate 272 x 228mm (10¾ x 9"), with large margins.
A decorative young woman contemplating the amorous advances of suitors, five lines of advice in verse below portrait; she holds a love poem.
See Ref 11486 for Pair [different publication].
[Ref: 52412] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Four Times of Day.] M. 9. Le Matin. [&] M 10. Le Midi. [&] M 11. Le Soir. [&] M 12. La Nuit.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins à côté de celle de Sorbonne C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Set of four rare etchings. 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"), large margins. Mint.
Four rococo designs, each representing times of day, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 58933] £600.00 view all images for this item

The Times Taken from an Original Character which appeared at the Masquerade at Lincoln Dec.r the 21.st 1769.
Publish'd as the Act directs by J. Marks or the pav'd Stones St. Martins Lane. [n.d., c.1769.]
Very rare engraving. Plate: 360 x 270mm (14 x 10½'') large margins. Messy.
A satirical print showing a figure wearing a clever two-in-one costume, the left side represents the policies of John Wilkes while the right the policies of the Earl of Bute. A key explains the colours of the various parts of the costume. The Wilkes half of the costume may be based on Hogarth's 1763 portrait of him. The face is made to resemble both men with Wilke's characteristic squint.
BM Satire 4315.
[Ref: 48159] £600.00

Day. Such Favor ne'er to man was given, So dear to friendship dear to blisses; young love himself looks down from heaven, To smile on such a Day as this is!
Harper Pinxt. Arnold Sculpt.
London Published by W.J. White Brownslow Street, Holborn, January 1, 1828.
Mezzotint. 215 x 275mm.
[Ref: 3031] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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