Grosvenor Prints

Thos. Telford, Esq. F.R.S.L.&E. To the Vice Presidents, Members, & Associates of the Incorporated Institution of Civil Engineers. This Print of the President from a Painting by S. Lane in their possession is dedicated with permission by their most obedient Servants Edwd. @Turrell & W. Raddon.
Painted by S. Lane. Engraved by W. Raddon.
London Jany. 10, 1831, Published by Edmd. Turrell 46 Clarendon Street, Sommers Town W Raddon, 38 Kidmouth Street Regent Square and by the Sectry. of the Institution of Civil Engineers Buckingham Street Strand.
Engraving on india paper, title in open letters, rare. Image 335 x 270mm, 13¼ x 10½". Trimmed to plate; laid to card, some repairs and discolouration to the paper.
Thomas Telford (1757 - 1834), civil engineer, seated and looking away to right, with left hand on papers and charts on a round table beside him, right hand on the arm of his chair, holding spectacles; a view of the Pontcysylte Aqueduct in the background to left. Telford designed and built numerous canals, bridges, roads and harbours throughout Britain. His greatest engineering achievements include the Caledonian Canal and the Menai Bridge. He was a close friend of Thomas Campbell and Robert Southey. In 1820, he became the first president of the Engineers' Institute. After Samuel Lane (1780 - 1859).
NPG D1381.
[Ref: 20888] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[William Tell.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Mezzotint. Sheet: 200 x 310mm (8 x 12''). Trimmed.
A scene showing William Tell, holding a crossbow, kneeling on one knee while Habsburg troops hold back the Swiss townsfolk.
Ex: Collection the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 48956] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

William Tell. Collection of Heads by W.D. No 21
London: Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, Printed by Maguire, Lemercier, & Co. [n.d., c.1830]
Lithograph with hand-colouring, printed area 265 x 220mm (10½ x 8¾"). Very fine colour.
The legendary Swiss patriot William Tell. Tell famously shot an apple from his son's head when, according to legend, the tyrant Albrecht Gessler gave him the choice between doing so and being executed. Tell subsequently employed his marksmanship to assassinate Gessler. The rebellion against ruling power that this represented was the impetus for the nascent Swiss Confederation. One of a a series of characters, some real and some fictional, by William Drummond (1800-1849, fl.).
[Ref: 37660] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Chancellor Michel le Tellier].
Nanteuil ad vivum del. et Sculpebat 20 Junni An.o 1659.
Engraving, in mount; 360 x 270mm (14 x 10½"). Trimmed, attached top & bottom on left.
A bust portrait of Chancellor Michel le Tellier (1603-1685) in an oval laurel garland atop a pedestel decorated with a coat of arms. Tellier enjoyed a successful career as a French statesman, owing in no small part to his close friendship with Cardinal Mazarin, and in 1677 was appointed Chancellor of France.
RD 131. PW 111.
[Ref: 57467] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Tellurion.] Plate VIII.
J. Ferguson delin. J. Mynde sc.
[London: James Ferguson, c.1756.]
Engraving. Sheet 210 x 330mm (8¼ x 13"). Trimmed into plate top and bottom, as issued, affecting signatures, binding folds.
Three illustrations of a tellurion, a device to depicts how day, night, and the seasons are caused by the rotation and orientation of Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun. From Ferguson's own work, ''Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles''. The title given comes from the text explaining the diagram, which is available in full from Project Gutenburg, at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60619/60619-h/60619-h.htm
[Ref: 56854] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Rock Tombs at Telmessus.
W. Devereux del.
Dickinson & Co. Lith. [n.d. c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. 362 x 540mm. 14¼ x 21¼". Some creasing around edges, water staining and chip to lower right corner.
Rock tombs at Telmessus, the main harbour city in Lycia. The modern day city of Fethiye stands on the site of this ancient city leaving the remains of spectacular rock tombs and sarcophagi dating from the 5th-4th century BC.
[Ref: 25680] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Rock Tombs at Telmessus.
W. Devereux del.
Dickinson & Co. Lith. [n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. 362 x 540mm. 14¼ x 21¼".
Rock tombs at Telmessus, the main harbour city in Lycia. The modern day city of Fethiye stands on the site of this ancient city leaving the remains of spectacular rock tombs and sarcophagi dating from the 5th-4th century BC.
[Ref: 25683] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Sanguinea. An fortuna ridens, an sint mihi tempora acerba, / Semper ero constans, semper ero imobilis.
Gabriel Spizel inv. et excud. a.v.
[n.d., c.1750].
Scarce mezzotint, printed in greenish blue. 335 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼") very large margins. Crease, tears in edges of margin. Stain bottom right margin.
A smiling woman holds up scales marked 'Lucky' and 'Unlucky' in her right hand, her left hand on a pack of cards. The Latin text translates as 'Whether fortune laughs, whether times are bitter for me, I will always be steadfast, I will always be immovable'. One of a set of four Temperaments by Spizel (or Spitzel, 1698-1760).
[Ref: 60488] £390.00

La Tempérance. G. 6.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), centred around an elephant.
[Ref: 59583] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Ale House and The Home.
[Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Sept.r 1st ] 1832.
Etching. Sheet 140 x 380mm (5½ x 15"). Trimmed, losing most of inscription.
Two scenes contrasting the life of the man spent in an ale house, and his wife left behind in a dank room. From a sheet with four drolls published in the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57811] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Sketches of Temperance No. 1. The Interview. With No 17 of The Star.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with stencilled gilt border. Sheet 265 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼").
A man spies a demure young lady in a tea garden.
[Ref: 49521] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Temperance and Industry.
[n.d. c.1850.] London, A.Park. 17 Leonard St. Finsbury.
Wood engraving. 244 x 386mm. 9¾ x 15¼". Vertical fold down the centre.
A rural farm scene at harvest time of apple picking, and the walk to market.
[Ref: 14588] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Temperance] The Enquiry. Tregear's Flights of Humour No.62.
Pub by Tregear & Lewis at their Music & Print Warehouse 96 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1840.]
Very fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 9"). Laid on album paper at corners.
A man asks another for directions to chapel and is given direction based on public houses. Published in a series of social satires begun by Gabriel Shire Tregear (1828 - 1840; fl.). 'Tregear and Lewis' was a shortlived partnership of Ann Tregear (widow?) and Thomas Crump Lewis.
[Ref: 57703] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Shakspeare. Tempest. Act IV. Scene I. Prospero's cell . _ Propsero, Miranda, &c. &c.
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, J. Whatman 1794 watermark. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"), very large margins. Some restoration.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controlls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stans on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
[Ref: 59330] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[The Tempest] [Prospero Disarming Ferdinand.]
[H.W. Bunbury. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.]
Published according to Act of Parliament by Thomas Macklin of the Poets Gallery London 1792.
Stipple and etching in brown ink, scarce progress proof before title, scratched publication line only. 410 x 480mm (16 x 19").
Outside Prospero's grotto, the Duke stands waving a wand in the direction of Ferdinand at left, while Miranda kneels beside her father, tugging at his arm; behind in the cave Ariel plays a harp. Illustration of William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (Act 1, Scene 2), from the series 'Macklin's Shakespeare Gallery'. After Henry William Bunbury (1750 - 1811).
See BM 1872,0511.127 for a proof, described as De Vesme 1831.I but with a stippled border not on this example.
[Ref: 17192] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Tempest.
Painted by Swaine. Engrav'd by Jukes.
Published, May 1.st 1783 by F. Jukes No.1 Great Marylebone Street.
Aquatint. Plate 197 x 235mm. 7¾ x 9¼".
Ships rocking over the rolling waves during a storm, men in the foreground clambering onto the rocks from their wrecked ship that has crashed and is being dragged down by the elements.
[Ref: 25143] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[The Tempest] [Prospero Disarming Ferdinand.]
[H.W. Bunbury. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi.]
[Published according to Act of Parliament by Thomas Macklin of the Poets Gallery London 1792.]
Stipple and etching, scarce progress proof before title. Sheet 395 x 480mm (15½ x 19"). Trimmed within plate, losing scratched publication line? Top right corner torn off, tear through blank inscription area taped, some creasing at edges.
Outside Prospero's grotto, the Duke stands waving a wand in the direction of Ferdinand at left, while Miranda kneels beside her father, tugging at his arm; behind in the cave Ariel plays a harp. Illustration of William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (Act 1, Scene 2), after Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), from the series 'Macklin's Shakespeare Gallery'.
See BM 1872,0511.127 for a proof, described as De Vesme 1831.I but with a stippled border not on this example.
[Ref: 64413] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Shakspeare. Tempest. Act IV. Scene I. Prospero's cell . _ Propsero, Miranda, &c. &c.
Painted by Joseph Wright. Engraved by Robert Thew.
Pub. June 4. 1800, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No 90 Cheapside, London.
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark, open letter proof before quote from play. 510 x 640mm (20 x 25¼"), with large margins. Tears in bottom margin repaired, faint damp stains on left.
Ferdinand and Miranda watch amazed as Prospero controls a circle of female spirits above their heads. Outside the cave Caliban stands on the sea shore. John Boydell (1720-1804), publisher and Lord Mayor of London in 1790, began his Shakespeare Gallery to encourage British historical painting by commissioning paintings on the theme of Shakeapeare's plays from leading artists and reproducing them as high quality prints. When his gallery in Pall Mall opened in 1789 it contained 34 paintings; by the end it has nearly 170, by artists including Kauffman, Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Robert Smirke, John Opie & Francesco Bartolozzi. 96 were engraved, published separately until the bound edition, ''A Collection of Prints, From Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, by the Artists of Great-Britain'' was issued in 1805. The project was over-ambitious and the cost caused the firm to go bankrupt.
See Ref: 59329 for normal state.
[Ref: 59327] £320.00

[Ships in a stormy sea]
[c.1810, probably restrike of a plate first published c.1760]
Engraving with very fine hand-colouring, printed area 275 x 395mm (10¾ x 15½`"). Trimmed along lower edge, losing text, large margins on 3 sides.
[Ref: 45163] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Walter Tempest.]
Painted by G.Romney. Engraved by James Walker.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.y 1st 1781, by J.Walker No 51 Great Portland Street.
Very scarce mezzotint, proof before title. 630 x 385mm.
Son of MP John Tempest, died young at Brighton, 1793.
CS: 17. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 5073] £550.00

The Tempest.
Heath Del.
[n.d., watermarked 1809.]
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Tears in top margin, one entering plate but not image. Time stained
A scene in a garret as a violinist is interrupted by a tirade from his wife. Elsewhere a baby screams, a dog howls as its tail is scalded, a cat yowls as a monkey holds it up by its tail and a parrot pecks at the man's hair.
The BM's example, 1866,1114.664, is watermarked 1814.
[Ref: 54565] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Tempest. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying Master, master, we Perish. From the Original Picture, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Clive. Size of Picture 4F, 0I by 5F, 5I in Length. St. Luke, Chap. VIII. Ver.24. Vol: II. No.63.
J. de Vlieger pinxit. John Boydell excudit 1773. P.C. Canot Sculpsit.
Published March 15th, 1773, by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Engraving, paper watermarked. Plate 457 x 554mm (18 x 21¾"). Very large margins.
A boat struggles against the rising waves; with a torn and broken sail, the passengers cling on for their lives. Atmospheric storm scene.
Ex Collection Duke of Westminster.
[Ref: 38171] £420.00

[Lady and a Gentleman.]
P. Tempest Ex. IB. fec.
[n.d., c.1685.]
Mezzotint. Very fine impression. Sheet size: 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed to image.
An interior scene depicting a lady and a gentleman. The lady is seated and leaning her elbow on a table. She has short curled hair and wears a veil. The gentleman, standing, is seen wearing a long wig and cravat. On the table lie a hat, sash and sword, a glass and a decanter. Printed by Pierce Tempest (1653 - 1717) publisher of Marcellus Laroon's Cries Of London as well as a great range of other material. In his later years he spent more time dealing than publishing.
CS 105. See also 30452.
[Ref: 37618] £360.00

William Tempest. F.R.S. Aet. 70.
Painted & etched by B.Wilson.
[n.d. c.1752].
Etching. 190 x 100mm.
[1682 - 1761]. Very fine copy of the frontispiece to 'Chronology' 1752. Etched by Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), painter and electrical scientist. His printmaking technique has been described as showing 'great skill at Rembrandtesque cross-hatching' (Graciano 169).
Andrew Graciano ed. 'Memoir of Benjamin Wilson, FRS' (Walpole Society 2012).
[Ref: 6655] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Temple next the River side [parallel text in Frencb]
J. Maurer delin et sculp London
According to Act of Parliament 1741
Engraving with hand-colouring, 18th century watermark, platemark 255 x 430mm (10 x 17"), with very large margins.
A rare image of the Temple area of central London, an area closely associated with English law owing to the presence of two of the four Inns of Court, the Middle Temple and Inner Temple, therein.
[Ref: 43757] £320.00

Temple & Harleford.
J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt.
Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside.
Sepia aquatint. 320 x 220mm.
From the 'History of the River Thames'.
Abbey: 432.
[Ref: 2423] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sciographia Templi Fortvnæ Præneste.
Petrus Berettin Cort.s delin. Hoc obsequij monimentum Dominicus Castellus D.D.C.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 405 x 310mm (16 x 12¼"), very large margins.
A plan of the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia was an ancient Roman temple within the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, a religious complex in Praeneste (now Palestrina, 35 km (22 mi) east of Rome). It was founded in 204 BC by Publius Sempronius Tuditanus and dedicated to the goddess Fortuna Primigenia, the exact meaning of whose name is unclear. Parents brought their newly-born first child to the temple in order to improve its likelihood of surviving infancy and perpetuating the gens.
[Ref: 65292] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Oberster Theil einer Tempelruine in Kabulistan.
gez. v. Goldhann nach Elphinstone. J.s Jung. Sc.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving. Sheet: 115 x 190mm (4½ x 7½''). Foxing.
A view of the ancient structure in Kabul, Afghanistan remains of the Ancient Greeks who inhabited the area during the expedition of Alexander the Great. Possibly a stupa mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics.
[Ref: 50515] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the Citys intended improvement at Temple Bar.
R. Metcalf sculp.t City Road.
Surveyors Office Guildhall [n.d., 1810.]
Engraved map with hand colour. Sheet 420 x 695mm (16½ x 27½"). Split at centre fold, small tears, staining, laid on album paper.
A detailed plan marking the buildings around St Clement Dane's Church that were to be purchased and demolished.
[Ref: 62019] £260.00

Temple Church.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t et sculp.t. Bluck aqua.t.
London, Pub. Sep.r 1st, 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint J. Whatmark 1808 watermark. Plate: 275 x 230mm (10¾ x 9"), with large margins.
The late 12th-century church in the City of London, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 47220] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple Church.
Percy Thomas 1897.
Published at 17 Queens Road and 8 Clare Street Bristol by Frost & Reed Dec.r 1st 1897.
Etching, signed in pencil. 180 x 225mm (7 x 9"), with large margins.
The interior of Temple Church A state before Frost & Reed's publication line. Percy Thomas R.E. (c.1846 - 1922), James Abbott McNeill Whistler's first pupil, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1867, elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1881.
[Ref: 51774] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple Church. The Temple Church is one of the most Beautiful Gothic Structures we see in England, supported by neat slender Pillars, compos’d of what is usually call’d Sussex Marble. It is a lightsome Airy Church, disincumber’d with Galleries which generally hide the Beauty of these Sacred Buildings in London. There is a Tradition that the Church was founded by Dunwallo Mulmutus a British King Anno Mundi 4748; but most are of Opinion it was erected, or at least rebuilt by the Knights Templars about the year 1185. No.42.
Tho.s Boydell Delin 1750. L. Boydell Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J: Boydell at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand London 1750. Price 1s.
Engraving, paper watermarked with very large margins. Plate 275 x 361mm (10¾ x 14¼").
Interior view of the Temple Church; the vaulted ceiling supported by two rows of columns, fashionably dressed figures strolling through. 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): 47.42.
[Ref: 29377] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Classical collonade and courtyard after David Teniers.]
Æsheimer inv. W Hollar fecit.
F. van den Wyngarde exc. [n.d., c.1650.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 225 x 165mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. light creasing.
Although Pennington calls this plate 'Healing the cripples' after Elsheimer, the BM has traced a drawing by David Teniers the Elder in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pennington: 114, iii of iii; BM 2005,U.178.
[Ref: 68278] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Temple Newsam, the Seat of the R.t Hon.ble Arthur Lord Ingram Viscount Irwin in the West Ryding of the County of Yorke.
L. Knyff Del. J. Kip scul.
[London: Joseph Smith, c.1707.]
Engraving. 360 x 490mm (14 x 19¼"), with very large margins. Top margins messy at edges.
Temple Newsam near Leeds, a Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. Now a Grade I listed building, it is owned by Leeds Council and hosts both the 'Party in the Park' and 'Opera in the Park' annual events. From 'Britannia Illustrata'.
[Ref: 45188] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Temple of Apollo]. Al Sig.r Luigi Pavon Amatore delle elle Arti. Pietro Parboni D. D. D.
Claudio di Lorena inv. e dip. Nicola de Antoni impresse. Pietro Parboni incise. Nicola de Antoni vende in Roma, in Via del Corso No. 35.
Rome, [n.d. c.1800-1841].
Etching. 480 x 600mm (19 x 23¾"), with large margins. Near mint.
A scene from the myth of Cupid and Psyche; Psyche's father prays at the Temple of Apollo that she will find a suitable husband. After Claude Lorrain's (c.1600-1682) original painting 'The Father of Psyche sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo' (1662), painted for Angelo Albertoni, a Roman nobleman.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 55087] £380.00

Temple of Apollo, near Phigaleia.
From a drawing by F.W. Newton Esq.re Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King.
London, J. Murray, Albermarle St. 1837.
Lithograph. 120 x 190mm. 4¾ x 7½.
A snow scene. The Temple of Apollo Epicurios, at Phigaleia, in Arcadia, stands in a slight depression on the bare and wind-swept side of Mount Cotylion, above the valley of the river Neda. It was discovered towards the end of the eighteenth century, but on account of its remote position it was seldom visited before 1811. From "A Short Visit to The Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea. By Edward Giffard, Esq."
[Ref: 25646] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Apollo. No 17. bottom right
Swanevelt Pinx.t
London Published July 10.th 1787 by Rob.t Sayer 53 Fleet Street.
Engraving with large margins; paper watermarked. Plate 249 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Slight creasing in margins.
Landscape after Swanevelt, from a series. Cows resting in foreground by the river's edge and two people to the right; to the left a small bridge upon which stand three people. Behind them is a small field of sheep, behind which there is a waterfall and to the right a temple.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28371] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Temple of Concord erected for the display of the National Fireworks in Commemoration of Peace, being the Celebration of the Grand Jubilee.
Printed (by permission) in Hyde Park August 1st 1814.
Very rare aquatint with etching, sheet 240 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"). Trimmed within plate. Small brown stain in sky on right. Slightly faded.
A view of the Temple of Concord, The print depicts an architectural structure erected for the fireworks display held 1 August 1814 in Green Park, London, to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Jubilee of George III. The mastermind behind the Temple was Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), a rocket designer and Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. Congreve designed the Temple with assistance from stage designers from the Theatre Royal and master engineers. It was an elaborate structure illuminated with colored lamps and decorated with gilding, festoons, and painted transparencies. Congreve had commissioned some of the nation’s best artists such as Thomas Stothard (1755 – 1834) to design and paint allegorical scenes on these ‘transparencies’, each tableau praising ‘the Triumph of England under the Regency’. When illuminated from inside it was made to revolve, so that spectators might view each side in turn.
[Ref: 57429] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Revolving Temple of Concord Invented by Sir William Congreve Bar.t. And erected in the Green Park for the display of A Grand Firework, in Celebration of the Glorious Peace of 1814. The Design & Decorations made by Mess.rs Greenwood & Latilla of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The Allegorical Transparencies Designed by M.r Howard R.A, and painted by him; Mes.rs Smirke, Stothard , Woodforde, Dawe, Hilton and Genta _Sculptor M.r Chenu_ The Machinery by Mess.s Maudslay & C.o and Mr Drory.
J. Pain delin. R.W. Smart sculp. Aquatinted by I.Jeakes.
[n.d., c.1814]
Aquatint, watermark Ruse & Turney; sheet 330 x 415mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet. Top corner torn. Tear through publication line repaired with tape. Creases.
A view of the Temple of Concord, The print depicts an architectural structure erected for the fireworks display held 1 August 1814 in Green Park, London, to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Jubilee of George III. The mastermind behind the Temple was Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), a rocket designer and Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. Congreve designed the Temple with assistance from stage designers from the Theatre Royal and master engineers. It was an elaborate structure illuminated with colored lamps and decorated with gilding, festoons, and painted transparencies. Congreve had commissioned some of the nation’s best artists such as Thomas Stothard (1755 – 1834) to design and paint allegorical scenes on these ‘transparencies’, each tableau praising ‘the Triumph of England under the Regency’. When illuminated from inside it was made to revolve, so that spectators might view each side in turn.
[Ref: 57435] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of Diana.
R.Brown Pinx.t. T.L Busby. Sculp.
Leigh & Son 421 Strand. [n.d. c.1830]
Very rare aquatint, with hand colour. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾" Glued to album sheet.
A view of a rotunda decorated with the goddess Diana and stag heads, situated in a wooded landscape. Richard Brown (c. 1770-1845) was a British architect, designer, draughtsman and engraver. Thomas Lord Busby (fl. 1804-1837) was a painter, etcher and humorous illustrator. Samuel Leigh was a bookseller and publisher in 19th century London working with his son James Mathews Leigh (1808 –60).
[Ref: 61119] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Temple of Minerva. No 16 bottom right.
Claude Lorrain Pinx.t
London Published July 10.th 1787 by Rob.t Sayer 53 Fleet Street.
Engraving with large margins; paper watermarked. Plate 251 x 355mm (10 x 14").
Landscape after Claude Lorrain, from a set of landscapes. In the foreground, a donkey, followed by a boy and a dog, walking to the right; cows beyond resting on a river bank; in middle-distance on left a round temple and other buildings at the bottom of a rocky hill.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28370] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Archbishop of Canterbury.
William Nicholson.
[London, 1899 by William Heinemann].
Lithographic reproduction of a hand-coloured woodcut. Printed area: 265 x 245mm. (10¼ x 9¾"). Foxing to edges; mounted on board as issued.
Portrait of Frederick Temple (1821 - 1902), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1896 until his death. From the folio of twelve portraits by William Nicholson published in 1899. Sir William Nicholson was a distinguished Edwardian portrait painter, poster designer and painter of still lifes.
Colin Campbell, 'William Nicholson: The Graphic Works': 70B.
[Ref: 28323] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Palmerston [signature facsimile.]
Leon Noel 1864. [signed on stone.] From a Photograph by W. Walker & Sons.
Imprime par Lemercier 57 r, de Seine Paris. London, Victor Delarue, 10 Chandos St. Strand, W.C.
Lithograph on india paper, sheet 400 x 295mm. 15¾ x 11¾". Some spotting.
Portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), politician who served twice as Prime Minister. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. He served successively as: Secretary at War (1809-28); Foreign Secretary (1830-41 and 1846-51); Home Secretary (1853-5) and Prime Minister (1855-8 and 1859-65). He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through a period when the United Kingdom was at the height of its colonial power. His vigorous policy of intervention, often controversial at the time, made him one of the greatest Victorian statesman and among the most powerful figures in European politics. After the photograph by Samuel Alexander Walker (1841-1922), son of William Walker.
From Broadlands home of Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27549] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lord Viscount Palmerston, K.G. First Lord of the Treasury. From the original Picture painted for the Harrow Library A.D. 1863.
Painted by F. Grant R.A. Engraved by F. Holl & G. Zobel.
London, Published September 11th 1865, by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to the Queen, 6 Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, title in open letters, 555 x 430mm. 21¾ x 17".
Portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), politician who served twice as Prime Minister. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. He served successively as: Secretary at War (1809-28); Foreign Secretary (1830-41 and 1846-51); Home Secretary (1853-5) and Prime Minister (1855-8 and 1859-65). He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through a period when the United Kingdom was at the height of its colonial power. His vigorous policy of intervention, often controversial at the time, made him one of the greatest Victorian statesman and among the most powerful figures in European politics. After Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878).
NPG D39516. From Broadlands home of Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27550] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Rt Hon Viscount Palmerston, GCB MP &c &c &c. This Portrait is respectfully dedicated to the Committee, who presented to the Right Hon.ble the Viscount Palmeston, the Picture from which the plate was engraved.]
[Painted by John Partridge Esq.re. Engraved by Samuel Cousins Esq.re ARA.]
[London Published May 1st 1852 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co 13 & 14 Pall Mall East _ Publishers to Her Majesty.]
Mezzotint on chine collé, proof before letters. 515 x 800mm (20½ x 31½"). Spotting,
Full-length portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), standing in his study, left hand resting on papers. The painting was executed c.1850, when Palmerston was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, five years before his first term as Prime Minister. After Palmerston's death his widow insisted on the face being replaced with one from an earlier portrait by Partridge, so this mezzotint is the only record of the original image. The painting is now in Parliament's art collection. Palmerston attanded St John's College, Cambridge (1803-6)
[Ref: 48486] £360.00

[Richard Grenville Temple?] A Temple Macaroni.
Pub by MDarly accorg. to Act Feby. 14th. 1772.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man looking to his right, probably Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple (1711 - 1779). His right hand is in his coat pocket, his left thrust in his waistcoat. He wears a looped hat, his hair or wig is in a long queue bound with black ribbon. He wears a sword, laced coat, ruffled shirt and cravat, low buckled shoes. A greyhound-type dog (whippet?) walks in front. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '11' upper right.
BM Satires: 4994.
[Ref: 14172] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Guillaume Temple. Envoyé de Charles II. Roy de la Grand Bretagne au pres des Etats Generaux. Mort au Mois de Fevrier 1690.
Lely Pinx. Chenu Sculp.
AParis chez Odieuvre, M.d d'Estampes rüe des Mathurins chez Mr Joubert.
Engraving with borders, printed from two plates, with very large margins, total 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½").
Oval portrait of Sir William Temple (1628-99, not 1690 as title), within a separately-printed, frame-like border. As a diplomat he negotiated the marriage William of Orange and Princess Mary, and the Triple Alliance between England, Sweden & the United Provinces, 1668.
[Ref: 34965] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[William Temple] Dominus Gulielmus Temple Eques Baronettus Ser.mi et Pot.mi Mag. Britanniæ Regis ad Ord.s Fœd.ti Belgÿ Lagatus [...] 1679.
P. Lely Pinx. G. Vertue Sculp.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 270 x 160mm (10¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper.
Oval portrait of Sir William Temple (1628-99), a diplomat who negotiated the marriage William of Orange and Princess Mary, and the Triple Alliance between England, Sweden & the United Provinces, 1668. Temple's secretary for most of the last decade of his life was the satirist Jonathan Swift: when Temple died Swift wrote 'He died at one o clock in the morning and with him all that was great and good among men'.
Alexander: 298
[Ref: 59416] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville] The Fall of Icarus.
J.s Gillray fect.
Pub.d April 28 1807 by H. Humphrey 27. S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed close to title at bottom, losing four quatrains of verse. Unexamined out of frame.
Lord Temple, naked and fat, wings strapped to his arms, attempts to fly after his father but falls towards a 'Stake out of Public-Hedge!', as his wings of quills and sealing wax fall apart because of the heat of the sun with a head of George III. Behind is the Paymaster's house in Whitehall, with a black servant in livery handing up a package to a man in a cart inscribed 'Stationary Office'. Temple had been Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Joint Paymaster-General but had lost these posts with the fall of William Grenville's 'Ministry of All the Talents', when he was jokingly accused of having carried off large quantities of stationery. In 1796, while competing to become MP for Buckingingham Temple boasted that he had a large stake in the country: Tierney retorted that it was 'a stake ' which it now appeared had been stolen from the public hedge', a barb that was remembered in this satire.
BM Satires 10721.
[Ref: 69091] £950.00

Temptation. ~Had I a heart for Falshood fram'd I ne'er could injure you; For tho' your Tongue no promise claim'd, Your charms would make me true.
H. Ramberg invt delt. W.Ward Sculpsit.
Published 25th July 1794 by R.Laurie & J.Whittle, No 53, Fleet Street, London.
Stipple with roulette. 255 x 280mm.
The verse comes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna' (1777), considered one of the most successful operas ever staged in England and described by Byron as 'the best opera ever written'.
[Ref: 4767] £380.00

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