Grosvenor Prints

[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Plate 431 x 553mm. 17 x 21¾". Crease.
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.II. AP. 50. [PSA states that engraver is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 24950] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Pencil signatures:] F.P. Barraud. F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil. Printseller's Association stamp. Remarque in title area. Plate 425 x 553mm. 16¾ x 21¾". Some toning.
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 25. [PSA states that engraver is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 22049] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Uppingham. ______"Old School".]
[Pencil signature:] F.G. Stevenson. [Etched in image:] F.P. Barraud.
London, Published Nov.r 1.st 1892, by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen. 114, New Bond St, W. Copyright Registered.
Etching. Proof before title, signed in pencil by engraver only. Printseller's Association stamp. Remarque in title area. Plate 425 x 553mm. 16¾ x 21¾". Some toning.
Uppingham School, Rutland, England. Founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester. This is a view of the original 1584 Schoolroom in Uppingham churchyard, with students on the path amongst gravestones. After Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
See PSA: Vol.II. Rem.AP. 25. [PSA states that engraver is Axel Tallberg.]
[Ref: 22050] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Uproar House!!!
Satirist inv.t. W H Ekoorb [Brooke] del.t et sculp.t.
Satirist 1st June 1813.
Very fine coloured etching. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾"). Trimmed to printed border lower right for binding, folds as normal.
A performance on 1st May 1813 of Charles-Louis Didelot's 'Psyche et l'Amour' (for which he invented wires to enable characters to fly) is interrupted by a riot caused by Angelica Catalani refusing to sing until she was paid. Soldiers storm the stage with bayonets and the orchestra scatters. Ballet interest.
See BM 12133 for an extensive description
[Ref: 56720] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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[Arthur Percy Upton] Up-Town. Colonel Upton.
Drawn Etch.d by Rich.d. Dighton. 1817.
Pub.d. bt T. McLean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10"). Some light markings.
Full length portrait in profile of Arthur Percy Upton, 3rd son of 1st Baron Templeton, an army officer and politician who served as MP for Bury St. Edmunds between 1818 and 1825).
BM 12911.
[Ref: 34401] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Porte Extérieure de Montévidéo. Uraguay.
Dessiné par Fisquet. Lith. par Bichebois, Fig par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. Im. de Lemercier Bernard et C. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
A view of Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 13 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47191] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Marché de Montévidéo. Uraguay.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.e. Lith. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand Éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins.
A view of the market in Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 12 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47192] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Église de Montévidéo. Uraguay.
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.e. Lith. par Guiaud, fig. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand Éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾") very large margins.
A view of the church in Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 11 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47193] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Débarcadere de Montévidéo. (Uraguay).
Dessiné par Lauvergne. Imp. Lemercier, Bernard et C.e. Sabatier lith. fig. par Bayot.
Arthus Bertrand éditeur. London Ackermann & C.o 96 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, printed on chine collé. Printed area: 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins. Creasing and damage in right edge.
A view of the harbour in Montevideo, capital of Uraguay. Plate 10 from Auguste Nicholas Vaillant's 'Voyage autour du Monde [...] 1836 et 1837[...] sur la Bonite' published in Paris and London between 1840-52’, after an original drawing by B. Lauvergne.
[Ref: 47194] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

La Corvette l'Uranie entrainée par les courans au milieu des roches de Boulaboula, près de la N.lle Guinée.
J.es Arago del. Lith de Langlumé & de L'Abbaye. n.4.
[Paris: Leblanc, 1822.]
Lithograph. Printed area 180 x 200mm, 7 x 8". Stitch holes in top edge.
A view of the corvette L'Uranie being dragged through rocks by the currents off New Guinea, during Freycinet's voyage to Australia. On the return voyage L'Uranie was wrecked off the Falkland Isles: although Freycinet's papers were all saved, over half the expedition's plant specimens were lost. The view was published in the Official Account, 'Voyage Autour Du Monde fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M l'Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820'.
[Ref: 26400] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

I Sette Pianeli dispinti da Raffaele d'Urbino nella Sala Borgia del Vaticano.
Carlo Lasinio inc.
Si vendono da Nicola d'Antoni in Via del Corso No.35. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 340 x 500mm (13½ x 19¾"). Repaired tears. Damaged.
Two female allegorical figures, one with globe and a pair of compasses, the other with a magnetic compass, pay homage to a portrait of Gallileo, held up by cherubs. The title sheet from a series of allegorical plates of the planets, after Raphael's murals in the Vatican.
See Ref: 60385
[Ref: 60384] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Urial] Vigne's Wild Sheep. Ovis Vignel.
[Lithographed by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf.]
[London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861-1867.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed to image and mounted on card with gilt title, as issued. Printed area 245 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), with very large margins.
The Urial, also arkars or shapo, from central Asia. From 'Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf. Made for the Zoological Society of London, from animals in their vivarium, in the Regent's Park', issued in two parts, 1861 and 1867. Joseph Wolf (1820-99), a German artist, specialized in natural history illustration, and is considered one of the great pioneers of wildlife art, having depicted animals accurately in lifelike postures. He worked with John Gould on 'The Birds of Great Britain'. Sir Edwin Landseer considered him 'without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived'.
[Ref: 50359] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Le Medecin Empyrique. Gravé d'Après le Tableau Original de David Teniers, du Cabinet de Monsieur Le Compte de Vence.
D. Teniers. J. Tardieu Sculp.
Par J. Tardieu Graveur du Roy, rue des Noyers vis à vis celle des Anglois, AParis Avec Priv. dy Roy.
Etching. 275 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Narrow margins, laid on album paper.
An urinoscopist examining a bottle with urine at a table.
[Ref: 45336] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vase in the Conservatory Room at Bromley Hill, brought from Rome by the Earl Brownlow.
A L [monogram of Amelia Long.] Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Rare & scarce lithograph on chine collé. 270 x 240mm (14½ x 9½"), with large margins. Surface wear & soiling.
A vase belonging to John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, who was married to the artist's suster. Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772-1837). In 1793 she married Charles Long, created Baron Farnborough in 1826. An amateur etcher and a vigorous patron of the arts, he assisted the watercolourist Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) to make his one visit to Paris in 1801. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely admired by professional artists and drawing masters. Her watercolours also show the influence of her contemporary John Varley.
[Ref: 49996] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A decorated urn on a plinth, between a pair of standing chinoiserie vases (interior).]
A L [monogram on stone.]
[British, n.d., c.1837.]
Rare lithograph with colour added by hand, 390 x 245mm. 15¼ x 9¾". Original card mount with ink ruled border. Some light foxing.
Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772-1837). In 1793 she married Charles Long, created Baron Farnborough in 1826. An amateur etcher and a vigorous patron of the arts, he assisted the watercolourist Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) to make his one visit to Paris in 1801. Lady Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely admired by professional artists and drawing masters. Her watercolours also show the influence of her contemporary John Varley. At Petworth House, Sussex?
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 27037] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Urquhart.
R. R. M.clan pinxit. L. Dickinson, Lith. Printed by C. Graf.
London, Published by Ackermann & Co, 36, Strand [n.d., 1847].
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 370 x 265mm (14½ x 10½"), on thick paper. Tear entering image bottom right, edges chipped.
A woman of Clan Urquhart, from Robert Ronald McIan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', Volume II, published in 1847. McIan (1803-56, also Robert Ranald McIan), was a Scottish actor and painter best known for romanticised depictions of Scottish clansmen, their battles and domestic life.
[Ref: 61060] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Punta dell'Ursa.
M.A.T.W. [Mary Anne Theresa Whitby] Newlands [c.1828].
Rare lithograph. Printed area 105 x 140mm (4 x 5½").
The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35693] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Ursa Major, or the Old City Bear.
to be hand at the Acorn in the Strand [anon., 1756]
Engraving with hand-colouring, small margins, platemark 200 x 325mm (8 x 12¾"). Slight staining to edges, good overall.
Satire on Sir John Barnard's political misjudgment in opposing the corporation of London's address on the loss of Minorca. The 'Old City Bear' is Barnard, who fights off the Lord Mayor of London, Slingsby Bethel, and his Aldermen on the left, who carry the City Address to the King. The rope around Barnard's jaws is held by the Duke of Newcastle. At Newcastle's feet the British lion sleeps, while a French monkey points a pistol at him. In the background is a view of London showing Bow church with its dragon weathercock (Barnard was Alderman of the City of Bow). Early hand-colouring similar to that on the British Museum's impression of the print.
BM Satires 3510
[Ref: 30977] £380.00

Method of Mixing Clay.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 145mm (3¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed.
A scene in Uruguay: men drive horses around a sunken corral, throwing buckets of water in. Adapted from an illustration in William Gregory's 'A Visible Display of Divine Providence; or, the Journal of a Captured Missionary, designated to the Southern Pacific Ocean'.
[Ref: 45656] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, presenting in pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Eighth Instant, A Statement of Lands, Lots, Swelling Houses, and Slaves. Feburary 15, 1816, Read, and Ordered to lie upon the Table.
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis. 1816.
Pamphlet; pp. (4), rare. Worn edges.
A statement to Congress of the taxable value of each state, written by Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817), Treasury Secretary under President James Madison. Of the 18 states of the Union only 14 supplied statistics. According to the covering note: ''From the States of Southern Carolina and Louisiana, returns from the boards of principal assessors have not been received; and the returns received from the boards for the States of Virginia and Tennesse [sic] are incomplete and erroneous''.
[Ref: 52650] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Map of the United States of North America, Upper & Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia & British Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, St Domingo and the Bahama Islands.
By T. Ettling.
Supplement to The Illustrated London News, June 1st 1861.
Wood engraving with colour printing. Printed area 780 x 920mm (30¾ x 36¼"). Splits in binding folds.
A map of the United States of America at the outbreak of the Civil War, with the states colour-coded to differentiate between Union and Confederacy. The day of issue, June 1st 1861, the Federal Army entered Virginia.
[Ref: 57402] £280.00

Northern Provinces of the United States.
Drawn and Engraved for Thomson's New General Atlas. [Edinburgh: John Thomson, c.1815.]
Engraved map with original hand colour. 530 x 620mm (20¾ x 24½"). Paper pasted around printed border at bottom to hide damp stains.
A map of United States north east of Pennsylvania, with a vignette illustration of Niagara Falls.
[Ref: 43575] £360.00

[The Useless and Useful Merchant.] De Nuttige, en Nuttelooze Koopman.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Broadside. Sheet: 510 x 430mm (20 x 16½''). Slight central crease as normal.
A Dutch satirical print commenting on the financial crisis of 1720. In an ornate formal garden the figures of Truth, Justice, Wisdom and Wealth gather by two thrones before which two merchants stand and kneel.
BM Satire 1706.
[Ref: 48552] £420.00

Earl Howe's Decisive Victory Over the Grand French Fleet on the 1st of June 1794.
Drawn by J. Morris late of the Navy with the assistance of a Naval Officer on board the Brunswick.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Watercolour ink and wash, 18th century watermarked paper, unique. Sheet 430 x 650mm (17 x 25½"). Wear to edges, two tears, crease through middle.
A naïve illustration of the Third Battle of Ushant (The Glorious First of June), in which the British navy sank or captured seven French ships but failed to stop a vital convoy of supplies reaching France. Keys name the ships and give statistics for each fleet. It appears that this is an original work: we have been unable to trace a published source.
Provenance: Hermitage Hexham.
[Ref: 30298] £1,650.00

Biographical Sketch of the Life of James Usher. B.p Usher.
Printed by T. Plummer, Seething Lane, for G. Offer, Postern Row, Tower Hill.
Engraved portrait with letter press. Watermarked paper '1807'. Portrait platemark: 180 x 100mm (7 x 4"). Overall sheet size: 345 x 215mm (13½ z 8½").
A portrait of Irish Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland between 1625 and 1656, James Ussher (1580 - 1656), with a detailed biography surrounding the image.
[Ref: 39469] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Jacobus Usserius, Archiepiscopus Armachanus, Totius Hiberniae Primas. Antiquitatis primaevae pertissimus, orthodoxae Religioni vindez [Greek Cryllic], errorum malleus in concionando frequens, facundus praepotens, vitae incupatae exemplar spectabile.
Rob: Pinck Vicecancellarius Oxoniensis posuit. W. Marshall Sculpsit. 1647.
Sold by George Badger in St Dunstans Church yard in fleet street.
Engraving. 272 x 159mm. 10¾ x 6¼".
Portrait of James Ussher, half length, seated at a table, wearing skull-cap, ruff and gown, writing in a book; curtain to the right, coat of arms at upper left. Frontispiece to his 'Body of Divinitie', 2nd edition, 1647. James Ussher (1581-1656) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and his death. He was a theologian and scholar and published a chronology of Earth based on the Bible, determining the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC.
NPG: D26751.
[Ref: 24699] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Camp No. 4, Near Promontory Point Great Salt Lake.
Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway N.Y.
[n.d., c.1853.]
Coloured lithograph, image 115 x 192mm. Glued to sheet at upper edge.
Published in New York for Captain Howard Stansbury's 'An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah' 1853. His survey contributed to the accumulating of information essential for locating the trans-American railway route.
[Ref: 7910] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Fort Utah On The Timpanogas. _ Valley Of The Great Salt Lake.
A. Fay [in image]. Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway.
[n.d., c.1853.]
Coloured lithograph, image 112 x 192mm. Soiling, crease through upper right corner.
Published in New York for Captain Howard Stansbury's 'An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah' 1853. His survey contributed to the accumulating of information essential for locating the trans-American railway route.
[Ref: 7909] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to The Queen, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.]
[Printed at Birmingham by John Baskerville, 1774.]
Large folio, rebound in half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. [iv], with 29 engraved plates (of 34), each with a page of letterpress in English and Latin. Lacking title, one leaf of preface, plate list, plates 30 to 34, with text; plates 1, 2, 6, 8 trimmed into image at top by binder; plate 24 with long tear repaired; damp stains and toning throughout.
A scarce but incomplete example of the first edition of William Hunter's study of the uterus, with photographs of the missing pages. William Hunter (1718-1783), a Scottish anatomist, physician and and obstetrician. He worked with the artist Jan Van Rymsdyk to produce this work, one of the greatest achievements in the history of medical illustration.
[Ref: 61558] £1,450.00 view all images for this item

View Near Utrecht.- Albert Cuyp.
[Ralph Cockburn c.1816.]
Aquatint with fantastic colour. Sheet: 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"). Trimmed to printed image and mounted on card with captions pasted below as issued.
Two farmers stand with their cows and sheep, below them the town of Utrecht is visible. From a collection of aquatints of popular paintings in the Dulwich Picture Gallery's collection drawn, engraved and published by Ralph Cockburn, keeper of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, between 1816-1820.
Abbet 201.
[Ref: 43559] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl of Uxbridge.] A View Near Uxbridge.
Sketched by an Amateur. Etched by G.Cruik.k.
Pub.d. by G.Humphrey St James St. & 74 Bond Street Octr. 12th 1823.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 205mm (10¼ x 8"). Slight crease. Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Satirical portrait of Henry William Paget, 3rd Earl of Uxbridge (1768-1854), British Army officer and politician, riding a horse.
[Ref: 66890] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Uxbridge House.
Published May 15.th 1800. by T. Malton.
Fine coloured aquatint with etching, sheet 395 x 305mm (15½ x 12"). Tape marks.
View of Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly; fashionably dressed figures on pavements on street, a carriage entering street beyond the house; illustration to Malton's 'Picturesque Tour'.
[Ref: 59016] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Rembrandt's Wife. In the Common Parlour at Houghton.
Rembrandt Pinxit. G. Farington delin.t. Rich.d Earlom sculpsit. John Boydell excudit.
Published May 1st 1777 by J. Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 455 x 305mm (18 x 12"). Small margins. Slight creasing, mounted on album paper at corners.
Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh, painted by Rembrandt in the 1650s, now in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Ex Collection: the Late Honourable Christopher Lennox-Boyd. CS: 30. Charrington 126: iii/iii.
[Ref: 45816] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Vadian.
H. Pf fecit.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching and engraving, with large margins. Plate 133 x 89mm. 5¼ x 3½".
Joachim Vadian (1484-1551) the Swiss Humanist, scholar, and reformer who also served as mayor of St. Gallen. He completed his masters degree in 1509 and moved to Vienna where he had a lot of success as a writer. In 1513 he visited Buda, and was then named poeta laureatus by Emperor Maximilian I. In 1516 he was even named a Dean of the University of Vienna. In 1517 he started to study medicine and science and later graduated as a doctor of medicine. He then returned home to St. Gallen and was appointed city physician. In 1526 he led the conversion of St. Gallen to Protestantism.
[Ref: 26045] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

d'Stadt Bergen, in Noorweegen.
C. Decker in. et sc.
[Jacob van Meurs, 1676.]
Engraving. Sheet: 290 x 190mm (11½ x 7½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
A scene showing the Battle of Vagen which took place near Bergen between the British and the Dutch in 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. An illustration from 'Wouter Schouten Oost-Indische...' 1676 published by Jacob van Meurs.
[Ref: 42395] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Martin Vahl. (Botaniste), Professeur de Botanique à Copenhague.
Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 215 x 146mm (8½ x 5¾").
Martin Henrichsen Vahl (1749-1804),a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist who studied under Carolus Linnaeus. From a series of portraits of scientists engraved by Tardieu.
Wellcome: 3010.
[Ref: 38931] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Peasant woman holding knitting needles?]
W Vaillant fec et Excud
Mezzotint, sheet 280 x 220mm (11 x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate; top left loss and bottom left corner; slight staining to edges.
Early mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant (1623-77), the first professional mezzotint engraver. He met the inventor of the technique, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, in 1658, abd afterwards engraved over two hundred plates. This was originally one of a pair with a man counting coins.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34662] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[A drinking scene.]
Mezzotint. 200 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Loss at top left & right corners, trimmed to image.
A genre scene after Flemish probably by Vaillant.
Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34894] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vain Glory: A Pretty Independent Print. To the Independent El(ecto)rs of W(estminster) Your Vote & Intrest are desir'd at ye next general Election for an Independent Nobleman...exerting himself to preserve ye Independency of his Country, from ro:h he has receiv'd more Hon.rs, then-than-not than he deservs to be
Adam Stanup of Eden Pinxit. Dame Eve his Wife Sculpsit.
According to Act of P_____ 1743 [within image]
Engraving, very fine impression. 317 x 188mm (12½ x 7"). Creases, folds and tear into upper & lower edges along fold; Ms additions
John, Lord Perceval, second Earl of Egmont, elected as an independent 1741. He leans on his expensively-produced family history. Above him an allegorical figure of Fame trumpets from both ends. In the background are Whitehall and the equestrian statue of Charles I. He was not a successful politician, and is now chiefly remembered as one of the founders of the American colony Georgia in 1732.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. BM Satires: 2615.
[Ref: 28367] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Vain Glory: A Pretty Independent Print. To the Independent El(ecto)rs of W(estminster) Your Vote & Intrest are desir'd at ye next general Election for an Independent Nobleman...exerting himself to preserve ye Independency of his Country, from ro:h he has receiv'd more Hon.rs, then-than-not than he deservs to be
Adam Stanup of Eden Pinxit. Dame Eve his Wife Sculpsit.
According to Act of P_____ 1743 [within image]
Engraving, sheet 310 x 190mm (12¼ x 7½"). Creases, where previously folded. Trimmed within plate.
John, Lord Perceval, second Earl of Egmont (1711-70), elected as an independent 1741. He leans on his expensively-produced family history. Above him an allegorical figure of Fame trumpets from both ends. In the background are Whitehall and the equestrian statue of Charles I. He was not a successful politician, and is now chiefly remembered as one of the founders of the American colony Georgia in 1732.
BM Satires: 2615. See also [Ref: 28367].
[Ref: 67295] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Vainqueurs et vaincus tout est fuicot pour le diable.
Charlet. Imp Bortauts Paris.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 297 x 228mm. 11¾ x 9".
A satirical print of punch and judy.
[Ref: 15085] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Vaisseau qui a pris Vent devant lorsque le Vent a Sauté Ouest.
[The Hague: Adrien Moetjens, 1686.]
Copper engraving, rare. 185 x 300mm, 7¼ x 11¾". Some wear, laid on card, stains.
A diagram of a warship, with a 66-point key naming the parts. Published in 'Les Arts de l'Homme d'Epee, ou le dictionaire du Gentilhomme', by le Sieur de Guillet. The three parts related to horsemanship, soldiering and navigation. Top left shows an ornate compass.
[Ref: 16738] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Abbey of Llan Egwerst or Vale Crucis, and Castle Dinas Bran. 5
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row, Sep.r 1st 1776.
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate.
A view of Valle Crucis Abbey (Valley of the Cross), a Cistercian abbey in Denbighshire, built 1201 and dissolved 1537, plate V of Part II of Sandby's 'Views in Wales', the first series of aquatints published in Britain.
Abbey Scenery: 511.
[Ref: 56166] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Abbey of Llan Egwerst or Vale Crucis, and Castle Dinas Bran.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by P. Sandby St. Georges Row, Sep.r 1st 1776.
Aquatint with etching, printed in brown. Proof before plate number. Sheet 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate.
A view of Valle Crucis Abbey (Valley of the Cross), a Cistercian abbey in Denbighshire, built 1201 and dissolved 1537, plate V of Part II of Sandby's 'Views in Wales', the first series of aquatints published in Britain.
Abbey Scenery: 511.
[Ref: 31551] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Circo de Valencia.]
Ch. Damour sculp. de Chacaton pinx.
[Paris: Gihaut fréres, 1851.]
Etching. 250 x 320mm, 9¾ x 12½".
View of the Circo di Valencia, used for bullfighting. Etched by Charles Damour after Jean Nicolas Henri de Chacaton for "Espagne: Cinq Passages à l'Eau-forte", a series of folios each with five plates.
[Ref: 17838] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Prise de Valenciennes Margarite de Parme Gouvernante.
Cap.n D Iuan de Ledesma. R de Hooghe fecit.
[n.d., c.1670-1699.]
Rare engraving. Plate: 265 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). Small margins, repairs, bit messy.
A scene showing Alessandro Duke of Parma taking Valenciennes in 1580. Valenciennes had been a stronghold of Calvinism but Farnese eradicated the religion. An illustration from 'Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre' by Famianus Strada, written with the help of Farnese which discussed the beginning of the Eighty Years War which led up to the Dutch Revolt.
[Ref: 43028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Valentin Industrial Pittoresque et Dramatique. Le parterre se garnissait quelquefois, mais de spectateurs que m'avaient pas de poches.................l'administration devait donc succomber.
Charlet [inside the image.] Lith: de Gihaur freres Editeurs.
Boulevard des Italiens, 5. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 274 x 361mm. 10¾ x 14¼".
A group of children surround a boy who is inside a make-shift box putting on a punch and judy show.
[Ref: 15087] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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)

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