Grosvenor Prints

[Maarten van Tromp] Den Edlen Manhaften Helt Marten Harpers Tromp Leutenant Admirael over de Zee der vereenich de Provincien
Crispin van de Pas delin
A.V. Waesberg exc [c.1640]
Engraving, sheet 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet. Rare.
Maarten van Tromp (1598-1653), the famous Dutch admiral, scourge of the English navy during the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-3). Portrait surrounded by ship portraits and battle scenes, including depictions of the Battle of the Downs (21 October 1639), a battle in the English Channel in which Tromp's fleet decisively defeated the Spanish forces of Admiral Antonio de Oquendo.
[Ref: 43017] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Marten Herbertsz. Tromp. L.t Admirael van Hollandt et Ridder van St Michiel.
[n.d., 1676]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 125mm (6½ x 5"). Trimmed to image, mounted in album paper.
Maarten van Tromp (1598-1653), the famous Dutch admiral, scourge of the English navy during the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-3). Portrait surrounded by ship portraits and battle scenes, including depictions of the Battle of the Downs (21 October 1639), a battle in the English Channel in which Tromp's fleet decisively defeated the Spanish forces of Admiral Antonio de Oquendo. From 'Leeven en Daden Der Doorluchtghste Zee-helden En Ontdeckers van Landen, deser eeuwen'.
[Ref: 52634] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[An unfinished trompe l'oeil.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pencil, ink and grey wash with some colour. Image 235 x 375mm (9¼ x 14¾"). Some soiling.
A trompe l'oeil of sheet music, song sheets, theatre bills, and a leaf with a red wax stamp.
[Ref: 31346] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Front of the Tron Kirk with the Adjoining Buildings.
Pub. by H. Paton 21 Horse Wynd College Edin.r [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 216 x 336mm (8½ x 13¼"). Trimmed to plate along right-hand edge.
Tron Kirk, Edinburgh, built in the 17th century and closed as a church in 1952. It now stands empty and closed to the public.
[Ref: 30773] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Front of the Tron Kirk with the Adjoining Buildings.
The Hon.ble John Elphinstone Esq.r Engineer delin.t Parr Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1740.]
Engraving with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 216 x 330mm (8½ x 13"). Trimmed to plate along right-hand edge.
Tron Kirk, Edinburgh, built in the 17th century and closed as a church in 1952. It now stands empty and closed to the public.
[Ref: 30775] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Trooper.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 190 x 158mm. 7½ x 6¼". Cut and laid on album sheet.
A monkey in full military uniform brandishing a rifle as he charges forward into battle astride a white dog. Damage can be seen as he lunges towards a cannon aimed directly at him. The monkey's tail is wrapped firmly around the base of the dog's tail.
[Ref: 16297] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of four plates of pairs of trophies.] N:365: 1 [-4]
TE [monogram.]
I:G: Hertz: exc: [n.d., c.1750.]
Four engravings. Each c.165 x 220mm (6½ x 8¾"), with very large margins.
Eight ornate martial trophies on four plates.
[Ref: 63753] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Trossachs. A set of twelve etchings by Robert Houston.
[1930.]
Twelve etchings, each 110 x 140mm. 4¼ x 5½". Each in individual wrapper inside case 345 x 270mm. 13½ x 10½".
Complete set of etchings of the Trossachs in Scotland. Each etching comes with its own wrapper describing, in manuscript, the locale of the etching. Also includes a manuscript map showing the precise location of each landscape, and a 1930 invoice for the purchase of the publication from J.W. Potter, Fine Art Dealer.
[Ref: 9397] £420.00 view all images for this item

Trotting Match in Harness Against Time. Creeping Sally, a Brown Mare 14 Hands high and Blind, the Property of & Drove by Mr. W.E. Walter [...]
Engraved by Ja.s Pollard from the Original Drawing by J.N. Sartorius.
[Published Feb.y 1817. as th Act Directs by W.E. Walter Stable-keeper Grub Street Cripplegate.]
Aquatint, scarce, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 455 x 530mm (18 x 20¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line, some scuffing.
A record of a race of 50 miles on 17th October 1816, from Shoreditch Church, through Epping and Harlow, accomplished within the allotted five hours, despite fog and rain.
[Ref: 57396] £420.00

[The Troubadour.]
S. van Abbé. [signed in pencil and in plate.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Drypoint etching on laid paper, signed artist's proof from a limited edition. 260 x 260mm, 10¼ x 10¼". Numbered '2/60' in pencil lower left. Very fine.
A street musician singing and playing his guitar. Salomon van Abbe (1883 - 1955), painter and book illustrator of Dutch origin; came to England when 5 years old and studied with Tripp, C.Rae, W.Baynes and W.Seymour; he exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts between 1933-55.
Guichard: pg.23. The Print Society 'Fine Prints', p.169.
[Ref: 19375] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Les Troubadours du XIX siècle
C.B. d.1817
Deposé Quantum mutati ab illi
Lithograph with hand-colouring, sheet 255 x 415mm (10 x 16¼"). Staining.
Ten musicians playing various instruments, including a hurdy-gurdy, harp, oboe and several violins. Early French lithograph.
[Ref: 41539] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Salmo trutta. Sea Trout. Solway Firth in July. Male. Size of Life. Weight 4lb 3oz. No. 9.
Drawn by Will.m Jardine, Bar.t. [Engraved by W.H. Lizars.]
[Edinburgh: W.H.Lizars, 1841].
Engraving. Sheet 500 x 630mm (19¾ x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate at sides, margins frayed, ink speckles across sea area.
A large plate of a sea trout, usually published in Sir William Jardine's 'British Salmonidæ', but this example apparently a plate spoiled in production. Jardine (1800-74), best-known for his populist 'Naturalist's Library' series, was a keen angler and authority on salmon and trout in the British Isles, recognised in 1860 by his appointment to the Royal Commission on the Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales. The fish shown here was caught near Jardine Hall, his estate in Annandale.
From ex Jardine Estate Sale. Thomson Roddick; Little Dyke, Dalton.
[Ref: 36883] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Trout with fly.]
Geo. Marples [pencil signature].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 75 x 135mm, 3 x 5¼".
A trout approaching a fly on the water, by George Marples (1869-1939).
[Ref: 26398] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled leaping trout.]
Norman Wilkinson [Pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1930]
Drypoint etching. Plate size: 200 x 150mm. 8" x 6". Unexamined out of frame.
Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 27832] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Sauve qui Peut.]
Geo~Marples. [Pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Ltd edition etching. 240 x 340mm.
A trout.
Guichard, p.50: "Fish, except by the Detmolds, have not been better portrayed in the British School than by Marples".
[Ref: 4086] £420.00

[May Fly Time]
Geo~Marples. [Pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Ltd edition etching with aquatint. Plate: 300 x 205mm (12 x 8"), with very large margins. Slight mount burn.
A landscape scene in which a trout can be seen beneath the water, swimming toward three mayflies flying about the surface of the river.
Guichard, p.50: "Fish, except by the Detmolds, have not been better portrayed in the British School than by Marples".
[Ref: 40160] £420.00

Trout Fishing.
Etched by F. Slocombe. Fred. Slocombe.
London Published March 1st. 1889, by The Fine Art Society (Limited.) 148, New Bond Street, W.
Etching. Image area 362 x 571mm. 14¼ x 22½".
Angler fising on stream. Frederick Albert Slocombe (b.1847) became established as a highly successful painter of landscape and rustic genre, exhibiting widely at Royal Academy and elsewhere for over fifty years. As an etcher, he restricted his original work to naturalistic landscape subjects; however, he was also an accomplished reproductive printmaker, producing highly finished etchings after the work of Joseph Farquharson, Alfred Parsons, B.W. Leader and others.
Beazley [Images of Angling]: 285.
[Ref: 25975] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Trout Fishing.
Painted by Douglas Adams. [Etched in plate:] Douglas Adams 1892.
Hand-coloured photogravure. Plate 482 x 710mm. 19 x 28".
[Ref: 19186] £320.00

[Trout Fishing River Garry.]
Norman Wilkinson [signed in pencil and scratched in reverse in plate, with 'NW' scratched also.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, 225 x 304mm. Glued to mount card at extremities.
Norman Wilkinson (1878 - 1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques. Trout fishing in the River Garry, Perthshire, Scotland.
[Ref: 7664] £420.00

[A Heavy Fish]
Norman Wilkinson. [Pencil signature.]
[n.d. 1930].
Drypoint etching 225 x 305mm.
Wilkinson [1878-1971] was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques.
[Ref: 6614] £420.00

George Trout. Messenger to the Honourable House of Commons.
W. Smart, lith. 5, Hand C.t Holborn.
[n.d., c. 1839.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed.
A portrait of a messenger and dwarf George Trout shown in a top hat holding a scroll titled 'Parliamentary Report 1839'.
[Ref: 43879] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[In a tent a doctor prepares a salve for a warrior with a poisoned arrow in his thigh, aided by a goddess in a cloud.]
F [clevn] inv. W. Carter fecit.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Trimmed close to printed border, laid on album paper.
A scene, probably from the Trojan War.
[Ref: 57531] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Campos Ubi Troia Fuit.
Skelton sculp.
[London: Published by Septimus Prowett, 23, Old Bond-Street. W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, Cleveland-Row. 1824.]
Engraving on india. Plate 252 x 368mm. 10 x 14½". Fold, as issued.
'Et Campos ubi Troia fuit' literally translates as 'the fields when one can find Troy'. A depiction of Troy, Turkey. Probably engraved by William Skelton (1763-1848); there is reference of him in India, Asia c.1793 as a young man and then a decade later in Bosphorus c.1809. From "Museum Worsleyanum; or a Collection of Antique Basso-Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems' with Views of Places in the Levant. Taken on the Spot in the Years MDCCLXXXXV. VI. and VII." This from Volume II.
[Ref: 23613] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

View of the Sigean Promontory with Part of the Plan of Troy taken from the Tomb of Ajax on the Rhetean Promontory.
Skelton sculp.
[London: Published by Septimus Prowett, 23, Old Bond-Street. W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, Cleveland-Row. 1824.]
Engraving on india. Plate 252 x 368mm. 10 x 14½". Fold, as issued
A view of Sigeion and Rhoiteion in the northern Troad region of Anatolia. The latter is known for the Tomb of Ajax, the Greek hero who had died during the Trojan wars. Probably engraved by William Skelton (1763-1848); there is reference of him in India, Asia c.1793 as a young man and then a decade later in Bosphorus c.1809. From "Museum Worsleyanum; or a Collection of Antique Basso-Relievos, Bustos, Statues, and Gems' with Views of Places in the Levant. Taken on the Spot in the Years MDCCLXXXXV. VI. and VII." This from Volume II.
[Ref: 23614] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Troy] View from the Aga's house.
Drawn by W. Gell Esq.r. Engrav'd by T. Medland.
London: Publish'd 1. Jan.y 1804 by Mess.rs Longman & Rees, Paternoster Row.
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. Sheet 245 x 420mm (9½ x 16½"). Trimmed within plate.
A view looking from Bournabashi Hill across the Plains of Troy towards Tenedos, published in Sir William Gell's 'Topography of Troy'. The hill is the site of 'Old' Troy. Byron wrote a couplet about Gell: 'Of Dardan tours let Dilettanti tell, / I leave topography to to classic Gell'. After visiting the area and learning that Gell had sketched the region in three days, Byron changed the second line to 'rapid Gell'.
Abbey Travel 399.
[Ref: 35146] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Greeks fighting the Amazons.]
[Engraved by Robert Mitchell Meadows after Rubens & van Dyke.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Very fine stipple, possibly a working proof. Sheet 530 x 640mm (21 x 25¼"). Tear entering plate in left taped, top edge chipped.
The Greek army, led by Achilles, drive back the Amazons over a narrow bridge, with women and horses falling into the river below. Troy, in flames, can be seen through the arch of the bridge. The original painting is in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
[Ref: 66617] £480.00

Premier Tableau. L'Ambarquement des Grecs après la prise de Troye. Hist. de l'Acad. des Bell. Lettr. t. XXVII, p.34.
Dessiné et fravé par le Lorrain.
[n.d., 1757.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. 245 x 390mm (9¾ x 15¼"). Original binding folds.
A view of the Greeks sacking Troy, slighting the walls, and carrying away captives. A 19-point key highlights the important features of the scene.
[Ref: 65565] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Hellespont, the Thacian Chersonesus, and a great part of Troas. For the Travels of Anacharsis by J.D. Barbié du Bocage, May 1782 - April 1798.
London. Published a ther Act directs July 1st 1805, by J.Mawmanm Poultry.
Engraved map. 360 x 230mm, 14¼ x 9".
Map of the Plains of Troy, the entrance to the Dardenelles and the island of Tenedos (Bozcaada). In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716–95), a highly-esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published 'The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger', an imaginary travel journal regarded as one of the first historical novels, described as 'the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique'.
[Ref: 23599] £80.00

L'Helles-Pont Pour l'Intelligence du Voyage de Jeune Anacharsis, Dressé sur le Plan qu'en a donné M. D'Anville dans les Mémoires de l'Academie R.le des Beles-Lettres, et sur quelques autres morceaux Par M. Barbié du Bocage, May 1782.
[Paris, c.1788.]
Engraved map. 360 x 230mm, 14¼ x 9".
Map of the Plains of Troy, the entrance to the Dardenelles and the island of Tenedos (Bozcaada), with Troy marked. In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716–95), a highly-esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published 'The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger', an imaginary travel journal regarded as one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called 'the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique'.
[Ref: 23603] £80.00

Jean Francois de Troy.
Aved pinxit. N. De Launay sculpsit.
[n.d., c. 1750.]
Engraving with large margins. Platemark: 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 9¾").
A portrait of Jean François de Troy (1679 - 1752), bust length with an easel and painting behind to the right. In an oval frame on a pedestal. Jean François de Troy was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer. He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy (1645 - 1730), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.
[Ref: 33865] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

True and Brave Women. Seven Saving Graces. Nurse, Ceres, Waac, Via, The Penguin, and Wren, With Blue Ball all answered The call of the Men.
Copyright.
Published by Pucka Poppets Limited. Eastbourne Sussex England. Printed by Discharged Wounded Soldiers. [n.d. c.
Chromolithograph. Plate 165 x 260mm (6½ x 10¼"). Faded.
Women of the War; including nurses, workers for Great Western Rail, Wrens of the Royal Navy, and other auxiliary forces.
[Ref: 31086] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Tregears Flights of Humour No 6] True Generosity!!! When I See Any One Worse Off Than Myself I Pity Them. Where will he find one.
[n.d. c.1830]. London Pubd. By G. Tregear 12[3 Cheapside.]
Lithograph with very fine colour. 298 x 215mm (11¾ x 8½"). Trimmed and laid on scrap sheet.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 14482] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The True Peace. Words by Adelaide Anne Procter. Music by Olinthus R. Barnicott, LL.D. From the Forthcoming Musical Edition of "Worship-Song." [On verso:] With the wish that this Peace may be yours in the Christmastide of 1904, and the New Year, 1905, from W. Garrett and Mary Horder. The Manse, Ealing.
London Novello and Company, Limited. Copyright, 1905, by W. Garrett Horder.
Rare Engraved letter press and music manuscript. Booklet of four sides.195 x 132mm. 7¾ x 5¾".
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. She fought for womens employment and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Many of her poems were made into hymns or otherwise set to music. This particular poem "the Peace of God," was set to music by Rev.d Olinthus Roberts Barnicott who studied at St John's College, and went ont to be Curate of Preston, Sussex. He became Chaplain of Cottesmore School, Brighton; and Pembroke Lodge, Worthing, Sussex.
[Ref: 17807] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

True Valour is always Invincible. Porus being forsaken by his own People w.th great courage sustain'd ye Attacks of his Enemies wound'd several of them & slew Taxiles Brother after w.ch being greviously bruis'd & wounded he fell from off his Elephant. La Vraye Valeur est toujours Invincible. Porus abandonne des siens blesse plusieurs de ceux qui lenvironnent tue le Frere de Taxile & apres ce dernier efort de courage il tombe luy mem accable De coups de dessus son Elephant. 3.
Le Brun Pinx. Parr sculp.
Printed for R. Wilkinson at No.58 ____ in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1809.]
Copper engraving. Plate 203 x 405mm. 8 x 16". Crease lower left-hand corner.
The battle against King Porus, with the latter riding an elephant at the centre, and trying to repel the Greek soldiers surrounding him, two eagles flanking Mansart's arms in the bottom margin. The Battle of the Hydaspes River fought against Alexander the Great by King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom. Robert Wilkinson republished many of the Bowles plates in the early 1800s. He took over the business of John Bowles following his death in 1799.
See Ref: 20824 for an earlier French impression published by Audran; and 20827 for an earlier impression published by Bowles.
[Ref: 20847] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

True Valour is always Invincible. Porus being forsaken by his own People w.th great courage sustain'd ye Attacks of his Enemies wound'd several of them & slew Taxiles Brother after w.ch being greviously bruis'd & wounded he fell from off his Elephant. La Vraye Valeur est toujours Invincible. Porus abandonne des siens blesse plusieurs de ceux que lenvironnent tue le Frere de Taxile & apres ce dernier efort de courage il tombe lut meme accable De coups de dessus son Elephant.
Le Brun pinx. Parr sculp.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d. c.1760.]
Copper engraving. 203 x 419mm. 8 x 16½". Trimmed, fold down right-hand side. Slight time staining
The battle against King Porus, with the latter riding an elephant at the centre, and trying to repel the Greek soldiers surrounding him, two eagles flanking Mansart's arms in the bottom margin. The Battle of the Hydaspes River fought against Alexander the Great by King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom.
See Ref: 20824 for an earlier larger impression published by Audran; and 20847: for a later impression published by R. Wilkinson.
[Ref: 20827] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

M. Guill. Trumbull. Agent pour Les Roys Jac. I. et Char. I. A La Cour de Bruxelles.
S. Gribelin sculp.
[n.d. c.1715.]
Rare engraving. 165 x 102mm. 6½ x 4".
Portrait of William Trumbull, half length in an ornamental oval frame on a pedestal, wearing large ruff. William Trumbull (d.1635) was an English diplomat, administrator and politician. He was the English minister at Brussels.
[Ref: 24555] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Mr V. Trumper.
A. Chevallier Tayler 1905 [facsimile signature.]
Gilbt. Whitehead & Co., Ltd., Lith. New Eltham, S.E.
Chromolithograph with accompanying text sheet. 381 x 254mm. 15 x 10".
Victor Thomas Trumper (1877-1915) the Australian cricketer who was known as the most stylish and versatile batsman of the Golden Age of Cricket, capable of playing match-winning innings on wet wickets. He was also a key figure in the foundation of the rugby league in Australia. Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925), the English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting.
[Ref: 26492] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Trunk Maker.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured etching. 172 x 102mm. 6¾ x 4".
A trunk maker in his workshop with a hammer nailing metal brackets to a trunk.
[Ref: 20624] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Trunk Maker.
[n.d., c.1818.]
Engraving, with two sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½'').
An illustration of a trunk maker in his workshop, working on a trunk, with text.
[Ref: 50487] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Trunk Maker.
Wood engraving. Sheet: 100 x 170mm (4 x 6¾").
A scene in a trunk maker's workshop showing a figure hammering a chest. From 'The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts'.
[Ref: 44625] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Trust. From the original picture in the Collection of Charles Churchill Esq.re of Weybridge Park, to whom this Engraving is respectfully dedicated by The Publisher.
Painted by C. Burton Barber. Engraved by F. Stacpoole, A.R.A.
London, Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, Publisher to Her Majesty, April 16th 1889, 7, Haymarket, S.W.
Mixed method engraving, open-letter state. 700 x 540mm (27¾ x 21¼").
A small girl balances a sugar cube on the nose of a dog much larger than her. The girl was one of the nine children of Charles Churchill (1823-1905) a City timber broker who bought Weybridge Park in 1863. Another of his children was the subject of Barber's 'In Disgrace'. This is from one of numerous child and dog paintings executed by Charles Burton Barber (1845-1894) towards the end of his life. He attained great success with his paintings of children with their pets; during his life he received commissions from Queen Victoria, and a number of his portraits are in the Royal Collection.
[Ref: 47805] £380.00

The Effects of Truth.
G.M. Woodward Delin.
Published Nov.r 1st 1794 by S.W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1822'. Trimmed to platemark.
Two tiers, each containing four couples in conversation, actually saying what they think of each other.
[Ref: 54277] £350.00

Truth. [&] Fame.
Stephanof del.t. Wills sculp.t.
Publish'd as the act Directs 15th x.bre 1787. A Paris chez M.Clement, graveur Montagne S.te Geneviève M.son du S.r Marie Perruquier au 3cm.
Pair of stipples. Ea. 140 x 190mm. "Fame" with slight soiling in unprinted area.
[Ref: 5718] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Tryphon Imperator. Ex nummo Argenteo penes Math. Duane Armig.
F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp.
London, Publish'd Decr. 1. 1788, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Etching with stipple, printed in brown ink; published state, with very large margins. 215 x 155mm, 8½ x 6". A fine impression.
A coin bearing the head in profile of Diodotus Tryphon, a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom; a measure immediately below. As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus, the infant son of Alexander Balas, in Antioch after Alexander's death - but then in 142 BC deposed the child and himself seized power.
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18241] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tschodksches & Sea Horses.
Bewick Delin.t. Barlow Sculp.
Pub.d. by Dr. Trusler Dec.r. 1st 1789.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark. Time staining around edge of paper.
Scene depicting two hunters and a dog, standing upon ice regarding a group of walruses. In the background a figure in a canoe paddles towards the walruses. In the Bering Sea near Siberia.
[Ref: 32102] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Aegidius Tschudi.
H. Pfen fecit.
[n.d. c..1790.]
Etching and engraving, with very large margins. Plate 127 x 82mm (5 x 3¼").
Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572), an eminent member of the Swiss Tschudi family. He served as the chief magistrate and was ennobled by the Emperor Ferdinand.
[Ref: 29899] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

The Tschuktschi, and their Habitations.
J. Webber del. Lerpiniere sc.
[London: Nicol & Cadell, n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. On watermarked paper. Platemark: 255 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"). Uncut with very large margins. Slight repair below title.
A plate from 'Cook's Voyage to the Pacific'. A view of with large tents of animal skins laid over a framework of poles, with figures and dogs, including a man to right with his back to the viewer, wearing a quiver and carrying a bow. Two others standing, talking in the left foreground, with quivers and bows, one also carrying a spear, attached to a ring in his coat. Moutains can be seen in the background. John Webber (1751-93) travelled with Captain Cook on the Third Voyage (1776-80) as the Official Artist of the expedition, recording the explorer's death at the hand of Hawaiian natives.
[Ref: 34213] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tuck-ee, a Cherokee War Chief.
Geo Catlin P.t. J.Harris sc.
London, Published by H.Bailliere, 1842.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"). Slightly time stained.
A reduced version of the portrait by George Catlin, published in 'Dr.Prichard's Natural History of Man'.
[Ref: 31511] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Abraham Tucker Esqr. of Betchworth Castle.
Engraved by W. Say. June 1st. 1803. (after Enoch Seeman.)
Mezzotint. 257 x 168mm. 10 x 6½".
Abraham Tucker (1705-1774), philosophic writer, born in London, and educated at Oxford, was a country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy, and wrote, under the name of Edward Search, a work in 7 volumes, The Light of Nature Pursued (1768-78). It is rather a miscellany than a systematic treatise, but contains much original and acute thinking. He strongly influenced Paley and is thought to have had some influence on Malthus.
In the NPG.
[Ref: 12767] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Woman of the Tuda Race. Dr. Pritchard's Natural History of Man.
London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1844.
Coloured aquatint with added gum arabic. 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½").
A woman from the Tuda Race, and Indian tribal group. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
See Ref: 30254 for a man of the Tuda race.
[Ref: 30262] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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