Grosvenor Prints

Vue de St. Petersbourg. Vue de la Bourse.
Editeur H. Prévost. [1833.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 430 x 275mm (17x 10¾") very large margins.
A view of the Old St Petersburg Stock Exchange. A plate from 'Kostiumy i vidy Ct. Peterburga i okrestnosti : souvenir de St. Petersbourg' published by Hippolyte Prévost in 1833. Title and artists in French and Russian cyrillic.
[Ref: 46130] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Stag Hunting.
H. Alken del.t. J. Clark sculp.t.
London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1. 1820.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 280 x 375mm (11 x 14¾"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1819, with large margins. Faint text offset.
Hunting a stag with hounds. From 'The National Sports of Great Britain' by Henry Alken.
[Ref: 46269] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The State of Innocence. Genesis Chap. 2. V. 25. [/] And they were both Naked, the Man and his Wife and were not ashamed.
R.t Pranker Sculp.t.
[n.d, c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate: 270 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Trimmed to image on 3 sides.
A view of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, behind them the angel prepares to chase them from the garden.
[Ref: 45954] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Come Old Fellow Dont Be Stingy,_Give Us A Light? Funny Characters No.23.
Printed by I.M. Lefevre.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Slight foxing.
A comic scene in which a man, with closed eyes puts his pipe underneath a spout asking it to light his pipe.
[Ref: 46634] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Louise Marie Stuart Princesse d'Angleterre Filles du Roy Iacque et de Marie Eleonor d'Éste Neé le 28 Iuin 1692.
Larfilliere P. Gravé par E. Desrochers et se vend chez luy rue S.t Jacques au Mecenas a Paris.
[n.d., c.1710.]
Rare & fine engraving. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Louisa Maria Stuart (1692-1712) the last child of James II and Mary of Modena. Louisa Maria was born and brought up in France and known as the 'Princess Royal' by Jacobites.
[Ref: 46675] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Three engravings published in the Carlton House Magazine] Sunday Work which ought to be prohibited [&] The Bakers Sunday Triumph [&] The Rev.d G.H.J. Esq.r
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Three engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Three prints published in the 'Carlton House Magazine'. 'The Bakers Sunday Triumph' shows bakers rejoicing while the Albion Mills (a steam-powered flour mill in Southwark, inspiration for William Blake's ''dark satanic mills''; the fire is illustrated in Ackermann's Microcosm of London) burns behind them, in celebration of George III's act forbidding the baking of bread on Sundays. This plate was a reissue of a print by Barlow after Collings titled 'Conflagration! Or the Merry Mealmongers', published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791. It is likely that the other two plates were also reissues.
BM Satires 8482 (Bakers Sunday Triumph)
[Ref: 45862] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

West View of the Stupendous Iron Bridge Built over the River Wear in Sunderland by Row.d Budron Esq.r M.P. Span of the Arch 256 F.t Height 100 F.t Cast Iron 214 Tons. Worked Iron 46 Tons. Foundation Stone Laid 24 SEp. 1795. Opened 9 Aug. 1796.
Published by T. Robson [c.1805]
Engraving. Sheet 165 x 240mm (6½ x 9½"). Trimmed, losing part of publication line.
The world's second iron bridge, opened 1796.
For similar view of the bridge see ref.42019.
[Ref: 46025] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Suspension. Lord Port farewell! Dundas adieu! [/] Ill no longer trust to you; [/] Standing thus on Portland Stone [/] I'm head, and Ill secure my own.
Pub.d August 21 1794 by S. Alken. 11 14 Castle S.t Leicester Sq.r.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"). Staining in left margins. Cut to platemark on 3 sides.
A satirical portrait of William Pitt, shown standing on a precariously positioned block of Portland stone, above his head an axe labelled 'habias corpus' hangs above his head held up by a rope labelled 'Public Opinion'. Pitt had replaced William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland, as Prime Minister in December 1793, but made him Home Secretary in July 1794. He made Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Secretary of War at the same time.
Not in BM Satire.
[Ref: 46626] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Sweden.] Schweden. Stockholm vom Quai am Markt Karls XIII.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, verlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½"), with very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Sweden and Scandinavia arranged around a central view of Stockholm, other views include 'Bergen in Norwegen', 'Lappländer', 'Gothnburg'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46027] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Night Scene in the Neighbourhood of Sydney.
R. Scott. sc. Engraved for the History of New South Wales.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving. Sheet: 140 x 200mm (5½ x 8"). Slight crease below title and strengthening.
A view of a group of Australian aborigines around a camp fire. After a drawing by convict Thomas Watling and an illustration to 'History of New South Wales'.
[Ref: 45961] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Table Mountain - Cape of Good Hope.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Staining.
A view of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa from the sea.
[Ref: 46070] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[La Tyrolienne.]
A.E.C. R.J.L.
[Published by J. Dickinson. New Bond Street, Aug.t 1831.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 215 x 145mm (8½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and stained at top right.
A portrait of renowned ballet dancer Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) depicted as Sophie from 'La Tyrolienne'. Taglioni was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, and cultivated her skill primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet. She later took a three-year contract in Saint Petersburg with the Imperial Ballet.
[Ref: 46562] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. Taplin. Author of The Gentlemans Stable Directory, A New Compedium of Farriery &c &c &c.
Marshall pinx. I. Scott scu.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet: 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed.
A half-length portrait of William Taplin (1740-1807) author of a guide to the management of hunters and road horses.
[Ref: 46285] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Johannis Taylor.
F.H. van Hove sculp.
[n.d., c.1687.]
Engraving. Sheet: 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Trimmed to image.
A half-length portrait of mathematician John Taylor with a celestial model on table. Rare frontispiece to 'Thesaurus Mathematicus'.
W 2890.
[Ref: 46329] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Thames Tunnel.
[J.D. Harding.]
[n.d., c.1845.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Printed area: 255 x 260mm (10 x 10¼"), with large margins on 3 sides.
A view of the interior of the Thames Tunnel built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel between 1825-1843 linking Rotherhithe and Wapping under the Thames.
[Ref: 46668] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Symposium involving Themistocles and Aristides] Den anschlag vom Themistocles/Wiewol sein nutz scheint gross und breit [...]
[Anon. German sixteenth century]
Woodcut, sheet 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6"). Trimmed from larger sheet, false margins added; another image verso.
[Ref: 46388] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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

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

[Man examining a tiny person in a jar]
[Anon., c.1850]
Engraving on laid paper, platemark 440 x 340mm (17¼ x 13¼") very large margins. Unfinished proof?
[Ref: 46587] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Tooth Ache. From an Original Picture by Edward Bristowe in the Possession of W.A. West Esq,r of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards.
Drawn on Stone by Louis Haghe. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
London, Published by T. Flint, 28 Burlington Arcade and Rittner Boulevard Montmatre, Paris, 1st February 1828.
Scarce lithograph. Sheet 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). A few repaired tears, published blind stamp in title.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed in human clothes. One has a bandage around his jaw, visiting a dentist.
[Ref: 45763] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to 'Topographia Sueviae' ('the topography of Swabia'), wth city view of Augsburg] Topographia Sueviae dasist Beschreib und Aigentliche Abcontrafeitung [...]
[Matthäus Merian I, 1643]
Engraving, sheet 275 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed to image; creasing.
Frontispiece to the second part of 'Topographia Germaniae' (1642-1660s), a series of volumes depicting, in thirty-eight parts, the topography of Germany.
[Ref: 46386] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Destruction of the French Fleet at Toulon, Dec.r 18.th 1793
Painted by T. Whitcombe T. Sutherland sculp.t
Pub.d April 1 1816, at 48 Strand, for J. Jenkins's Naval Achievements.
A fine coloured aquatint, platemark 215 x 305mm (8½ x 12"), with very large margins.
In 1793 French Republican forces suppressed a royalist rebellion in the city of Toulon (the royalists were assisted by British, Spanish, Neapolitan and Pedmontese troops). As the city fell, however, the British used firships to destroy the French Republican fleet, as shown here. Plate from James Jenkins, 'The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the year 1793 to 1817' (1817).
[Ref: 46522] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Trades.] Tab: XX.
D. Chodowiecki del. Schleuen fc.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½"), with large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on left edge.
Four scenes showing various trades including blacksmiths, carriage makers, men working a spit and wagons and barges being loaded. From a series engraved by Johann David Schleuen (1711-1771) after Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801).
[Ref: 46416] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Trades and Professions.] Tab XLVIII.
D. Chodowiecki inv: & sculp.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with large margins. Marking.
Three scenes showing various trades and professions. The first shows figures walking to a classical building, the second shows a teacher instructing a class of young boys, on the walls are various diagrams of anatomy, botany and a rhinoceros. The final scene shows a preacher leading a congregation. From a series by German artist Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801).
[Ref: 46417] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Trades and Professions.] Tab LV.
[D. Chodowiecki.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9½"), with large margins.
Four scenes showing various trades and professions. The top left scene shows men working on various furs to make hats and coats, the second scene shows a tanner working on a hide. The third scene shows a potter working at a potter's wheel while other figures work in the pottery; the final scene shows a glass blower blowing glass. The final scene shows a preacher leading a congregation. From a series by German artist Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801).
[Ref: 46418] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Trades and Professions.] Tab. XIV.
D. Chodowiecki del. G. Chodowiecki sc.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. Plate: 180 x 230mm (7 x 9½"), large margins. Light foxing.
Two vignettes, the first showing a carriage driving through a landscape, the second shows various barges and rafts being sailed or pulled down a river. From a series by German artist Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801).
[Ref: 46419] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Tram Bridge over the Tawe.
Drawn & Etched by I.G. Wood.
London Published by Ino. Geo. Wood. 1817.
Soft ground etching. Plate: 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with large margins.
A view of the horsetram bridge built over the river Tawe in Wales. The horse tram was started in Britain on the Swansea and Mumbles railway and used specifically for tramlines and carriages to transport goods and people.
[Ref: 46302] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Turtle.
Designed by W. Daniell.
[n.d., c.1807.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 130 x 210mm (5 x 8¼"). Trimmed to platemark.
A portrait of a turtle, depicted on a beach with a ship in the distance. An illustration from 'Zoography' by W. Wood published in 3 vols. 1807.
[Ref: 45959] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta, e Prospetto del Gran' Theatro dell' Acque della Villa Aldobrandina di Belvedere à Frascati.
Gio Batta Falda del. et sculp.
Gio. Iac. Rossi le stampa in Roma alla Pace co Priv.' del S.P. [n.d., c.1680.]
Etching, 250 x 400mm (9¾ x 15¾"), with very large margins. Vertical centre fold as issued.
The Teatro delle Acque (''Water Theater'') of the Villa Aldobrandini, built by Carlo Maderno (1556-1629) and Orazio Olivieri for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini. The current owner, Prince Camillo Aldobrandini, tells that the staues on the balustrade shown here were taken by Napoleon, who promised to pay for them on his return from Russia. This is one of 18 plates engraved by Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-78) for 'Le fontane di Frascati', published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (1627-91).
[Ref: 46399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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)

[Nicholas Vansittart] Old Nic the Covey wot Drives the Bexley Van. My name is Nicholas your honor - they calls me Hocus Pocus for short, but lork I'm no Conjuror - I got Exchequered - but that's nothink to Nobody.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r.
Pub May 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed and mounted in album sheet. Some of the text missing (as in BM copy).
Apparently Heath intends the victim of this caricature to be Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Lord Bexley, one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer; however the face does not resemble him.
BM Satires: 15747.
[Ref: 46655] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Venetian woman taking fruit from a tray]
Franco f [c.1610]
Engraving, sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Trimmed to image; large nick on left side; glued to backing sheet.
Plate from the series 'Habiti delle donne veneziane intagliate nuovamente da Giacomo Franco' (c.1610), a set of twenty plates with explanatory text in Italian and Latin. Giacomo Franco (1550-1620) was based in Venice and specialised in prints showing the topography, life and customs of the city.
[Ref: 46413] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Venus attired by the Graces. From the Painting of Guido Reni, 9 feet 6 inches high, by 7 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington.
Guido Reni Pinx.t. Robertus Strange delin.t et sculp.t Londini. 1759.
[London: Robert Strange, 1790.]
Engraving. 515 x 380mm (20¼ x 15"), large margins.
Venus sits as the Graces fasten a bracelet around her wrist, tie her sandal straps and place a tiara in her hair. Cupid leans on her thigh. From a collected edition of the engravings by Sir Robert Strange (1721-92) after famous paintings, in this case 'The Toilet of Venus', now in the National Gallery, attributed to Guido Reni and his studio.
National Gallery: NG90, 'Reni designed the picture and executed parts of it (at least the figure of Venus)'.
[Ref: 46537] £320.00

Venus. From a Painting of Titian in the Medici collection at Florence.
R. Strange Florentiæ delin.t. A.o 1761 Atque A.o 1768. Ære incidit Londini.
[London: Robert Strange, 1790.]
A fine engraving. 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼") very large margins. Foxing in margins.
Venus reclining on a bed, a puppy near her feet. Behind two women take clothes from a chest. It was painted by Titian (c.1489-1576) for Duke of Urbino Guidobaldo II Della Rovere in 1538, a present for the Duke's young wife, and is now in the Uffizi Gallery Museum, Florence. It was sketched by Robert Strange in Florence in 1761, engraved by him in London 1768 and published in a collected edition of his engravings.
[Ref: 46540] £480.00

Venus blinding Cupid. From a Painting of Titian in the Borghese Palace at Rome.
R. Strange Romæ delin.t. A.o 1761, atque A.o 1769. Ære incidit Londini.
[London: Robert Strange, 1790.]
Engraving. 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼") large margins. Foxing in margins.
Venus tying a blindfold over Cupid's eyes, as two nymphs bring Cupid's bow and arrows, watched by Cupid's gloating sibling. The painting was sketched by Robert Strange in Florence in 1761, engraved by him in London in 1769 and published in a collected edition of his engravings.
[Ref: 46543] £360.00

[Victoria, Princess Royal] ''The Rosebud of Briton''. And a Correct Representation of its Magnificent Cot.
Published for the Proprietor, 3, Johnson S.t, Westminster. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph, rare, Sheet: 325 x 260mm (12¾ x 10¼").
A portrait of Queen Victoria's eldest child Princess Victoria (1840-1901), or the Princess Royal, in her elaborate cot.
[Ref: 45922] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham]
RE [for Renold Elstrack]
[published c.1700]
Engraving, platemark 255 x 180mm (10 x 7") large margins.
George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), royal favourite, portrayed full-length with encampment and city in background. The initials 'RE' suggest the print was made by Renold Elstrack (1570-c.1625), the foremost English engraver of his time. In fact, Hind suggests that this is an eighteenth-century plate with Elstrack's initials fraudulently added to the second state. The first state, which bears text identifying the sitter and claiming dubiously that 'this plate hath been many years Preserved in a great persons Closet', was published (without the 'RE' monogram) by Benjamin Cole of Oxford (for an image of this state see NPG D5812).
Not in O'D
[Ref: 46354] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Caricature of Voltaire] Esquisse d'apre nature faite a Ferney e 1769.
Etching, sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to image.
François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen-name Voltaire (1694-1778), French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws in France and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Christian Church dogma and the French institutions of his day. Caricature after Jean 'Voltaire' Huber (1721-86), artist famed for his portraits of Voltaire, who he first met in Geneva in 1754.
[Ref: 46389] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Views in Sri Lanka.]
[John & Awnsham Churchill.]
[Henry Lintot & John Osborne, 1744.]
A pair of engravings on one sheet. Each plate c. 135 x 175mm (5¼ x 7"). Repaired tear in right edge.
Two views in Sri Lanka the first showing the church of Waranni and the church house; the second showing a religious meeting below a tamarind tree on the coast. From 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels' by John and Awnsham Churchill having been used previously in Philip Baldaeus's 'Description of Malabar and Coromandel and also the Island of Ceylon' in 1672.
[Ref: 46299] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Watts Esq.r died 1580 from a Bust in Rochester Cathedral.
Pub.d as the Act Directs by J. Seago. [n.d., c.1790.]
Fine mezzotint. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins.
A portrait of Richard Watts (1529-1579) who served as M.P. for Rochester.
[Ref: 46326] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Wearmouth Bridge.
Rich.d Wallis sculpt.
Sept.r 28th 1795.
A very rare etching. Plate: 180 x 220mm (7 x 8¾") with large margins.
A view of the bridge across the River Wearmouth in Sunderland before its completion in 1796.
From Kedleston.
[Ref: 46311] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull in Perplexity or Ascendancy versus Union._ His progress they said depended on Ascendancy; and this, they told him was Ascendancy_and consequently the only thing that could do him good. Westminster Review No.19.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.]
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 310 x 470mm (12 x 18½"). Trimmed, damage and paper loss on left edge. Tear in right edge.
A very large satirical scene showing the various politicians involved with the debate regarding Catholic emancipation. On the far left, Wellington and Robert Peel stand on the outskirst of a group of figures including Brougham, with a broom in his pocket, Burdett, Scarlett and Eldon. On the right the Duke of Cumberland dances with the devil and in the distance a waggon labelled 'Common State Waggon John Bull & Co.' rushes towards the scene driven by George IV.
BM Satire 15658.
[Ref: 46647] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Westminster Abbey.]
Fred. A. Farrell. [Signed in Pencil.]
[n.d., c.1925.]
Etching. Plate: 305 x 250mm (12 x 9¾"), with large margins.
A view of Westminster Abbey with Elizabeth Tower in the background. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 45733] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Westminster Bridge. [&] Sir Watkin Williams Wynn Baronet.
Tho.s Boydell Delin & Sculp. [&] T. Hudson Pinxit. J. Aberry fecit Aquâforti 1753.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament & Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the Corner of Queen Street Cheapside London 1753.
Etching with engraving. 255 x 420mm (19 x 16½"). Narrow margins, tear entering image on right of prospect; portrait trimmed to image on left, tear in top edge taped. Printed on both sides as in BM.
An oddity: a prospect of Westminster Bridge printed on one side and a portrait of Watkin Williams Wynn printed on the reverse. The top plate mark of the prospect is aligned with the right plate mark of the portrait. The artist, Thomas Boydell, is obscure: the BM describes him as a 'Member of Boydell family'.
See BM 1880,1113.1319 for the same pairing.
[Ref: 46405] £350.00

Greenland Fishery. 68.
Brooking Pinx. Boydell Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J Boydell, Engraver at the Unicorn ye corner of Queen Street Cheapside, London 1754.
Engraving. Plate: 295 x 420mm (11½ x 16½") large margins.
A scene in the seas off Greenland showing several British whaling boats, the water is full of rowing boats and in the foreground figures harpoon a whale. Polar bears watch from the ice in the forground. By the mid eighteenth century whaling off the coast of Greenland was a fully established enterprise with the South Sea Company funding many excursions to the Arctic.
[Ref: 46249] £320.00

Mathilde Wildauer.
Prinzhofer 1845. Gedr. B. J. Rauh.
Lithograph, printed on india. Sheet: 540 x 360mm (21¼ x 14"), with large margins.
A seated portrait of Austrian opera singer Mathilde Wildauer (1820-1878).
[Ref: 46513] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes Esq.r.
Engraved by Caroline Watson after a Picture by Pine about the Year 1763.
[n.d, c.1804.]
Stipple. Sheet: 155 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A portrait of English radical, journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-1797).
[Ref: 46327] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes Esq.r. Formerly a Great Champion of Liberty, now Chamberlain of London &c. &c.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with 3 sheets of letterpress. Plate: 135 x 100mm (5¼ x 4") with large margins.
A portrait of English radical, journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-1797) with three pages of letterpress discussing Wilkes's career.
[Ref: 46328] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[William II, Prince of Orange] Guilielmus Nassavius, Nat. Princeps Auriacus etc.
G. Hondthorst Pinxit. I. Suiderhoef Sculp.
P. Soutman Inven. Effigiavit et Excud. Cum Privil [n.d., c.1645]
Etching. Collector's mark bottom right; 450 x 365mm (17¾ x 14½"). Narrow margins, large repaired tear, right edge frayed. Damaged.
Head and shoulders portrait of William II, Prince of Orange (1626 - 1650) as a boy, taken from the full-length painting by Gerard van Honthorst from c.1640 now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
[Ref: 46411] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[William IV] The Admiral in St. Petersburgh; or Poor Will foil'd again.
G. Cruik. del.
[n.d., 1813.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 200 x 240mm (8 x 9½"). Trimmed, losing letterpress verse, marking.
William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV), in admiral's uniform with sword, kneels on both knees, arms extended, at the feet of a young woman who walks away. He is in profile to the left, caricatured, with words issuing from his coarse protruding lips: "O listen, listen to the voice of Love." The lady (called Grand Duchess Anna (Pavlovna) of Russia in the text but actually Catherine of Oldenburgh, the widowed sister of Tsar Alexander I) looks scornfully over her shoulder, pointing to a treasure-chest (left) filled with bags. Having lived a dissolute youth the Duke was deep in debt so had derserted his long-time consort Mrs Jordan and was on the lookout for a rich wife.
BM Satire 12020.
[Ref: 46481] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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