Grosvenor Prints

Venezia. Piazzetta di S. Marco dalla Porta dell Carta. Piazzetta St Marc vue a la porte della Carta.
Ziegler dis. Lit. Kier.
Giuseppe Kier, Edit. piazza S. Marco No. 117. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph in fine hand colour with gum arabic highlights. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with publisher's blind stamp. Some surface soiling on very large margins.
The Porta della Carta is the ceremonial entrance to the Doge's Palace, St Mark's Square.
[Ref: 39763] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A View from the Bridge Realto to Michaeli House shewing the House of the Germans on the right hand and on the left the Office of the Magistrates of the Revenue.
Mich.l Marieschi delin. T. Bowles fecit.
London, Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69, St Pauls Church Yard. [n.d., c.1790.]
Coloured engraving, 300 x 390mm (11¾ x 15¼"), with J. Whatman watermark. Cut to platemark on left, small margins elsewhere
View of the Grand Canal, Venice, with the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (headquarters of the German merchants in the city) centre right.
[Ref: 40320] £320.00

Donna che rompe un giogo, et altre figure, che portano il Pileo insegna della libertà Opera del Tintoretto nella sala delle quattro porte in Venetia.
Silverstero Manaigodelineo. Andrea Zucchi Sculp.
Per il Lovisa in Realto. [n.d., c.1720.]
Etching. Sheet 430 x 410mm (17 x 16"), with 18th century watermark. Trimmed within plate, some staining and creasing, laid on album paper.
A copy of Tintoretto's painting in the soffit of the Sala delle Quattro Porte in the Doge's Palace, Venice, showing a woman seated on clouds holding chains representing the protector of Venice's liberty. The etching was published in 'Il gran Teatro di Venezia' (The Great Theatre of Venice).
[Ref: 40496] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Grand Canal Venice.] Pars Canalis magni ultra pontem Hebræorum Venetüs. Partie du Grand Canal plus outre du Pont de Juif à Venice.
Cum Gratia et Privelegio Sac: Cæs: Majestis. Georg Balth. Probst excud. Aug.t [n.d., 1770].
Coloured engraving. 305 x 405mm (12 x 16"). Slight creasing down centre.
A vüe-d'optique of Venice, designed to be viewed through a zograscope, a device that created perspective. It shows gondolas on the Grand Canal near the junction of the Cannaregio Canal, on which can be seen the Ponte delle Guglie. The title is in four languages; above is the title in French, reversed for the zograscope.
[Ref: 56324] £320.00

Pianta della Regia Cittá di Venezia Pianta di Venezia. Plan de Venice.
Gaelato dis. Lit. Kier.
Giuseppe Kier, Edit. piazza S. Marco No. 117. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. Printed area 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"), with publisher's blind stamp. Some toning.
A plan of Venice with a 30-pint key of landmarks.
[Ref: 39735] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Venice] Carte du Gouvernement Militaire de la Republique de Venise, L'Etat de ses Revenues, de ses Forces, et les Differentes Vues de la Place de St Marc.
[Amsterdam, Henri Abraham Chatelain, c.1710.]
Engraving. 395 x 505mm (15½ x 19¾"), with very large margins. Tear in centre fold and left margin.
Five views of Venice, with engraved text in French. From Chatelain's seven-volume 'Atlas Historique', published between 1705 and 1720.
[Ref: 44583] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Palazzo Grimani ora J.R. Direzione delle Poste. Palais Grimani. Direction de la Poste.
Gilio dis. Lit. Kier.
Giuseppe Kier, Edit. piazza S. Marco No. 117. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph in fine hand colour with gum arabic highlights. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with publisher's blind stamp, very large margins.
The mid-16th century Renaissance-style Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, facing the Grand Canal, now Venice's Appeal Court.
[Ref: 39766] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Grande Duchesse de Venise. Costes. Etrangers.
d’après Abraham Bruyn, 1581. Hip Pauquet.
Pauquet freres, editeurs. Impe. Fosset, Fbg. St. Jacques, 19. 10me. Liv. No.19. Bureaux des modes et costumes historiques Rue d'Enfer, 119 et Rue Richelieu, 78. [n.d. c.1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving and stipple. 292 x 222mm. 11½ x 8¾".
[Ref: 15662] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Italy] Doge de Venise. Costes. Etrangers.
d’après Abraham Bruyn, 1580. Pol. Pauquet.
Pauquet freres, editeurs. Impe. Fosset F.bg St. Jacques, 19. 10me. Liv. No.20. Bureaux des modes et costumes historiques Rue d'Enfer, 119 et Rue Richelieu, 78.
Hand-coloured engraving and stipple. 292 x 222mm. 11½ x 8¾".
Probably Nicolo da Ponte, who was the 87th Doge of Venice from 1578 to 1585.
[Ref: 15670] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Sale Du Grand Conseil De Venise.
Dessine sur le Lieu et Mis au Iour Par le Soin de Pierre Mortier Libraire. A Amsterdam.
[n.d., c.1705.]
Etching, 495 x 590mm. 19½ x 23¼". Centre fold as issued. Marginal chips, nicks and tears.
A large and impressive illustration of the meeting of the Maggior Consiglio, or Council, of the Republic of Venice. The Doge and his advisors at the upper centre of the composition. From 'Histoire du gouvernement de Venise', 2 vols., 1705 by Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaie. Numbered 'XLI' upper right, key text to left and right of title. Published by Pierre Mortier (1661 - 1711), book and map seller, playing-card maker and publisher in Amsterdam from 1685.
Provenance: from the collection of Rudolf Nureyev.
[Ref: 11989] £360.00

[Statue of Vittorio Emanuele II, Venice.]
John Shapland. W.H. Sweet [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 241 x 273mm. 9½ x 10¾".
John Shapland (1865-1929) A painter of seascapes and landscapes mainly in watercolour but occasionally in oil. He exhibited at the RA, Paris Salon, and in the USA. He was the principle of the Exeter School of Art from 1899 to 1913. His compositions are loose' and his colouring is reminiscent of the continental style. He was for a time in business with the well known Devon artist Walter Henry Sweet who produced etchings of Shapland's subjects. A view from behind the Statue of Vittorio Emanuele II (1820-1878; who was King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia. In 1861 he assumed the title of King of Italy, to become the first king of a united Italy, and upon his death he was given the epithet 'Father of the Fatherland') looking towards Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, with the Tronchetto-Lido di Venezia to the left.
Guichard: pg.75, Appendix 1 'Minor Etchers'.
[Ref: 17820] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[A 'Venetian gondola' and another boat.]
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Brown watercolour and wash over pencil, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼".
A drawing from life, possibly in the East Indies, by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
[Ref: 9401] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Venetian man.]
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 195 x 140mm. 7¾ x 5½". Trimmed and laid down. One crease and some staining.
Attractively coloured lithograph of a man in local costume standing by the Grand Canal, Venice.
[Ref: 12714] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Piazza San Marco, Venice] Procuratie Vecchie, Architettura di Mastro Bono Proto di S. Marco.
Luca Carlevarijs del. et inc.
Appo Gio. Maria Pedrali S. Giovanni Evangelista Venezia Nº 2164 [n.d., 1741].
Etching. 210 x 295mm (8¼ x 11½"), Pedrali's publication line overprinted in bottom margin. Nicks in edges, paper lightly toned.
A view of the Old Procurators' House and the Clock tower in the Piazza San Marco. From Pedrali's re-issue of 'Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia (The buildings and views of Venice)' by Luca Carlevaris, first published 1703,
[Ref: 62674] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Piazza San Marco (St Mark's Square), Venice.]
[Unidentified signature.] W.H. Sweet [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, 135 x 180mm. 5¼ x 7".
Guichard: pg.75, Appendix 1 'Minor Etchers'.
[Ref: 14040] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Venice.]
Henry Le Keux Aqua Forti fecti. [Publisher's blindstamp.]
[n.d. c. 1860.]
A very scarce etching on india. Unfinished proof. 344 x 502mm. 13½ x 19¼". Water stain upper right-hand corner. Tear into centre right hand-side, with vertical crease.
A scene along the canal in Venice, possibly around San Barbara.
[Ref: 14435] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Riva dei Schiavoni.
[Drawn by Lake Price, lithographed by Joseph Nash]
[Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket. Printed by C. Hullmandel. 1843]
Lithograph, 340 x 445mm. 13¼ x 17½". Trimmed to image.
Plate 5 from Lake Price's 'Interiors and Exteriors in Venice' (1843), showing a busy scene
Abbey 171
[Ref: 15347] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Gondolier Venitien. Costes. Etrangers.
d’après Carpaccio V. 1506. Hipte. Pauquet.
Pauquet freres, editeurs. Impe. Fosset, Fbg. St. Jacques, 19. 7me. Liv. No.14. Bureaux des modes et costumes historiques Rue d'Enfer, 119 et Rue Richelieu, 78. [n.d. c.1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving and stipple. 292 x 222mm. 11½ x 8¾".
A Venetian boatman who propels a gondola.
[Ref: 15661] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Explanation of the view of Venice, exhibiting in the Panorama, Strand.
Ja.s Lee sculp [after Henry Aston Barker].
Printed by Ja.s W. and Chas. Adlard. 23, Bartholomew-close [n.d., 1819].
Wood engraving. Sheet 325 x 470mm (12¾ x 18½"). Laid on canvas, some creasing.
A key to a panorama of Piazza San Marco, with a 37-point key. A keyplate to a view of Athens exhibited in Barker's Panorama in the Strand. This alternative venue to the more famous Panorama in Leicester Square was opened in 1801 by Thomas Edward Barker and Ramsay Richard Reinagle.
See: Ref: 53539, 58762 & 59116
[Ref: 56281] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Canal] Ex Aede Salutis, usque ad Caput Canalis.
[engraved by Antonio Visentini after Canaletto.]
[Venice: Giuseppe Battaggia, 1733.]
Fine etching. 275 x 430mm (10¾ x 17"), with very large margins. Some foxing.
A view of the Grand Canal with the church of Santa Maria della Salute on the right. From 'Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum', a volume of fourteen engravings by Antonio Visentini after paintings by Canaletto in the collection of his great British patron, Joseph Smith. The paintings were all bought by George III and are in the Royal Collection, while preliminary drawings for each engraving are in the British Museum and the Museo Correr (Venice).
[Ref: 65157] £420.00

[View of a Palace in Venice.]
[?][signature in pencil.]
Etching. Plate: 290 x 275mm (11½ x 10¾'') very large margins. Find
A view of a Renaissance palace in Venice.
[Ref: 49346] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Venice.
Giorg.. Fossati Archit.t delin.t. Bowles Sculp.t.
Published according to Act of Parliament. Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 58 _ in Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver 69, St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1814].
Coloured engraving. 290 x 425mm (11½ x 16¾"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1814', with margins. Top left margin corner missing.
An elevated prospect of Venice, the Bucentaur (the Doge's ceremonical barge) in the background right. Giorgio Domenico Fossati ((1705-85), Swiss-born artist and architect.
[Ref: 54658] £340.00 (£408.00 incl.VAT)

[Bucentaur] Bucentoro. Solemnite Du Bucentaure, qui se Celebre a Venise le Jour de l'Ascension.
Exactement Dessinée sue le Lieu au jour par le Soin de Pierre Mortier. Libraire A Amsterdam.
[The Hague: Rutgeri Christophori Alberts, 1724.]
Engraving. 445 x 565mm (17½ x 22¼") very large margins. Creasing as normal. Evidence of cracks in the printing plate.
A magnificent view of the Bucentaur, the state barge of Venice, taking the doge out to the Adriatic to perform the 'Marriage of the Sea', a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea on Ascension Day. The barge survived until 1798, when Napoleon had it destroyed to symbolise his victory over Venice. The plate first appeared in Pierre Mortier's edition of Johannes Blaeu's 'Townbooks of Italy' in 1704, although he also published it in the 'Le Neptune Francois ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines'. However the cracks in the bottom of the plate suggest this comes from the last issue of the 'Townbooks, 1724.
[Ref: 55679] £550.00

Venezia.
A. Evershed. 1898-9.
Etching. 250 x 350mm, 9¾ x 13¾". Uncut, mint.
Dr Arthur Evershed MRCP (1835 - 1919). After retiring from a medical career specialising in tuberculosis, he dedicated himself to etching, gaining renown for his ability to draw directly onto a copper plate, reversing the image without mirrors. He exhibited at the Royal Academy regularly and became treasurer of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers.
[Ref: 17446] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Venice] Bellini's Pictures being Conveyed to the Church of the Redentore.
Painted by J.N.W. Turner, R.A. Engraved by J.T. Willmore, A.R.A. Printed by M. Dunn.
Art Union of Londn - 1858.
Engraving in between 1st & 2nd Published State. Laid on India paper. Sheet size: 390 x 780mm (15¼ x 30¾"). Trimmed inside platemark at bottom edge of sheet. Damaged.
A scene after Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) depicting the transportation of Bellini's paintings on the canals in Venice. Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more colouristic style.
Rawlinson: 677A
[Ref: 32612] £480.00

[The Pope and the Doge in Venice.] Prima che monti il Doge Ziani la Falera....
Appo. Teodoro Viero Venezia [Venice, n.d., c.1770s].
Large and impressive engraving on laid paper, 380 x 505mm. 15 x 20". A good impression, with wide margins. Slight crease on left.
An historical scene in Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square), medieval Venice. Pietro Ziani (died 1230), the forty-second Doge of Venice from 1205 to 1229, receives a Papal blessing (in the form of a sword) prior to setting out in his barge on an expedition. In his youth a sailor, Ziani commanded a flotilla escorting the emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1177, and took part in the Fourth Crusade and sacking of Constantinople. Numbered '5' lower left, and '66' lower right; from a series by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice. After a fresco by Francesco Bassano (1549 - 1592) in the Grand Council chamber of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
From Broadlands home of Palmerston family.
[Ref: 27560] £280.00

Souvenir de Venice.
Peint par Canaletto. Lit. par M. Moro.
Se vend chez Jos. A. Habnit Edit. et Propr. March. d'Objets D'Arts. Place S.Marc. Procuratie vecchie No 102. [n.d., c.1840]
Oblong 4to, printed boards with cloth spine; coloured lithographic title, and 12 plates in fine hand colour with gum arabic highlights, interleaved with tissue, each with Habnit's blind stamp. Some spotting.
Twelve fine views of the buildings of contemporary Venice, despite the use of Canaletto's name on the title page. Bookplate of Dorothea Howard.
[Ref: 39734] £1,250.00 view all images for this item

Campo di S. Geremia con la Famosa Caccia del Toro.
Per il Lovisa in Realto. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving, rare. Sheet 365 x 490mm (14¼ x 19¼"). Trimmed within image, folded and laid on album paper.
A scene in Venice, showing bull-baiting in Campo San Geremia, published in 'Il gran Teatro di Venezia' (The Great Theatre of Venice).
[Ref: 42175] £350.00

Venezia. Il Molo. Le Môle.
G. Gilio dis. Lit. Kier.
Giuseppe Kier, Edit. piazza S. Marco No. 117. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph in fine hand colour with gum arabic highlights. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with publisher's blind stamp. Very large margins soiled.
The pier in front of St Mark's Square, filled with gondolas.
[Ref: 39765] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Venezia. Canal Grande a Rialto. Le Grand Canal a Rialto.
Giovanni Pividor dis. Lit. Kier.
Giuseppe Kier, Edit. piazza S. Marco No. 117. [n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph in fine hand colour with gum arabic highlights. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"), with publisher's blind stamp. Some surface soiling in very large margins.
A view of Venice's Grand Canal, with the Rialto Bridge. After Giovanni Pividor (1816-72).
[Ref: 39760] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Cafe' Florian à Venise, Grand Place St. Marc.
Gio. Povidor dis. Prem. Lit. Veneta.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾") large margins.
A view of Caffe Florian, reputed to be the oldest café, in the arcade of Piazza San Marco in Venice since 1720. This lithograph, made to publicise the café, emphasises its cosmopolitan character by noting the 'room for the reading of foreign newspapers'. Another great landmark, the Basilica di San Marco, can be seen on the left. Lithograph by Giovanni Pividor (d.1872).
[Ref: 39824] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

That Part of the Grand Canal which at the left extends to the Palace of the Valareno Family; having in front the Church of St Jeremiah, and the entrance of the Royal Canal called Canaregio, and beyond its Briedge the Dwelling houses of the Jews.
Mich.l Mariesche delin. T.Bowles fecit.
[n.d., c.1745.]
Engraving with original colour. Sheet 300 x 400mm (11¾ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, bottom right corner snipped, tear in right edge taped.
A view looking across the Grand Canal towards the Cannaregio district, with the bridge into the Jewish ghetto. In the foreground are gondolas.
[Ref: 56468] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[III. - The Grand Canal.]
Wilfred Huggins [signed inside plate in pencil.] W.H
[MDCCCCXXIII.] W.R. Howell & Co.
Etching. Sheet 380 x 457mm. 15 x 18".
From: "A Series of Etchings made in Venice by Mr. Wilfrid Huggins." Limited Edition: 206. Lined on both sides by a succession of palaces, built in general by great or wealthy Venetians of the past, the Grand Canal forms one of the main arteries of the city. Broad and dignified, there is room in it to catch the feeling of a peace which is almost literally musical. The lapping of the waters is gently audible,-the occasional song of a gondolier is sweet as the song of a bird! What life there is, forms, or necessity, a succession of scenes appealing to the imagination in a way far rmoved from the chaotic effects felt amidst noises and scenes in other cities. The large dome of the Church of Santa Maria della Salute, whose façade is shown in a previous etching, here appears against the distant sky.
[Ref: 16316] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Lombardie. Venise. Pont de Rialto. Venezia. Ponte di Rialto.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par Bachelier. Imp. per Lemercier à Paris.
Paris, Bulla éditeur rue Tiquetonne 18 et M.on Aumont Francois Delarue, Succio rue J.J. Rousseau 10. [n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½"); large margins.
The famous Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal, Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte and completed in 1591.
[Ref: 40688] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Lombardie. Venise. Quai des Esclavons. Venezia. Riva degli Schiavoni.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par Bachelier. Imp. per Lemercier à Paris.
Paris, Bulla éditeur rue Tiquetonne 18 et M.on Aumont Francois Delarue, Succio rue J.J. Rousseau 10. [n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½"); large margins.
A view of the Riva degli Schiavoni, the promenade on the waterfront at St. Mark's Basin in Venice. It got its name for being the landing point of goods from the Balkans, including the trunks of alder trees than form the foundations of the city.
[Ref: 40689] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[South Transept, St Mark's.]
A.H. Haig [signed in pencil lower right.]
London Published September 16th 1911 by Robt. Dunthorne 5, Vigo St. W. [Also dated in plate, with artist's monogram.]
Drypoint etching printed in black and sepia, from a limited edition of 350, 440 x 570mm. 17¼ x 22½". Repaired tear top centre
Interior of Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice, northern Italy; the faithful at prayer inside. By Axel Haig (1835 - 1921), architectural watercolourist and etcher, the 'Piranesi of the Gothic Revival'. Born in Sweden, Haig worked Britain for William Burges and others. Very atmospheric image.
Lennox-Boyd 237.
[Ref: 22360] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)

[San Georgio Venice.]
Wilfrid Ball [pencil signature.]
London Published 1st March 1888, by Robt. Dunthorne at The Rembrandt Head in Vigo Street, W.
Etching, first state. Plate: 440 x 200mm (17½ x 8"). Some cockling.
An evocative and atmospheric prospect of Venice from the Lagoon, various shipping craft on the water in foreground. Wilfred Ball (1853 - c.1917) was a London etcher and watercolourist, landscape and marine painter. He was born and lived in Putney where he etched romantic landscapes of English and Venetian themes in the manner of Whistler; he exhibited paintings and etchings at the RA from 1877 to 1903. Robert Dunthorne, born around 1850, was a successful print dealer and publisher in London. His Gallery "Rembrandt" in Vigo Street held exhibitions of the major artists of the times between 1880's-1930's. Some of these artists included Williams Strange, James McNeill Whistler, Axel Haig and W. L. Wyllie.
[Ref: 20555] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[I. - Santa Maria della Salute.]
Wilfred Huggins [signed inside plate in pencil.] W.H
[MDCCCCXXIII.] W.R. Howell & Co.
Etching, in original mount attached to top of margins at corners. Sheet 360 x 460mm (14 x 18") large margins. Glued to original mount.
From: "A Series of Etchings made in Venice by Mr. Wilfrid Huggins." Limited Edition: 206. Here is seen one of the few open spaces on the Grand Canal, used and enjoyed by the general public. The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, whose façade is shown, is bold and imposing in appearance and in situation. It is endeared to the Venetians, having been erected in 1630 to commemorate prayers offered and answered for the rescue of the city from a devastating plague. So prominent a feature in the architectural aspect of the canal be ignored, and in the common experience, ends by being loved. The square fronting the Church, for many hours during the day shows dramatic variations in sunlight and shadow.
[Ref: 53679] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[Sebastiano Venier.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Sebastiano Venier (1496-1578) 86th Doge of Venice (1577-78) as well as the Venetian commander at the great victory over the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. He is pictured in the Doge's robes, within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32656] £320.00

Venison. Bred by M.r J. Day in 1833, By Partisan , out of Fawen, by Smolensko, her dam Jerboa, by Gohanna, out of Camilla, by Trentham.
Painted by J.F. Herring. Engraved by C. Hunt.
[Published by James Sheldon, 31 Ely Place, London, c.1860.]
Aquatint. 295 x 340mm (11½ x 13½"). Paper toned, some spotting.
First published by S. & J. Fuller c.1840, this example comes from 'Sheldon's Celebrated Racing Sires'. Little is known about James Sheldon: the British Museum biography only gives his address and ''publisher/printer; British; Male; 1850s; fl. c.''. Hickman mentions these reprints without venturing a date.
Hickman: p.456, describing 'Plate 6' top right, not present here.
[Ref: 47510] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Venison & Claret. or Sr. Humpy. Haunch Bart. of Glutton Hall. V.2. 22.
Pub by MDarly Strand April 1st. 1772 according to Act.
Etching. Plate 178 x 128mm (7 x 5").
A whole length figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach. His right hand is thrust inside his coat, his left if in his coat pocket. Under his left arm is his hat; he wears a laced coat, a shirt with lace ruffles and a sword.
BM Satires: 5002.
[Ref: 38198] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

This Helmet was a Crown by Revelation [/] This Halbert was a Sceptor for the Nation [/] So the Fifth-Monarchy anew is grac'd [/] King Venner next to John a Leydon Placed.
[Ephraim Pagit, 1661.]
Engraving, early impression. Sheet: 75 x 110mm (3 x 4¼"). Trimmed to image and tipped into album sheet.
A satirical portrait of Thomas Venner (d. 1661) who attempted to overthrow Cromwell in 1657 and then led a failed coup by the Fifth Monarchists, known as Venner's Rising, against Charles II in 1661 which led to his execution. The lines below mention Jan van Lieden, an Anabaptist who led the Münster Rebellion in 1534 before being executed a year later. An illustration from Ephraim Pagit's 'Heresiography' 6th edition 1664.
BM Satire 997
[Ref: 42681] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View from the beach at Steep-Hill, Isle of Wight.
J. Fry del.t. 1793.
Ink and watercolour, 145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9") within mss. border, total 190 x 290mm (7½ x 11½"), laid on album paper.
The cliffs on the south coast of the Isle of Wight at Steephillm near Ventnor. Fry appears to have been a local artist.
[Ref: 12102] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Venus. Plate 1.
Designed by G.B. Cipriani & Engraved by Henry Richter.
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Hand coloured stipple with etching, sheet 355 x 235mm. 14 x 9¼".
Venus standing on one foot on a cloud, arm raised and holding a swirl of fabric which encircles her head, wearing a pearl necklace and her breasts bare. From a series, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
[Ref: 12615] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Venus. Plate 2.
Designed by G.B. Cipriani & Engraved by Henry Richter.
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Hand coloured stipple with etching, sheet 355 x 235mm. 14 x 9¼".
Venus standing on one foot on a cloud, her right arm raised and holding up a swag of fabric. From a series, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
[Ref: 12618] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Venus endormée.]
Albano p: Piloty del.
[Munich: J. Stuntz, c.1830.]
Tinted lithograph with heightening in white. Printed area 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15")
Venus asleep on a bed with two cupids under an awning, a stream behind. The picture is adapted from Francesco Albani's 'Venus and Adonis', removing Adonis. This print was published in 'Les Oeuvres Lithographiques', a huge series of reproductive plates of paintings, by Johann Nepomuk Strixner (1782 - 1855) and Ferdinand Piloty (1786-1844). Their work did much to popularise lithography, as they showed the technique could achieve all the same effects as other engraving techniques.
[Ref: 31797] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Birth of Venus. From the celebrated Picture by the late James Barry Esq. R.A.
Painted by James Barry. R.A. Engraved by Benjamin Smith.
Published Feby. 1827. (for the Proprietor) by B.Smith, 21, Judd Place, West, New Road.
Stipple engraving. 264 x 203mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at top.
A naked Venus rises from the sea, with seahorses, Doves and Cupid.
[Ref: 8458] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Venus Instructing Cupid and Psyche.
London: Pub.d Jan.y 1. 1814 by Jn.o Burgis, 32, Southampton Street, Strand.
Fine stipple, printed in colours and hand-finished. Plate 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Narrow margins.
A vignette scene of Venus with Cupid (with bird's wings) and Psyche (with butterfly wings). Two doves coo bottom right. The printed colour is particularly fine.
[Ref: 60207] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Venus. Planeta est soli proximus...
Ra. Urbinas inu. N. Dorigny del et Sculp.
[Rome, 1696.]
Engraving with very large margins. 290 x 215mm (11½ x 8½").
A depiction of the planet Venus as a goddess, an angel overhead, with the zodiac symbols for Libra and Taurus, from a mosaic designed by Raphael in the Chigi Chapel, in La Madonna del Popolo, Rome. The plate was engraved by Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746) for his 'The Seven Planets, and the Creation of the Sun and Moon'.
[Ref: 35442] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Venus rebuking Cupid.]
J.M. Nattier Pinx. J. Johnson Fecit 1751.
Scarce mezzotint. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere, crease.
An oval scene of Venus using a bunch of roses to beat Cupid, holding him with the other hand as he tries to run away. Two doves and Cupid's bow and quiver are on the ground. Alexander suggests Johnson is a pseudonym used by John Faber jnr.
Alexander: Biographical Dictionary of British & Irish Engravers, p. 506.
[Ref: 67876] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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