Grosvenor Prints

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, 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)

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)

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.
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)

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)

[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)

Humours of Valentine's Day.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 90 x 110mm (3½" x 4¼). Trimmed.
A black pageboy gives a message to his mistress depicting a heart pierced by arrows and the word 'Snowball'.
[Ref: 57260] £65.00 (£78.00 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)

[The Valentine,]
Cecil Aldin [in image and signed in pencil by the artist].
Printed and Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 4 Middle New St. London EC. 4. [n.d., c.1925.]
Very rare chromolithograph, sheet 540 x 440mm (21¼ x 17¼"), large margins. Blindstamp for Fine Art Trade Guild.
A scene outside the George Inn, on Borough High Street in London, a woman reads a letter. Below, a coaching scene. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870 - 1935), artist and illustrator, was born in Slough, the son of a builder, and studied at the South Kensington school of Art. He worked as a comic illustrator in the 1890's before achieving great success as a sporting artist. He retired to Majorca in 1930.
[Ref: 65636] £350.00

The Valentine.
London, J. & F. Harwood, 26, Fenchurch Str.
Rare mezzotint on steel. 190 x 150mm (7½ x 6"), large margins
A young woman outside a cottage holds a valentine.
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67123] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.] Why did you court her suddenly?[/] And why so soon "propose" [/] Why lead her to the altar [/] To be led by the nose?
[n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
A Victorian valentine criticising a man's decision to get married.
[Ref: 43811] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine] Youthful in years and not deformed to view / With heart devoted constantly to you...
[n.d., c.1830.
Writing Sheet; lithograph with very fine hand colour. Sheet folded as issued, front 245 x 205mm (9¾ x 8").
A young woman in a flower garden overlooking a river is presented with a valentine by Cupid.
[Ref: 55723] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Although a Lion you appear, [/] You're more than half an Ass I hear.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet: 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼").
A cruel Victorian valentine, poking fun at a man shown with a cigar and a cane. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 43808] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[A young woman reading a valentine.]
London, Published August 22nd. 1866, by Moore, McQueen & Company Limited 25, Berners Street, Oxford Street; Pairs, chez François Delarue, Editeur, 18, Rue J.J. Rousseau.
Mixed method engraving, proof before title, 720 x 515mm. 28¼ x 20¼".
A young woman reading a love letter by a fire place, a rose having fallen to the ground, while her father works in a back room. A fine impression.
[Ref: 8489] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Ah! now I well know what it was that I smelt, [/] It was the bottle-nosed, rabbit mouthed dealer in felt...
[n.d., c. 1850.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 245 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Creasing.
An example of a cruel Victorian Valentine, whose intended recipient is a felt dealer who is depicted ironing.
[Ref: 43796] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Victorian valentine] My dear, I trust you will pardon me and not think me wanting in modesty when I declare to you my unalterable attachment to yourself an attachment that emboldens me to enquire anxiously after your health/ AND HOW'S YOUR POOR FEET?
[Anon., c.1850]
Wood-engraving wth hand-colouring, folded, sheet 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
Typically spiteful Victorian valentine card.
[Ref: 40383] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Vinegar Valentine] Without beauty of person or mind, / For such graces admirers find; / Such fantastic sport will not do, / Of Folly and ugliness too.
Published by G. Gilbert 2 Green Ardour Court of Bailey.
Rare woodcut with letterpress text. Sheet 180 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Small tear in edge, paper stuck down on unprinted area. Messy.
A woman with voluminous sleeves, carrying an umbrella.
[Ref: 54599] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] This creature is willing to marry, / Can you resist the temptation? / Why ladies to you so tarry? / His match is not in the nation. / Take him & mould him as you please. / What all refuse! ain't he the cheese?
[n.d., c.1860.]
Coloured woodcut. 205 x 120mm (8 x 4¼").
A writing sheet shows a satire of a man wearing a monocle and checked trousers. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 63286] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.]
[American?, n.d., c.1840.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9").
A woman looks out of her window to see three winged hearts with men's heads bearing down on her.
[Ref: 53232] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] A Beauty in the Green & Yellow Leaf.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, image 210 x 125mm, on folded sheet.
A dog lover. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7059] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Your Portrait: Conceited Pup with Ugly Face / Ti's Plain You'r One of the Bull Dog Race.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 440 x 185mm (17¼ x 7¼") . Folded.
With a dog's face, with monocle & pipe.
[Ref: 7027] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Deceit.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 445 x 145mm. Folded, 3 small worm holes.
A woman with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7030] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] An Engraver, you may be by trade, / But withal you're a curious blade, / Whose rule every night, is to go to bed tight, / That the bloom on your nose my ne'er fade. / Chop away, cut and butcher your block, / Never listen again for a knock, / For you in my eyes, I loath and despise / As the ugliest sheep in the flock.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet.
A wood-engraver, smoking a pipe. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine] You cry your Fish so loud and shrill / Turbot, Mackarel, Plaice and Brill, / And on the women passing by, / Your leer and cast a fishy eye; / Now who on earth would ever wish / To Have a man who smells of fish.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7066] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

You will be likely getting married, If your intentions out are carried, This little picture do not scorn, It shows a likeness of your first-born.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress. 254 x 190mm. 10 x 7½".
A white hand holding a black baby.
[Ref: 27167] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

With a most pious look and canting croak, / You make Good Templarism nothing but a cloak; / But, pray take care how you carry on your game, / Or, sure as fate, 'twill bring disgrace and shame.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress, sheet 250 x 185.
In front of an advert for 'Good Tipplers Gin'.
[Ref: 7071] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hearken Not to the Voice of the Siren.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 630 x 255mm. Folded.
A woman with a fish's tail.
[Ref: 7035] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

'Me Thinks 'tis my Glass, not my Brother.' Shakespeare.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 635 x 250mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7055] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Mongrel.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 565 x 220mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7056] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Will music win your heart to love?
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Printed area 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4") on front of paper folded once. Some creasing.
A valentine. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 44361] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] No use on me to spend your smiles, / I really must resist your wiles; / It may be rude but I decline / A Girl of such a public line, / Barmaids who'll flirt with any spoon / Will bring a man to sorrow soon.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
A bottle-nosed drinker rejecting the advances of a barmaid with a body of a bottle & cask. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7065] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A Valentine.]
[n.d., c. 1880.]
Manuscript poem with print overlaid, glued to scrap album page, 180 x 260mm.
A love poem for St. Valentine's Day, with two stanzas either side of an excised coloured lithograph showing an officer and his beloved. Christmas/ New Year cards glued to verso of album page.
[Ref: 7423] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] Haste thee with this Valentine, thou silly man of letters, / And try to do the best you can to serve and please your betters. / For I'd sooner live an old maid or else give up the ghost, / Than wed a grinning postman, as stupid as a post.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress, image 210 x 165mm, on folded sheet.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7070] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Postman, ha, what a guy! [/] Who prigs the Letters on the Sly; [/] Do not think I shall e'er incline [/] To have a chap like you for a Valentine.
W.S. Fortey, Steam Printers, Monmouth Ct. [n.d., c.1830.]
4 pp. with coloured wood engraving on the front. Front 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Holes in top edge, some creasing and spotting.
A letterhead vinegar valentine featuring a postman with a roseate nose.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64194] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Which is the Puppy?
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 220 x 175mm.
[Ref: 7057] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Your principles in vain you boast / You look just like Salvation's Ghost.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 560 x 220mm. Folded, some wear.
A Salvation Army trumpeter.
[Ref: 7029] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

One who can give a stab in the back.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, printed in green, sheet 380 x 85mm. Folded, three small worm holes.
A woman with serpentine tongue & tail.
[Ref: 7034] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] You'd like to be a Swell, I see, [/] But really it won't do; [/] The right is whay you wish to be, [/] The left, my love, is you! [/] No. 30.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 220 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼").
A vinegar valentine featuring a man with two faces, one good-looking, the other grotesque. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

As a Tailor's Goose, you're more known than admired...
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 370 x 250mm. Folded.
A dandy goose.
[Ref: 7037] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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