Grosvenor Prints

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)

[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

[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

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)

[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)

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)

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 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)

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)

Venus. [From a Statue by Mr Bacon.]
Palmer delin. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1787.]
Engraving and etching. 204 x 127mm. 8 x 5". Trimmed all round.
A sculpture of Venus twirling her long hair around her raised left hand and holding a conch shell. Illustration to "Philosphical Transaction" by the Royal Society of Arts (1787).
De Vesme: 488; ii/ii.
[Ref: 20446] £95.00 (£114.00 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 sitting in a shell.]
[engraved by John Clarke after Francesco Bartolozzi.]
Circular stipple, with etched frame-like border. 380 x 330mm (15 x 13") very large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed within plate at bottom. Slight creasing.
Venus sitting in a shell, pushed by nymphs and a sea monster. The image was originally published by John Clarke in 1790; the border is a later addition.
[Ref: 58072] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Venere Vincitrice. All' Illustre, Mylord Cawdor, che ad esempio della presenta Statua incoraggi l'Autore alla Scultura di una Ninfa giacente in diversa attidudine. - Antonio Canova.
Ant. Canova inv. e scolpi in marme. Luigi Durantini dis. Ang. Bertini incise. Statua di grandezza naturale nel Palazzo Borghese in Roma.
Rome, [n.d. c. 1815]
Engraving and etching. 390 x 540mm (15½ x 21¼"), with large margins. Creasing top right corner.
A sculpture of Pauline Bonaparte, portrayed as Venus, reclining in a triclinium, seen from the front. Pauline Bonaparte (1780-1825) was the second sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. After her first marriage ended with the death of her husband, she married Camillo Borghese. Anotnio Canova's sculpture was commissioned by Camillo in 1805 for his wife, who was originally to be portrayed as the chaste goddess Diana. Aware of her promiscuous reputation, but also tastefully drawing on the mythic ancestry of the Borghese family, Pauline had the subject changed to 'Venus'. Her sculpted figure also holds an apple, invoking Venus' victory in the Judgement of Paris. The original sculpture is in the Galleria Borghese, Italy. See also Ref 55012.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 55027] £350.00

[Venus.] Iam Cytherea Choros ducit Venus, imminente Luna: Junctaeque Nymphis Gratiae decentes, Alterno Terram quatiunt Pede. Hor.
N.Blackey inven.t.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 210 x 155mm (8¼ x 6"), with large margins.
A mythological scene depicting Venus leading her chorus line, a low moon above them.
[Ref: 65309] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Venus sur les ondea.
[after Bernard Picart.]
Chez les freres de Poilly rue s.t Jacques à la belle Image [n.d., c.1720].
Engraving. 105 x 125mm (4 x 5"). Narrow margins.
A design for a snuff box, depicting the birth of Venus.
[Ref: 66184] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of three prints in various states.] Venus shewing Aeneas the Road to Carthage. From the original Picture in the Collection of Lord Boringdon.
A. Kauffman R.A. pin.t. T. Ryder Sculp.t.
Publish'd July 1.st 1791, by B. B. Evans, Poultry London.
Set of three stipple engravings. Platemark: 390 x 290mm (15¼ x 11¼") each. Two proof impressions are trimmed close to platemarks; Impression printed in brown ink has light spotting, impression printed in black has a few light surface marks with the top left corner missing. Lettered impression has full margins. Foxing.
A set of three prints in various states; two proof before letter impressions, one of which is printed in brown ink. Lettered impression with full titles and publication line. A scene depicting Venus, disguised as a Carthaginian huntress, standing in the centre with a bow on her back, showing two soldiers at left (Aeneas and Achatës) in the direction of a fortress in the city of Carthage, to the right. In the middle ground is da river with swans and a woodland to the left. Published as a pair to item ref: 36450, by Benjamin Beale Evans, 1791. After Angelica Kauffman, RA (1741 - 1807), a Swiss-born Austrian Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
States; IV, V and VI.
[Ref: 36444] £590.00 view all images for this item

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

[Head of a young woman]
J.B.M. Pierre del Lucien sculp
A Paris chés J. Fr. Chereau rue St Jacques [c.1770]
Crayon-manner printed in red, platemark 480 x 370mm (19 x 14½"). Crease upper right. Slight foxing, small margins.
Crayon-manner print after a study by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre (1713-89), French painter who replaced Boucher as painter to the king and also enjoyed the patronage of the king's mistress Madame de Pompadour. While Pierre's drawing no longer survives, it is believed to have been a study for the head of Venus in his painting 'The Judgement of Paris', painted for Frederick the Great (c.1759) and now in the Royal Palace, Potsdam.
[Ref: 44065] £260.00 (£312.00 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. 10" 3/8 x 8", large margins.
A romantic image showing a mythological scene portraying the birth of Venus, the goddess holds her long hair aloft. Beside her are a pair of doves and Cupid.
[Ref: 40109] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Bower of Venus. Hither the laughing loves resort / Hence wing their mystic darts.
R. Westall Esq RA Pinx.t. G. Kellaway Sculp.
London. Published Sept 1 1825 by W.J.White, Brownlow Street, Holborn. Déposé à la Direction. à Paris chez Giraldon, Bovinet & C.ie, Rue Pavée St André.
Fine colour-printed stipple. 180 x 185mm (7 x 7¼"), very large margins. Two repaired tears in top, one just entering image, laid on paper, wear to inscriptions. Repaired tear centre top.
A naked Venus reclining on a bed in a bower in a wood with three putti, one drawing a bow.
[Ref: 44149] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Venus d'Arles. Antique.
[Engraved by B. Audran?]
[n.d., c.1719.]
Stipple & etching with small margins. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾").
A statue of Venus, apple in one hand, mirror in the other. Discovered in several pieces at the Roman theatre at Arles in 1651, the statue given to Louis XIV for Versailles in 1681, seized in the Revolution and housed in the Louvre since its inception.
[Ref: 34607] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Venus.
Elias Martin pinx.t J. Fried.k Martin Aculp.t
Publish'd as the Act directs 1778. N.o 8 Leicester Street Leicester Square.
Very fine stipple printed in colours, Collector's mark verso; plate 180 x 215mm (7 x 8½"), with large margins. Mint.
Very decorative image showing Venus seated in her chariot on clouds, surrounded by cupids and with two doves at her feet. By Elias Martin, A.R.A. Swedish, born Stockholm in 1739, died Stockholm 1818. He came to London in 1768, becoming a Royal Academy student the next year and was elected A.R.A in 1770.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60282] £680.00

Venus. Engraved from the Original Picture painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds [...] Peintre de sa Majesté Britannique.
Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx.t. Joseph Collyer sculp.t.
London: Published 9 Oct.r 1786, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street, W. Darling, Newport Street, J.Cary Strand, & J. Collyer No. 7 White Lion Row Islington. "Price 7s.6d."
Stipple with etching, 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"), very large margins. Mint.
Venus reclines naked beneath a canopy, looking at Cupid who peers through the bushes at the right.
Hamilton: pg.159, II. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60315] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

Venere Vincitrice. All' Illustre, Mylord Cawdor, che ad esempio della presenta Statua incoraggi l'Autore alla Scultura di una Ninfa giacente in diversa attidudine. - Antonio Canova.
Ant. Canova inv. e scolpi in marme. Luigi Durantini dis. Ang. Bertini incise. Statua di grandezza naturale nel Palazzo Borghese in Roma.
Rome, [n.d. c. 1815]
Engraving and etching. 390 x 540mm (15½ x 21¼"), with large margins. Mint.
A sculpture of Pauline Bonaparte, portrayed as Venus, reclining in a triclinium, seen from the back. Pauline Bonaparte (1780-1825) was the second sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. After her first marriage ended with the death of her husband, she married Camillo Borghese. Anotnio Canova's sculpture was commissioned by Camillo in 1805 for his wife, who was originally to be portrayed as the chaste goddess Diana. Aware of her promiscuous reputation, but also tastefully drawing on the mythic ancestry of the Borghese family, Pauline had the subject changed to 'Venus'. The original sculpture is in the Galleria Borghese, Italy. See also Ref 55027.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 55012] £360.00

Venus & Adonis.
R.Cosway pinx.t. F.Bartolozzi Sculp.t.
Published June 1 1791 by I. Read, Coventry Court, Coventry Street.
Stipple. Sheet 250 x 190mm. Trimmed into plate.
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication.
[Ref: 7611] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Venus and Cupid.]
[after Titian.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple engraving, proof before title? 370 x 440mm (14½ x 17¼").
Venus lying naked on a couch with Cupid to left, under drapery. In this version an Italianate rustic view fills the background.
[Ref: 45346] £360.00

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