Grosvenor Prints

[Vinegar Valentine] The Sunflower. You are, indeed most brazen-faced And Fiery red's your hair, The Sunflower, can alone with thee, In those respects, compare...
[n.d. c.1840]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 250 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Creasing. Laid on album sheet.
An insulting valentine comparing a man to a sunflower, how his face turns to every woman like the flower to the sun. Large building in background "Nurseryman & Florist". 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: 68148] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Elsworth Vines by Helen Wills.
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c. 1930s}.
Etching signed by the artist. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"), with very large margins in original mount.
Portrait of Henry Ellsworth Vines (1911-1994) playing tennis. Vines was an American tennis player and was world number one between 1932-1935 and 1936-37. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who was a renowned tennis player herself, painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54843] £350.00

[Henry Ellsworth Vines.]
[Helen Wills]
[n.d. c. 1930s].
Etching, proof. 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with very large margins. Holes in margins where previously bound.
Portrait of Henry Ellsworth Vines (1911-1994) playing tennis. Vines was an American tennis player and was world number one between 1932-1935 and 1936-37. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who was a renowned tennis player herself, painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54842] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

The Vineyard Festival.
Burney del. Neagle sculp.
Published by Dr. Trusler, Feb.1.1792.
Engraving. 190 x 130mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to platemark
Male and female figures dance around a central ornament whilst musicians and men bringing wine look on.
[Ref: 32124] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

In Vino Veritas. Vot femme voyez-vous, j'l connais mieux que vous. Your wife, I know her better than ye do yourself.
F. Grenier del. [Also signed in plate.] Litho de Ch. Motte.
a Paris rue des Marais No 13 Faub: Saint Germain. Pub. in 1830 by C. Motte, London 29 Bedford Street Covent Garden.
Lithograph, scarce and fine, sheet 260 x 355mm. 10¼ x 14". Slight stain on left.
Social satire: two drunken men talking in a pub, a pitcher and two glasses of ale on the table on front of them, after François Grenier (1793 - 1867), painter, lithographer, pupil of David and Guérin. Blindstamp lower left, numbered '10' upper right.
[Ref: 17977] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A view of the latest improvements at the Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, [23, High Holborn.]
Design'd & Eng.d by W.J. White. H. Brownlow St.t Holborn.
[1840.]
Engraved advert. Sheet 115 x 145mm (4½ x 5¾"). Trimmed, losing part of title.
An advert for Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, illustrating the tunnels of their wine cellar.
[Ref: 48810] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

J.T. Smithson, (many Years Butler to the late Sir Edward Banks) Wine & Spirit Merchant, Banks Town, Sheerness. Delightful Gardens with Bowling Green, Billiard Tables, &c.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved trade card. Sheet 80 x 130mm (3¼ x 5¼").
With a view of the outside of the premises.
[Ref: 48819] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scrapsheet of Ephemera relating to the Worshipful Company of Vintners.]
Scrapsheet. Sheet: 560 x 380mm (22 x 15'').
A scrapsheet with items relating the Company of Vintners including a coat-of-arms, a plate describing the coat of arms, a steel engraving of the Vintners Hall and a plate showing Saint Vincent of Saragossa.
See Ref: 37624
[Ref: 49128] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Viola. [She never told her Love, / But let Concealment, like a Worm i'th'Bud / Feed on her Damask Cheek: / Shakespear's Twelfth Night.] From the Miniature in the Collection of Nathaniel Chauncy Esq.r.
Painted by S. Shelley & Engrav'd by Caroline Watson. Engraver to her Majesty.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Oct. 1 1788 by Caroline Watson Fitzroy Street.
Stipple, state before before quotation. 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"), with large margins.
Viola from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', engraved and published by Caroline Watson (c.1760-1814), one of the most significant and prolific female printmakers of her day.
[Ref: 53329] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Pickens Sketches of Napoleon No.1. Violets. Napoleon, Wife and Son.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 205 x 140mm (8 x 5½''). Trimmed.
A puzzle prints in which the profiles of Napoleon, his wife Josephine and son Napoleon II are forms in the stems and leaves of a bouquet of violets.
[Ref: 49934] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Boy with violin.]
[Engraved by James McArdell after Frans Hals.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Very fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 480 x 320mm, 19 x 12½".
A young boy with a violin.
Not mentioned in Whitman.
[Ref: 9290] £490.00

[Boy playing a violin.] [Boy turn thy Laughter into Floods of Tears, And tune thy Instrumentto Mournful Airs; Play to the Numbers of my broken Verse, Whilest I the Loss of Friend and Art rehearse! A Friend! whom None in Friendship could surpass' An Artist, worth all Monumnets of Brass!...]
Frans Hals pinx. G.White facit 1732.
E' Collectione Nath: Oldham Armig. Sold by Sam.l. Sympson at his Print Shop in y. Strand near Catherine Street.
Rare mezzotint. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼). Small margins. Tiny mark top right corner of image. Platemark along left and upper of image.
Portrait of a laughing boy playing the violin in a stone window, surrounded by ivy. Testimonial to George White the mezzotinter.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS 59.
[Ref: 64486] £480.00

[Violin Player.]
A. Brouwer pinx. N. Strixner del.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 349 x 310mm (13¾ x 12¼").
A rustic interior with a peasant seated on an upturned tub playing the violin; four others singing in front of a fire-place in right background. From "Königlich Baierischer Gemälde-Saal zu München und Schleissheim in Steindruck".
[Ref: 30424] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[The Musical Boy] [Done from the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Mountstuart.]
F. Halls Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit
Publish'd July 24th 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Good impression; very rare;
Boy playing the violin; fruit, knife and flask on table in front, two listeners behind with lute hanging on wall. From a picture attributed here to Frans Hals but probably since reattributed.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 182 i/ii; CS 159 i/ii.
[Ref: 34016] £360.00

Fiddle De Dee.
Drawn on Stone by W. Leonard. Printed by Engelmann & Co.
Published by H. Lamb, High St. Cheltenham [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 285 x 235mm. 11¼ x 9¼". Foxed.
A violinist/fiddler. The image seems to derive from an earlier print entitled 'The Wandering Musician', which in turn credits its source as a painting by 'Dietricy' (C.W.E. Dietrich).
[Ref: 10536] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Jeune Violiniste Americaine.]
[by Victor Prouvé.]
[Paris, 1918.]
Fine mezzotint. 195 x 300mm (7¾ x 11¾"), very large margins.
A young American woman playing the violin. Victor Prouvé (1858-1943), French painter, sculptor and engraver of the Art Nouveau École de Nancy.
[Ref: 59470] £480.00

[Silhouette of a violinist] Cap.t Newbery by one of his brother officers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ink and grey wash silhouette. Sheet 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Mounted on album paper.
A violinist playing from a Beethoven score.
[Ref: 62093] £320.00

[Violinist Asleep Below a Tree.]
Vien fecit. Franquinet del.t.
Lith. de Chabert; r. Cassette, N.20.
Lithograph with very large margins. Plate: 335 x 495mm (13¼ x 19½").
An old man, asleep holding a voilin in one hand and the bow in another. A skull,
[Ref: 36596] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Il Violinista. (The Violinist.)]
Raffaelle Sanzio dip. Pietro Salvatori dis e. inc.
[Italian, c.1820s.]
Engraving, proof before title, 340 x 245mm. 13½ x 9¾". A fine impression. Uncut sheet.
Portrait of the 'Violin Player' turning to look back at the viewer, wearing a fur collar, robes and a hat; in his left hand he holds a violin bow. This print reproduces a painting here attributed to Raphael (1483 - 1520), but now attributed to his contemporary Sebastiano del Piombo.
[Ref: 14049] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

J. B. Viotti.
Gravé par Lambert d'après le Dessin original de P. Guérin appartenant à Mr. Cartier.
[n.d., c. 1860's.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755 - 1824), Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italian opera companies in Paris and London. He personally knew Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.
[Ref: 63245] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Virgil writing his Epitaph. From an Original Picture in the Collection of George Bowls Esq.r to whom This Plate is Inscribed by his most obliged Humble Serv.t Tho.s Macklin.
Angelica Kauffman pinxt. Burke sculp.t
London, Published Jan.y 20.th 1794 by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple, 430 x 510mm (17 x 20") with large margins. Laid on archival paper. Repaired tears, nicks and creases.
Virgil writing his own epitaph, after becoming ill on a trip to Greece. He died in Brindisi before he could return home.
[Ref: 60399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Virgil. Apud Fulvium Ursinum in gemma.
[Antwerp, Plantin, c.1606.]
Copper engraving. 140 x 100mm, 5½ x 4". Trimmed close to plate.
A gemstone portrait of the Roman poet Virgil (70 -19BC), from the collection of antiquities of Fulvius Ursinus (1529–1600), published in his 'Illustrium imagines. Ex antiquis marmoribus, nomismatibus, et gemmis expressae.'
[Ref: 19973] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Illustration to Paris Galle, 'Novum Tres Inter Deas Junonem Venerem Palladem Paridis Judicium [...]'] 1. Omnia vincit Amor. Virgil. Ecloga 10 [...]
Nypoort fecit [1684]
Engraving with letterpress, printed area 255 x 160mm (10 x 6¼"). Stamp verso 'K K Studien Bibliothek Salzburg'.
Putto on a cloud, holding bow and quill, and accompanied by a lion. "Love is the greatest cause; she conquers all, she wants to. Then again it is necessary that Love conquers herself as well".
[Ref: 43682] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Women at work.] To Joseph Jekyll of the Middle Temple Esq. Geo: 1. L. 390.
[Etched by Wenceslaus Hollar and others after Francis Cleyn.]
[n.d., c.1698.]
Etching. 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Trimmed.
A scene of women at work in the evening, a scene from John Ogilby's translation of Virgil's Georgics. ''The Wife and Husband equally conspire, / To work by Night, and rake the Winter Fire: / He sharpens Torches in the glim'ring Room, / She shoots the flying Shuttle through the Loom: / Or boils in Kettles Must of Wine, and Skins / With Leaves, the Dregs that overflow the Brims.'' This example, from the iv state of iv, has a new dedication, not engraved by Hollar and the artist and etcher's names indistinct.
Pennington 295, iv of iv.
[Ref: 56606] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

La Présentation de la S.te Vierge au Temple. Tableau de la Galerie impériale de St. Pétersbourg. Dédié à sa Majestié Catherine II. Impératrice de toutes les Russies, Par son très .humble très obeissant et très Soumis J. Trible.
Peint par Pietro Testa. et Dessiné par B.N. Le Sieur. Gravé par G.F. Schmidt, Graveur du Roy à Berlin 1771.
Engraving. 600 x 404mm (23½ x 16"). Creasing in title area, small tears in small margins.
40 days after giving birth to Jesus, the Virgin Mary, presented herself in the Temple in Jerusalem to be ritually cleansed after childbirth.
[Ref: 54677] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Madona and Child. From an Original Picture painted by M.rs Angelica Kauffman.]
Angelica Kauffman pinxit. V. Green Engraver in Metzotinto to his Majesty fecit.
London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, N.º 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 3 December 1774.
Mezzotint, scratched-letter proof before title. 520 x 360mm (20½ x 14¼"), with large margins. Unidentified collector's blind stamp on left bottom plate mark. Crease top right, two tears in margins repaired.
The infant Jesus reaches up to his mother, who sits on a stone bench.
Whitman 184. See Metropolitan Museum 42.119.94 for published state. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67509] £480.00

The Harbour of St. Thomas after the Earthquake, - See Page 711.
[Illustrated London News, 1868.]
Wood engraving. Sheet 215 x 300mm (8½ x 12½"), watermarked 1867. Trimmed from larger sheet, lacking text.
A view showing the shipping destroyed by the tsunami that hit Charlotte Amalie harbour after the earthquake of November 18, 1867.
[Ref: 63757] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Views of the Isle of St. Thomas. Voy.s No.XXX.
Neele & Son 352 Strand.
Published by Sir R. Phillips & Co. Bridge Court, Bridge Street. [1821.]
Engraving. Plate 133 x 215mm. 5¼ x 8½".
View of Saint Thomas, in the Caribbean Sea, with a castle to the right and a fortified entrance to the port; a windmill to the left in the hills. From "A Voyage to North America, and The West Indies, in 1817. By E. Montule. Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour. Author of Travels in Egypt, &c." 1821. Saint Thomas, one of the islands that makes up the United States Virgin Islands. In 1657 the Dutch West India Company established a post there with a view to profit from the plantations and sugar cane, from which the country thrived for many years. However, by the early 19th century, Saint Thomas was in decline. The United States attempted to purchase the Island in the 1860s, but failed to find domestic legislative support for the bid; they did however succeed in 1917.
[Ref: 23846] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Vue De St. Thomas prise de l'Entrée de la Rade.
Peint par Brard. Grave par Hegy.
a Paris, chez l'Editeur, Quai des Augustins, No. 25 [n.d. c.1820].
Etching with coloured aquatint. Image 290 x 420mm (11½ x 16½"). Faint staining to paper, largely outside image. 2 small pieces missing from right edge of paper.
A fine copy of this rare aquatint of one of the former Danish Virgin Islands, with good hand colour. The islands were purchased by the United States in 1917.
[Ref: 906] £2,200.00

Carte de la Baye de Chesapeack et Pays Voisins. Pour servir à l'Histoire Generale des Voyages. Tirée des meilleures Cartes Angloises.
[Nicolas Bellin.]
[Paris: Didot Libraire, c.1757.]
Engraved map. 210 x 305mm (8¼ x 12"). Trimmed to plate lower right by binder, folds, two worm holes in image.
A map of the environs of Chesapeake Bay, with Virginia, Maryland and part of New Jersey. Published in Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
[Ref: 59457] £260.00

Branches de porcelaines. Coliers de porcelaines. Cage por Huscanawer les Novices. Tomahawk. Casse tête. Calumet de pax. Autre, ou pipe de paix des Virginiens.
Tom VII No.1.
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate: 341 x 220mm. Sheet: 390 x 244mm.
A collection of instruments and tools. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12490] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Kiwasa Idole des Virginiens. Le Dieu des Vents, autre Idole des Virginiens.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII No.7.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 345 x 222mm. Sheet 390 x 247mm.
Kiwasa: This Idol is placed in the temple of the town of Secotam, as the keeper of the king’s dead corpses. The God of Wind. Both idols are key to Virginian culture. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12492] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Prêtre de la Virginie vû de la côté droit. Prêtre de la Virginie vû de la côté gauche. Magicien de la Virginie.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII No. 8
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Egraving. 342 x 220mm. A small stain in the margin area at the bottom right-hand corner.
Two perspective views of a Virginian Priest, and a Virginian Magician. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12493] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Les Virginiens, adorent le Feu, et se rejouisent, apres avoir été delivrez de quelque danger considerable.
B. Picart, del. Tom VII No. 9.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 390 x 217mm. Sheet 391 x 247mm.
The Virginians are happily sitting around a fire rejoicing having undergone a dangerous ordeal. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12494] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Tombeaux des Rois de la Virginie.
B. Picart, del. Tom. VII No. 10.
[Paris: Antoine Laporte, c.1789.]
Copper engraving. Bookplate. Plate 344 x 218mm. Sheet 390 x 250mm.
The cremation of the Kings of Virginia. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde" (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World). 'The world's first encyclopedia of religions, the heavily illustrated, detailed general survey treating all religions dispassionately and as notionally equal, was composed and published in Amsterdam under the title 'Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' in seven large volumes between 1723 and 1737 by a group of radical, intellectually subversive Huguenot refugees' (Jonathan Israel, 'How the light came in', TLS June 21 2013).
[Ref: 12495] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Lady of Virginia. Dame de Virginie. 206.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Sheet 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9½"). Large margins. Small stain in margin on right. Small tear on left margin.
A full-length portrait of a woman, whole-length standing to front, looking to the right. Her left arm using her multiple necklaces as an arm sling, she holds a large pot behind her. Plate 206 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62829] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of Virginia and Maryland. A View of the Centurion, taking the Acapulco Ship, off Cape Espiritu Santo, on Samal one of the Philipine Islands. A Plan of the Harbour of Acapulco on the Coast of Mexico.
[London: William Strahan et al, c.1766.]
Engraving. UNCUT SHEET, 340 x 220mm (13½ x 8¾"). Mounted on album paper.
A probably unique sheet, engraved by Thomas Jefferys for Smollett's 'Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages', but uncut and therefore unissued. It contains two maps, Virginia & Maryland and Acapulco, and a view of Geoge Anson's ship attacking the Spanish treasure ship in 1743.
[Ref: 52513] £480.00

H94 Washington's House at Mount Vernon. [ms]
E Morin Del H Linton [c.1850]
Wood engraving, printed area 120 x 160mm (4¾ x 6¼"), with large margins. Left corner creased. Nicks to edges.
Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, Virginia, the plantation house of George Washington (1732-99), first President of the United States. After Washington's death, the mansion and its grounds passed through Washington's descendants, falling into disrepair due to the dwindling funds of the family. After the federal government declined to purchase it, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchased the mansion and a portion of its land in 1858-9. It is now open to the public as a museum. wood engraving after Edmond Morin (1824-82), French artist. The print was made by Henry Duff Linton, with whom Morin established a journal, 'Pen and Pencil', in London.
[Ref: 43677] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Virginia Pilot Boat Getting Underway. No.13.
Drawn on stone by J. Rogers.
Printed by Rowney & Forster. Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket [n.d., c.1824].
Rare lithograph. Sheet 305 x 435mm (12 x 17") large margins.
A two-masted schooner, 'Anne of Norfolk' on its foresail, compling with a Virginia law of 1791 which required boats to have their names and home port painted on the foresail in letters at least nine inches high.
[Ref: 55043] £450.00 (£540.00 incl.VAT)

White Sulphur Springs. Album of Virginia.
Taken from Nature by Ed. Beyer. Rau & Son, Lith. Dresden.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857 by Ed. Beyer in the Clerks Office of the District of Virginia.
Tinted lithograph, rare. 355 x 510mm (14 x 20"). Small tear in right edge, small stain in sky.
White Sulphur Springs, a city in Greenbrier County, now West Virginia, which became popular as a summer retreat because of its elevation of 1,800 feet. As early as 1778 people came to 'take the waters' of the sulphur spring and the resort of 'Greenbriar' evolved from the 1850s. The oldest organized golf club in the country is the nearby Oakhurst Links, founded in 1884. The German artist Edward Beyer traveled through the US between l848 and l857. His 'Album of Virginia' recorded Virginia's landscape, especially spa towns, in the decade before the Civil War.
[Ref: 35462] £650.00

The Virginians rejoicing round a Fire.
to face Page 122. of the Universe display'd. [After Bernard Picart?]
[Printed by R. Goadby. 1777.]
Engraving. 152 x 96mm. 6 x 3¾".
The Virginians are happily sitting around a fire rejoicing having undergone a dangerous ordeal.
[Ref: 24231] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

August [ms]
[Burney delt. J. Agar sculpt.]
[Pub. Novr 20th 1807 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of Arts 101 Strand London]
Stipple printed in brown, sheet 145 x 250mm (5¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed, losing text.
Augustus in carriage pulled by Virgo, represented by winged nymph and a cherub holding sickle and grain. After Edward Francis Burney, from a series of months of the year.
[Ref: 34854] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Premio della virtu.
G. Zocchi inv. F. Bartollozi Scul.
Wagner Ven.a C.P.E.S. [n.d., c.1761.]
Very fine engraving, 18th century watermark. 515 x 335mm (20¼ x 13¼"), with large margins.
'The First of Virtue'. A female angel kneels on a monument, blowing a trumpet as three figures festoon the monument with garlands. A half-naked woman with sagging breasts (a Sin?) covers her ears.
De Vesme 740.
[Ref: 55692] £320.00

Virtue directed by Prudence to Honor.
I.B. Cipriani Delt. F. Bartolozzi Sculpt.
Re-Published, Jany. 1st 1820, by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place, London.
Stipple printed in colours, oval, 160 x 180mm. 6¼ x 7".
Prudence, helmeted and holding a mirror, introduces Virtue, a winged child with a staff, to Honour, who sits, crowned with laurel and holding a cornucopia. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785).
See BM: 1856,0712.361 for the drawing.
[Ref: 13630] £320.00

Virtue directed by Prudence to Honour. To Lady Gideon. This Print from ye Original Drawing by C.B. Cipriani is with ye greatest respect Dedicated by her Ladyships most humble Serv.t W. Palmer.
I.B.Cipriani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Re-Published Jan.y 1st. 1820 by S.&J. Fuller, 34. Rathbone Place. London.
Stipple printed in colour, framed. Plate 160 x 179mm. 6¼ x 7". Very fine.
Virtue directed by Prudence to Honour. Prudence, wearing a helmet and holding a mirror, introduces Virtue, a winged child holding a staff, to Honour, who sits, crowned with a laurel and holding a cornucopia.
See Binyon: 14(a).
[Ref: 17752] £450.00

Virtue directed by Prudence to Honor.
I.B. Cipritani Del.t F. Bartolozzi Sculp.t
Pub.d Jan.y 1.st 1784 by W. Palmer No.159 Strand.
Stipple and etching. Plate 164 x 183mm. 6½ x 7¼". Large margins.
A young boy, Honour, seated on a throne holding a cornucopia; two girls to the right: Prudence, with a feathered helmet and holding a mirror introducing Virtue, who has wings and holding a lance.
De Vesme: 741; iii/iv. See 13630.
[Ref: 20576] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Three plates representing the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity] Dessiné par Aug.te Boucher Desnoyers d'après le Tableau de Raphael Peint en Grisaille, qui est exposé dans la Galerie du Musée Napoleon.
Se trouve à Paris chez l'Auteur, rue de Touraine No 9, près l'Odéon [1815]
Three engravings, each platemark 310 x 465mm (12¼ x 18¼"), very large margins. Rare as a set.
Set of three engravings from small grisaille paintings by Raphael. These paintings were made in 1507 and formed the predella (lower section) of an altarpiece by Raphael for the Baglione family in Perugia, the central panel of which showed the Deposition of Christ (Rome, Galleria Borghese). The three predella sections are now in the Vatican Gallery.
Provenance: Torridon Lovelace/King Family.
[Ref: 39686] £580.00 view all images for this item

[Matsya, the fish avatar of the god Vishnu] The Idol of Vistnum.
[London: Awnsham & John Churchill, 1732.]
Engraving. 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"), set in text, very large margins.
An illustration of the upper body of Vishnu protruding from a fish's mouth., with a letterpress description. An illustration from the account of Philips Baelde (or Father Philippus Baldaeus) of India and Sri Lanka, as published in 'Churchill's Collection of Voyages'.
[Ref: 58626] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Vishnu] The Idol Bodhe. [&] The Idol of the Winged Horse.
[London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704.]
Two engravings. Each 210 x 165mm (8¼ x 6½"), set in letterpress, printed back to back. Printer's crease.
Two plates from 'The Idolatry of the East-India Pagans', a chapter of 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels'. The first shows Vishnu incarnated as the Gautama Buddha; the second shows Vishnu as Kalki, leading a winged horse.
[Ref: 59920] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Vision of the White Horse. Specimens of Art, Plate 1.
P.J. de Loutherbourg, Esq. R.A. Pinx.t R. Page Sc.
[London: J. McCormick, 1834.]
Mezzotint with etching, sheet 185 x 145mm. 7¼ x 5¾". Trimmed within plate.
Illustration of the Book of Revelations (19:11-12): a king riding a white horse through the sky, firing an arrow, followed by another man on horseback who wields a sword. Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812).
[Ref: 27543] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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