Grosvenor Prints

The Visionist. She has been dreaming!-and her thoughts are still, On their far journey, in the land of dreams! The forms we call-but may not chase at will, And soft, low voices,-sweet as distant streams, Heard in the night-hush,-linger round her heart! T.K. Hervey.
M. Gauci lithog.
London: Printed & Published for the Proprietor by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. 92, Dean St. Soho 1828.
Lithograph. India 267 x 204mm. 10½ x 8". Some scuffing.
Thomas Kibble Hervey was a British poet and critic, this being an illustration to one of his verses. Maxim Gauci a Lithographer born in Malta, father of Paul Gauci and William Gauci who settled in London in 1809 building up a very fine business and reputation which the sons then continued.
[Ref: 17103] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Visit to a Sister. 249.
Published 1st. June, 1789, by R. Sayer, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare mezzotint with original hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, margins rebuilt.
An interior scene with two sisters sitting close together on a sofa, one wearing a hat with 'King' inscribed on the hat-band. The other holds a tea cup and points at a letter.
[Ref: 55307] £420.00

A Visit to the Fives Court. Engraved for the Annals of Sporting & Fancy Gazette
Designed & Etched by J. R. Cruikshank.
Pub.d by Sherwood. Neely & Jones Aug.t 1.st 1822.
Coloured etching. 205 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Two vertical creases as normal, time staining and some foxing in the top margin.
Two professional boxers fight in a ring for a large crowd.
[Ref: 56587] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Visit to the Camp.
W. H. Bunbury delin. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London.
Stipple. Sheet 295 x 355mm (11½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, losing most of publication line, slight surface scuff in sky.
Two soldiers showing a party of civilians around their encampment.
BM Satires 4765.
[Ref: 36055] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Visit to the Grandfather.
Painted by J.R. Smith. Engraved by W: Ward.
London publish'd January, 12th 1788 = by J.R. Smith, No. 31- King Stt. Covent Garden.
Mezzotint printed in colours. 704 x 500mm. 27¾ x 19½". Some creasing.
A family scene of mother and children visiting grandfather.
CS: 101. W: 310 III of III. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14756] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Visitation.] When Elizabeth Heard the Salutation of Mary, the Babe leaped in her Womb; S.t Like Chap. 1.st v.41.
I. Andrews Pinx. I. Iohnson fecit.
London Printed for R. Wilkinson No. 58 Cornhill [n.d., c.1800].
Mezzotint, plate 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), on wove paper. Small margins.
The Virgin Mary visits Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist. They are attended by St Joachim and St Joseph. Although this is a reissue of a plate from c.1750, the BM has not beeen able to trace the original publisher.
BM: 2010,7081.649.
[Ref: 60142] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Visitation. From the Altar Piece in the Cathedral Church at Antwerp
Painted by P.P. Rubens. Engraved by Jon. Young Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Pub. Jan. 1 1800 by John & Josiah Boydell, No 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London.
Mezzotint, platemark 920 x 305mm (36¼ x 12"). Damage to margins but platemark visible throughout; tear upper right; central fold as issued.
Extraordinary large mezzotint, in a highly unusual format, of the left panel of Rubens' Antwerp altarpiece (of which the central panel is the famous 'Descent from the Cross'). The pregnant Mary is in the centre, greeted by St Elizabeth. Joseph and St Zachariah are behind, with a servant-girl on the left. The British Museum have a mezzotint of the same size published by Boydell in 1799, but with Valentine Green named as engraver.
[Ref: 31873] £320.00 view all images for this item

[The Visitation.]
B.T.A.
[n.d., c.1630.]
Woodcut. Sheet: 180 x 120mm (7¼ x 5''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A biblical scene showing the Visitation when Mary travelled to visit her cousin Elizabeth to inform her of her pregnancy, on arriving she discovers her cousin is miraculously pregnant also. A woodcut cut by the monogrammist BTA, probably cut for a Carmelite order in Venice in the first half of the 16th century.
[Ref: 49648] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Visite au Physicien.
Madou del. lith de Ch: Motte [artist's blindstamp: C. Motte. Lithographie a Paris.]
Mr le Conseiller presente sa jeune epouse pour qu'on la soumette aux commotions electriques, &ca: &ca [n.d. c.1860.]
Lithograph. 235 x 310mm. 9¼ x 12¼". Repairs and crease to top right.
A gentleman escorting a young lady, probably his daughter, to the physician, where a further gentleman approaches them holding a stethoscope. The room is full of medical materials and paraphernalia.
[Ref: 14965] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Daniel.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraving, trimmed to oval. 45 x 60mm (1½ x 2¼"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A visiting card with the name within a swag of flowers and cloth.
[Ref: 63520] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Visiting-Card.]
F. Vieira Portoensis invt. F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to his Majesty Etatis 71 an 1798.
Engraving and etching. Plate 70 x 102mm. 2¾ x 4". Margins.
A visiting-card of Isabelle Menezes, wife of Portuguese ambassador to London; smoke coming from a plate on a monument, a winged figure kneeling on the ground with a putto standing to the side.
De Vesme: 1898; i/ii.
[Ref: 20465] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Parker Sackville Street.
G.B. Cipriani invent. F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
[n.d. c.1785.]
Etching and engraving, fine and rare. Collector's stamp on verso. Plate 70 x 95mm. 2¾ x 3¾".
Visiting-card of Mrs Parker. A woman seated on clouds holding a festoon of leaves in her right hand and a medallion in her left. Two putti to the right holding torches.
De Vesme: 1899.
[Ref: 20526] £320.00

[Unused visiting card of putti.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple, rare. 85 x 130mm (3½ x 5¼").
A visiting card with blank central areas for the inscription, featuring a pair of putti, one wearing a winged helmet and tying a bale, the other writing in a notebook.
[Ref: 35853] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Visiting Card of General Bartholomeu Costa.]
[F. Bartolozzi R.A. Fecit. 1797.]
Etching and engraving, working proof, very scarce. Plate 70 x 102mm. 2¾ x 4". Trimmed close to the plate.
A carte-de-visite of Bartolomeu da Costa (1731 - 1801), general in the Portuguese army. A putto with butterfly wings carving inscriptions on a stone with another putto standing, wearing a helmet and holding a shield and a laurel crown.
De Vesme: 1897; i/iv. See 20589.
[Ref: 20548] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Visiting Card of General Bartholomeu Costa.]
[F. Bartolozzi R.A. Fecit. 1797.]
Etching and engraving, finished proof. Plate 70 x 102mm. 2¾ x 4". Trimmed close to the plate.
A carte-de-visite of Bartolomeu da Costa (1731 - 1801), general in the Portuguese army. A putto with butterfly wings carving inscriptions on a stone with another putto standing, wearing a helmet and holding a shield and a laurel crown.
De Vesme: 1897; ii/iv. See 20548.
[Ref: 20589] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Visiting card, annotated proof.] ''Mr Brook please to observe the Hair & make the Expression of the Features more expressive...''
[Engraved by James Brooke?]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving with pencil amendments. 65 x 95mm (2½ x 3¾"), with wide margins with extensive instructions in ink. Some creasing. Touched.
A visiting card with a design of a young woman and a floral border around a blank area for the name. James Brooke (fl. 1748-68) of Fleet Street engraved a number of trade cards.
[Ref: 51297] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Vispré?]
Vispré Pinxit et Fecit.
[Published in London, 1760-1765.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 222mm (13" x 8¾").
A woman, said to be the wife of the artist, François Xavier Vispré, three-quarter length seen in profile seated in a chair with folded arms reading a book.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Chaloner Smith 3. BM: 1902,1011.6082.
[Ref: 9200] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Six Visual Arts] F.1. L'Art [&] F.2. Le Dessein [&] F.3. La Peinture [&] F.4. La Sculpture [&] F.5. L'Architecture [&] F.6. La Gravure.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne C.P.R. [n.d., c.1760].
Set of six fine and rare etchings, all with pt 18th century watermark. 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"), with large margins. Slightly foxed.
Six rococo designs, each representing a visual art, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59313] £800.00 view all images for this item

[Italianate landscape.]
G. Vitalba inv. et incis.
Publish'd as the Act directs, March 17, 1792, by the Author, Mo 19 Weymouth Street.
Etching, printed in brown and hand finished with original coloured borders; Sheet 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on 18th century album paper in borders.
A landscape with a lake, with a man angling. Giovanni Vitalba (1738-c.1816, a pupil of Bartolozzi, is best known for his plate of Kenwood House in Robert and James Adam's 'The Works in Architecture', 1774.
[Ref: 55601] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vitellius Caesar.
Titian del.t J. Pass sc.
Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis, 1826.
Colour printed stipple with engraving. Plate 178 x 132mm.. 7 x 5¼".
Vitellius Caesar (15-69) was Roman Emperor for eight months from 16 April to 22 December 69. Upon his accession, he was the first to add the honorific cognomen 'Germanicus' to his name instead of Caesar. He was the seventh of the great Caesar's.
[Ref: 21611] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Vitellius. IX. L'ennemy tué sent bon, mais le citoyen encour mieux.
F.L.D. Ciartres excudit Cum privegio Regis Christianiss.
Copper engraving. 280 x 200mm, 11 x 8". Torn.
Vitellius, the ninth Roman emperor, by François Langlois (1589-1647), called Ciartres.
[Ref: 19849] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Glorious Victory of Vittoria in Spain. This Glorious Battle was fought June 21 1813 near Vittoria in Spain when that Noble Veteran the Marquis Wellington and the Brave Army under his command who drove the French and gained a complete Victory...
Published July 16, 1813 by G. Thompson No.43 Long Lane.
Rare woodcut. Sheet: 370 x 470mm (14½ x 18½''). Damaged.
A scene showing the Battle of Vittoria which took place on June 1813 between the British Army under Wellington and the French commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan. The British were victorious and this victory ultimately led to victory in the Peninsular War. A key below the image identifies various figures shown in the scene as well as major events.
[Ref: 51030] £380.00

Battle of Vittoria.
G. Cruikshank fc.t.
Pu.d July 7th 1813 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1822]. Trimmed into plate on three sides.
Wellington sits on his horse watching as his army charges the French, driving them off with bayonets. On the night Joseph Bonaparte flees on a galloping ass, his crown falling from his head. Satire on the allied victory at the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) in which 151 cannon were captured, but many soldiers broke rank to loot the abandoned French wagons.
BM: 12068.
[Ref: 61869] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene after the Battle of Vittoria or,- More trophies for White-Hall.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d July 10.th 1813 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") Time stained. Tear in bottom that goes into the plate mark. Laid on card.
Satire on the allied victory at the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) in which 151 cannon were captured. Wellington is pictured sitting on his white horse, looks down at three officers who heap the spoils of war at his feet. A soldier is drags a cannon downhill by a rope. Two asses are harnessed tandem to the gun-carriage with two Frenchmen astride them.
BM: 12071
[Ref: 55837] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene, after the Battle of Vittoria or,- More Trophies for White-Hall!!!
G. Cruikshank px.t.
Pub.d. July 10.th. 1819 by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Paper watermarked '1819'; Plate: 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Staining.
Satire commenting on the Duke of Wellington's defeat of the French under Marshal Baptiste Jourdan at the Battle of Vittoria in 1813. This victory eventually led to victory in the Peninsular War. A Portugese officer hands Jorden's 'rollingpin' (Marshal's Baton) to a mounted Wellington.
BM Satire: 12071.
[Ref: 37454] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Vittorio Amadeo Maria III of Sardinia] Victorius Amedeus III. Caroli Emanuelis I ex Polixena filius, Sardiniae, Cypri, et Hierusalem Rex III.
Visca delineavit Dom Cagnoni sculp [1780] Bit later.
Engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark 310 x 250mm (12¼ x 9¾").
Vittorio Amadeo III (1726-96), King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death. In 1750 Vittorio Amadeo married the Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain, strengthening ties between Madrid and Turin. He declared war on Revolutionary France in 1792 but after four years of fighting was forced to cede the Treaty of Paris surrendering various possessions to the French.
[Ref: 41066] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Les Vivandiers Pair.]
Ch. Eisen inv. et del. / P.F. Tardieu Sculp
A Paris chés Tardieu Graveur du Roy, rue du Platre, la deuxieme porte cochere, a gauche entrant par la rue St. Jacques Avec Privilege du Roy [c.1770]
A pair of fine engravings, each sheet 210 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A pair of engravings the first showing a group of vivandiers, merchants who accompany the army to sell provisions to the soldiers. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45102] £480.00 view all images for this item

Vivant Denon.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Stipple. Plate 133 x 83mm. 5¼ x 3¼". Foxing.
Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (1747-1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist. He was appointed the first director of the Louvre Museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798-1801. He became a favourite of Louis XV, who entrusted him with the collection and arrangement of a cabinet of medals and antique gems for Madame de Pompadour, and subsequently appointed him attache to the French embassy at St Petersburg. He was then transferred to Sweden, Switzerland and later Naples where he met Sir William and Lady Hamilton. In 1787 he was recalled to Paris and was admitted a member of the Academie de Peinture et de Sculpture.
[Ref: 26005] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Denon [facsimile signature].
Engraved by Thomson, from a Drawing by Isabey.
Published by Fisher, Son & Co. Caxton, London, 1825.
Stipple, platemark 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼"), small margins. Foxing.
Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon (1747-1825), French painter, archaeologist and traveller. He had a brilliant career as an artist and diplomat under the ancien regime, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Diderot, Voltaire, and Robespiere. He followed Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt, making over 150 sketches (now in the British Museum) which, reproduced in his book 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte' (1802), the first serious description of the antiquities discovered in Egypt, were influential in establishing the Egyptian Revival style in France. In 1802 he was appointed director-general of the Imperial Museums, playing a key role in bringing foreign masterpieces into the Louvre. He played a crucial role as artistic adviser to Napoleon, selecting artworks to requisition and handing out commissions to artists. After Napoleon's defeat in 1815 he retired, and spent his last ten years engraving and working on a general history of the arts.
[Ref: 41080] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Vivant Denon sketching.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching. 135 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼"), very large margins. Small stain.
Full length portrait of a balding Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. He wears spectacles and a French-style three-quarter length jacket and breeches.
[Ref: 56466] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Baron Denon.
Augustin pinx. Fremy del. et sculp.
[n.d. c.1817.]
Engraving and etching. 204 x 132mm (8 x 5¼").
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), French painter, archaeologist and traveller. He had a brilliant career as an artist and diplomat under the ancien regime, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Diderot, Voltaire, and Robespiere. He followed Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt and in 1804 became director-general of museums, playing a key role in bringing foreign masterpieces into the Louvre. His accounts of his travels and his treatise on ancient monuments contain collections of his engravings.
[Ref: 31232] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

D.e V.t Denon. Denon [facsimile.] né à Chalons sur Saône, en 1747, mont à Paris le 28 avril 1825.
E=Belliau. J.lith de Delpech.
[n.d. c.1824.]
Lithograph. 305 x 210mm (12 x 8¼"). Cut close on left; slight creasing.
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), French painter, archaeologist and traveller. He had a brilliant career as an artist and diplomat under the ancien regime, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Diderot, Voltaire, and Robespiere. He followed Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt and in 1804 became director-general of museums, playing a key role in bringing foreign masterpieces into the Louvre. His accounts of his travels and his treatise on ancient monuments contain collections of his engravings.
[Ref: 29650] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Denon.
J. lith. de Delpech.
[n.d. c.1825.]
Lithograph. 216 x 152mm (8½ x 6").
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), French painter, archaeologist and traveller. He had a brilliant career as an artist and diplomat under the ancien regime, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Diderot, Voltaire, and Robespiere. He followed Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt and in 1804 became director-general of museums, playing a key role in bringing foreign masterpieces into the Louvre. His accounts of his travels and his treatise on ancient monuments contain collections of his engravings.
[Ref: 31230] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

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Vivat. "What was on the window of Madame Sebastina the Illumination night, 23d of March/ Rome 1818 the Greek Ambassadors".
1818.
Ink mss, c. 100 x 90mm, 4 x 3½", on album paper. Some trimming.
The Latin word 'Vivat' transcribed into Armenian, Greek and Arabic scripts, with addional text in the same hand. On verso is a watercolour, 'Costume des environs de Berne', showing Swiss costumes near Berne.
[Ref: 9992] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Right Hon.ble Sir R. Hussey Vivian, Bar.t Master General of the Ordinance.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple. Sheet size: 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼").
A head and shoulders portrait of Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian (1775 - 1842), known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841. Hussey was a British cavalry leader who was appointed to command the 6th Brigade of Henry Paget, at the battle of Waterloo.
[Ref: 37487] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Vincentius Viviani Serenissimi Magni Ducis Etruriae Mathematicus.
Unknown attribution, (after Domenico Tempesti.)
Engraving, with large margins, proof before lettering of artist and engraver, rare. Plate 336 x 248mm. 13¼ x 9¾".
Vincenzo Viviani (1622-1703) was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo. In Florence, Viviani had Galileo's life and achievements written in Latin on the facade of his palace, on huge stone scrolls. The palace was renamed Palazzo dei Cartelloni. The original is held in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
W: 3071-1.
[Ref: 23983] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vivisection.
Painted by J. Mc.Lure Hamilton. Engraved by Cha.s J. Tomkins.
London Published June 23rd 1883 by Henry Graves & Co. the Proprietors, Publishers to H.M. the Queen and T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales. Copyright Registered.
Mixed method engraving. 610 x 440mm (24 x 17¼"), with extremely large margins.
At first the scene appears to be of a man playing with his terrier, as it sits on a laboratory bench sits up begging. However the bottle of chloroform hidden behind the man's back hints at his sinister intentions. A dead bird lies to the left. John McLure Hamilton (1853-1936), born in Philadelphia. He divided his time between Philadelphia and London, where he was official portrait painter to Prime Minister William Gladstone. This engraving, subtitled 'The Last Appeal', was exhibited at the R.A. in 1884; both the 'Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society' and the 'National Canine Defence League' used the image in their campaigns in the early 20th century.
Ex Norman Blackburn collection.
[Ref: 52852] £550.00

[Grand Vizier.] Le Grand Visir en Habit et en Turban de ceremonie.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47048] £320.00

[Vocal Music.]
G. Morland Pinx.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
[Published Mar. 1 1813 by T. Palser, Surry side Westminster Bridge.]
Stipple, with large margins, proof before title and publication; scratched letters for artist and engraver. Plate 254 x 210mm (10 x 8¼").
A girl and boy singing together outside a cottage window, the boy sitting holding the score as the girl stands beside, looking at him intently.
[Ref: 30881] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Voguell, Esq.r of London Merchant. Aetatis 65.
Peint par Ant: Pensé premier Peintre du Roy.
Gravé a Berlin par G.F. Schmidt Graveur du Roy en 1746.
Rare engraving. Sheet size: 480 x 330mm (19 x 13"). Trimmed inside plate.
A portrait of London merchant and financier Henry Voguell (c.1681-1746), wearing a wig and a long plain coat fastened at the waist. He holds a stick in his right hand, and a hat under his arm. Ships can be seen in the background to the right, next to The Tower of London.
[Ref: 38703] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Henry Voguell, Esq.r of London Merchant. Aetatis 65. Annon 1746.
Ant: Pense Pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
Sold by Christ.r Seton at the Golden Head in Suffolk Street near the Hay Market Prince [erased].
Mezzotint. Sheet 510 x 350mm (20 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A portrait of London merchant and financier Henry Voguell (c.1681-1746), wearing a wig and a long plain coat fastened at the waist. He holds a stick in his right hand, and a hat under his arm. Ships can be seen in the background to the right, next to The Tower of London.
CS 364, Russell 364 ii of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67772] £380.00

Oh! Listen to the Voice of Love.
Ja.s Gillray del.t.
[n.d., c.1799.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 215 x 185mm (8½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A interior scene in which an ugly man kneels before a plain woman holding a fan.
Copy of BM Satire 9450.
[Ref: 43648] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Vois mon mari Derrière!.. Les Bals Masqués.
Par Gavarni.
Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 361 x 276mm. 14¼ x 10¾".
A scene depicting 3 masked characters. A lady of society whispers to her husband telling him to admire the three little characters that stand behind her.
[Ref: 12964] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Vol-au-Vent ou le Patissier d'Anieres.
[c.1812]
Engraving with original hand colour. Some creasing.
Satire on the third aeronautical exposition on the Champs du Mars in Paris, which was not as successful as the first two. A balloon is in the background, while the foreground has a man with wings halfway up a pole.
[Ref: 6350] £420.00

Ravins Volcaniques et montagne de cendre. (Ile de l'Ascension.)
de Sainson pinx. Leborne lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Lemercier. [Paris, c.1833.]
Lithograph, sheet 330 x 520mm. 13 x 20½".
French explorers on Ascension Island, an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly midway between South America and Africa. One of the figures appears to be holding a portfolio and could be the expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887). Numbered 'Pl.236' upper right; from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829. Publisher's blindstamp below title.
See NLA: 344126. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18751] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Volcan du Broumo, dans les montagnes de Mallang. (Java Archipel de la Sonde)
Sabatier d'apres E.B. de la Touanne. Fig. par Bayot. Lith. de Benard et Frey.
[Paris: Bertrand, 1837.]
Rare lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 355 x 540mm. 14 x 21¼". Full sheet.
A European expedition with indigenous guides approaching the smoking Mount Bromo Volcano, Java, Indonesia. Numbered 'Pl.10' upper right. From 'Journal de la navigation autour du globe de la fregate la Thetis et de la corvette l'Esperance' by Hyacinthe de Bougainville.
NLA: 2982267. Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18763] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Chimborazo.
Baxter's Patent Oil Color Printing, XI, Northampton Square. [n.d., 1850.]
Baxter print. 110 x 180mm, 4¼ x 7". Creased bottom corner.
A distant view of the volcano Chimboazo in Equador. In the foreground are some llamas.
Victoria University: Starr Collection: No.343.
[Ref: 16441] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Vesuvius.
Engraved by H. Dawe, from an Original painting in his possession.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Mezzotint, sheet 125 x 160mm. 5 x 6¼". Trimmed within plate, glued to album sheet at corners. Glue stains.
A view of Mount Vesuvius erupting, seen from the Bay of Naples. Numbered 'No.5.' lower right.
[Ref: 11801] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Vue De Ternate. Suppl, au Tome VIII. N.o 4.
[Jacques Nicolas Bellin]
[n.d., c1750]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"), very large margins. Flattened creases where previously bound.
Depiction of Gamalama erupting in the early 1700s with a Portuguese fort shown. Made by Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) for Antoine-François Prevost's (1697-1763) 20 volume edition of 'L`Histoire Generale des Voyages' published by Pierre de Hondt, The Hague between 1747 - 1780. Gamalama is a near-conical stratovolcano that comprises the entire Ternate island in Indonesia.
[Ref: 57090] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Vulcan von Antuco.
E. Pöppig nach d. Natur 1829. I.A. Sedlmayr München Lithogr. 1834.
[Munich, 1834.]
Rare lithograph, watermark Thurneisen. Sheet 435 x 585mm (17 x 23"), with large margins. Long split in centre fold.
Antuco Volcano, an active stratovolcano in the Bío Bío Region of Chile. The volcano is mentioned in Darwin's 'Voyage of the Beagle': the locals believed that an earthquake was caused by old women closing Antunco by witchcraft. One of sixteen lithographs after Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798-1868), published in his ' Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome während der Jahre 1827-1832'. The work describes his zoological expedition to Chile, Peru and Brazil, in which he travelled the length of the Amazon, describing over 4,000 plant species and explored Incan ruins.
[Ref: 52540] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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