Grosvenor Prints

West Combe, in Kent, the Seat of the Marchioness of Lothian.
P. Sandby R.A. del. W. Watts sculp.
Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1st. 1779, by W. Watts, Kemp's Row, Chelsea.
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 420 x 245mm (16½ x 9¾") large margins.
A near view of the house from the front with park sloping into the foreground. The letterpress describes the house, its location and views that can be seen from it. The son of the house holds an 18th century cricket bat.
[Ref: 56005] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

West Cowes.
Drawn by Geo. Rowe. Printed by W.W. Yelf Newport.
Published by Geo. Rowe and Robt. Moir, Cowes. S.W [n.d., c.1830].
Very rare lithograph, sheet 310 x 480mm. 12¼ x 18¾".
Locally-published view of West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the estuary of the River Medina. Shipping, and in foreground, shrimpers and some fishermen in a coracle. Cowes has been a centre of international yacht racing since the founding of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815. The town gives its name to the world's oldest regular regatta, Cowes Week, which occurs annually in the first week of August. George Rowe, artist and lithographer (1796 - 1864).
Not in Abbey Scenery.
[Ref: 27099] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Faithful Playmate. To the Hon.ble Mrs. Bernard of Kilbrogan Ireland. This plate is most respectfully Dedicated by Her Obliged and Obedient Servant. The Publisher.
Painted by Samuel West. Engraved by T.W.Huffam.
London Published by William Tegg & Co., 85, Queen Street, Cheapside. [n.d., c.1845.]
Mezzotint. 490 x 415mm (19¼ x 16¼"). Paper lightly foxed, faint scratch vertically on image.
T.W.Huffam, mezzotint, line engraver and lithographer; worked in London about 1825 to 1855.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6516] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[West Highland Terrier.]
HD 1930. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature.]
Copyright 1930 by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Etching, 32/150 impressions signed by the artist. 225 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A seated Westie, looking up intently at something out of the image.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 52125] £950.00

[Home Again.]
H.D. Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature] 21/200.
[n.d., c.1910.]
Rare etching, limited eition of 200 signed by the artist. 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Mint.
A West Highland Terrier seated outside a closed door.
From the celebrated collection of Bryan & Valerie Steele.
[Ref: 52093] £950.00

West India Docks, from the South East [in plate lower left].
W. Parrott Del Et Lithog.
[London: H. Brooks, n.d., c.1842.]
Tinted lithograph with colour added by hand, rare, image 240 x 420mm. 9½ x 16½".
From 'London from the Thames' (12 plates, 1842) by William Parrott (1813 - 1869). Very fine view of a busy dock scene.
Adams 198, 4. See Abbey Scenery 237 for a first issue (without titles).
[Ref: 22290] £480.00

The West India Docks in the Isle of Dogs, with Greenwich Hospital in the foreground. Drawn in the Camer Obscura of the Royal Observatory.
Pugh delin. Reeve sculp.t
Published Aug.t 11-1804 by Richard Phillips. No.71 St Pauls Church Yard.
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 272mm. 7½ x 10¾".
A view from the south of the River Thames over the top of Greenwich Hospital, with a view over to the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs. The Docks were opened in 1802, in response to a group of powerful businessmen led by Robert Milligan, who were outraged at losses from merchant ships from the West Indies due to theft and delay at London's riverside wharves.
Collage: p5374550. See Ref: 26104.
[Ref: 26105] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of the West India Docks &c. as Designed and Dedicated to the Directors by Ralph Walker Engineer. European Magazine.
S. Rawles sc.
Publish'd by J. Sewell, Cornhill, Oct.r 1 1802.
Engraved map.125 x 190mm (5 x 7½"). Narrow margins, laid on album sheet with another map.
A plan of the West India Docks drawn by the dock's Resident Engineer Ralph Walker (1749-1824). The second map, dated 1834, covers St Katherine's Dock, London Docks, Commercial Docks, West India Docks and East India Docks.
[Ref: 64333] £160.00

[Warehouses at the West India Docks, London.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
A very rare engraving. Plate 272 x 386mm. 10¾" x 15¼".
View of the West India Docks in London.
[Ref: 9241] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[West India Dock.] London. Sheet VIII. 71. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1895.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Some surface soiling, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/1056) of West India Dock, showing the Bonded Warehouses and the tracks of the London & Blackwall Railway. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10866] £100.00

Plan of the West India Docks &c. Designed and Dedicated to the Directors by Their Very Humble Servant Ralph Walker.
B. Baker sculp.t Lower Street, Islington.
Published January 1.st 1802.
Rare engraved map. Sheet 290 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper at corners.
A plan of the West India Docks drawn by the dock's Resident Engineer Ralph Walker (1749-1824). The docks, designed by William Jessop with consultant James Rennie, were opened eight months later. South of the docks is The City Canal, built at Walker's suggestion, to create a shortcut across the Isle of Dogs, opened 1805.
[Ref: 64287] £750.00

View of the Wet Docks from Blackwall.
Publish'd Jany: 12, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 273 x 412mm. 10¾ x 16¼".
This appears to be a view of the West India Docks completed in 1802. A Parliamentary Act was passed to enable construction of the new enclosed dock system on the Isle of Dogs (Stepney Marsh) and in 1799 William Jessop is appointed as engineer and designer. British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and Lord Chancellor Lord Loughborough attended the foundation stone ceremony on 12 July 1800.
[Ref: 15149] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

West India Docks. Plate 92.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. Bluck aquat.
London Pub. Jany. 1. 1810, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint. Plate 235 x 280mm. 9¼ x 11". Slight staining.
A view of the newly-built West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in London. Outraged at losses due to theft and delay at London's riverside wharves, Robert Milligan (c. 1746 - 1809) headed a group of powerful businessmen, including the chairman of the West India Merchants of London, George Hibbert, who promoted the creation of a wet dock circled by a high wall. The Docks were constructed in two phases. The two northern-most docks were constructed between 1800 and 1802 (officially opened on 27 August 1802) for the West India Dock Company to a design by leading civil engineer William Jessop (John Rennie was a consultant), and were the first commercial wet docks in London. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', 3 vols., 1808-10. Numbered 'Plate 92.' upper right. On Whatman paper watermarked 1808.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 92.
[Ref: 21310] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

West Indiaman.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Wood engraving with fine original hand colour. Sheet 180 x 290mm (7 x 11½"). Trimmed to printed border and around title, laid on album paper.
A trading ship approaching a West Indian island with two high peaks.
[Ref: 57261] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de l'Amerique. Pour servir à l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.
Par M. Bellin Ing.r de la Mar.e 1754.
[Paris: Didot Libraire, c.1757.]
Engraved map with hand colour, 18th century watermark; 290 x 390mm (11½ x 15¼"). Narrow right margin, binding folds, 16 worm holes.
A map of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. It marks the mythical island of Bermeja off Yucatan, belief in which lasted until quite recently but not found in a survey in 2009. A current conspiracy theory in Mexico claims that the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed the island to expand the economic zone allotted to the United States. Published in Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
[Ref: 59460] £480.00

The British Lion in a New Character. Or. Protection Trying the Nigger Dodge.
4th Dec. 1847.
Rare pen and ink drawing. Sheet size: 245 x 175mm (9½ x 7"). Stained. Glued to backing sheet at corners.
The British lion as West Indian plantation owner, smoking a cheroot. In one paw is a bottle of rum; in the other is a banner 'Protection for Corn', but 'corn' is crossed out and replaced with 'Sugar' .
[Ref: 37326] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Montgomery. West Indies. Part, III.
Thomson. Del. Romney. Sc.
John Arliss, Publisher. London. [n.d. c.1860.]
Engraving. Plate 157 x 101mm. 6¼ x 4".
A dancing native. James Montgomery (1771-1854) was a British editor, hymnwriter and poet, who published his 'West Indies Collection' in 1809.
[Ref: 15552] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Title page] No 3 of a Series of Views in the West Indies: Engraved from Drawings taken recently in the Islands: With Letter Press Explanations Made From Actual Observation.
Davison, Whitefriars.
London: [Smith Elder & Co, Cornhill] Fleet-Street [n.d., 1827-29.]
Rare & scarce title sheet, letterpress with wood-engraved border, label with mss. publisher details stuck on. 290 x 440mm (11½ x 17¼"). Laid on card, wear to paper surface.
The title sheet of the third (and last, of a planned eight] parts of J. Johnston's 'Views in the West Indies', a series of an engraved map and eleven aquatint views. The series was begun by Mess.rs Underwood but completed by Smith Elder & Co.
Abbey Travel 678.
[Ref: 54220] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Chart of y.e West-Indies or the Islands of America in the North Sea &c.
By H. Moll Geographer.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraved map. 285 x 350mm (11¼ x 13¾"). Original binding folds.
A sea chart of the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies, with the eastern coast of North America north to Charleston. It still marks 'New Caledonia', the ill-fated Scottish colony on the Darien Isthmus. From Josiah Burchett's 'A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Account... to the Conclusion of the Last War with France''.
[Ref: 61704] £550.00

Les Isles Antilles et le Golfe du Méxique.
[by Rigobert Bonne.]
[Paris, n.d., c.1780.]
Engraved map. 225 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Small hole in margin, stain at top. Small margins.
A map of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, with an inset of Bermuda.
[Ref: 48929] £180.00

West Indies, agreeable to the most approved Maps and Charts, Mr. Kitchin.
[engraved by Thomas Kitchin.]
[London, c.1785.]
Engraved map. 350 x 385mm (13¾ x 15¼"), with very large margins. Original folds, repaired tear in left margin, some slight staining in margins, some areas weakly inked.
A map of the West Indies, with a decorative title cartouches featuring aEuropean merchants and a slave. Originally published in 'Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography'.
[Ref: 55318] £220.00

Westindien un Guyana Marktplatz in Paramaribo [...]
[Anon., c.1850]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
Plate from a German travel volume with a scene of the market in Paramaribo (now the capital of Surinam) surrounded by ten vignettes including views of Martinique, Surinam and Cuba.
[Ref: 45582] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Map of the West Indies. July 1799.
[Smith & Jones.]
Copper Engraving. 260 x 400mm. 10¼ x 15¾. Two vertical folds.
A map showing Central America and the West Indies. From the British Military Library or Journal.
[Ref: 11160] £160.00

West Indies from the best Authorities
By Thos. Kitchin Geor.
[n.d. c.1784].
Engraved map. 185 x 350mm. Folded as issued in volume.
For the Modern Universal British Traveller. Thomas Kitchin [1718 - 1784] worked as a publisher and engraver from premises at The Star in Holborn, London. He produced a large number of maps of every kind for periodical, such as the London Magazine, and for books on history and antiquities. He is probably best known though, for his partnership with Emanuel Bowen with whom he published, in 1755, 'The Large English Atlas' which contained the finest county maps of the 18th.Century.
[Ref: 3587] £110.00

West Meon Rectory. North Front.
M.A.T.W. [Mary Anne Theresa Whitby] 1830.
Rare lithograph on chine collé. 185 x 245mm (7¼ x 9½"), with large margins.
The Tudor and Jacobean rectory in West Meon, Hampshire (now a private residence). At the time this print was made, it was occupied by clergyman Henry Vincent Bayley (1777-1844) who had earlier played an important role in the renovation of Lincoln Cathedral. The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For a London view by Whitby, see ref. 19290.
[Ref: 35702] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

West Meon Rectory. West Front.
M.A.T.W. [Mary Anne Theresa Whitby]1830
Rare lithograph, printed on chine collé. 145 x 190mm (5¼ x 7½"), with large margins.
The Tudor and Jacobean rectory in West Meon, Hampshire (now a private residence). At the time this print was made, it was occupied by clergyman Henry Vincent Bayley (1777-1844) who had earlier played an important role in the renovation of Lincoln Cathedral. The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For a London view by Whitby, see ref. 19290.
[Ref: 35703] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

West Meon Rectory East Front.
[Mary Anne Theresa Whitby, c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 185 x 255mm (7¼ x 10"), with large margins. Foxing.
The Tudor and Jacobean rectory in West Meon, Hampshire (now a private residence). At the time this print was made, it was occupied by clergyman Henry Vincent Bayley (1777-1844) who had earlier played an important role in the renovation of Lincoln Cathedral. The printmaker, Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1784-1850), was married to Captain John Whitby, flag captain for Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. They lived on the admiral's estate, Newlands: after John's death in 1806, Mary stayed on, spending much of her time with Cornwallis, who left his estate to her on his death in 1819. Being a keen amateur lithographer, Whitby established a private press at Newlands, but she is better remembered for the first successful sericulture (silk production) to England after three centuries of attempts, presenting twenty yards of damask to Queen Victoria in 1844. She performed genetic experiments on her silkworms for Charles Darwin, who published her results in his 'The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication' (1868).
Ex: Collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For a London view by Whitby, see ref. 19290.
[Ref: 35704] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company, Chief Office, Exeter. - Office for the Metropolis, No. 20, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars.
[Printed date 1837, mss date 1838]
Insurance certificate, letterpress and wood-engraving, completed in ink. Sheet 555 x 435mm (21¾ x 17"), with tax blindstamp and ink stamp. Folds.
An insurance document for Emanuel Hodges, Crewkerne.
[Ref: 67840] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Tilbury & Chadwell.] London. Sheet LXV. Edition of 1894-96.
Photozincographed and Published by the Director General at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1897.
Zincograph with hand colour, sheet 700 x 990mm, 27½ x 39". With stenciled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen, some surface soiling, tears, edges chipped.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Chadwell Marshes and West Tilbury. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority, noting sales.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 10987] £60.00

[West Wycombe Park] A View of the House and Part of the Garden of S.r Francis Dashwood Bar.t at West Wycomb in the County of Bucks.
W. Hannan pinx. W. Woollett sculp.
London Published according to Act of Parliament, Jan. 1757, & Sold by John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleetstreet & Tho.s Bowles in S.t Paul's Church Yard, Jn.o Bowles & Son in Cornhill & Rob.t Sayer in Fleetstreet.
Etching. 370 x 535mm (14½ x 21"), with large margins.
A view of the north front and east portico of West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, the pleasure palace of Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the 'Society of Dilettanti' and the 'Hell-fire Club'. A group are taking tea on the lawn. One of a set of four views, engraved by William Woollett after William Hannan, that were first published by John Tinney alone and then by a consortium of publishers.
Fagan XXVII, unrecorded state between I & II. See BM 1853,1210.662 for the original drawing.
[Ref: 61385] £450.00

A View of the Lake &c. taken from the Center Walk in the Garden of S.r Francis Dashwood Bar.t at West Wycomb in the County of Bucks.
W. Hannan pinx. W. Woollett sculp.
Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, Carington Bowles in S.t Pauls Church Yard, Hen.y Parker in Cornhil, John Boydell in Cheapside and Robert Sayer in Fleet Street [n.d., 1757].
Coloured etching. 370 x 520mm (14½ x 21½"). Framed in fine modern gilt frame. Unexamined out of frame (plate marked visible)
A view of West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, the pleasure palace of Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the 'Society of Dilettanti' and the 'Hell-fire Club'. This series of views, engraved by William Woollett after William Hannan, were first published by John Tinney without titles, and then by a consortium of publishers.
[Ref: 58234] £490.00

A View of the Walton Bridge, Venus's Temple &c in the Garden of Sr. Francis Dashwood Bart. at West Wycomb in the County of Bucks. [Title in French to right.]
[after William Hannan.]
London Printed for Robt. Sayer Map & Printseller in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1805].
Etching on 19th century wove paper watermarked 'Curteis & Son', 170 x 275mm. 6¾ x 10¾".
View of the lake in the West Wycombe Park estate, Buckinghamshire, the house in distance to left, with a boat on the water to left, an island in the centre and a bridge and temple to right; various figures walking along the shore. Numbered 'No.7' upper right. After William Hannan (1751 - 1772; fl.), from a issue of views published by Sayer, which were reduced engravings taken from the large landscape prints engraved by William Woollett in the 1750s.
[Ref: 20640] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Walton Bridge, Venus's Temple &c in the Garden of Sr. Francis Dashwood Bar.t at West Wycomb in the County of Bucks.
W. Hannan pinx. W. Woollett sculp.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured etching. 370 x 520mm (14½ x 21½"). Framed, in fine modern gilt frame.
View of the lake in the West Wycombe Park estate, Buckinghamshire, the house in distance to left, with a boat on the water to left, an island in the centre and a bridge and temple to right; various figures walking along the shore. From "Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c.".
[Ref: 58235] £490.00

[Grenadier, or the first West York militia.]
[George Walker del.]
Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row; Ackermann, Strand; and Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, Leeds. 1814.
Aquatint, 300 x 190mm. 12 x 7½". Trimmed. Laid on album sheet.
From 'The costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings. With descriptions in English and French.'
[Ref: 13091] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin West Esq.r President of the Royal Academy and Historical Painter to his Majesty.
Benj.m West Esq.r P.R.A. Pinx.t T. Holloway sculp.t
Published as the Act directs, by Tho.s Holloway, & the other Proprietors, April 25. 1798.
Engraving and etching. Plate 299 x 241mm. 11¾ x 9½". Slight printers crease.
Engraving after a self-portrait by Benjamin West; half-length seated slightly to right, looking to front, wearing short wig, plain coat with bright buttons and frill; curtain behind, pulled back to reveal Somerset House beyond at the right. The print was published as an illustration to the first English edition of Johann Caspar Lavater's 'Physiognomische Fragmente', Vol III, pl. 171, between pp.150-51. Benjamin West (1738-1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was the second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving from 1792 to 1805 and again from 1806 until his death.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25512] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

B. West. Hist.ae Pictor.
P. Falconet del. 1768. D.P.Pariset Sculp.
Stipple. 178 x 127mm (7 x 5"). Cut.
Benjamin West (1738-1820), the American history painter born in Pennsylvania. In 1760 he went to Rome and was in London by 1763 where he remained and became President of the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 34760] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin West, Esq.r President of the Royal Academy in London: Dedicated to the Directors of the British Institution by their ob. Serv.t William Johnstone White
W.J. Newton Pinx.t. C. Heath Sc.t
Published Jan.y 1st 1818 by W.J. White 14 Brownlow Street, Holborn, London
Engraving on india with large margins, platemark 380 x 290mm (15 x 11½").
Benjamin West (1738-1820) American painter of historical scenes, with Windsor Castle in the distance. In 1760 he became the first American painter to travel to Italy, spending three years there. West met George III's librarian Joseph Dalton in 1762, who gave him a royal commission to paint the lovers Cymon and Iphigenia. It was partly due to Dalton's encouragement that West arrived in London, where he was to spend the rest of his career. In 1768 West played an instrumental role with the king in obtaining patronage for a Royal Academy of Arts, joining other charter members in helping to elect Reynolds as its first president. Eventually, despite his American origins, West became historical painter to the king in 1772, surveyor of the king's pictures in 1791, and second president of the Royal Academy in 1792, after Reynolds's death.
[Ref: 36519] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To his Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Patron. The Governors and Members of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts. The Portrait of Benjamin West, P.R.A. Is most respectfully Dedicated by their odedient humble servant Jame Fittler.
Engraved by J. Fittler A.R.A. from a Picture Painted by G.H. Harlow.
Publish'd as the Act Directs April 8 1817 by J. Fittler Upper Charlotte Street London.
Engraving. 380 x 520mm. Tears in margin c.1cm into plate, outside india.
American painter [1738 - 1820] who worked in England. Under the portrait is a vignette frieze: Pensylvania Nathus OC.X. MDCCXXXVIII.
[Ref: 3030] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin West, Esq.r President of the Royal Academy.
Engraved by H. Meyer, from an original Picture by T. Lawrence, Esq. R.A. For the fourteenth Number of the British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits.
Published April 13. 1813, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.
Very fine stipple engraving, plate 375 x 320mm (14¾ x 12½"), with very large margins.
Benjamin West (1738-1820) American painter of historical scenes. In 1760 he became the first American painter to travel to Italy, spending three years there. West met George III's librarian Joseph Dalton in 1762, who gave him a royal commission to paint the lovers Cymon and Iphigenia. It was partly due to Dalton's encouragement that West arrived in London, where he was to spend the rest of his career. In 1768 West played an instrumental role with the king in obtaining patronage for a Royal Academy of Arts, joining other charter members in helping to elect Reynolds as its first president. Eventually, despite his American origins, West became historical painter to the king in 1772, surveyor of the king's pictures in 1791, and second president of the Royal Academy in 1792, after Reynolds's death.
[Ref: 63019] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mr. West and Family. To her Imperial Majesty of all the Russia's; This Plate is respectfully Dedicated by her most Dutiful and Obedient humble Servants M.B.
Painted by Benj.n West Historical Painter to his Majesty. Engraved by Bover.
London Printed for Robert Sayer. Fleet Street.
Rare engraving. Plate: 250 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½''), with large margins. Creasing.
A scene in a room where the artist Benjamin West stands behind the chairs of his father and brother-in-law, on a chair on the right sits West's wife Elizabeth holding their young son, their elder son stands to the side.
[Ref: 49903] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Benjamin West Esq.r President of the Royal Academy and Historical Painter to His Majesty. From a Miniature of the same size in his Possession.
A.Robertson Pinx.t. G. Dawe Sculp.t
Published May 10 1804. by A. Robertson No 16 Cecil Street, Strand.
Mezzotint with large margins and collector's mark, 245 x 340mm 9½ x 1`3½inches.
CS: 13 I of II. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14760] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Iohn West. Earl of Delawar From an Original Drawing in the Collection of R. Bull Esqr.
Pubd. July 12 1800, by S. Harding. 127 Pall Mall.
Stipple engraving with etching, 190 x 140mm. Laid on album papge.
John West, first Earl De La Warr (1693 - 1766). In shooting dress with pointer by his side.
[Ref: 7398] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph West of Welbourn Yorkshire.
Painted, Engraved & Published Jany 1. 1798 by S.W. Reynolds, Malton, Yorkshire.
Mezzotint, 325 x 225mm. 12¾ x 9".
Joseph West of Welbourne, physician, in an armchair behind a table with papers, inkstand and pen, and small bottle. He holds spectacles in his right hand. Small vignette on the theme of the Good Samaritan in a roundel below portrait. After Samuel William Reynolds I (c.1774 - 1835), a rare portrait.
Whitman: 294 only state. Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 12445] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Séparation douloureuse. [&] La Visite du Pasteur.
A. Westall pinx.t A.e Cardon sculp.t
Publié à Paris en Juin 1807. Chez Bance ainé, rue St. Denis.
A pair of stipples printed in colour with small margins. Plate 387 x 427mm (15¼ x 16¾"). Some repairs.
Women weeping and upset as the young and older man set off on their travels; three goats in the foreground. [&] A visit from the pastor: three women with children outside a cottage are greeted by the minister; a church seen in the background, and a young man seen hiding inside the cottage.
[Ref: 30041] £420.00 view all images for this item

Westbourne Farm, Middx. The residence of Mrs. Siddons.
Drawn by P. Galindo Esq. Engraved by I. Hassell.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Aquatint. Sheet size: 165 x 210mm (6½ x 8¼").
A view of the grounds and house at Westbourne Farm, Middlesex, occupied by Mrs. Siddons, the great actress, from 1805-1817, and by comedians Charles James Mathews and Mrs. Mathews (Madame Vestris) from 1845-1848. It was located where the Westway, Harrow Road and the Regent's Canal now converge.
[Ref: 39364] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Western Australia.
Alex. J. Scalley Del.
The Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, Limited, Sydney & Melbourne. [n.d., 1886-8.]
Colour-printed wood engraving (chromoxylograph). Printed area 610 x 370mm (24 x 14½"). Centre fold as issued. Large margins.
A map of Western Australia, divided into districts and with an inset of Perth. On the reverse is an index and a vignette wood engraving of two men sawing a log. It was published in the 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, a periodical issued between 1886-88, timed for the celebration of the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1888. This was the largest publication project attempted in the Australian colonies, with 50,000 subscribers, roughly 1.3 of the population.
Codell: Imperial Co-histories, p. 219-220.
[Ref: 39131] £140.00

Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, For the Encouragement of British Manufacturers, Artists and Dealers, and for Receiving general Property for Sale on Commission. Established Jan.y 1.st 1817.
G. Smith Del.t.
[Published April 5.th 1817 by G. Smith, Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, London.]
Scarce etching, working proof before aquatint and publication line. Sheet 295 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into image, tears taped.
The interior of the Western Exchange (also known as the Bond Street Bazaar) which occupied a passage between between Nº 10 Old Bond Street to the back of No 14 in what later became the Burlington Arcade. It was destroyed by fire in 1836.
[Ref: 64315] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Callis Western Esq.re. M.P. for the County of Essex. 1830.
Drawn on Stone by R.J. Lane A.R.A. from a Miniature by F. Ford.
Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph on india, title on backing paper. Printed area 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾").
Charles Callis Western (1767-1844), Baron Western, MP for Essex.
[Ref: 50671] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sophia Western.
Published Oct.r 1. 1790 by J. Read, Coventry Court, Hay Market.
Rare stipple. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Two repaired tears entering unprinted part of plate, stains near inscription and narrow margins.
A rare oval portrait of Sophia Western, the love interest in Henry Fieldings's novel 'Tom Jones', seated at a table, letter in hand.
[Ref: 54179] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sophia Western.
Painted by J. Hoppner. J.B. Martin Sculp.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Stipple with large margins, printed in brown. 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Repaired tear in margin. Rare
An oval portrait of Sophia Western, the love interest in Henry Fielding's novel 'Tom Jones'.
[Ref: 31886] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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