Grosvenor Prints

Vue du Wetterhorn et Wetthorn, et du Glacier de Rosenlauy.
[Anon, c.1830]
Aquatint printed in colour with gum arabic, fine, sheet 145 x 185mm (5¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed around image and title. Excellent colour.
Rosenlaui Glacier on the left, and the Wetterhorn mountain in the centre. Coniferous forest and river in foreground. This viewpoint was depicted by many 19th century topographers of Swiss scenery.
[Ref: 33757] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Design for Fortifying Duncannon Fort towards the landside, which can be executed for a less Expence by one Eighth part than the Plan proposed by M.r Skinner. N:B: The Dotted lines represent the form of the old Works as they Stand at present. A. Shews the Barracks and new Buildings how they may be dispos'd.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Section of a manuscript watercolour map. At most 170 x 245mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Old ink mss description on album sheet. With a pen description of the 5 Regiment of Foot verso on 18th century Album page. Trimmed with loss, title excised and pasted on opposite page of album sheets.
A plan for improving the landward defences of Duncannon Fort, a star fort that had been built 1587-88 to defend Waterford from possible invasion by the Spanish Armada. The 'Skinner' mentioned in the title is probably William Skinner (1700-80), who was Chief Royal Engineer from 1757 until his death, working on Gibraltar, St Philip's Castle on Menorca and Fort George near Inverness.
[Ref: 61555] £160.00

[Rogier van der Weyden] Rogero, Bruxellensi Pictori. Non tibi sit laudi, quod multa, & pulchra, Rogere, / Pinxisti, ut poterant tempora ferre tua [...] 4.
Th. Galle excud [c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾") very large margins.
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), one of the most renowned painters of the fifteenth century, specialising in religious works and portraits. This engraving was made after an alleged self-portrait by van der Weyden, part of a series of paintings in Brussels town hall now lost. Third state of a plate first published in 1572, in a series of twenty-three portraits of painters from the Low Countries. In this state it was published after 1600 in the Antwerp publisher Theodor Galle's 'Illustrium Quos Belgium Habuit Pictorum Effigies. Antwerpiae'. Another edition was published in 1694.
[Ref: 43317] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester These Views of Waymouth &c. are by Permission most Humbly Inscribed by His Highness's Devoted Faithful Humble Servants, J.s Fittler J.s Love.
Pub.d as the Act Directs Feb.y 1791.
Etched title and eleven coloured aquatint plates with very large margins (with J. Whatman watermark), as called for, with 7 (of 11) letterpress descriptions of the plates, lacking list of subscribers; rare complete. Some wear and toning of all plates, one plate with crack in platemark. Some staining on edge of margins.
A complete set of oval views of Weymouth and environs, including several views of the town and Portland, Corfe Castle, Lulworth, Wyke, Radipole & Belfield.
Abbey: Scenery 339. Different publication lines to Abbey.
[Ref: 35799] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Waymouth, or Sands-Foot Castle.
J. Nixon, Esqr. delt. F. Bernie Aqua tint.
Publish'd July 1790 by J. Fittler, London & I. Love, Waymouth.
Etching and aquatint, paper watermarked for J. Whatman, with large margins, platemark 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
A storm with the thunder and lightning and heavy seas at Sandsfoot Castle, Dorset; walkers on the shore flee for shelter. One of Henry VIII's Device Forts, also known as Henrician Castles, built in the 1530s to the west of Weymouth, it sits opposite its contemporary Portland Castle. Together these two forts put the whole of Portland harbour and the roads, within range of their artillery, thus protecting shipping from foreign raiders, and to prevent an invading landing force from storming up onshore. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
Abbey Scenery 339.7 for the complete set see ref. 35799.
[Ref: 37981] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

To the King's most Excellent Majesty, this View of Weymouth, Is with His Majesty's gracious Permission humbly Dedicated by his most dutiful Subject and devoted Servant.
Painted by J.T. Serres, Marine Painter to His Majesty, H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and the R.t. Hon.ble the Board of Admiralty. Engraved by P.W. Tomkins Engraver to Her Majesty.
Published as the Act directs, for the Proprietors, Aug.st 12, 1803, by J.T.Serres, & G.Field, at the British School, Berres Street, and P.W. Tomkins , 49 New Bond Street, London.
Engraving. 495 x 710mm. Small repaired tear.
A view of the seafront of Weymouth from Nothe Point.
[Ref: 5464] £690.00

[Waymouth.]
[J. Love Delin. F. Bernie A. F.t.]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval prospect of the seafront at Weymouth, with bathing huts on wheels lining the beach. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates).
See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67937] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Weymouth.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 1. 1823.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1823 watermark. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"), with large margins. Foxing.
A view of the coastal town of Weymouth in Dorset, showing the harbour full of ships and boats. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 47143] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Weymouth.]
[after John Love]
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Coloured etching with aquatint. Oval, sheet 215 x 275mm (8½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on album paper.
An oval view of the bridge over the Wey between the town and Brewer's Quay. From the oblong folio 'Love’s Picturesque Views of Weymouth', (12 plates).
See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 67938] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Waymouth. [Weymouth.]
J. Love Delin. F. Bernie A. Ft.
[Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler, 1791.]
Scarce etching and aquatint. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"). Some spotting, mostly marginal; tatty extremities.
Charming prospect in an oval of the seafront at Weymouth, Dorset, situated in a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey. Bathing huts on wheels line the beach. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15. See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 22301] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Waymouth, or Sands-Foot Castle.
J. Nixon, Esqr. delt. F. Bernie Aqua tint.
Publish'd July 1790 by J. Fittler, London & I. Love, Waymouth.
Scarce aquatint. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"), on J. Whatman paper with large margins. Some spotting, mostly marginal; tatty extremities. Upper platemark weakened.
A storm with the thunder and lightning and heavy seas at Sandsfoot Castle, Dorset; walkers on the shore fee for shelter. One of Henry VIII's Device Forts, also known as Henrician Castles, built in the 1530s to the west of Weymouth, it sits opposite its contemporary Portland Castle. Together these two forts put the whole of Portland harbour and the roads, within range of their artillery, thus protecting shipping from foreign raiders, and to prevent an invading landing force from forming up offshore. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15. See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 22302] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

View of Waymouth, up the Harbour.
F. Bowles Esqr. delt. F Bernie Aqua tint.
Pubd. Decr. 1790 by I Fittler London & I Love Waymouth.
Etching and aquatint, scarce, with large margins, paper watermarked for J. Whatman. 255 x 295mm, 10 x 11½". Some spotting, mostly marginal; tatty extremities. One diagonal crease through upper left corner of plate.
An attractive prospect in an oval of Weymouth, Dorset, featuring shipping and a bridge. From the oblong folio 'Views of Waymouth' (1791, 12 plates) after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15. See item 22300 for titlepage.
[Ref: 22303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Weymouth] To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, This View of the Town, Pier, & Bay, of Weymouth; is by permission, humbly inscribed, by His Majesty's most dutiful & Loyal servants, T. Jones & J. Hassell.
Drawn & Engraved by J. Hassell.
London, Publish'd Dec.r 1. 1795 by T. Jones, No 93, Clarges Street, & J. Hassell, at Mr Walker's, Printseller, Cornhill.
Aquatint. Sheet 270 x 345mm (10½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges, a few spots.
A view of Weymouth from the east, with a group boarding a boat for pleasure and bathing machines in the background. George III spent many summers at his brother's residence, Gloucester Lodge, having been advised to take the waters after his first bout of porphyria.
[Ref: 56360] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Sandsfoot Castle Near Weymouth.
J.W. Upham del. J. Bluck fecit.
Published July 1821, by J.W. Upham, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint, sheet c.330 x 465mm. Margins missing top and bottom. Three tears from upper edge of paper, one at right c. 2cm into image with adjacent crease into image.
From 'Views In And Near Weymouth' consisting of 18 plates that according to the titlepage 'May be had of Mr. Upham, Professor of Drawing, Weymouth; at the Libraries, in Weymouth and Dorchester'. Fine colour.
Abbey, Scenery: 340.
[Ref: 7371] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

To His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester these views of Waymouth are by permission most humbly inscribed by his Highness’s devoted faithful humble servants Js. Fittler, Jn. Love
Pubd. as the Act Directs Feby. 1791 [Weymouth & London: J. Love and J. Fittler].
Etched pictorial titlepage, with large margins, 260 x 300mm. 10¼ x 11¾". Some spotting and staining, with tatty extremities.
Lettered to a stone monument in a landscape, two men and a woman looking at it from a bench to foreground, their backs to the viewer. The oblong folio of views in the environs of Weymouth, Dorset after J. Nixon, A. Beaumont; T. Morris, F. Bowles, and J. Love included 12 plates.
See BL Maps C.10.a.15.
[Ref: 22300] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Upway, Near Weymouth.
I.W. Upham delt. J. Bluck fecit.
Published July 1821, by J.W. Upham, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint, sheet c.320 x 425mm. Margins missing. Tear into title area. Creases through upper and lower right corners outsid eimage.
From 'Views In And Near Weymouth' consisting of 18 plates that according to the titlepage 'May be had of Mr. Upham, Professor of Drawing, Weymouth; at the Libraries, in Weymouth and Dorchester'. Fine colour.
Abbey Scenery of Great Britain And Ireland: 340.
[Ref: 7372] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Wyke And Portland.
J.W. Upham del. J. Bluck fecit.
Published July 1821, by J.W. Upham, Weymouth.
Coloured aquatint, sheet c.330 x 450mm. Margin missing top and bottom. Small repaired tear into publication line. Two creases across upper right corner of plate.
From 'Views In And Near Weymouth' consisting of 18 plates that according to the titlepage 'May be had of Mr. Upham, Professor of Drawing, Weymouth; at the Libraries, in Weymouth and Dorchester'. Fine colour.
Abbey Scenery of Great Britain And Ireland: 340.
[Ref: 7369] £320.00

The Whale Bone Macaroni.
Publish'd according to Act, Oct 22. 1772, by MDarly, 39, Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A man standing with his legs crossed, probably a stay, or corset, maker; an example of his wares is tucked under his right arm. He holds a tasselled cane. A 'bone' is one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame and gives it rigidity. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.5' upper left and '9' upper right.
BM Satires: 5045.
[Ref: 14306] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The North West on Davis's Streights Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t
[n.d. c.1795.]
Engraving, very scarce. Plate 260 x 375mm. 10¼ x 14¾". Large margins. Tearing and creasing in the margins. Crease through lower right-hand corner of image.
Scene of whaling amidst glaciers whre in the foreground the Harpoonist is ready to strike. The Davis Straits can be found between Greenland and Nunavut, Canada's Baffin Island. Francesco Ambrosi may originate from Padua and be associated with Remondini in Bassano. There are some Mediterrean and Spanish town views from the mid 18th century engraved by him. See ref:20316 for companion print and more information on the British Whaling pictures by Dodd.
Parker:2416.
[Ref: 20315] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Greenland Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t. Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1795.]
Very scarce engraving. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"), with wide margins. Crease through centre of image, damage in the margins.
“Greenland whale fishery” came to refer to whaling in the waters between Spitsbergen and Greenland. Whaleships followed the northward summer migration of the bowhead, sailing first to Spitsbergen, then drifting west to the edge of the East Greenland ice pack. The season generally laster four to five months. The identity of the two British whaleships in Robert Dodd's portrayal is unknown, but it is almost certain they were London-based vessels operating out of the Thames from where the largest British whaling fleet was based until well into the nineteenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century, the shortage of Arctic whales was already sending the whaling fleets as far away as Greenland. The Howland Great Wet Dock at Rotherhithe - built at the end of the seventeenth century - was, in 1763, renamed the Greenland Dock. In 1783, the year in which Dodd completed the painting from which this engraving is done the British whaling industry saw a marked revival after a wartime depression. The trade soon began to revive after the peace settlement with both France and the United States. An increase in the government whaling bounty was an added incentive to put more vessels into this extremely lucrative trade. This painting was engraved and published twice. The first occasion by John & Josiah Boydell of Cheapside in 1789 and again in 1795, by Fran. Ambrosi. Two separate printings would suggest a strong popular demand amongst whaling ship owners, masters and crews, for whom a generic image would perhaps be rather more attractive than one of vessels belonging to their rivals. See ref:20315 for the companion picture and information of the engraver.
Not in Parker.
[Ref: 20316] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Greenland Whale Fishery.
Rob. Dodd delin.t Fran. Ambrosi sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1795.]
Very scarce & fine engraving. 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾") very large margins.
A fleet of whalers in the Arctic, with a longboat landing hunters on the ice. The identity of the two ships flying British flags is unknown, but it is almost certain they were London-based vessels operating out of the Thames from where the largest British whaling fleet was based until well into the nineteenth century.
See Ref: 35656
[Ref: 60511] £520.00

The Harponiers poking a Whale with their Lances, after he is enfeebled through great loss of Blood, at the Wound made by the Harpone Iron.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving. 176 x 260mm (7 x 10¼"). Trimmed.
A whaling fleet in the North Atlantic; attacking the whale further as it surfaces for more air.
[Ref: 30386] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Whale struck with the Harpone Iron diving among the Ice, the Harponier going to chop the Rope off, to prevnt the long Boat being drawn under Water or split against the Ice.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1760.]
Engraving, paper watermarked. 176 x 255mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed.
A whaling fleet in the North Atlantic; the hunters cutting the rope lose before they are dragged underneath by the whale.
[Ref: 30387] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Whaling] The Fishery of Great Britain in its three different Branches viz.t Herring, Cod, and Whale Fishing. 19
Tho. Baston Pinx.t. I. Kirkall Sculp.t.
Printed for Bowles and Carver, No. 69, St Paul's Church Yard London [n.d., c.1800].
Scarce etching with engraving with fine colour, 18th century watermark. 230 x 375mm (9 x 14¾"), large margins Repaired tear in top right margin, slight oxidation of colour in sky.
A composite image of British warships guarding whalers, with scenes of fish houses and whale fat rendering. First published in 1721 as part of the series 'Twenty-two prints of several of the capital ships of his Majesties Royal Navy with variety of other sea pieces'.
[Ref: 59511] £390.00

Greenland Fishery. 68.
Brooking Pinx. Boydell Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, & Sold by J Boydell, Engraver at the Unicorn ye corner of Queen Street Cheapside, London 1754.
Engraving. Plate: 295 x 420mm (11½ x 16½") large margins.
A scene in the seas off Greenland showing several British whaling boats, the water is full of rowing boats and in the foreground figures harpoon a whale. Polar bears watch from the ice in the forground. By the mid eighteenth century whaling off the coast of Greenland was a fully established enterprise with the South Sea Company funding many excursions to the Arctic.
[Ref: 46249] £320.00

[Set of four whaling prints.] A Ships Boat Attacking a Whale. [&] Boats Approaching a Whale. [&] A Whale Brought Along-Side a Ship. [&] Shooting the Harpoon an a Whale.
J.H. Clark del. Dubourg sculp.t.
Published & Sold March 1t 1813 by Edw.d Orme, Bond St, London.
Four aquatints with fine hand colour. 185 x 235mm (7¼ x 9¼"), with large margins. With 9pp letterpress describing the plates.
From 'Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting, Anecdotes, &c.' by Samuel Howitt.
[Ref: 58022] £450.00 view all images for this item

Material=Ramme. Das Wind=berittne Schiff, laufft mit der Baar zu Lande. Die Baar dir zum sewin und Ruken mit Berstande.
Cor: Nico: Schurtz. Sc:
[n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving. Plate 266 x 160mm. 10¼ x 6¼". Crease.
Two allegorical scenes: a very Dutch figure of Mercury, surrounded by trade goods, includng bags of crocus bulbs and mistletoe (lignum sancti). Underneath is a ship, with whalers and a fort.
[Ref: 15204] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Navigatio Piscatorum in glacie quaerentium Balaenam. La Navigation dans la glace, et chercher du Baleine.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Hand coloured etching, 320 x 430mm. 12½ x 17". Stain to centre of title area. Trimmed close to upper platemark.
A Greenland whale fishery with polar bears (coloured in black!) in the foreground. Title in Latin and French. Possibly from a set of four arctic whaling and fishing scenes published by George Balthasar Probst (1732 - 1801) in Augsburg. Numbered 'CCI.' lower left.
[Ref: 9826] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Whampoa [No 18. Whampoa. Sonnenuntergang.]
E. Hildebrandt. [Chromofacsimilirt nach der Aquarelle aus der Sammlung 'die Reise um die Erde'.]
[Verlag von R.Wagner, Berlin Zimmerstr. No.92/93.] [n.d., 1871-4.]
Fine coloured chromolithograph. Image 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), trimmed to image and mounted on card as issued, title label on reverse as usual. Board foxed.
A view of Whampoa, once the main anchorage for Western shipping traading with Canton, after a watercolour by Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-69). Two pagodas are on the far shore. Born in Gdansk, Hildebrandt travelled constantly, including visits to the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolours, and his paintings were exhibited in London in 1866 and at the Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin. A folio of chromolithographs, mounted in imitation of watercolour presentation, was published as 'Reise um die Erde', (Journey around the World).
[Ref: 46874] £450.00

Hanwell Viaduct (G.t Western Railway) Drawn & Engraved for the British Gazetteer.
J.F. Burrell del.t. A. Ashley exc.t.
Published (for the Proprietors) by H.G. Collins, 22, Paternoster Row [1851]
Steel engraving, sheet 175 x 260mm (7 x 10¼").
Wharncliffe Viaduct, between Hanwell & Southhall, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's first major structural design, 886 feet (270 m) long, with eight semi-elliptical arches.
[Ref: 41597] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

East View of the Salt Works at Wharton in Cheshire. As erected by Mr. Furnival, from 1828 to 1832.
Jobbins & Cheffins litho: Southampton Buildings, Holborn.
Lithograph with hand-colouring, sheet 185 x 320mm (7¼ x 12½"). Tears to edges. Creases as normal
The salt works at Wharton (now Winsford) in Cheshire. Rock salt arrived in the area in the Triassic period, and was excavated from the seventeenth century onward. Winsford Rock Salt Mine opened in 1844 and is still in operation.
[Ref: 43690] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Philadelphia and Elizabeth Wharton. The only Daughters of Philip Lord Wharton, by Elizabeth his First Lady. In the Drawing Room at Houghton.
A. v. Dyck pinx. 1640. P. v. Gunst sculps. et exc. Amstelod.
Ex Museo Sereniss. Domini de Wharton. [n.d. c.1770.]
Line engraving with small margins, plate 520 x 330mm (20½ x 13").
Portrait of Philadelphia and Elizabeth Wharton, daughters of Philip, Lord Wharton, as children, standing by a curtain with landscape in the background. Elizabeth, Countess of Lindsay, and Philadelphia Wharton (c.1636-1707). Engraved from the portrait by van Dyck, which at this time was part of the collection formed at Houghton by Robert Walpole, before the collection was purchased by Catherine the Great and installed at the Hermitage in St Petersberg.
For an earlier impression see ref. 21542
[Ref: 34228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Philadelphia and Elizabeth Whartons, the only Daughters of Philip Lord Wharton, by Elizabeth his first Lady.
A. v. Dyck pinx. 1640. P. v. Gunst sculps. et exc. Amstelod.
Ex Museo Sereniss. Domini de Wharton. [n.d. c.1715.]
Framed engraving. Plate 520 x 330mm. 20½ x 13". Large margins.
Portrait of Philadelphia and Elizabeth Wharton as children, standing by a curtain with landscape in the background. Elizabeth, Countess of Lindsay and, Philadelphia Wharton (c.1636-1707). Elizabeth was by his first wife, Elizabeth Wandesford, whereas Philadelphia was had by Jane Goodwin (1618-1658) and later became Lady Lockhart.
[Ref: 21542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

His Grace Philip Duke of Wharton.
C. Jervas pinx. J. Simon fecit et ex.
Sold by Phil: Overton at ye Golden Buck ag.t S.t Dunstans Church Fleet Street [n.d. c.1720].
Mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper with two strips of red letterpress at sides. Bottom left corner missing.
Philip Wharton (1698-1731), 1st Duke of Wharton, Jacobite politician whose heavy debts led to him leaving the country and fighting for Spain at the Siege of Gibraltar in 1727, earning him a charge of treason in 1729. The letterpress relates to the Lords' passing of the bill of pains and penalties against Wharton.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. CS:161 says only 3 known, not listing this Overton edition. Sharpe 661.
[Ref: 64541] £380.00

His Grace Philip Duke of Wharton.
C. Jervas pinx. J. Simon fecit et ex.
Sold at the corner of Hemmings Row, in St. Martins Lane. London. [n.d. c.1720.]
Fine mezzotint. Mounted on an album page. Plate 352 x 252mm. 13¾ x 10". Very scarce. Cut and laid on sheet.
Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (1698-1731), powerful Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake, profligate, and alcoholic, was one of the few people in English history, and the first since the 15th century, to have been raised to a Dukedom whilst still a minor and not closely related to the monarch. Young Wharton began to travel. He had been raised with an excellent education and prepared for a life as a public speaker, and Wharton was eloquent and witty. He travelled to France and Switzerland with a severe Calvinist tutor whom he resented. Wharton then went to Ireland where, at the age of 18, he entered the Irish House of Lords as Marquess Catherlough. When he was 19 years old he was created Duke of Wharton in 1718 by George I in the King's effort to solidify his support. His two periods of activity abroad were in 1716-17 and then after 1724. In England between 1723-4 he produced the 'True Briton', a Jacobite periodical. Pope calls him: "The scorn and wonder of our days."
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12844] £450.00

The most Hono.ble Thomas Lord Marquiss of Wharton Lord Privy Seal.
G. Kneller S.R.I. et Magna Brit: Barott. pinx. Simon fecit.
Sold by J. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1712.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Cut and laid on sheet. Some glue staining to the corners.
Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648-1716). Politician; a brilliant political manager; he was thought the most 'universal villain' by the Tories.
From the Belton House Collection assembled in the 18th Century by the Rt. Hon. John Ld. Brownlow, Baron Charleville, & Viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lenno
[Ref: 12857] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The most Hono.ble Thomas Lord Marquiss of Wharton Lord Privy Seal.
G. Kneller S.R.I. et Magna Brit: Baro.tt pinx.
Sold by J. Smith [sic] at ye Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1712.]
Fine mezzotint, old ink mss. in inscription area. 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Horizontal central crease.
Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648-1716). Politician; a brilliant political manager; he was thought the most 'universal villain' by the Tories. Engraved and first published by John Simon.
CS 267; Russell 162a state ii.
[Ref: 61369] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Marquis of Wharton.]
[G. Kneller pinxt.] J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1744.
Fine engraving with large margins, first state before "publisher's address; after Godfrey Kneller". Plate 375 x 240mm. 14¾ x 9½".
Portrait of Thomas Wharton, bust in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a long wig; in an ornamental oval with draped curtain beyond; the sitter's coat of arms below; a richly decorated purse in lower left. From Thomas Birch's 'Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain'. Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648-1715) was an English nobleman and politician. He was active before and during the Glorious Revolution. From 1708 to 1710 he was Commissioner for the Union of Scotland and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and he was also known for his love of horse-racing. Taken from the Kneller Kit-Cat Club portrait. Christopher Catling was the keeper of a pie-house in Shire Lane, by Temple Bar, where the club originally met hence "Kit-Cat" being his name abbreviated. The 18th century English club had strong political and literary associations, committed to the furtherance of Whig objectives.
[Ref: 24706] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

What a Row! with the Tories and Whigs. Tune, -"Oh dear! what can the matter be." [...] Chorus.[/] Oh dear, we are informed by authority, [/] The Tories are likely to gain a majority, [/] So the Corn Bill & whigs will be in the minority, [/] And Great Britain will have to lament.
Birt, printer, 30 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, London.
Letterpress, very scarce. Sheet: 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10"). Paper tone. Glued to album sheet. Staining.
Political broadside discussing the General Election of 1841 though lyrics to be sung to the tune of 'Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be!' Sir Robert Peel's Conservative Party took control of the House of Commons taking power from Lord Melbourne's Whig Party.
[Ref: 35127] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

What About The Church? Protestant Electors, Do Not Be Deceived! Mr. Disraeli cannot save it, Mr Gladstone cannot hurt it, except so far as it is true or false to its own principles.... John Hampton, Hereford. September 1st, 1868.
John Hampden, Hereford. September 1st, 1868.
F.T. Hawkins, Printer, 13, High Street, Hereford. [1868.]
Letterpress broadside handbill, sheet 285 x 215mm. 11¼ x 8½".
An interesting piece of popular ephemera that reflects debates around the status of the Church of England in the build up to the 1868 general election. Some were arguing that it should be disestablished. The author here, apparently independent of both Liberal and Conservative official positions on the issue, exhorts voters in Hereford to sign up to his petition to the clergy. The 1868 election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom. It was the first election held in the United Kingdom in which more than a million votes were cast. The result saw the Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, again increase their large majority over Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives to more than 100 seats.
[Ref: 16772] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

"What are you Looking at Puppy?"
London: Published by F.W. Farbrother. Registered. [n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 350 x 254mm (13¾ x 10").
A young lady in a crinoline, holding in her arms a small wide-eyed puppy.
[Ref: 23901] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

What d'ye Stare At? 398.
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 9 Nov.r 1790.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½") large margins.
A half-length portrait in oval of a stout elderly man, scowling over the right shoulder.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. BM Satires 8917, Bowles & Carver edition.
[Ref: 63436] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

What is it?
Norman Wilkinson
[n.d., c.1930.]
Coloured photolitho with remarque, signed in pencil by the artist, very large margins. 320 x 480mm (12½ x 19").
A motor launch, designated 'ML '193', attempting to identify another vessel "a submarine". Lieut. Norman Wilkinson, CBE (1878-1971) was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, and during both World Wars worked developing camouflage techniques. He was also a prolific illustrator of salmon and trout fishing.
[Ref: 30794] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

What Name Shall We Give It.
[n.d. c.1860.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 178 x 140mm (7 x 5½"). Laid on card.
A young lady standing on her balcony holds small terrier puppy in her hands, contemplating various names. Behind; a large house and yacht on a lake.
[Ref: 19371] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

W. Wheatley [facsimile signature].
[London: Thomas & William Boone, 480 Strand. 1823.]
Coloured engraving. Printed area 100 x 80mm, 4 x 3¼".
A half-length portrait of a barrister in his wig and gown. Published in "Portraits of the Worthies of Westminster-Hall, with their Autographs; being Fac-Similies of Original Sketches, Found in the Note-Book of a Briefless Barrister". Only Part I of this work was published: an attempt to fund Part II by subscription failed. William Wheatley was the Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas.
[Ref: 16665] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

George Wheatley Esq.r.
Painted by J.W. Chandler. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds.
London, Published Jan.y 19 1796 by S.W. Reynolds, No 6 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane.
Fine mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait of George Wheatley, chief clerk at Drummond's Bank, wearing a dark buttoned coat and light neckerchief.
Not in Whitman.
[Ref: 45385] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[James Wheble.]
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 390 x 240mm (15½ x 9½"). Laid on album sheet.
A portrait of tallow chandler and soap maker James Wheble (1729-1801).
[Ref: 47257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Wheel of Fortune.]
Sold by T. Bakewell in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1745.]
Engraving Sheet: 185 x 255mm, (7¼ x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Laid on album sheet.
A mythological scene in which a withered, snake-haired woman spins a figure wretched figure around a large wheel while a fire blazes near them and two further crones look on. The three old women are reminiscent of the Fates from ancient mythology, though with their snakes for hair they also resemble the hideous gorgons. The Wheel of Fortune was a medieval and ancient concept demonstrating the capricious nature of Fate, the wheel being spun at random by the goddess Fortuna affecting the lives of those attached. The Wheel of Fortune was also a medieval form of torture, the victim would be tied to a large wheel while a large fire would be set close enough to burn anyone tied to the wheel. The wheel would then be turned like a spit slowly cooking the captive.
[Ref: 40328] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Wheelwright] Une Femme de Charon. Eine Wangnerin.
J.J. Stelzer fecit.
Cum Priv. Maj. M. Engelbrecht exc. A.V. [Augsburg, n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 305 x 195mm (12 x 7¾"), large margins.
A fanciful representation of a female wheelwright, with a wheel as the hoop of her dress, on which are hanging the tools of her trade. She holds a saw and an axle. Cross-dressing image.
[Ref: 68125] £480.00

[Wheelwright] Charron. Wagner.
[after Jean-Frédéric Wentzel] Lith. C. Fasoli et Ohlman à Stras.sbg.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Lithograph with fine hand colour heightened with gum arabic, rare with large margins. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"). Slight loss of gum arabic on left.
A wheelwright's workshop.
[Ref: 36604] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

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