Grosvenor Prints

The Troops Emerging from the Narrow Part of the Defile.
[J. Atkinson.]
[London: H. Graves & Co., 1842.]
Sepia tinted lithograph heightened in white, image 250 x 365mm. 9¾ x 14¼".
Anglo-Indian troops with camels on a narrow mountain pass observed by commanding officers in the foreground. The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. From 'Sketches in Afghaunistan' by James Atkinson of the East India Company’s Bengal Medical Service. Lithography by Louis and Charles Haghe.
Abbey Travel: 508, 11. British Library: 000135888.
[Ref: 20457] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Africa. Plate 143. Vol.2. No.84. page 326.
G. Child Sculp.t
[n.d. c.1759.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 235 x 158mm. 9¼ x 6¼".
An allegory of Africa, with various figures and two pyramids and a sphynx seen to the right. From Thomas Salmon's "The Universal Traveller: or, A Compleat Description of the several Nations of the World...", Vol.II, in which Salmon describes his travels in West Africa, particularly the Guinea coast, which was also called 'Calabar' in the 1700s. He described the African way of living, from their clothing styles and houses to the slave trade.
[Ref: 27950] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

L'Afrique. Bien que de mes Deserts les chaleurs indomtees / Enchassent les Mortals par leur sterilite; / Mesvilles neantinoins sot partout habitees, / Pour leur utilite.
Bosse fe. avec Privilege du Roy
a paris chez chereau le jeaune ruë St Jacques au S.t Remy [n.d., c.1740].
Engraving with original hand colour. 215 x 140mm (8½ x 5½") very large margins. Stain in left margin. Repaired hole in bottom of lower margin.
A female allegorical figure representing Africa, dressed in colourful cloth carrying a parasole and tambourine, an elephant in background.
[Ref: 55117] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[African Austale.]
A. Biasoli inc.
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins; publisher's stamp to lower right. Plate: 171 x 235mm (6¾ x 9¼").
Three men: one with spear, another with a bottle in one hand and balancing wood on his head with the other; the third man sits holding a type of horn and pole. Published in Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario'.
[Ref: 39973] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[African Austral.] 61.
A. Biasoli inc.
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins, publisher's stamp to lower right. Plate: 172 x 235mm (6½ x 9¼"). Some creasing and marks.
Two African guards standing holding shields, one holds an axe and the other a spear. They both sport wicker head-pieces; ships seen on the river behind. Published in Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario'.
[Ref: 39974] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Two groups of African figures.] Durands Voyage [upper left.]
[Anon.]
[London: R. Phillips, 1816.]
Etching and aquatint, two images on a single leaf, sheet 210 x 125mm. 8¼ x 5". Trimmed to plate.
In total nine figures are numbered, identified in a key below each image; they include a 'Moorish' Prince and Princess, female slaves and a Senegalese priest. A costume plate from an English edition of Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand's 'Voyage au Senegal': 'A Voyage to Senegal; or, Historical, Philosophical, and Political Memoirs, Relative to the Discoveries, Establishments, and Commerce of Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone'. Durand was a director of the commercial 'Compagnie du Sénégal'.
[Ref: 22653] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

La Famille Africaine.
L. Boilly [signed in plate.]
Chez Aubert gal. vero-dodat. Imp. d'Aubert et de Junca. [Paris, 1823-1828.]
Lithograph, sheet 260 x 210mm. 11½ x 8¼".
Louis-Léopold Boilly, (1761 - 1845), He studied painting as a teenager before moving to Paris in 1785. He created images of the Parisian Salon lifestyle with great detail of expression, gesture, costuming, and textiles. His most famous printed lithographs are 'Recueil de grimâces'. A caricature of an African family (five adults and a baby), with exaggerated racial characteristics, from Louis Léopold Boilly's (1761 - 1845) 'Recueil de grimâces' series of studies of facial expression and gesture.
[Ref: 17975] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The African Hog.
Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 15, 1805.
A very rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 380 x 505mm (15 x 20"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate,
A bushpig at a watering hole, a tribesman with hunting dogs behind, published in Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals', one of the scarcest plate books on South Africa. Despite the inscription it had been suggesed that the plates were in fact engraved by William Daniell. Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
Abbey: 321.
[Ref: 52840] £550.00

[South African Mongoose.] Cynictis Steedmannii. Trans. Zool. Soc. Vol. 1. Pl.3 pp.34.
E. Lear, del. Zeitter sc.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 310 x 245mm (12 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate on top and bottom edges.
A diagram of a South African Mongoose, named after Andrew Steedman who travelled through South Africa collecting specimens for study. After a drawing by the artist Edward Lear (1812-1888). An illustration for 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol 1'.
[Ref: 44728] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Scrap album sheet of photographs and sketches made in Yemen, Mauritius, South Africa and the Seychelles]
[Anon., c.1890]
Album sheet, 355 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"), with three photographs and five sketches attached.
Album sheet comprising three photographs labelled: 'Port Louis' (Mauritius); 'The gardens, Pamplemouse, Mauritius'; 'The tanks Aden' (Yemen); and five sketches: 'The Port Bourbon' (Mauritius); 'Seychelles Islands'; 'East London South Africa'; 'From the Crater Cure Pipe Mauritius'; and 'Tamatave' (Toamasina, Madagascar).
[Ref: 43208] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The African Prince.
Painted by H. Meyer. Engraved by R. Hicks.
Fisher, Son & Co. London, 1844.
Engraving. Plate: 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾'').
A scene showing a young African prince embracing a young woman, holding a book.
[Ref: 49953] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece.] To Lieutenant General Francis Dundas Late Lieut and Acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope under whose Patronage the Materials of the Present Work were Collected this First Part of African Scenery and Animals is inscribed with the Greatest Respect by his Most Obliged and Faithful Humble Servant Samuel Daniell.
[n.d., c.1806.]
Aquatint. Plate: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾''). Foxing and handling marks
A frontispiece to Samuel Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals' which described the animals and and landscape of South Africa.
[Ref: 48103] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece.] To David Davies Esq.r this Second Part of African Scenery and Animals is Most Respectfuly Inscribed from a Grateful Recollection of his Long and Valuable Friendship by his much Obliged and Faithful Humble Servant Samuel Daniell.
[n.d., c.1806.]
Aquatint, fine, watermark 1801 J. Whatman. Plate: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾'') very large margins.
A frontispiece to Samuel Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals' which described the animals and and landscape of South Africa.
[Ref: 48102] £320.00

The Generous Master or African Sincerity. a West-India anecdote.
Argus del.t.
London Pub Jan.y 9 1819 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street.
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed inside platemark and glued to backing sheet; staining and paper tone.
An invalid tells his black servant 'Pompey' that he has made provision in his will for Pompey to be buried beside him in the same tomb. Pompey, however, is horrified at the idea, and worries that because of the darkness in the tomb, the devil might mistakenly take him instead of his master. A rare and interesting image.
BM Satires 13193.
[Ref: 41468] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The African Village. Composed by Henry Russell, for his Popular Entertainment "The Emigrant's Progress'' _ Words by Angus B. Reach. No 369, Musical Bouquet.
[London: Musical Bouquet Office, n.d., 1855].
Wood engraved music sheet, signed by the composer. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Lacking second page of music.
A song written by Henry Russell (c.1812-1900), a great-nephew of the British Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschel, best known for setting 'A Life on the Ocean Wave' to music. The cover illustration has a pianist surrounded by seven vignettes of a voyage to Africa. The example in the National Library of Australia has the same signature in a different place.
NLA: Bib ID 7251109.
[Ref: 56544] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Habitation des Negres. [&] Mariage des Negres.
Freret pinxt. Colibert sculpt. 1795.
A Paris chez Depeuille, Md. dEstamps rue des Mathurins, aux deux Pilastres d'Or.
Rare pair of etchings with some stippling, each image approx. 340 x 450mm (13½ x 17¾"). Trimmed to plates.
Two large prints from a series of four illustrating the (perceived) customs of black Africans, by Nicholas Colibert after Louis Freret. The scenes show families together in everyday life and dancing in celebration with a poem under the title of each.
Paris:Musee de Quai Branly, John Carter Brown Library. See Ref: 35603
[Ref: 23170] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

[A Good Day's Hunting.]
[James Hardy.]
[London, c.1885.]
Etching, remarque proof on india. Plate 381 x 470mm. 15 x 18½". Stamped: Artist's London Proof.
A hunter in the lane with his horse and dogs; his gun slung over this shoulder. A young boy with him holding some foul; rabbits, pheasants hung on the tree to the right, and lying on the ground by his feet. Remarque of pointer lower right.
[Ref: 19624] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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After Sweet Meat comes Sour Sauce. or Corporal Casey got into the wrong box. Tegg's Caricatures NO. 24.
Rowlandson Del.
[Pub.d Nov.r 30 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside.]
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Narrow margins.
In a rustic bedroom a buxom young woman kneels to kiss her soldier who has been hiding in a large chest. A later printing with the publication line erased.
BM Satires 11642.
[Ref: 41121] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

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After the Battle, / Night closed around the conqueror's way, / And lightnings show'd the distant hill...
Pocock Jn.r Del.t. J. Minasi Sculp.t.
Pub'd as the Act directs Jan.y 1810 by W. Power, Dublin & J. Power, London.
Stipple & engraving. 340 x 230mm (13¼ x 8¾"). Stained.
A scene from 'After The Battle', by the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852), with soldiers armed with shields, spear and mace standing before a ruined castle. Published as an illustration in 'A Selection of Irish Melodies with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson Mus. Doc and Characteristic words by Thomas Moore, Esq.'.
[Ref: 34205] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

After the Storm [pencil] Just Published. Original Etching by John G. Mathieson. (Limited Edition)
John G Mathieson [signed in pencil.]
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1930.]
Drypoint etching, signed by the artist. 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8"), with wide margins. In original mount with printed label with publisher's logo of a black bell with ABC in white. Mint.
The edge of a wood, with fallen trees. John George Mathieson, a Scottish painter and etcher of landscapes who lived and worked in Stirling, exhibiting between 1918 and 1940.
[Ref: 49226] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Seid Achmet Aga Muteferrica Guedikli Zaim de Boziazi. Fief du premier Ordre, en Asie un des grands Officiers et Ecuyer de main des a Hautiers et Grand Marechal de l'Ambassade en France.
Presenté par son tres humble Serviteur Petit. 1742.
a Paris chez Petit rue S. Jacques a la Couronne d'épines pres les Mathurines.
Engraving. Plate 151 x 106mm (6 x 4¼"). Rare.
Ambassador to France from the Ottoman Empire. Quatrain below relating to the sitter's feelings upon leaving Byzantium for France and vice versa.
[Ref: 29818] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Georgiana Agar-Ellis, Lady Dover]
J. Jackson pinx. R.A. S.W. Reynolds sculp.
Published by Colnagho P. Feb 13 1824.
Fine mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 380 x 255mm (15 x 10mm), with large margins. Repairs in edges of margins. Uncut.
Georgiana Agar Ellis (1804-1860), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle; in 1822 she married George Agar-Ellis, who became Baron Dover in 1831.
Whitman 8.
[Ref: 63538] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

S. Agata.
B.T.A.
[n.d., c.1630.]
Woodcut. Sheet: 190 x 120mm (7¾ x 5''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Saint Agatha of Sicily. Agatha had dedicated herself to be a Consecrated Virgin but she attracted the attention of a Roman prefect. After she rejected his advances on several occasions he had her arrested and tried before himself, he sent her to a brothel where she suffered rape but she refused to turn her back on God. The prefect called her back and had her tortured, cutting off her breasts, she was eventually saved from torture by St Peter who healed her wounds. St. Agatha is shown holding a plate containing her breasts. A woodcut cut by the monogrammist BTA, probably cut for a Carmelite order in Venice in the first half of the 16th century.
[Ref: 49646] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

That's what the Age says of you Madam!
London, Pub.d by S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place.
Coloured etching. 140 x 185mm (5½ x 7¼"). Glue stains top right corner of plate.
A man reading 'The Age' newspaper offends a woman with balloon sleeves.
[Ref: 42010] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Age & Dress. The Ruling Passion be it what it will, / The Ruling Passion conquers Reason still.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Rare & fine mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Thread margins.
An elderly lady in the fashionable dress of a young woman, seated at her dressing table looking in her mirror holding a cosmetic box. Appears to be after Charles Antoine Coypel's (1694-1752) pastel 'Folly embellishing Old Age with the adornments of Youth.'
Not in BM. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51885] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Age & Dress. The Ruling Passion be it what it will, / The Ruling Passion conquers Reason still.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at No 53 in Fleet Street, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Rare & fine mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Small margins.
An elderly lady in the fashionable dress of a young woman, seated at her dressing table looking in her mirror holding a cosmetic box. Appears to be after Charles Antoine Coypel's (1694-1752) pastel 'Folly embellishing Old Age with the adornments of Youth.'
BM Satires 4593. Ex Lennox-Boyd & Oettingen-Wallerstein collections.
[Ref: 51884] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Age of Bronze.] Ætas Ænea.
Anto Temp. Flor.
[n.d., c.1599.]
Engraving. 17th century watermark; Sheet: 225 x 335mm (9 x 13''). Trimmed, time stained. Very slight tear left corner.
In the foreground a group of men build a wall and chop wood, while women do laundry. In the distance groups of animals graze or are used in the building work. By Antonio Tempesta after Nicolas van Aelst.
[Ref: 48024] £350.00

The Age of Innocence.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reyolds Engrv'd by J Grozer.
London, Published Feb.y 10th 1788 by W. Dickinson Engraver Bond Street.
Stipple with etching. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"), very large margins.
A bare-footed young girl sitting under a tree, hands together on her chest, staring to the right, after a painting in the Tate since 1847 (N00307). The Tate records that ''it is very probably identifiable with a work exhibited by Reynolds at the Royal Academy in 1785, and entitled simply 'a little girl''' and that Sir Robert Edgcumbe, a Victorian descendant of Reynolds, identified her as the artist's great-niece Theophila Gwatkin (1782-1844).
Hamilton: pg. 141. Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Sotheby's London / Milan Nov 1997.
[Ref: 60317] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Francesco Ageno.]
T. Gainsborough R.A. del. F. Bartolozzi sculps R.A.
[London: Dennett Jaques, 1790.]
Rare etching with stipple. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to plate at sides; diagonal creases through upper left and lower right corners.
Francesco Ageno was ambassador of Genoa at London from 1760 to 1781. The portrait frontispiece to the sitter's 'Prose e rime del Signor Francesco D'Ageno'; engraved by Bartolozzi from a sketch by Richard Cosway of Gainsborough's portrait in the collection of Grolamo Tonioli. Bartolozzi erased Cosway's name in the published state after Gainsborough remonstrated.
BL: 000029152. Hone 2 II. From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18234] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Brazen Age. Virtue languising [sic] ! is represented by Minerva leaning on the knees of Industry, & the Indolence of the Sciences shews the barreness of this Age. [...]
F. Verdier delin. J. Simon fecit.
[n.d., c.1720]
Mezzotint, platemark 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheet at top.
Fine mezzotint by the early mezzotinter John Simon (c.1675-1751) after his French contemporary François Verdier (1650-1730). One of a series of the ages.
Ex: Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33177] £480.00

The Golden Age. The reigning Vertues of this Age are represented by Faith, Hope and Charity. Obedience by a Woman bearing a Yoak & by her side one holding Turtle Doves, the Bee Hives on the other side shews Union & Concord [...]
F. Verdier delin. J. Simon fecit.
[n.d., c.1720]
Mezzotint, very scarce; platemark 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheet at top; small tear at top.
Fine mezzotint by the early mezzotinter John Simon (c.1675-1751) after his French contemporary François Verdier (1650-1730). One of a series of the ages.
Ex: Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33176] £480.00

The Iron Age. Every thing in this Picture shews the wicked & perversness of this Age. Rage is represented by a Man holding a Child by the heels animated by ye torch of Envy, Fury tramples upon Charity, Innocence, & Religion [...]
F. Verdier delin. J. Simon fecit.
[n.d., c.1720]
Mezzotint, very scarce; platemark 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheet at top.
Dramatic mezzotint by the early mezzotinter John Simon (c.1675-1751) after his French contemporary François Verdier (1650-1730). One of a series of the ages.
Ex: Collection of the Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33175] £480.00

The Life & Age of Man. Stages of Mans Life from the Cradle to the Grave.
[after Nathaniel Currier.] D. Needham 12 Exchange St. Buffalo.
Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St. NY & 136 Main St Hartford [n.d., c.1850].
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed close to printed border and inscriptions, some surface rubbing, laid on card.
A modern take on Shakepeare's 'Sevan Ages of Man, expanding it to ten decades, each with a figure on an arch, a representative animal and lines of verse. Thirty and Forty are represented as soldiers (forty with the Stars and Stripes), with a bull and a lion; Eighty is an old cat by the fire. Based on an original by Nathaniel Currier.
[Ref: 63464] £380.00

Lucy Aggs [facsimile signature.]
[R.J.Lane.]
[n.d. c.1841.]
Lithograph. 266 x 191mm. 10½ x 7½".
Lucy Aggs (1789?-1853) was a Quaker philanthropist.
NPG: two copies.
[Ref: 15590] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Agincourt.
Godefroy delin. Barlow sculp.
Published as the Act directs, Dec.r 1. 1794.
Engraving. Sheet size: 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Trimmed inside plate. Central vertical crease.
A scene at the Battle of Agincourt, with a knight on horseback in the centre and a rows of mounted soldiers approaching from the right.
[Ref: 39462] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Agincourt. Engraved for Ashburton's History of England.
Grainger delin. Saunders sculp.
Published by W.J. Stratford, No 112 Holborn Hill, Nov.r 3 1792.
Etching. 210 x 305mm (8¼ x 12") large margins.
An oval scene of the Battle of Agincourt, 25th October 1415, during the Hundred Years' War, within a rectangular hatchured border.
[Ref: 52055] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Battle of Agincourt.
Hamilton delin. A.W. Warren sculp.
[1803.]
Engraving, Sheet size: 155 x 215mm (6 x 8½"). Trimmed inside plate.
The English army defeated the French on 25th October 1415 at Battle of Agincourt. An illustration from Lyttleton's 'History of England', depicting the Battle scene at Agincourt, with knights in combat with swords and axes in the centre, and a row of archers beyond at the left.
[Ref: 39460] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

St. Agnes. From the Painting of Dominichino Zampieri, 6 feet 10 inches high, by 5 feet wide, in the Royal Palace of Kensington.
Dominichino Zampieri Pinx.t Robertus Strange dlin.t et sculp.t Londini 1759
Line engraving, 510 x 360mm (20 x 14"), with wide margins
Engraving from the painting of 1620 by Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641, known as Domenichino), which remains in the Royal Collection. In his 1769 catalogue Strange sold this engraving as a pair to his 'Belisarius' after Salvator Rosa.
[Ref: 22146] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

St Agnes. From the Painting of Domenichino Zampieri, 6 feet 10 inches high, by 5 feet wide, in the Royal Palace at Kensington.
Domenichino Zampieri Pinx.t. Robertus Strange delin.t et sculp.t Londini 1759.
[London: Robert Strange, 1790.]
Engraving. 505 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"), with large margins. Foxing top margin.
St Agnes of Rome, patron saint of chastity, her hands joined in prayer, a cherub with a lamb at her feet and another flying above her, bringing a crown and palm. From a collected edition of the engravings by Sir Robert Strange (1721-92) after famous paintings, in this case one by Domenico Zampieri, c.1620, now in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
[Ref: 46536] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Agnew and Sons Private View Invitation design.]
[Robert Walker Macbeth.]
1886.
Etching with large margins. Proof before names. Platemark: 80 x 122mm (3¼ x 4¾").
The desgin used to illustrate a 'Private View of an Exhibition of Modern Etchings' from Thomas Agnew and Sons at their Exchange Art Gallery in Liverpool, 1886. The image on the invitation shows Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, Robert Walker Macbeth (1848 - 1910) and English printer and print-maker Frederick Goulding (1842 - 1909) working at a printing press. Thomas Agnew & Sons is a fine arts dealer in London, established in 1817 in Manchester. To see an impression of the invitation itself, see item ref: 35537.
[Ref: 35538] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

An Agreeable Group of Young Gentlemen, otherwise old batchelors turn'd asses.
R.d Newton delin.t.
[Published 22nd August 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Etching. Sheet 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, some rubbing.
Five elderly men, mutton dressed as lamb. Richard Newton (1777-98) produced nearly 300 single sheet satires in his short career, starting at fourteen and ending with his premature death at twenty-one.
[Ref: 32958] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Agreeable Surprise.] Lingo and Cowslip. Oh Cowslip the Great Old Roman Hero's, Perhaps you never heard of Moses, Homer, Hercules or Wat Tyler; Vide, O.Keefs Agreable Surprise.
H. Singleton pinx.t Edw.d Scott, Sculp.t
London, Pub.d May 1, 1788 by I. Birchall No.473, Strand.
Very fine stipple printed in brown ink with large margins, paper watermarked. Plate 380 x 350mm (15 x 13¾").
A scene from O'Keeffe's play 'The agreeable Surprise': in a kitchen, Lingo sits on a chair wearing wig and pointing upwards, while Cowslip faces him with a bowl on her lap. Comic actor John Edwin the Elder (1749-1790) is depicted here as Lingo, with actess and singer Mary Stephens Wells (1762-1829) as Cowslip.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. NPG: D15108.
[Ref: 28412] £360.00

Agricultural Employment.
Published, October 18th 1825 by R.H. Laurie, No 53 Fleet Street, London.
Engraved writing sheet, watermark J. Green & Son. 420 x 360mm (16½ x 14¼"). Cracks and tears in edges restored. Creasing, small margins.
A writing sheet with eight agricultural scenes. Above is a large view of Stanborough Farm, with six panels down the sides (Sowing, Reaping, Going to Market, Ploughing, Sheep Shearing and 'Gathering Apple's'), and a vignette of a hay wain at the bottom. Only one panel is humorous, perhaps as a treat for a bored pupil: 'Gathering Apple's' in the bottom right shows a man falling head-first from a tree.
[Ref: 56358] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

1864. London And Clavering Association, For Promoting and Rewarding Industry and Good Conduct amongst the Labouring Population. The Following Prizes For Stock Will Be Awarded At the Annual Meeting of the above Society, to be held on the 14th October next, at London.
Printed At The Mercury Office, Norwich. [1864.]
Letterpress poster advertisement, broadside, 500 x 325mm. 19¾ x 12¾". Soiled, creased and stained, with several holes; very fragile.
Advertisement for an agricultural show organised by a Victorian benevolent society, listing prize money available for each category of livestock, and for certain vegetables. Also soliciting for subscribers to the prize find.
[Ref: 10756] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

English Agricultural Society's Show Yard. First Meeting at Oxford, July 17.th 1839. To the Right Hon.ble John Charles, Earl Spencer, President, the Trustees, Vice Presidents, Committe of Management, and Members. This Print is most respectfully dedicated.
On Stone by T. Picken, from a Drawing by W.A. Delamotte. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
Published by John & R. Dewe, Broad St.t Oxford; and Sold by R.Ackerman, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent Street; and T. M.cLean, 26 Haymarket, London.
Rare lithograph, 275 x 350mm (10¾ x 13¾"). Repaired tears top and bottom.
Gentlemen in top hats converse and survey the cows and horses under awnings. In the center are marquees and farm equipment such as ploughs and carts. The Royal Agricultural Society of England was established in the United Kingdom in 1838. Its motto was "Practice with Science", and its aim was to promote the scientific development of agriculture. The society received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria in 1840.
See: Ref: 16545 for English Agricultural Society's Show Yard in Cambridge
[Ref: 57087] £320.00

L'Agriculture. F. II.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Rare etching. 200 x 135mm (8 x 5¼"). Small margins on 3 sides.
A rococo design, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), representing Agriculture, with pots, topiary and tools.
[Ref: 59101] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Agriculture N.º 2.
Published for the Home & Colonial Infant School Society by Darton & Clark 58 Holborn Hill [n.d., c.1840].
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 405 x 535mm (16 x 21"). Slight scuffing in bottom edge.
Six agricultural scenes (Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Reaping, Mowing & Haymaking, and Sheep Shearing) and illustrations of a reaping hook and shears.
[Ref: 63274] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Agriculture.
G.B. Cipriani Inv. I.M. Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.
Stipple. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 55310] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Agriculture.
G.B.Cipriani Inv. I.M.Delattre Sculp.t.
London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 Strand.
Stipple, printed in brown. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½").
A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the handle of a spade in a cloud.
[Ref: 1275] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Agriculture.]
B. West R.A. Historical Painter to his Majesty pinx.t. F. Bartolozzi Historical Engraver to his Majesty sculp.t.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Printed area (at most) 515 x 640mm (20¼ x 25¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame, probably trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
An idyllic harvest scene, with figures cutting corn with sickles, binding sheaths, gathering grapes and plouching with oxen. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 1331.
[Ref: 50428] £1,200.00

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