Grosvenor Prints

Brésil. 74. St. Joan del Rey.
Vanderburch del. H. Lalaisse Sc.
[Paris Firmin Didot freres et Cie 1837.]
Engraving. 140 x 222mm. 5½ x 8¾".
São João del-Rei, Brazil, seen on the banks of the Lenheiro River, with the old Rosario Stone Bridge. From Ferdinand Denis's "L'Univers. Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples. Bresil, ... Colombie et Guyanes".
[Ref: 26083] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Nègresses après le Travail. Travailleur do Matto (Fòrêt).
Victor Frond photog _ Chapagne lith. Imp Lemercier r. de Seine Paris.
[n.d., c.1859.]
Two tinted lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 270 x 410mm (10½ x 16"). Repaired tear between images.
Two images: on the left three black women slaves rest after harvestring maize; on the right a man stands with a bundle tied to his hoe. The images are based on photographs by Jean-Victor Frond (1821-81), a French photographer and painter who owned a studio in Rio de Janeiro 1858-62, and published in ''Brazil Pittoresco", a four volume study of Brazilian life by Charles Ribeyrolles.
[Ref: 56605] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Transport of a convoy of black slaves] Transport d'un convoi de nègres
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Deroi del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 195 x 270mm (7½ x 10¾").
Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45569] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Negro market] Marché aux Nègres.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Deroi del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 220 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼").
Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff's scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45567] £360.00

A Sugar Mill.
[London: Longman, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816.]
Aquatint. Sheet 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed into image and around title. Laid on card.
The mill wheel, worked by negro slaves. From Henry Koster's 'Travels in Brazil'.
[Ref: 45629] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Sugar mill] Moulin à sucre.
Dess d'ap nat. par Rugendas Arnout et Deroi del.
Lith. de Engelmann, rue du Faub Montmartre No.6 a Paris [1827-35]
Lithograph, printed area 225 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
Slaves transport lengths of sugar cane to a mill. Plate from 'Voyage pittoresque au Brésil' (1827-35), a volume of lithographs after drawings by Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-58). Rugendas, who came from a family including several notable artists, travelled to Brazil in 1821 as draughtsman with the Russian diplomat Baron de Langsdorff’s scientific expedition. However, Rugendas left the expedition, discovering Brazil for himself and returning to Europe in 1825 with the extraordinary collection of drawings which provided the material for 'Voyage pittoresque'. Encouraged by the German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas returned to Latin America in 1831, living until 1845 in Mexico and Chile with shorter stays in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and drawing and painting prolifically throughout this time. He returned to Bavaria, where nearly 3000 drawings and paintings were acquired by the local government, but he then went back to live in Brazil between 1845 and 1846.
[Ref: 45576] £360.00

Neger und Negerin von der Plantage. 23. [Brazil?]
Lith v. Honegger. Fahnlein de.
[Zurich: Schulthess, 1824.]
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼").
Portrait of a pair of plantation workers, holding their tools.
[Ref: 56555] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

'Bread give me Bread' _ Pa. 20 Pratt's Poem of the 'Poor' or Cottage Pictures.
P.J. De Loutherbourg inv. et del. Anth.y Cardon sculp.t.
Published by the Author, Feb.y 1. 1803.
Stipple with etching, rare with very large margins; 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
Two beggar children with the allegorical figure of Charity giving comfort, playing a lyre.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 34178] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The Breakfast Table.]
D. Wilkie R.A. Etched by C.W. Marr.
London, Nov. 24, 1823, Published by J. Young, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, and Hurst, Robinson & Co 90 Cheapside.
Etchin on chine collé. 290 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), very large margins.
An etching after David Wilkie's painting 'The Breakfast Table', with an old couple and a young man sitting at a round breakfast table. A maid pours hot water into a teapot.
[Ref: 56664] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Breakfast. Symptons of Drowsiness. [&] Dinner. Symptoms of Eating and Drinking.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Execudit.
Published April 21, 1803 by Jn.o Harris No.3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street, London.
Pair of stipples. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾") very wide margins left & right (marginal tears). 'Breakfast' trimmed to plate at top, 'Dinner' with loss of margin to plate at bottom.
The 'Breakfast' shows sportsmen in a bare breakfast parlour; the 'Dinner' shows five men and two ladies seated at a more opulent dinner-table. These plates would have been originally published by Dickinson in the 1780s.
See BM Satires 8537 & 8538 for 1794 editions.
[Ref: 54540] £480.00 view all images for this item

The Breakfast. Symptoms of Drowsiness.
W.H. Bunbury Del [c.1770].
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins.
Copy of a stipple engraving after Henry Bunbury, published by William Dickinson and John Jeffreys. Bunbury was an amateur printmaker who subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. 'Prints by Bunbury an his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'.
[Ref: 47646] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Breakfasting &c.
Hogarth Delin.t R.d Livesay Fecit
Publish'd Nov.r 27 1781 by R.d Livesay at Mrs Hogarths Leicester Fields.
Aquatint and etching, platemark 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Small margins. Bit time stained.
In 1732 William Hogarth, with a group of friends including the artist Samuel Scott and lawyer and writer Ebenezer Forrest, undertook a five-day tour of the Thames and Medway estuaries. Forrest wrote an account of the trip and Hogarth and others made drawings to illustrate it (these are now in the British Museum). In 1781, after Hogarth's death, Richard Livesay engraved the plates and published them, together with Forrest's account, as 'Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days' peregrination of … Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and F.' (1782). The figures in this scene are all identified by a key- Hogarth, as in his well-known picture 'The Calais Gate', is crouched on the left, 'drawing this drawing'.
[Ref: 43923] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Breaking Cover, or Hunting in Hampshire. When the swinish herd with a grunt and a snuff, Would break down their door and be off in a huff.
Published May 1821, by Tho.s McLean, Hay Market.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 171 x 229mm. 6¾ x 9". Slight foxing.
A huntsman on his horse manages to land on top of a sty, from which run two disgruntled pigs and three piglets; another hunter looks-on very amused by the whole situation. From "The Old English 'Squire: A Jovial Gay Fox Hunter, Bold, Frank and Free.' A Poem in Ten Cantos" by John Careless.
[Ref: 26642] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Worcestershire. Breaking Cover.
Painted by T. Woodward. Engraved by Theodore Fielding.
London, Published 1826 by J. Brooker, 5, Southampton Row, Russell Sq.r
Aquatint, very fine. 408 x 603mm. 16 x 23¾".
The fox breaks cover and is chased by the hounds and horses. A man with his dog sits by the side of the road holding-back his excited dog. Plate 1 from the set of very rare Worcestershire Hunt aquatints.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. Siltzer: Pg 315.
[Ref: 20754] £480.00

Near Brecknock.
J. Varley delin. J. C. Lewis sculp.
Published Feb.y 1806 by J. C & G Lewis, No.4 Salisbury Street, Strand, London.
Aquatint and etching with very large margins. Platemark: 215 x 320mm (8½ x 12½").
An attractive landscape view in Brecon, mid Wales, with a shepherd reclining by a river in the right foreground and some cattle and trees in the middleground. In the distance is a large building, most probably the Castle of Brecknock, built by the half-brother of William the Conqueror, within 25 years of the Norman Conquest. The ruin features the earliest style of Norman architecture and was later enlarged by the de Braose family, Norman overlords who succeeded Bernard de Neufmarche and ruled the Welsh for nearly a century.
[Ref: 33561] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Priory Church, Brecon from the Tarall.
Lithographed by Newman & Co., 48 Watling Street London.
Published by J. Teale, Brecon [n.d., c.1865.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 300 x 440mm (11¾ x 17¼") Margins damaged, tear through title.
[Ref: 52700] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Signing of the Treaty of Breda, 1667] D'Eeuwige Gedenck-Teekene van de Engelse en Nederlandtse Oorlog en Vreede [...] fo.249
[Anon., c.1672.]
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 235mm (9½ x 9¼"). Tipped into backing sheet at sides. Slight creasing where folded into volume.
The signing of the Treaty of Breda, which brought to an end the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-7) in favour of the Dutch. This plate also appears on a large broadside comprising several scenes relating to the war, with letterpress, although the text here differs, indicating a different publication. The Breda Peace Conference is an important moment in the history of the North American colonies: the Dutch officially conceded New York and the surrounding colonies in New Jersey and Delaware to English control.
[Ref: 55141] £480.00

[Treaty of Breda] Vreede-Handelingh tot Breda, Gesloten op den XXXI Iuly, inde Kamer van Conferentie, door de Gevolmachtighden van hare Koninckl: May.stn van Groot-Brittannien, Vranckryck, Deenmarcken, en hare Hooghm: de H.rn Staten Generael op den 24 Augusti 1667.
R. de Hooghe f. et. inv.
[Nicolaes Visscher excudit.] [n.d. c.1667.]
Etching. Sheet 250 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Trimmed around the image, two worm holes.
The interior of a conference chamber at Breda Castle, with delegates negotiating the Treaty of Breda in an attempt to end the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-7). The treaty confirmed Britain's ownership of New York. This is the central scene only, lacking eight further panels relating to the gathering.
See: Muller 2284. Hollstein 77. Landwehr p.56 See Ref: 55139 for complete image.
[Ref: 60229] £320.00

[The Surrender of Breda] Rendicion de la Plaza de Breda. El cuadro original existe en el R.l Museo de Madrid.
D. Velasquez de Silva lo pintó. F. De Craene lo lit.o. J. de Madrazo lo dirigió.
Imp. en el R.l Est.o lit.o de Madrid. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 395 x 460mm (15½ x 18"). Laid on album paper.
The surrender of Breda in 1625, during the Eighty Years' War, with the Spanish commander Ambrosio Spínola treating the governor of Breda with respect after a courageous defence of the city. The original painting by Diego Velasquez is now in the Prado Museum. This lithograph is from the 'Colección lithographica de cuadros del rey de España el señor Fernando VII'.
From a scrapbook compiled by Rev. Willaim Bradford (1780-1857), Chaplain and war artist during the Peninsula Wars.
[Ref: 33304] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Treaty of Breda] Vreede-Handelingh tot Breda, gesloten op den XXXI Iuly, door de Gevolmachtighden van hare Kon: May:tn van Groot Brittannien, Vrankryck, Deenmarcken en der Hoogm: Herren Staten Generael vande Vereenichde Nederlanden ende geratificeert inde Kamer Conferentie, op den 24 Augusti, Anno 1667.
[Etched by Romain de Hooghe.]
te Amsterdam by I.Ottens. [n.d., 1720.]
Etching. 395 x 545mm (15½ x 21½"). Framed. Cut to image. Unexamined out of frame.
A celebration of the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Breda, which ended the Second Dutch War in 1667. A large image shows the delegates meeting; down the sides and above are nine more scenes of the English Ambassadors arriving and the celebrations afterwards, lettered A-K with the key in English beneath. The Breda Peace Conference is an important moment in the history of the North American colonies: the Dutch officially conceded New York and the surrounding colonies in New Jersey and Delaware to English control.
Landwehr, p.57, state II of II.
[Ref: 55139] £1,280.00

[Firework display in Amsterdam on 7 September 1667 to commemorate the peace between England and the Netherlands] Victori en Vreugde-Vuren gehouden op den 7 September Ao 1667, ter gedachtenis van de Engelse en Nederlandtse Vreede
[published by Marcus Willemsz Doornick, Amsterdam, c.1667]
Etching, sheet 155 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Possibly trimmed from larger broadside and glued to backing sheet.
Firework display held to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Breda, signed on 24 August 1667, which ended the second Anglo-Dutch war. This etching first appeared as part of a large broadside, and subsequently in the book 'Kort en Bondigh Verhael Van't geene in den oorlogh ... in't Jaer 1667', both published by Marcus Doornick.
[Ref: 42586] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Brent] Poor Old Tom Thumb, now living in Bristol, at the Age of 105. From an Original Picture in the Collection of Mr. Spackman, in the Picture Gallery at Bath.
T. Barker Pinx.t. W.N. Gardiner Sc.
London Pub, July 19. 1790, by Mr Spakeman. Bath.
Rare stipple. 245 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Framed. Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of Richard Brent (1682-1790), a centenarian known as Old Tom Thumb, engraved by William Nelson Gardiner after an oil by Thomas Barker of Bath now in the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. A pedlar who worked the Bristol and Bath area, Brent married four times and had 32 children: Barker painted him three times, raising his profile so much that Bath society they raised money to give the pedlar a weekly income in his old age.
Wellcome Library: V0007336.
[Ref: 48806] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Brentford.] London. Sheet LXXXIII. 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 stencilled sheet number and mss. notes. Laid on linen. A litle wear.
A large-scale plan (1/2500) of Brentford, with the Grand Junction Canal and boston Manor Park. This sheet has been used to record the property of the Port of London Authority.
From the Port of London Authority archives.
[Ref: 11006] £160.00

View of the Late Calamitous Wreck at Brentford, Occasioned by the bursting of the Banks & Locks on the Grand Junction Canal, On Saturday Night the 16th. Jany. 1841.
Day & Haghe, Lithrs. to the Queen.
Drawn, Lithographed & Pubd. by E. Wildman, 23. Jany. 1841.
Tinted lithograph, sheet 310 x 510mm. 12¼ x 20". Some foxing and surface soiling.
In 1841 boats wrecked at Brentford included two from Tipton (Staffs.) loaded with coal, two others from Tipton with coal and peas, two from Bloxwich (Staffs.) with hoop iron, and two from Stourbridge (Worcs.) with wheat. There were also three large coal barges at Brentford End, five large barges with wheat and linseed, and a barge with slate and stone from Nuneaton (Warws.); other craft came from Wolverhampton, Brierley Hill (Staffs.), and Tipton.
[Ref: 11552] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Old Stabling of the ''Three Pigeons'', Brentford. The Inn frequented by Shakspeare & Ben Johnson
Drawn & Etched by W.N. Wilkins, June 1846.
Rare etching. 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at top. Small margins.
The Elizabethan Three Pigeons Inn, Market Square.
[Ref: 63966] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Brentford Election.
[1768.]
Enrgaving. Sheet: 130 x 210mm (5¼ x 8¼"). Large margins on 3 sides. Offset.
A satirical scene showing a mob attacking a pair of women, one of which has a child during a hustings. During the election for the MP for middlesex in which Sir William Beauchamp Proctor and Serjeant Glynn there was a riot in reaction to the results during which many people were injured and several taken to prison and one man was killed.
BM Satire 4223.
[Ref: 45485] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Spartan, Capt.n J. Brenton, engaging a French squadron in the Bay of Naples, May 3rd, 1810.
From a drawing by Sir J. Brenton. Painted by Whitcombe. Engraved by Bailey.
[n.d, c.1810.]
Aquatint. Sheet 160 x 240mm, 6¼ x 9½". Narrow bottom margin.
'Spartan', with a crew of 259 and 46 guns, defeated a squadron headed by two frigates and armed in total with 95 guns and a complement of 1400 men. 'Spartan's' commander, Captain Jahleel Brenton, received a wound that ended his naval career, and received a baronetcy in December 1810.
[Ref: 15904] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Port de Brest. Insurrection des Vaisseaux du Léopard et L’América. en Septembre 1790. No. 44.
Prieur inv. & del. Berthault sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. With letterpress. Plate 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11").
A group of workers unload a wagon of supplies onto busy port with a church, several buildings, and two large ships (the 'Léopard' and 'América'). Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
RMG: PAD1499.
[Ref: 28294] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Four barrels; Trade Card or Billhead.]
Johnson, fc, Bristol.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etched vignette illustration to trade card or billhead, sheet 45 x 55mm. 1¾ x 2¼". Sheet trimmed.
Four barrels in a row, the first inscribed 'Oakhill Beer', the second 'Porter'. Pictured with their natural ingredients - wheat or barley to right and hop poles to left. Probably by George Johnson of 2 John Street, Bristol, who engraved banknotes issued by the Bristol Bullion Bank.
[Ref: 10828] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A View from the East-End of the Brewery Chiswell Street.
Painted by G.Garrard, painter of Horses to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by W.Ward.
London. Published Jan.y 1, 1792 by G.Garrard, No. 43 Little Brittain, & W.Ward Warren Place, Kentish Town.
Mezzotint. 460 x 560mm (18 x 22").
A fine view of the famous Whitbread Brewery, with a carthorse is being backed into a dray. The site, at 52 Chiswell Street, was the first purpose-built mass-production brewery in Britain. After two centuries brewing on the site ceased in 1976, after which the building became a conference and events venue, named 'The Brewery'.
Frankau 305.
[Ref: 2635] £1,500.00

A View from the East-End of the Brewery Chiswell Street.
Painted by G.Garrard, painter of Horses to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by W.Ward.
London. Published Jan.y 1, 1792 by G.Garrard, No. 43 Little Brittain, & W.Ward Warren Place, Kentish Town.
Fine mezzotint. Platemark: 460 x 560mm (18 x 22"). Slight mountburn. Vertical crease through centre, repaired tear along left platemark. Glued to backing sheet.
A fine view of the famous Whitbread Brewery, with a carthorse is being backed into a dray. The site, at 52 Chiswell Street, was the first purpose-built mass-production brewery in Britain. After two centuries brewing on the site ceased in 1976, after which the building became a conference and events venue, named 'The Brewery'.
Frankau 305.
[Ref: 32478] £750.00

[Brewing] The Triumph of Quassia.
[after James Gillray]
[n.d. c.1806]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 170 x 220mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet. Folds as issued.
A satire on the new tax on private brewers which was unpopular because it gave a monopoly to the larger public brewers, who were suspected of substituting hops for the cheap bark of quassia, a bitter-tasting tropical plant. In a parody of a Bacchic procession, the brewers carry a barrel on which rides a Bacchus-like black figure. In one hand he holds a scroll that reads "Kill-Devil forever" and in the other a tankard of beer, from which ailments radiate 'apoplexy, palsy, consumption, debility, colic, stupor, dropsy, scurvy, dysentery, haemorrhoid, hydrophobie, idiotism.' The depiction of Bacchus, the classical god of winemaking, fertility and religious ecstasy, as a black figure is based on pseudoscientific notions of the physical and moral inferiority of black Africans. In England at the time, it was widely believed that black people were subject to unbridled sensuality and impulses, and this belief was used to justify their slavery. The group is preceded on horseback by the three leading ministers of the time, pockets full of gold, who formed a coalition known as the Ministry of Talent. From left to right they are: Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister; and Charles Fox, then Foreign Secretary. A reduced version of the print made by James Gillray and published by Hannah Humphrey.
See BM Satires 10574.
[Ref: 62891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

David Brewster [facsimile signature.] Author of 'The Life of Newton'.
Alfred Croquis del.t Daniel Maclise.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Etching. 262 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8".
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal. In 1855 he issued 'Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton', which embodied the results of more than twenty years' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.
NPG: D1096. See Wellcome: 417-2.
[Ref: 24468] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[A man stands on the doorstep of his junk shop in Portobello Road?]
Percy Lancaster [signature in pencil]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Limited edition 3/40. Etching. Plate 197 x 249mm. 7¾" x 9¾".
Percy Lancaster (British, 1878-1951). A prolific artist he is best known for landscapes, moorland scenes and his pictures of Dutch and French flower markets. He was also a very successful etcher. This print depicts a man standing on the doorstep of what appears to be a bric-a-brac store.
[Ref: 8953] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew Brice of Exeter, Printer: Author of the Topographic Dictionary &c. Aetat 83.
Jackson del. Woodman Sc.
[n.d. c.1770].
Engraving. 125 x 180mm. Trimmed into plate. Light foxing.
Printer at Exeter [1692 - 1773].
[Ref: 3409] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Andrew Brice; Printer of Exeter.
Engraved for the Universal Magazine.,
Printed for S.A. Cumberlege, at the Kings Arms, in Pater-noster Row. [n.d, c. 1774.]
Engraving. 170 x 110mm, 6¾ x 4¼".
Andrew Brice (1690-1773), publisher of a weekly newspaper in Exeter and author of the Topographic Dictionary. When Brice died he was the oldest freemason in England; three hundred masons joined his cortege. His body lad lain in state in an inn at Exeter, with the public paying a shilling to view it, defraying the cost of the funeral.
[Ref: 19009] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Andrew Brice of Exeter, Printer: Author of the Topographic Dictionary &c. Aetat 83.
Jackson del. Woodman Sc.
Publish'd According to Act of Parliament for Barnabas Thorn Bookseller Exon Ap.r 21st 1774.
Engraving. 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Large margins.
Printer at Exeter (1692 - 1773). His major work, begun in 1746 and finished in 1757, was the 'Grand Gazetteer, or Topographic Dictionary', published in 1759. He also printed: a weekly newspaper from 1715 until his death; William Hals's 'History of Cornwall; and 'John Vowell's Account of the City of Exeter'. When he retired he was the oldest master printer in England; when he died he was the oldest freemason in England, celebrated by three hundred masons escorting his coffin to the grave on 14 November.
[Ref: 37043] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bricklayer.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 215mm, 5½ x 8½". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image of a pair of bricklayers, one with a hod.
[Ref: 16429] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Bride.
Painted by C.R. Leslie, R.A. Engraved by Ja.s Thomson.
Published for the Proprietor Jan.y 31, 1831 by Moon, Boys, & Graves, 6, Pall Mall, London.
Engraving. 365 x 290mm (14¼ x 11½"), with large margins. Spotting and soiling, mainly in margins.
A half-length portrait of a young woman in a white dress with lace and jewels, veil down her back, putting on a glove.
[Ref: 63697] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Pass-Room Bridewell.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t. et sculp.t. Hill aqua.t.
London Pub, 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11"), with large margins.
An interior view of the pass room in Bridewell Prison, an institution for unmarried mothers, prostitutes, the homeless and criminals. The pass room was a room which housed women waiting to be passed to the parishes of their birth. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London'; the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 47234] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Pass-Room Bridewell.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t. et sculp.t. Hill aqua.t.
London Pub, 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 235 x 280mm (9¼ x 11") large margins.
An interior view of the pass room in Bridewell Prison, an institution for unmarried mothers, prostitutes, the homeless and criminals. The pass room was a room which housed women waiting to be passed to the parishes of their birth. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London'; the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 47235] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane."
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature].
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Three of four chromolithographs. Sheets 510 x 630mm (20 x 24¾.
Three of a set of four plates illustrating a game of bridge, with a young couple, clergyman and retired army officer around the table. This issue was a printed black border around the image with vignettes of the cards in each player's hand and the titles in white. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
See Ref: 7836 for a complete signed set.
[Ref: 59231] £650.00 view all images for this item

'Bridge'. 1."May I Play To Hearts?"[&] 2."I Double Hearts." [&] 3."Chicane." [&] 4."Ruffing A Black Suit"
L. Thackeray [facsimile signature in plate & signed in pencil lower left.]
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by The Fine Art Society Ltd. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington. London Published 1904 by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street. Copyright registered.
Set of four chromolithographs on india laid paper, with vignettes of playing cards in the margin and etched remarques lower left. Images 291 x 410mm, sheets 475 x 608mm. Unfaded impressions, full sheets, with occasional spotting, on board.
A fine example of one of the most highly regarded sets of bridge prints. A young couple, clergyman and retired army officer are around the table, and, with the exception of the last, these same characters feature in a charming sub-narrative in the remarques. The painter and illustrator Lance Thackeray (d.1916) is best known for his comic sporting illustration art, especially billiards and golf, and his humorous postcards. He was also an author, of 'The Light Side of Egypt' and 'The People of Egypt'. Along with Cecil Aldin and other noted artists, he was one of the founders of The London Sketch Club, a graphic artists' club in Chelsea.
[Ref: 7836] £1,600.00 view all images for this item

Near the Bridge at Trimbering[?] Sun Setting with Mr W.m Hamilton Sept.r 7th 1839
F.W. Trench.
Lithograph, rare, printed area 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"), large margins
Amateur lithograph made during a trip to continental Europe by the army officer and politician Frederick William Trench (c.1777-1859). In December 1819 he was returned as an MP for Cambridge in an election controlled by the Duke of Rutland, owner of Belvoir, and he made several lithographs of Belvoir castle. Trench was also keenly interested in architecture: in 1815 he proposed a vast monument to British naval and military victories over France on the site which became Trafalgar Square, and in 1824 he launched a project for an embankment on the north side of the Thames (in conjunction with which a long print of the project was produced).
For Trench's embankment scheme see refs. 23749, 39952 &c.
[Ref: 43933] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mr Charles Bridgeman.
G.T. Payne del et sculp.
Printed by S.H. Hawkins. [n.d. c.1818.]
Rare Mixed-method engraving. Plate 229 x 184mm. 9 x 7¼".
Possibly Charles Bridgeman (1778-1873), organist of All Saint's Church, Hertford.
[Ref: 20066] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

South View of the Town of Bridgenorth.
Drawn by J. Farington, R.A. Engraved by W. Byrne & T. Medland.
London, Published as the Act directs 1st Jan.y 1791, by W. Byrne, No.19 Titchfield Street.
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 350 x 490mm (13¾ x 19¼") very large margins. Tear taped, some spotting, faint creasing.
A view across the River Severn valley towards the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire. The castle ruins can be seen on the hill- the result of demolition ordered by Cromwell during the Civil War.
[Ref: 60907] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

Ponti Cospicui Dell Inghilterra.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Plate: 70 x 370mm (2¾ x 14½"). large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed on left edge. Creases.
A collection of vignettes showing various bridges in England, including Knaresborough, Stratford, Windsor and Wetherby.
[Ref: 46040] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Frances, Lady Bridges.]
F. Cotes R.A. pinx.t 1768. James Watson Fecit.
R. Sayer excudit. [n.d. c.1769.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Thread margins.
Lady France Bridges (d.1825), wife of Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Bt. (1733-1791), the British Whig politician. They married in 1765 at St George's, Hanover Square London.
Goodwin 63: i/iii. CS 14: i/ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66360] £480.00

The High Rock near Bridgnorth.
Drawn on the Spot & Engrav'd by W. Williams. T.B Freeman excudit.
[n.d. c.1789]
Very rare aquatint, 315 x 390mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate. Stain top left.
A view of the large sandstone cliff overlooking the Severn just north of Bridgnorth known as 'High Rock.'
[Ref: 60588] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Scrapbook relating to Bridgnorth, with election broadsides, theatre bills, newspaper clippings and letters.]
[Compiled 1824-56.]
Unique scrapbook, large folio, half morocco gilt; with c.50 broadsides, many loose. Binding worn.
The broadsides relate to elections from 1832-58. Satire and results of polls, some handwritten are included. Letters etc, over 80 items in total.
[Ref: 60831] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

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