Grosvenor Prints

[Naples] Sampognaro che fa ballare i pupi.
[Naples, c.1831.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼"). Faint stains.
A man playing a Zampogna (Italian bagpipes) makes punchinello and 'Judy' dolls dance with a string tied to his knee. From 'Scene Populari di Napoli'.
[Ref: 62673] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Putney Embankment, with the boathouses and slipways.]
[Montague Lack]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching. 195 x 265mm (7¾ x 10½"), with large margins.
A view of yachts and eights on the slipway of Putney Embankment, Putney Bridge in the background. The etcher has reversed the image, indicated by the numbers on the yachts.
[Ref: 62803] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Obelisk on Putney Common. Erected by order of The City of London in commemoration of the invention of Fire Plates fr securing buildings against Fire.0
Drawn & etched by M.H.
[n.d., c.1789s.]
Etching. 130 x 200mm (5 x 8"). On 18th century watermarked paper, very large margins.
A view of the obelisk at Putney Common, St Paul's and London skyline in background.
[Ref: 63134] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Obelisk on Putney Common. Erected by order of The City of London in commemoration of the invention of Fire Plates fr securing buildings against Fire.0
Drawn & etched by M.H.
[n.d., c.1789s.]
Etching. Trimmed 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed and glued onto album paper at corners.
A view of the obelisk at Putney Common, St Paul's and London skyline in background.
[Ref: 63137] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Quakers Meeting. Plate 64.
Rowlandson & Pugin del.t. et sculp.t. Stadler aqua.t.
London. Pub 1st April, 1809 at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"), with large margins.
A meeting taking place in a hall, with gallery. 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: 62777] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Rabbits.
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by W.m Ward Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York.
London Published Sept.r. 1806, by James Linnell, 2, Streatham Street, Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury.
Rare mezzotint. 330 x 370mm (13 x 14½"). Slight creasing at top right. Small margins.
Two rabbits, one black, the other white, on straw with a carrot.
Frankau: 234.
[Ref: 62742] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Massa, Pray give something to Poor Mungo!
William Spooner, London [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Faint spotting.
A negro begging on a rural lane. His right leg is wooden, suggesting he is a naval veteran.
[Ref: 63028] £350.00

The Vestibule. Of Radcliffe Library.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Hill sculp.t.
London, Pub. Dec.r 1 1813, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
View of the interior of the Vestibule of Radcliffe Library, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
[Ref: 62947] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Astronomical Observatory.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Feb.y 1 1814, t 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"), large margins.
The interior of the Radcliffe Observatory, showing instruments including a reflecting telescope by William Herschel and a pair of refracting telescopes.
[Ref: 62940] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Water Spouts seen near Raiatea.
Drawn by John Dennis From a sketch by D. Tyerman. Engraved by Fenner Sears & C.º.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 140 x 220mm (5½ x 8¾"). Trimmed
Twin water spouts seen near Raitea in the Society Islands of French Polynesia.
[Ref: 63293] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Canal, Chinese Building, Rotundo, &c. in Ranelagh Gardens, with the Masquerade.
[after Canaletto.]
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1770].
Fine coloured engraving. Sheet 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges. Central crease.
Ranelagh Gardens, adjoining Wren's Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, became popular as a place to escape the city and take in the cleaner air in Chelsea. Balls, concerts, dinners and of course gossip were shared here almost daily. It quickly exceeded Vauxhall in popularity, but it's popularity waned until the season of 1804 when the fashionable set abandoned it entirely. During the masquerade depicted here, participants were disguised or in fancy dress, often favouring Oriental costume. This Oriental taste was reflected by Ranelagh's 'China House' created in 1750. After Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768). From a series of reduced views, numbered '7' upper right.
[Ref: 62801] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Ranger's very Elegant, Pleasant, and much Admired Lodge, in the Green Park, St. James's.
London. Printed for Rob. Wilkinson. No. 58 Cornill. [n.d., c.1790.]
Rare etching. 190 x 170mm (7½ x 6¾"). Bit dusty.
An exterior view of the ranger's lodge in Green Park, London.
[Ref: 63210] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A view of the Interior of the Temporary Pavilion. 100 feet by 60. Erected inn the Square Barnstable, by the Friends of Reform; in which upwards of 1000, dined October 30.th 1837. Proof.
R. Sharland del.t. G. Child lith.
Published at M.rs Wildman's Repository, Barnstable.
Proof lithograph on chine collé, with printed backing paper. Sheet 230 x 270mm (9 x 14½"). Some soiling, ownership label on reverse.
A rare, locally-published illustration of the dinner in progress.
[Ref: 62787] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The First Reformers Presenting their Famous Protest, at the Diet of Spires, on 19.th April 1529. The Picture presents Authentic Portraits taken from Albert Durer, Titian, Holbein, Lucas Cranach. &c.
G. Cattermole, Pinx.t. W. Walker, Sc.
[London: Hering & Remington, c.1843.]
Stipple on chine collé. 215 x 290mm (9¾ x 11½"). Lacking printed backing sheet, mounted on album sheet.
A keyplate to George Cattermole's picture of the Diet of Speyer of 1529, with the delegates numbered (key on the backing sheet, not present). The diet's rejection of further reform of the church led a group of delegates to protest, coining the name 'Protestant'.
See BM 1872,0413.333 for the plate with key.
[Ref: 63231] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Rembrandt's Mistress.] From a celebrated Picture as large as Life mentioned particularly in the Life of Rembrandt. In the possesion of the Right Hon.b;e Lord Viscount Maynard.
Rembrandt pinx.t. R: Cooper del.t & sculp.t.
[Publish'd as the Act directs June 30.th 1781. by Richard Cooper N.o 24 Edward Street Cav.sh Square.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title, 18th century watermark. 300 x 230mm (11¾ x 9). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, affecting inscriptions.
A woman sits up in bed pulling back a curtain. After Rembrandt's painting 'A Woman in Bed' which currently resides in the Scottish National Gallery, said to be illustrating the Old Testament Apocryphal Book of Tobit, with Tobias' wife Sarah waiting for him to defeat the demon Asmodeus on their wedding night. The model is believed to be Rembrandt's partner Hendrickje Stoffels (1626-63).
Charrington 39, i of ii.
[Ref: 62734] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Retriever and Mallard. ''Hard Hit''.] Copyright.
[Painted by George Earl. Engraved by Charles Tomkins.]
London Published Oct. 30th 1869, J. M,,cQueen 31 Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street, & 22 Rue De Dunkerque, Paris.
Mezzotint, proof before title and inscriptions publication line above image, printed on india, Printsellers' Association blindstamp, artist proof limited edition 100. 595 x 695mm (23½ x 27¼"). Trimmed to plate at top, tears on backing sheet.
A black retriever flushes a mallard out from rushes.
Printsellers' Association, dated 1871; See BM 2010,7081.6614 for lettered state.
[Ref: 62657] £380.00

[Rêverie.]
[Paul-César Helleu.]
Printed in Paris _ Copyright 1901 by Manzi, Joyant & Co.
Photogravure, printed in colours. 500 x 400mm (19¾ x 15¾"), with large margins. Uncut.
A glamourously-dressed woman seated on a river boat, a cityscape behind.

[Ref: 62658] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Mary 'Perdita' Robinson] Mrs. Robinson.
Englehart pinx.t. R. Stanier sculp.t.
Published Jan.y. 1. 1788 by Torre & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall.
Stipple engraving. Plate 150 x 175mm (6 x 7"), large margins. Tiny dent on lower edge of plate in centre.
Portrait of Mary 'Perdita' Robinson (British, 1758–1800), an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and socialite. She earned her nickname for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Her husband, Thomas Robinson, was imprisoned for debt in the Fleet Prison where she lived with him for many months. It was here that her literary career really began, as she found that she could publish poetry to earn money, her first book, Poems By Mrs. Robinson, was published in 1775. After her husband obtained his release from prison, Robinson decided to return to the theatre. She launched her acting career and took to the stage playing Juliet at Drury Lane Theatre in December 1776. From the late 1780s, Robinson became distinguished for her poetry and was called "the English Sappho". In addition to poems, she wrote eight novels, three plays, feminist treatises, and an autobiographical manuscript that was incomplete at the time of her death. She championed the rights of women and was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution. She died in poverty at Englefield Cottage, Englefield Green, Surrey, 26 December 1800, aged 44.
[Ref: 63074] £320.00

Interior of Rochdale Church [&] Rochdale Old Church. To William Hay, Clerk, M.A. Vicar of Richdale. This plate is (with permission) dedicated by his Obedient Humble Servant, John Nicholson. [&] To the Subscribers, This Plate is dedicated by their Obedient Humble Servant, John Nicholson.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by John Horner, Halifax. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Rochdale Published by John Nicolson; & by N. Whitley, Halifax. [n.d. c.1830]
A pair of lithographs, J. Whatman 1823 watermark. Sheet 385 x 540mm (15½ x 21¼"), large margins. Slight time stained outside of image.
A scarce pair of views of St Chad's Church, Rochdale in Greater Manchester.
[Ref: 62934] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Roman Catholic Relief Act] The Extinguisher, or putting out the Great Law-Luminary.
T. J Fec.t
London. Pub. 1829 by S.W Fores. 41. Picadilly.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 340 x 245mm (13½ x 9½"). Trimmed within plate.
Satire on the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, Lord Chancellor John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon was notoriously anti-catholic. Eldon's head rests on a candle-end which is in an elaborate candle-stick of gold plate, standing on the ground. Wellington, in uniform, reaches up to cover it with a huge extinguisher inscribed 'Catholic Bill Majority 168'; he says: 'Thus I obscure you, ne'er to shine again.' Eldon looks to the left, registering intensive melancholy; rays from his head, obstructed on the left by the extinguisher, strike against the profile of George IV, whose head, shoulder, and paunch project from the right margin, leaning towards the candle says 'Poor Old Bags!'
BM SAtires 15718.
[Ref: 62900] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Giuseppe Ignazio Rossi. Architetto. Dis. 1727.
Carol Gregori Sc.
[n.d., c.1739.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 400 x 260mm (15¾ x 10¼"), very large margins.
Roundel portrait of Giuseppe Ignazio Rossi (1696-1731, engraved by Carlo Gegori (1702-59) as the frontispiece portrait for his 'La Libreria Mediceo-Laurenziana, architettura di Michelagnolo Buonarotti'. This work was a study of the Laurentian Library, designed and built by Michelangelo between 1525 and 1562.
[Ref: 62819] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Rossini.
L. Dupre en 1819. a Son ami Rossini. Coiny incl.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.
[Ref: 63259] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Hall at the Royal Academy. Somerset House. Plate 29. Vol.3.
[Engraved by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd.]
No. 17. of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. May 1. 1810, at 401 Strand.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet 240 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed into plate.
A view of the Hall of the Royal Academy at Somerset House, now the entrance hall of the Courtauld Gallery. In the foreground on the left is a cast of the Apollo Belvedere next to a sculpture of a head. A student sits by a window, drawing either a cast of the Farnese Hercules or the Furietti Centaurs flanking it.
[Ref: 63221] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Institution, Albemarle Street. Plate 68.
Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. Stadler, aquat.
London, Pub, 1.st May 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 230 x 270mm (9 x 10½"), with very large margins.
The library at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or RI), an organization devoted to scientific education and research. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea. The Institution's stated aims were "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction, of useful mechanical inventions and improvements; and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life." Since its founding it has been based on Albemarle Street in Mayfair. Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (3 vols., 1808-10). Numbered 'Plate 68.' upper right.
Abbey, Scenery: 212, 68.
[Ref: 62698] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Insititution [Admission Ticket.] Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum.
R. Westall, R. A. delin. A. Raimbach, Sculp.
[n.d., c.1800s.]
Engraving. 100 x 70mm (4 x 2¾"). Laid on original album paper.
Ticket to the Royal Institution, with engraving of Minerva and the Muses, by Raimbach after Westall, and at bottom "Omnes Artes Habent Quoddam Commune Vinculum".
[Ref: 63141] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Royal Navy. Captain Lieutenant. No.1 [&] Commander. Captain. Midshipman. Admiral. No.2. [&] Doctor, Boatsman. Master. No.3. [&] Mate. 2nd Class Boy, Commodore. No.4. [&] Paymaster. Cadet. Assistant Surgeon. No.5 [&] Clerk. Second Master. A.B.Seaman. No.6.
London, Published May 12, 1848 [- July 28th 1849], by Ackermann & Co, 96, Strand.
Set of 6 aquatints. 410 x 280mm (16 x 11") very large margins. Stain on lower right corner of plate No.6 and No.5. Crease on lower right corner of plate No.3, margins dusty.
A rare complete set of six numbered aquatint plates depicting Naval uniform by J. Harris after R.H.C. Ubsdell, with captions.
[Ref: 62921] £520.00 view all images for this item

View from the Quadrangle. Rugby School.
W.Westell del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
Published Nov.r 1 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Rugby School.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view from the Quadrangle at Rugby School, designed and built by architect Henry Hakewill. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62902] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Great School Room of Rugby.
J.Gendall del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
Pub.d. Nov.r 1 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Rugby School.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of the great school room at Rugby School. Pupils are sat on benches around the room, some are reading. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62903] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Head Master's House. Rugby School.
W.Westall del.t. J.Stadler sculp.t.
Published Oct.r 1, 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Rugby School.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of the Head Masters house at Rugby School, built in 1809. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62904] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

View of Rugby School. From the Northampton Road.
W.Westall del.t. D.Havell sculp.t.
Fine hand coloured aquatint, J. Whatman 1812 watermark, plate 300 x 250mm (12 x 10"), large margins.
A view of the Rugby School from the Northampton Road. A woman and her child are walking in the forground, the school amongst the trees in the distance. From Ackermann's 'History of Rugby School'.
[Ref: 62905] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Das Wagenrennen vor der Stadt.] [or] [Telega at the entrance of a village]
A. Orlowskj 1824.
Lithograph, sheet 345 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Repaired tears in margins and creases.
A telega race; a type of four-wheel horse-drawn vehicle, whose primary purpose is to carry loads, similar to a wain. Aleksander Orlowski (1777 –1832) was a Polish painter and sketch artist, and a pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.
[Ref: 63055] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Russian Girl in 1764. Fille Russe. 69.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a Russian girl, she is standing in profile to the right holding apples in both hands. Plate 69 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62884] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Russian Market Woman in 1768. Marchande Ruse. 74.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Large margins. Small tear on the bottom right of lower margin, far from plate.
Portrait of a Russian market trader walking away from the viewer to the right. She is carrying a basket on her right arm and another on her shoulder. Plate 74 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62881] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Summer Habit of a Russian Woman with her Cloak on, in 1765. Femme Russe avec da Coësse. 67.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a Russian woman, she is standing in profile to left and wearing a cloak over her head and shoulders. Plate 67 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62883] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[First Anglo-Burmese War] The Conflagration of Dalla, on the Rangoon River.
Drawn by J. Moore. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Published Jan. 2, 1826, by Thos. Clay, 18, Ludgate Hill, & Kingsbury & Co. Leadenhall Str.t London.
Hand coloured aquatint. 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill'.
Steam and sailing ships and their crews observing the city on fire in the distance. Plate17 of Series 1 of 'Views taken at or near Rangoon, and Combined operations in the Birman Empire', by Lieutenant Joseph Moore, published in two series 1825-26. The First Anglo-Burmese War (5 March 1824 - 24 February 1826).
Abbey Travel 404; Hickman p.230, illus p. 241.
[Ref: 63042] £320.00

[Portrait of Gunda von Savigny.]
[Ludwig Emil Grimm.]
[1810.]
Scarce & fine etching with drypoint. 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼") Small margins.
A portrait of a woman in a fur-lined cap, in the style of Rembrandt. Kunigunde Brentano (1780-1863) married the famous lawyer, Friedrich Carl von Savigny. She sat at least twice for Grimm (1790-1863) who was the younger brother of the Brothers Grimm of fairy-tale fame.
BM 1855,0310.79, unidentified; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1985-52-6039.
[Ref: 62911] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Schamachie.
[Pieter Van Der Aa.]
[n.d., c.1727.]
Engraving. Plate 355 x 285mm (14 x 11¼"), with very large margins.633 Crease down centre as normal.
View of the city of Shamakhi, which was in antiquity part of successive Persian empires. It is famous for its traditional dancers, the Shamakhi Dancers, and also for giving its name to the Soumak rugs.
[Ref: 63093] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Maîtresse d'école.
[after Pierre Alexandre Wille]
[n.d. c.1780]
Engraving, plate 250 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Proof before letters. Small repaired tears in large margins.
A reverse copy of the print after Pierre Alexandre Wille (1748-1837) made by Jean Georges Wille (1715-1808). Half-length portrait of an old woman in a trompe l'oeil border. Her right hands holds a burch branch and rests on an open book her left hand points commandingly.
[Ref: 63053] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Francois Schubert. [Franz Peter Schubert.]
C. Deblois, 1867.
Maxarine, Paris. [n.d., c.1867.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Faint offset. Trimmed.
Portrait of Francois Schubert (1797 - 1828), also known as Franz Peter Schubert, was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music.
[Ref: 63233] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Schumann.
Verlug v. Baumgartner's Buchhdllng in Lpzg. [n.d., c.1860.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 225 x 150mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Robert Schumann (1810 - 1846), German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist.
[Ref: 63253] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of a Servant Maid in China. Servant de la Chine. 30.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark. Sheet 345 x 235mm (13½ x 9½"). Large margins. Printer's crease top right.
A full-length portrait of a woman, whole-length standing, she holds in her right hand a basket of fish. Plate 30 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62835] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Roseau in the Island of Dominique, with the Attack made by Lord Rollo, & S.r James Douglas in 1760. 10.
Arch. Campbell delin.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1770].
Engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 165 x 260mm (6½ x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, affecting plate number.
A scene of the British amphibious assault on the french colony of Roseau on 6 June 1761 (not 1760 as the title) under Lord Andrew Rollo commander of the land forces, and Commodore Sir James Douglas of the Royal Navy, during the Seven Years War (1756-63). France formally ceded possession of the island as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. An engraving reduced from plate 10 of 'Scenographia Americana', or, 'A Collection of Views of North America and the West Indies [. . .] From Drawings Taken on the Spot, by Several Officers of the British Army and Navy', a twenty-eight print series of North American landscapes from Quebec to Guadeloupe, first published in London in 1768.
[Ref: 62929] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Sharp Between Two Flats.
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver N.o 69 St. Paul's Church Yard London. [n.d. c.1793]
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed within plate at bottom. Abrasion losing 'N.o 69'.
A grinning lawyer about to eat an oyster stands between two discomfited litigants, offering each of them one half of the shell. Earlier states of the print before the partnership of Henry Carington Bowles II and Samuel Carver have a secondary title 'A pearly shell for him and thee - the oyster is the lawyer's fee.'
BM Satires 3762.
[Ref: 62893] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engravd by Jn.º Hall, Engraver to his Majesty, 1791. Printed by G.W. Richards.
London. Publish'd as the Act directs, April 30.th 1791, by Jn.º Hall, N.º Berwick Street. Sold by W Dickinson, Bond Street, T. Maklin, Poets Gallery & Fleet Street, & B.B. Evans in the Poultry, &c.
Engraving with etching, 18th century watermark; 520 x 380mm (20½ x 15"), very large margins.
A three-quarter portrait of Irish politician, playright and theatre-owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), standing, according to Manning, 'at the table of the House of Commons, speaking on the subject of the Regency Bill'. Originally published by Hall, this fourth state was publisahed by a consortium.
See Manning 1612. Hamilton p.64.
[Ref: 63174] £450.00

Mother Damnable, the remarkable Shrew of Kentish Town, the person who gave rife to the Sign of Mother Red Cap, on the Hampstead Road, near London AnDom, 1678. Taken from Caulfields Copy of an Unique Print in the Collection of I. Bindley Esq.r.
Pub.d. by C. Johnson. [n.d.,c.1790.]
Etching. 165 x 100mm (6½ x 4"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Copy of a print of 1676 satirising a shrewish woman in Kentish Town; showing a woman in rags sitting in front of a fire place, holding a crutch over it, on the ground next to her a pitcher and leaves, in the top left corner a sign with two cats hanging up-side down; illustration to the 'Wonderful Museum'.
[Ref: 63199] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

G.R. Collis & C.º Silversmiths, Electro-Platers, & Gilders, Church Street Workins, Birmingham, & 1, Langham Place, London. Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, 1849.
T. Underwood Lith. High S.t Birm.m.
[Birmingham, 1849.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾").
A selection of silver ewers, teapots, tankards and goblets, published in the brochure of the Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, a precursor of the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the 1890s George Richmond Collis & Co were operating from Regent Street, London.
[Ref: 63037] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Snipe Shooting.
G. Morland pinx.t. C.Catton jun.r fecit.
London Pub.d Feb.y. 10th. 1789 by T.Smith No. 35 New Bond Street.
Aquatint, printed in brown 1st issue. 355 x 430mm (14 x 17") large margins. Some restoration.
A man holding a gun advances to right on a flying snipe with his dog.
Siltzer p.166.
[Ref: 63025] £390.00

Soldier of the Strelitz Guards under Arms. Soldat du Corps des Strelits sous les Armes. 65.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving. Plate 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Large margins. Small colour mark on bottom right of plate.
Portrait of a man, whole-length standing directed slightly to the left, looking to the right. A horn is hanging from his belt and he holds a large axe over his right shoulder with his right hand. Strelitz is in northern Germany. Plate 65 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62843] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Hall at the Royal Academy, Somerset House. Plate 29, Vol. 3.
N.º 17 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. May 1. 1810, at 101 Strand London.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 240mm (6 x 9½"). Trimmed into plate, slightly time stained.
A neo-classical room with Greek and Roman sculpture. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62656] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Sonate da Camera à Violino, è Violone, ò Cembalo Consecrate All: Ecc.mo Sig.r Duca Di Bedford &c. Da Nicola Cosimi Romano - opera prima.
Tempest Inv: Johannes Smith Anglius Fec: 1702.
In Londra. L'Anno 1702.
Scarce & fine mezzotint. 195 x 250 (7¾ x 9¾"). Narrow margins, laid on 18th century album paper.
A nude winged female, reclining on a cloud on the right, holds a trumpet and a shield with the coat of arms of the Duke of Bedford with the motto 'Che sara sara'. Beneath a monument are three cherubs: one holds a book and sings; another plays a violin; and a third plays a cello with a book of music on the ground before him. The frontispiece to a book of chamber music by Nicolo Cosimi (1660-1717), who worked for Wriothesley Russell (1680-1711), Duke of Bedford, in England 1701-5, dedicating this book to him.
[Ref: 62800] £380.00

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