Grosvenor Prints

Allington Castle.
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by C. Hullmandel.
Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d., c1850.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 410 x 340mm (16 x 13¼"); large margins. Some marking.
A view of Allington Castle in Kent. The castle, first built in the 12th century fell into ruin after the owner Thomas Wyatt forfeited the property in 1584 following an unsucessful rebellion against Queen Mary. The castle was eventually restored in the twentieth century and is once again a private residence.
[Ref: 40759] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Ancient Vessel Discovered in the Channel of the Rother in the Beginning of July, 1822. This Vessel which is supposed to be one of the Fleet abandoned by the Danes after their defeat in the reign of Alfred the Great... This most interesting and extraordinary remnant of antiquity is in so high a state of preservation that it is the intention of the proprietor, if possible, to float and bring her round to the Capital.
Drawn from Nature, Augt. 3d. & Stone by J.D. Harding. Printed by C: Hullmandel.
London. Pub by Rodwell and Martin, New Bond St. Augt.8.1822.
A very scarce lithograph. Sheet 412 x 513mm. 16¼ x 20¼".
A vessel discovered off the River Rother in Kent. It is believed to be one of the fleet abandoned by the Danes.
[Ref: 15300] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Ash Grove in Kent, The Seat of Miss Otways.
Drawn by J.G. Wood Engraved by W.m Green
[n.d., c.1810.]
A very rare coloured aquatint, 400 x 450mm.
Charming countryside scene with cattle on right and house on left
[Ref: 18327] £330.00

Beesfield Kent. Proof.
[Robert Brandard]
[n.d. c.1842]
Etching on chine collé, plate 90 x 150mm (3½ x 6"), with margins. Lightly foxed. Small margins.
A country landscape in Farningham, Dartford, Kent. Robert Brandard (1805-62) was a landscape engraver, etcher, lithographer, miniature painter and watercolourist son of engraver and copperplate printer, Thomas Brandard (d. 1830).
[Ref: 61153] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Broadstairs.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 1, 1823.
Aquatint with original hand colour, sheet 240 x 300mm (9½ x 11¾"). Thread margin at top. Trimmed to plate left and right. Paper slightly faded. Some foxing.
From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
[Ref: 66853] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The South-West Prospect of the City of Canterbury.
Sam.l and Nath.l Buck delin. et Sculp.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Mar. 25th 1738. Garden Court, No 1. Middle Temple, London.
Engraving. Sheet 310 x 780mm (12¼ x 30¾"). Central vertical fold as normal, small margins.
A detailed view of Canterbury, with a descriptive text below and a key to the right, indicating various landmarks and buildings. From the series 'Buck's Perspective Views of Cities and Chief Towns in England and Wales', before the addition of a plate number top right.
[Ref: 42779] £380.00

Canterbury [pencil].
W.P. Robins 1921 [pencil].
Etching, titled and signed by the artist. 230 x 380mm (9 x 15") very large margins.
A view looking down on Canterbury Cathedral from woodland. William Palmer Robins (1882-1959), member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, and the Chicago Society of Etchers.
[Ref: 62561] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan of the City of Canterbury, & the Adjoining Suburbs: A.D. MDCCCXXV.
Fenner sc. London.
Rare engraved map. Sheet 350 x 420mm. Trimmed top and bottom.
Decorated with costs of arms of the City, the Archbishopric and the Dean & Chapter; and four vignette views of the churches and the Augustine monastery.
[Ref: 17724] £180.00

The North Prospect of Canterbury.
Tho: Johnson delineavit. W: Hollar fecit.
[n.d. c.1670] But later.
Etching, watermark J. Whatman c. 1795; sheet 180 x 550mm (7 x 21¾"). Trimmed to plate and glued to backing sheet at edges. Right third folded. Time staining. Ink transfer from cartouche dedication to the middle.
A long view of the city in the middle distance, with the cathedral in the left to the centre, seen across a field in the foreground. A coat-of-arms with mitre crest and two fields at top left and an ornamental cartouche at top right containing dedication to Gilbert by Ogilby.
Pennington 961 iii.
[Ref: 62706] £320.00

St Georges Gate, at Canterbury.
Paul Sandby Fecit 1782.
Published by T. Palser, Surrey side, Westminster Bridge 1812.
Rare coloured aquatint. Sheet 340 x 515mm (13¼ x 20¼"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration, laid on album sheet. Damaged. Album sheet slightly cockled. Repairs.
A view of the Norman gatway of Canterbury on market day, with people milling around outside the city. First published by Paul Sandby c.1789.
[Ref: 56059] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Mercery Lane, Canterbury [pencil].
W.m P. Robins [pencil].
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, titled and signed by the artist. 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"), very large margins. Faint mount burn.
A view of the medieval lane, looking towards Canterbury Cathedral. William Palmer Robins (1882-1959), member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, and the Chicago Society of Etchers.
[Ref: 62558] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Cathedral] Cantuariensis Ecclesiæ Cath: facies aquilonalis.
Tho. Johnson delin: Dan: King sculp.
[n.d., 1655.]
Etching on 17th century watermarked paper. 270 x 290mm (10½ x 11½"), with margins. Some creasing and spotting.
A view of Canterbury Cathedral from the north, with a dedication to Edward Darrel. An illustration from William Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum'. According to Pennington, Wenceslaus Hollar etched the cartouche with the St George's Cross in the bottom centre.
[Ref: 61223] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Canterbury Cathedral] Dean Fotherby.
[n.d., 1726.]
Mezzotint with line engraving, rare & fine. 210 x 350mm (8¼ x 13¾).
The tomb of Charles Fotherby (c. 1549-1619), Dean of Canterbury (1615-1619), in the Lady Chapel in the cathedral, published in John Dart's 'The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury'. A more recent history described it as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest [which] is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collinson, Ramsay & Sparks 'A History of Canterbury Cathedral'.
[Ref: 44155] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Back Part Of The Tower Between The Postern Gates, Canterbury.
T. Hasting [etched in image lower left.]
Published by the Author London [n.d., 1813].
Etching, 265 x 330mm. Light spotting, mostly to margins. Laid to album page.
Thomas Hastings (fl.1813 - 1831), amateur etcher, was collector of customs at Liverpool, and is known as Captain Hastings. He did some good work as an etcher, and was an associate of the Liverpool Academy. This a scarce plate from his ‘Vestiges of Antiquity, or a Series of Etchings of Canterbury'. He also published the following works, illustrated by himself: ‘Etchings (39) from the Works of Richard Wilson,' 1825, ‘The British Archer, or Tracts on Archery,' Newport, 1831. He also engraved the plates to Woolnoth's ‘Canterbury Cathedral,' 1816.
Ex: collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7982] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Chart of the Sands and Channels from the Nore to Margate Road.
London: Printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennett, Chart-Sellers, No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act Directs 14th May 1781.
Coloured engraved chart. 470 x 630mm (18½ x 24¾"), with very large margins, 18th century watermark. Tears in margins.
A chart of the Kent coast from Margate to the east end of the Isle of Sheppey and the 'The Nore' (the infamous sand bank that was such a hazard at the very start of the Thames), marking the warning buoys.
[Ref: 48520] £160.00

[Chatham]
E. Duncan pinx. J. Godfrey sculp.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving. Plate size: 255 x 450mm. 10 x 17½".
A view of the Dockyard at Chatham from the opposite bank of the River Medway. Naval cadets are pictured rowing longboats across the river in the foreground as hulks lay at anchor in the mid-ground next to a finished Man-of-War, with the Dockyard and town beyond.
[Ref: 27938] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View near Chatham in Kent. 3.
London, Printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 12 Dec.r 1778.
Engraving laid on album sheet. 179 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Trimmed.
A countryside scene: a woman herding her one cow to the left; a smaller sailing boat on the river, a man walking towards the small stone bridge that crosses a stream where a man is fishing. From a series of 'Twelve Views in Kent, Surry, Hartford-shire &c. Drawn from Nature'.
See Ref: 31567 for complete set.
[Ref: 34747] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[This View of the Royal Dock Yard at Chatham...PROOF . ]
[Painted by R. Paton, the Figures by J. Mortimer. [right] Engraved by P.C. Canot.]
[R. Paton, Wardour Street., Soho, London, 14 February 1775. ]
Rare etching, working proof from the unfinished plate, laid paper. Image 450 x 650mm (17¾ x 25½"). Trimmed within plate, and to image on three sides. Centrefold crease and nicks to extremities.
An interesting progress proof impression, before the plate was engraved with fine detail. The published state carries the following full title and inscription "TO THE King's most Excellent Majesty, This View of the Royal Dock Yard at CHATHAM. / Is by PERMISSION and with all Humility, Inscribed By His MAJESTY's most dutiful Subject and Servant, / Rich.d Paton. / [far left] Printed by Hocquet. Size of the Picture 4. ft 10. in by 3. ft 4. in / Publish'd by Royal Authority & as the Law directs London Feb.y 14.th 1775. To be had of R. Paton Wardour Street, Soho. " A fine prospect of Chatham dockyard, Kent, bustling with activity: ships on the water, some in in dry-dock on the far shore, a skeleton of a ship being built to the right of them; carpenters and blacksmiths working on the near bank in the foreground. Two men try to drag a pig across a plank over a gully (lower left) to where people are loading food and drink onto a small ship. The busy docks stretch along the river bend witht he infantry barracks and the Commissioner's House centre right. Richard Paton (1717 - 1791) painted five views of the royal dockyards, in the Royal Collection, in all of which the figures were painted by John Hamilton Mortimer. In 1776 he exhibited at the Royal Academy the views of Rochester and of Deptford docks.
See NMM PAH9712. See BL Maps K.Top.16.42.c. DNB.
[Ref: 21365] £680.00

Chiddingstone [scratched in plate lower right.]
Albany E. Howarth [signed in pencil.]
A.E. Howarth 1919 [scratched in plate lower right.]
Drypoint etching, 280 x 370mm. 11 x 14½".
The High Street, Chiddingstone, a village in the Sevenoaks area of Kent. Chiddingstone is unique in that, apart from the church and the Castle, the entire village is owned by the National Trust. It is described as being " the most perfect surviving example of a Tudor village in the county". Blindstamps lower left. By Albany E. Howarth ARE (1872 - 1936).
[Ref: 12779] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Coombank, near Sevenoak in Kent, the Seat of the Hon.ble Lieu.t.Gen.l Campbell.
W.m Woollett delin.
Printed by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Copper engraving. 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10¾". Corner creased.
Combe Bank, near Sevenoaks in Kent. It was built for General John Campbell by the architect Roger Morris, but when he became Duke of Argyll he passed the house to his younger son, Lord Frederick Campbell. He was a patron of the architect Robert Adam, and commissioned him to remodel the building. From "Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c.".
[Ref: 16930] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

A Cottage near Dartford in Kent. 2.
London, Printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 12 Dec.r 1778.
Engraving laid on album sheet. 179 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Trimmed.
A countryside scene in Dartford, Kent; stream with small wooden bridge crossing to right, a horse drinks from the stream. From a series of 'Twelve Views in Kent, Surry, Hartford-shire &c. Drawn from Nature'.
See Ref: 31567 for complete set.
[Ref: 34746] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Deal Castle.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, London Aug.t 1, 1823.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins.
A view of the Tudor artillery fort in Kent. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 47140] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Vue De Douvres - Prise de la Douane.
J. Gendall del. Himely Sculp.
A Paris dhes Basset Rue st. Jacques. No. 64.
Aquatint. 520 x 410mm. Top edge trimmed to plate.
[Ref: 2672] £390.00

Dover.
Frank Harding [signed in pencil.]
[n.d. c.1930.]
Etching. 300 x 110mm.
[Ref: 2962] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Straits of Dover.
J.M.W. Turner R.A. J.T. Willmore, A.R.A. 1851.
London, Published Nov.r 1 1851, by E. Gambart & Co. 35 Berniers Street, Oxford Street.
A large chine collé steel engraving. 515 x 675mm (20¼ x 26½"), with large margins. India slightly cracked at top border.
Small boats trying to enter the harbour in choppy seas, the White Cliffs and Dover Castle in the background.
Rawlinson: 666 iv.
[Ref: 54051] £320.00

[Dover.]
T.A. Prior sculp.
[n.d., c.1860s.]
Steel engraving on india laid paper, proof. 260 x 460mm (10¼ x 18").
A prospect of the sea front at Dover, Kent, shipping in the harbour and the famous white cliffs and castle beyond. With separate text sheet.
[Ref: 53610] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Castle and Town of Dover. From a picture in the collection of Sr. William Courtenay Bar.t.
Geo. Lambert del. & pinx.t. J. Mason Sculp.
Published Feb.ry. 20.th 1762 according to Act of Parliament. London, Printed for Jn.º Bowles, N.º 13 Cornhill, Jn.º Boydell, Cheapside, Hen.y Parker N.º 82, Cornhill, Carington Bowles N.º 69 S.t Paul's Church Yard & Rob.t Sayer, N.º 53, Fleet Street
Engraving with etching. 550 x 330mm (21¾ x 13"), large margins top & bottom. Several tears taped in margins, repaired worm holes in sky area, most filled; surface abrasions; glue residue on reverse.
Published as a pair with 'A View of Saltwood Castle at Hythe in Kent'.
[Ref: 62647] £320.00

Le Chateau de Douvres. Vu de L'Arrière Bassin (Marée Basse). Dover Castle Seen from the Inner Docks.
Dessiné et lith. par Jules Arnout. Imp. Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris, Bulla Freres et Jouy, Editeurs. London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners St. Oxf. St [n.d., c.1840].
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 310 x 425mm, 12¼ x 16¾".
[Ref: 10348] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Gate Tower, Dover Castle [marked in pencil in lower left of sheet.]
Hy.G. Webb [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Etching, signed in pencil. sheet 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10½"), very large margins. Tear in the left margin.
Constable's tower and gateway, which was inserted into the curtain wall by Hubert de Burgh between 1221 and 1227 to replace the old north entrance. Harry George Webb (1882-1914) was a landscape and architectural painter and etcher, who exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Etchers. He set up the Caradoc Press in Chiswick in 1899 with his wife Hesba.
Guichard: Appendix only as named artist.
[Ref: 53532] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Marine Parade Waterloo Crescent, &c. From East Cliff.
On Stone by W. Burgess. Printed at 10 St. Martins Lane.
Published by T. Rigden, Dover, 1844.
Rare Lithograph. 253 x 342mm. 10 x 13½".
Donkey walks on the seashore, farmers with horse and cart in the field, cannons above the field. A large crowd gathered in the centre, yachts and ships at sea, a steamer close to the shoreline. Waterloo Crescent, along the Sea Front at Dover. The decision to start building on the shingle bank was taken by the Harbour Commissioners in 1816 and the houses along Waterloo Crescent were commenced in 1834.
[Ref: 17995] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A Large Draught of the Downes Shewing the Sands Shoales Depths of Water and Anchorage with all the Leading marks to Avoide the Dangers therein surveyed by Cap.t. W.m Nunn.
[Engraved by James Mynde.]
Sold by W.m Mount & T. Page on Tower Hill [n.d., c.1750].
Engraved map. 435 x 550mm (17¼ x 21¾"), on thick paper, very large margins. Paper toned.
A detailed chart of the Kent coast from Dover Castle to Margate, orientated with north to the right. An important feature is Goodwin Sands, the 10-mile-long sandbank responsible for the loss of over 2,000 ships. This map was first published by Samuel Thornton in 1723; this example was published by Mount & Page in their re-issue of the Greenvile Collins's 'Great Britain Coasting Pilot'.
[Ref: 59320] £350.00

An Actual Survey of the Coast of Kent From Dim Church to Rye Harbour, with the New Shoal to the Westward of Dungeness.
By John Stephenson a Master in the Royal Navy.
London : Printed for Robert Sayer Nº 53 Fleet Street, as the Act direct, January 1st 1787.
Engraved map with hand colour, 18th century watermark. 505 x 710mm (19¾ x 28"), very large margins. A small stain.
A sea chart of the Kent coast from Winchelsea Castle to Dimchurch, with engraved sailing directions and two coastal profiles. As the 'new' shoal west of the Ness is now named 'Stephenson's Shoal', this is probably the first printed chart to name this sand-bank. Published as marine chronometers were being introduced, visual aids like the coastal profiles and the elevations of buildings in the towns were still important for coastal navigation.
[Ref: 59528] £260.00

An Actual Survey of the Coast of Kent From Dim Church to Rye Harbour, with the New Shoal to the Westward of Dungeness.
By John Stephenson a Master in the Royal Navy.
London : Printed for Robert Sayer Nº 53 Fleet Street, as the Act direct, January 1st 1787.
Engraved map, 18th century watermark. 505 x 710mm (19¾ x 28"), very large margins. A small stain, near Ness.
A sea chart of the Kent coast from Winchelsea Castle to Dimchurch, with engraved sailing directions and two coastal profiles. As the 'new' shoal west of the Ness is now named 'Stephenson's Shoal', this is probably the first printed chart to name this sand-bank. Published as marine chronometers were being introduced, visual aids like the coastal profiles and the elevations of buildings in the towns were still important for coastal navigation.
[Ref: 59527] £220.00

An Exact Perspective View of Dunmow, late the Priory, in the County of Essex. With a Representation of the Ceremony, & Procession in that Mannor, on Thursday the 20th of June 1751. When Thomas Shakeshaft of the Parish of Weathersfield, in the County aforesaid Weaver, & Ann his Wife came to Demand & did Actually receive a Gammon of Bacon, Oath, pursuant to the Antient Custom, in Manner & form prescribed as aforesaid. N.B. Before the Dissolution of Monasteries, It does not appear by searching the most Antient Records to have been demanded above three times, & including this just as often since.
C. Mosely Sculp.t. Engraved from an Original Painting taken on the Spot by David Ogborne.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.ry 1752. Republish'd Oct.r 26th 1806 by R. Cribb, 288 Holborn.
Engraving. Sheet 370 x 550mm (14½ x 21½"). Trimmed within plate, some restoration, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
An interesting view showing a ceremonial procession in Dunmow in Kent. A married couple are carried aloft in a sedan chair as others ride in carts and carriages and march One man carries aloft a gammon of bacon on a pole. The couple have taken an oath, printed in full lower right, stating that they have never regretted a day of marriage. In return for taking the oath the couple receive the flitch of gammon.
[Ref: 55695] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

An Exact Perspective View of Dunmow, late the Priory, in the County of Essex. With a Representation of the Ceremony, & Procession in that Mannor, on Thursday the 20th of June 1751. When Thomas Shakeshaft of the Parish of Weathersfield, in the County aforesaid Weaver, & Ann his Wife came to Demand & did Actually receive a Gammon of Bacon, Oath, pursuant to the Antient Custom, in Manner & form prescribed as aforesaid. N.B. Before the Dissolution of Monasteries, It does not appear by searching the most Antient Records to have been demanded above three times, & including this just as often since.
C. Mosely Sculp.t. Engraved from an Original Painting taken on the Spot by David Ogborne.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jan.ry 1752 (but later).
Engraving and book. Plate: 375 x 560mm (14¾ x 22''). Book: 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½''). Tears in right edge. Tear in centre.
A view showing a ceremonial procession in Dunmow in Kent. A married couple are carried aloft in a sedan chair as others ride in carts and carriages and march One man carries aloft a gammon of bacon on a pole. The couple have taken an oath, printed in full lower right, stating that they have never regretted a day of marriage. In return for taking the oath the couple receive the flitch of gammon. Sold with 'The History of the Dunmow Flitch Ceremony' by Francis W. Steer. Printed by J. H. Clarke & Co., Ltd., Chelmsford 1951.
[Ref: 48271] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

A View near Eltham in Kent. 1. Twelve Views in Kent, Surry, Hartford-shire &c. Drawn from Nature. No.8.
London, Printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 12 Dec.r 1778.
Engraving, laid on album sheet. 179 x 280mm (7 x 11"). Trimmed.
A countryside scene: a shepherd sitting in a paddock outside his house with three sheep; a windmill in the background. A cart and horse move towards right away from a gate and hut where a man sits guarding the road. From a series of 'Twelve Views in Kent, Surry, Hartford-shire &c. Drawn from Nature'.
See Ref: 31567 for complete set.
[Ref: 34748] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

King John's Barn, Eltham [Interior] [&] [Exterior] (2).
Hge L delt. & fect. [&] Drawn & Etched by the late Honble. Heneage Legge.
London, Published by James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1845.
Pair of etchings, sheets 175 x 210mm (7 x 8¼") [&] 175 x 240mm (7 x 9½"). Both lacking margins.
Two views of Eltham Palace, then in rural Kent (now southeast London), childhood home of Henry VIII. In 1995 its management was handed over to English Heritage which restored the building in 1999 and opened it to the public. After Heneage Legge (1788 - 1844), amateur etcher; son of George, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth. He died the year before these prints were published.
[Ref: 21703] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

1. Folkestone Head N.W. ½ W. 2 or 3 Miles dis.t. 2. Dungeness, bearing East, 2 or 3 Miles dis.t. 3. The High Land of Dungarven W. b N. 4. Old Harry, Swanege Bay.
[Engraved by J.C. Stadler after John Thomas Serres.]
Engrav'd for I.T. Serres's Little Sea Torch, & Publish'd by him, London, 1801.
Aquatint, printed in blue and hand finished. 260 x 420mm, 10¼ x 16½". Occasional spots.
Four finely-coloured coastal profiles on one sheet, three of the south coast of England, the fourth Dungarvan in Ireland. "Old Harry" is the famous chalk stack named after the Devil; his 'Wife' is shown here at the same height, predating her collapse in 1896. Published in Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13474] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

1. The Start Point N.E. b N. 2. The Bolt Head W.N.W. 3. Dunnose, W. b N. 4. Dover Castle, N.E. ½ N. 5. The South Foreland, and Shakespears Cliff. 6. Entrance to Dover Harbour. 7. Calais Town and Cliff.
[Engraved by J.C. Stadler after John Thomas Serres.]
Engrav'd for I.T. Serres's Little Sea Torch, & Pub. by him, London, 1801.
Aquatint, printed in blue and hand finished. 400 x 250mm, 15¾ x 9¾". Occasional spots. Small tear.
Seven finely-coloured coastal profiles, six of the south coast of England, but also one of Calais. Published in Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13485] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

1. The North Foreland. 2. The South Foreland. 3. Dover from the Roads. 4. Sandown Castle in the Downs. 5. Beachy Head from the S.W. 6. Beachy Head N. b W. 7. The Bill of Portland.
[Engraved by J.C. Stadler after John Thomas Serres.]
Engrav'd for I.T. Serres's Little Sea Torch, & Pub. by him, London, 1801.
Aquatint, printed in blue and hand finished. 400 x 250mm, 15¾ x 9¾". Occasional spots. Small tear.
Seven finely-coloured coastal profiles of the south coast of England. Published in Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13487] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Folkestone.]
G.H. Andrews, pinx. T.A. Prior, sculp.
[n.d., c.1860s.]
Steel engraving on india laid paper, proof, 260 x 460mm. 10¼ x 18¼". With separate text sheet. A fine impression.
A steamship enters the choppy waters of the English Channel as it leaves Folkestone Harbour, Kent.
[Ref: 11815] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover.]
[Engraved by John Horsburgh after J.M.W. Turner.]
[1831]
Etching with engraving on chine collé. 245 x 305mm (9¾ x 12"), very large margins. Chine collé with a few cockles.
A view on the shoreline, with revenue officers directing fishermen to dig up kegs from the sands.
Rawlinson 250, first published state, before letters.
[Ref: 56602] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A view of the Town and Port of Folkestone, from the South-east.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 250 x 400mm, 9¾ x 16". Edges chipped, repaired small hole in sky.
The earliest engraved view of Folkestone, published in Hasted's monumental 'History of Kent', showing the town from the sea.
[Ref: 26546] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Old Folkestone.] 75 Impressions only. Plate destroyed. [Separately printed title card.]
Verrall King [in pencil.]
Etching. Limited edition 48/75. 357 x 233mm. Plate destroyed.
[Ref: 14374] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

National Art Treasures Exhibition Folkestone Kent 1886. Joseph Gardner Architect.
[1886.]
Wood engraving on thin tissue paper, separately published, image 170 x 340mm. 6¾ x 13½". Centre fold-crease; crinkled, with one small hole. Extremities tatty.
View of a large pavilion built to house one of the Victorian travelling art exhibitions. The National Art Treasures Exhibition Building eventually opened on May 22nd 1886. The organ was built by local Master Organ builder Henry Jones. It is recorded that on 30th March 1901 a lecture was given in the renamed Pleasure Gardens Theatre by Winston Churchill, who spoke of his experiences in the South African War. This image appeared in the Illustrated London News.
[Ref: 22712] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esq.r. Veüe de Foots-Cray Place dans la Comté de Kent Maison de Bourchier Cleeve.
London Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760]
Engraving. Plate: 180 x 280mm (7 x 11'') very large margins. Scraps glued to back.
A view of the Foots-Cray Place, a Palladian villa built in the style of Villa Capra near Vicenza.
[Ref: 49186] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve, Esqr. [Translated into French below.]
W. Woollett del. et sculp.
Printed for J. Boydell Engraver the Corner of Queen Street in Cheapside, T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, & Hen. Parker & Eliz. Bakewell in Cornhill.
Hand coloured etching and engraving, 335 x 510mm. 13¼ x 20". Trimmed to plate.
A view of the park with the house to left. In the foreground, a group of four gentlemen and two ladies look through a telescope. In the right foreground, a gentleman and a lady walk; he carries a flute, a stringed instrument and a score, while she carries a posy of flowers. There is coach and horses in the distance, and a herd of deer. From "Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c.".
[Ref: 9218] £360.00

A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bouchier Cleeve Esq.r.
W.m Woollett delin.
Printed by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1770.]
Copper engraving. 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10¾".
Foots Cray Place in Bexley, south-east London, a Palladian mansion built c.1754, attributed to Isaac Ware. Only the grounds remain, Foots Cray Meadows, a public park. From "Twelve Views of Gentlemens Seats and Gardens by Woollett &c.".
[Ref: 16931] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair] Gadshill Place (North View). [&] Gadshill Place (South View).
Nicholson's Litho-typo Steam Printing Works, 11, Wormwood Street, City, E.C.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Pair of tinted lithographs, printed area 210 x 255mm, 8¼ x 10"
Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, the country home of Charles Dickens from 1857 until he died there from a stroke in 1870. His father had shown him the house when he was nine years old telling him that if he worked hard enough, one day he would own such a house. The house, a Grade 1 listed building, has been a school since 1924.
[Ref: 22125] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Gads Hill Place, Rochester [in pencil].
Clough Bromley [in image and in pencil]
London Published March 1. 1886 by S. Drewett. 1. Northumberland Avenue S.W.
Etching signed by the artist, 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"), with large margins.
A view of Gadshill Place in Winter covered in snow. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens however is most famously known as being the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. Clough Bromley (c.1850-1904).
[Ref: 62615] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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