Grosvenor Prints

Ahoy [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Limited edition numbered 3 of 75. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A nude woman waves a towel from the sands of a wet beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62508] £360.00

Les Mystères des Bois. Sous le Bananier. Under the Bananier. Unter des Bananier.
Composé et lith. par Joseph Félon. Imprimé par Lemercièr, á Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxford S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 420mm (12¾ x 16½"). Marking on left.
An exotic Middle Eastern scene in which two scantily clad women lie beneath a banana tree.
[Ref: 47761] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Bathers by a Pool.] No. 5.
Peint d'après nature et lithographié par C. Bargue. Imprimé par Becquet frères, à Paris.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 335 x 280mm (13¼ x 11"). Trimmed.
A bathing scene in which two women prepare to bathe in a pool.
[Ref: 47759] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bathers [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Two women in a rowing boat. One is fully nude about to dive into the water while the other holds the oars. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62506] £380.00

[Le Coucher. D'après le Tableau Original de 5. pieds 9. po. de haut, sur 4. pieds 5. po. de large, Peint par Jacques Vanloo, en 1650 & Gravé par Porporati, Pensionnaire de S. M. le Roi de Sardaigne.]
[J. Vanloo Pinx. Porporati Sculp.]
[Aparis chez Buldet Rue de Gesvres, dans la Maison à grand Balcon et à Porte cochere, au Premier. Imprimé par J.C. Aze.] [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, proof before letters. 385 x 525mm (15¼ x 20¾"), with large margins. Crack in blank inscription area repaired, tears in margins.
A woman, wearing only a bonnet, looks over her shoulder provocatively as she climbs into bed. The scene was painted by Jacob van Loo and engraved by Carlo Antonio Porporati.
[Ref: 49828] £360.00

Le Coucher. D'après le Tableau Original de 5. pieds 9. po. de haut, sur 4. pieds 5. po. de large, Peint par Jacques Vanloo, en 1650 & Gravé par Porporati, Pensionnaire de S. M. le Roi de Sardaigne.
J. Vanloo Pinx. Porporati Sculp.
Aparis chez Buldet Rue de Gesvres, dans la Maison à grand Balcon et à Porte cochere, au Premier. Imprimé par J.C. Aze. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, framed. Plate: 385 x 525mm (15¼ x 20¾").
A woman, wearing only a bonnet, looks over her shoulder provocatively as she climbs into bed. The scene was painted by Jacob van Loo and engraved by Carlo Antonio Porporati.
[Ref: 44474] £420.00

The Dark Canoe [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A pair of naked women and their canoe. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62512] £420.00

[The delights of country life] Les délices de la vie champetres
Eisen Del. de G.t Sculp. [c.1770]
Fine engraving before margins cleaned, sheet 295 x 205mm (11½ x 8"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two naked women frolic in a river. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45077] £320.00

La colombe favorite. The favourite dove. Das saufte taübchen.
Joseph Felon inv. et lith.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. St. Imp. F.ois Delarue.r Larrey, 8, Paris.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet: 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 12"), with large margins
A portrait of a nude woman, shown washing her feet in a pond while a dove sits on her shoulder.
[Ref: 47346] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Female nude standing in a classical garden.] 36.
J. Collet del. C. Grignon sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching, pt 18th century watermark. 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), very large margins.
Originally published in a set of six 'Studies of the Female Figure'.
[Ref: 51963] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Etude dessinee par Francois Boucher premier Peintre du Roi,
Gravee par J. Edme Nochez, Dirigee par Fessard Graveur orde. du Cabinet du Roi, et de l'Academie Royale de Parme.
A Paris ches Fessard Bibliotheque du Roi, et rue Se. Anne Butte S. Roch. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, Framed; 260 x 320mm. 10¼ x 12½". Some foxing, one rust spot to image.
A reclining female nude in a landscape. After François Boucher (1703 - 1770).
[Ref: 12013] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair of studies of a nude woman.] II. [&] III.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Pair of engravings. Each 300 x 185mm (12 x 7¼"). Very large margins. Inks spots on 'II'.
The front and back of a woman, nude other than a modesty cloth.
[Ref: 37720] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Fishing a Fair Maiden.]
Jul. Hanriot inv. sc.
[n.d. c.1880.]
Etching. 298 x 210mm. 11¾ x 8¼".
Jules Arnand Hanriot (1853-1930) was a French artist famous for female nudes such as this. A young man fishing on the river bank, looks most surprised when his catch is a nude female "hooked" on her ample buttocks. She clings to the low tree branches as he continues to reel her in.
[Ref: 17508] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Die Grazien. 2.
Lith. v. A. v. Deinert. Druck v. Albert Waldow sen in Berlin.
Verlag v. F. Sala & Co. in Berlin, Unter den Linden 57. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 390 x 330mm (15¼ x 13"), with large margins.
A scene in the woodlands, with two nude women sitting by a pool while one plays with a flower.
[Ref: 47758] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Die Grazien. 9.
Lith. v. Klein. Druck v. H. Waldow jun in Berlin.
Verlag v. F. Sala & Co. in Berlin, Unter den Linden 57. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 440 x 340mm (17¼ x 13¼"), with large margins.
A scene in the woodlands, with two nude women sitting by a pool playing with a small dog.
[Ref: 47756] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Die Grazien. 5.
Lith. v. Bülow. Druck b. Gebr Delius.
Verlag v. F. Sala & Co. in Berlin, Unter den Linden 57. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 405 x 325mm (16 x 12¾"), with large margins.
A scene in the woodlands, with two nude women sitting by a pool, as one holds a pink cloth to another.
[Ref: 47757] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Le Hamac. The Hammock. Die Hängematte.
Lith. v. Benseler. Druck v. A. Waldow sen in Berlin.
Verlag v. Isador Rocca in Berlin, Charlotten Str. No. 25. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph with gum arabic. Sheet: 345 x 415mm (13½ x 16½"). Marking in margins.
A woodland scene in which two woman sleep by the side of a pool.
[Ref: 47763] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Hercules leaning against a column]
Lamb.t fect M.o I 1772
Soft-ground ethcing, platemark 265 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Small margins.
Hercules wearing his lion skin, club resting on the ground.
[Ref: 43693] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Island Sands]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A naked woman holding a large towel stands on a rock looking towards her nude companion on a sandier part of the beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62504] £320.00

[Conchiglia di Venere].
Raphael Kirchner.
Copyright Bruton Galleries, Ltd, 9, Bruton Street, London, W.1. [n.d., c.1915.]
Photolithograph. Sheet 690 x 530mm (27¼ x 21") with very large margins. Tears to the edges.
Kirchner (1876-1917) was an Austrian painter in the Art Nouveau style, famed for his influence on the 'pin-up' magazine and postcard industry, naked woman in a clam shell, waving a French flag. Born in Vienna, he moved to Paris in 1900 and to New York on the outbreak of the First World War. In 1915 Robert Boss of the Bruton Galleries commissioned paintings from him, reproduced like this.
[Ref: 51380] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Low Tide [in pencil].
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with very large margins. Mint. Uncut.
A nude woman watches three other nude women running along the beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62500] £360.00

Misty Morn [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Limited edition numbered 1 of 75. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Two nude women towel themselves off after a morning skinny dip. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62510] £360.00

Morning [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Several nude women rest on a grassy bank after they've been swimming. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62505] £320.00

[Musicians and Nudes.]
Maurin delineavit. Imp. lithog. de Chabert. Le Georgion fecit.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 490 x 335mm (19¼ x 13¼"). Large margins. Light foxing in margins.
Exterior scene in which a pair of musicians sit by a well while one woman fills up a jug and a second accomapanies them on a flute. In the distance a shepherd herds a flock of sheep.
[Ref: 36586] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Les Sylphides. L'Oracle des Bois. Nature's Book.
Dessiné et Lithographié par C. Bargue. Lith Becquet frères, r. des Noyers, 37, Paris.
Paris_F. Sinnett, éditeur, Galerie Colbert, 10.
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 420 x 310mm (16½ x 12").
A scene in a woodland in which two bathers pluck the petals from a daisy.
[Ref: 47760] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Nude in the Clouds.] Académie dessinée et Gravée par B. Picart. L'Original est au Cabinet de Mons.r Walraven à Amsterdam.
[Bernard Picart.]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint. Plate: 295 x 180mm (11½ x 7''), with large margins.
A study of a nude by Bernard Picart (1673-1733).
[Ref: 49686] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Reclining Nude]
R Nunkeles ad viv del. J.C. fecit 1767
Crayon manner, sheet 240 x 295mm (9½ x 11½"). Trimmed to image; glued to backing sheet at corners with watercolour border around edges. Borders dusty.
Nude reminiscent of the drawings of François Boucher (1703-70), engraved using the crayon manner invented by Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93) to skilfully replicates pastel drawings.
[Ref: 33187] £420.00

[Reclining Nude] Tire du Cabinet de Monsieur Cayeux
F. Boucher delineavit. L. Bonnet Sculpsit
A Paris chez la V.e de F. Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2. Piliers d'Or.
Crayon manner with very large margins, platemark 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Creasing; damage to margins.
Nude engraved from a drawing by leading French eighteenth century painter François Boucher (1703-70). The printmaker, Louis Marin Bonnet (1736-93), was the inventor of the distinctive crayon manner employed here which skilfully replicates pastel drawings. Bonnet, in common with several leading printmakers of his day, spent time working in Russia (1764-6).
[Ref: 33186] £420.00

Le Repose.
Peint par Gaspard Netscher. Dessiné par Beaudouin. Gravé par C.E. Gaucher, des acad.ie R.le et Soc.té de Londre, Rouen &c.
Imp. Chardon ainé, à Paris [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving with etching. 270 x 225mm (10¾ x 9"), very large margins.
Interior of a rich bedroom with a naked woman asleep on a canopied bed, a jug on a side-table. First published c.1808, the title also had 'De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. A.P.D.R.'
[Ref: 59646] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Rhythm [in pencil].
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
Two women play on a makeshift seesaw at the beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62502] £320.00

[The Shadow and the Shade.]
[Nathaniel Sparks RE.]
[n.d. c.1928.]
Mezzotint and etching. 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½"). Framed.
An impression of this print was purchased by Her Majesty Queen Mary at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1928. Nathaniel Sparks R.E. (1880-1956) won a scholarship to the Bristol College of Art and Science at the age of 10. His allegorical nudes and such subject matter are relatively rare today.
[Ref: 21724] £320.00

Les Sylphides. Le Silence. The Hush, of Nature.
Peint d'après nature et lithographié par C. Bargue. Imprimé par Becquet frères, à Paris.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Colourd lithograph. Sheet: 330 x 420mm (13 x 16½"). Damage to corner, mark in margin in lower left corner.
A scene in which two nude women recline near a pool, their instruments lie discarded beside them and they watch two butterflies.
[Ref: 47347] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Le Brin d'herbe. The Stem of Grass. Das Grashälmchen.
Joseph Felon inv.t et lith. Imprimé par Lemercier à Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 425mm (12¾ x 16¾").
A woodland scene in which two nude women recline by a pool; one tickles the others nose with a grass stem.
[Ref: 48992] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Les Mystères des Bois. Le Repose. The Repose. Die Ruhe.
Joseph Felon inv.t et lith. Imprimé par Lemercier à Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxf. S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 425mm (12¾ x 16¾"). Repaired tears in margins.
A woodland scene in which two nude women recline by a pool.
[Ref: 47762] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Sprite 19/75 [in pencil].
Nat. Long.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, limited edition 75, titled and signed by the artist. 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A nude woman running along a sandy beach, arms outstretched to embrace the elements. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
[Ref: 53193] £420.00

The Sprite [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A nude woman running along a sandy beach, arms outstretched to embrace the elements. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
See ref: 53193 for framed version. Provenance: From the Artists Studio.
[Ref: 62511] £420.00

[A female nude leaning on a wall in a woodland setting.]
J. Collet del. Goldar sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. Part 18th century watermark; 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with wide margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53929] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A female nude leaning on a wall with a vase.]
J. Collet del. Byrne sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with wide margins.
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53930] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A female nude on steps leading to water.]
J. Collet del. Caldwell sculp.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs 15 Dec.r 1770.
Etching with engraving. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½").
From the collection 'Designs by Jn.o Collett, Both Serious and Comic, Engraved on 36 Plates'.
[Ref: 53932] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[La Chevelure de Berenice.]
Peint par Faléro. Gravé par Varin..
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs successeurs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er Octobre 1886 _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure, proof before title on india. 660 x 385mm.
A representation of the constellation Coma Berenices as a naked woman. Berenice II (c.267-221 BC), wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, sacrificed her red hair to the gods as an offering for the safe return of her husband. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 8240] £680.00

La Chevelure de Berenice.
Peint par Faléro. Gravé par Varin.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs successeurs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er Octobre 1886 _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on india. 660 x 385mm.
A representation of the constellation Coma Berenices as a naked woman. Berenice II (c.267–221 BC), wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, sacrificed her red hair to the gods as an offering for the safe return of her husband. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7227] £520.00

[L'Etoile double.]
['Faléro' and 'Eichens' signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right.]
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. Imprime & Publie par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre_Paris Londres_La Haye. Berlin_Verlag von Goupil & Co. New-York_Published by M. Knoedler.
Engraving with etching and aquatint on india laid paper, proof before title, 710 x 395mm. Pin hole to india lower right, outside image.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 8043] £450.00

[L'Etoile double.]
P. Hermann Eichens [signed in pencil lower right.] ['Faléro' and 'Eichens' signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right.]
London published October 1st. 1883 by Goupil & Co. 116 & 111. New Bond street London, W. and 9 rue Chaptal Paris Copyright registered.
Engraving with etching and aquatint on india laid paper, signed engraver's proof before title, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 8042] £620.00

L'Etoile double.
Peint Par Faléro. Grave Par H. Eichens [with their signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right].
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. [Second, very faded and almost invisible publication line of Goupil & Co. at bottom of plate.]
Engraving with etching and coloured aquatint, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 8041] £420.00

[L'Etoile polaire.]
[Peint par Faléro.].
[Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs successeurs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er Octobre 1886 _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.].
Photogravure, signed proof on chine collé, limited to 125. 660 x 385mm (26 x 15¼"). Margin torn.
Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7229] £750.00

L'Etoile polaire.
Peint par Faléro.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Editeurs successeurs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er Octobre 1886 _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on india. 660 x 385mm.
A representation of the Pole Star as a naked woman. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7228] £520.00

The Pebble [in pencil]
Nat. Long. [in image and signed in pencil]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Very fine etching, titled and signed by the artist. Limited edition numbered 1 of 75. Plate 200 x 265mm (8 x 10½"), with mint, uncut margins.
A nude woman skips stones at the beach. Nathaniel Long (1893-1955), book and magazine illustrator and printmaker who specialized in eroticised female etching. In 1948 he illustrated editions of both 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and 'The Coral Island'.
Provenance: From the Artist's Studio.
[Ref: 62509] £360.00

Le Jour.
Peint par Faléro. Photogravure Goupil & C.ie.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Edit.rs succ.rs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er 8.bre 1884, _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on india. 510 x 285mm.
Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7226] £320.00

La Nuit.
Peint par Faléro. Photogravure Goupil & C.ie.
Imprimé & Publié par Boussod, Valadon & C.ie, Edit.rs succ.rs de Goupil & C.ie, Le 1.er 8.bre 1884, _ Paris_Londres_La Haye.
Photogravure on chine collé. 510 x 285mm (20 x 11¼").
Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 7225] £580.00

Venus Endormie. Gravé d'apres un Tableau Original de Francois Le Moine.
F. Le Moine pinx.t. F. Aliamet sculp.t.
Se vend à Londres chez T. Major dans St Martin's Lane. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1761.
Engraving. 380 x 430mm (15 x 17"), large margins. Repaired tear in margin, some creasing and spotting.
A naked Venus, asleep with her back to the viewer. The English publisher, Thomas Major (1720-99), worked in Paris between 1745 and 1749 and made contacts in the Paris print trade that allowed him to acquire French plates like this.
[Ref: 50090] £380.00

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