Grosvenor Prints

[Vinegar Valentine] Abroad You're Quite the Masher and Smoke Your Cigarette! At Home You Are a Puppy Whom No One Cares to Pet!
[n.d., c.1850.]
Photo lithograph, printed in black and red. Sheet (unfolded) 375 x 130mm (14½ x 5"). Very slight toning of edges.
A portrait of a dandy with monocle, cigarette and cane, unfolds to reveal a bulldog on a chain lunging at a cat. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 61325] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Pomatum-haired puppy, how charming you are, / With your bold stareing eyes and brilliant cigar [...] And though in tour own estimation you shine, / You are not bright enough, Sir, for my Valentine.
London S. Marks, and Sons [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured wood engraving with letterpress. Sheet 185 x 130mm (7¼ x 5"). Laid on album paper.
A poisonous valentine with a man with the head of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
[Ref: 60999] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.] You may smile as you please, and anoint well with grease [/] Your ugly old Phizz, and false hair [/] You may dress out quite gay, yet that's not the way [/] To keep up a Juvenile air...
[n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured woodcut. Sheet: 215 x 180mm (8½ x 7").
An example of a cruel Victorian Valentine, which pokes fun at a spinster attempting to cling on to her youth.
[Ref: 43797] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine.] Why did you court her suddenly?[/] And why so soon "propose" [/] Why lead her to the altar [/] To be led by the nose?
[n.d., c.1850.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½").
A Victorian valentine criticising a man's decision to get married.
[Ref: 43811] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Your Portrait: Conceited Pup with Ugly Face / Ti's Plain You'r One of the Bull Dog Race.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 440 x 185mm (17¼ x 7¼") . Folded.
With a dog's face, with monocle & pipe.
[Ref: 7027] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Deceit.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 445 x 145mm. Folded, 3 small worm holes.
A woman with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7030] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An Engraver, you may be by trade, / But withal you're a curious blade, / Whose rule every night, is to go to bed tight, / That the bloom on your nose my ne'er fade. / Chop away, cut and butcher your block, / Never listen again for a knock, / For you in my eyes, I loath and despise / As the ugliest sheep in the flock.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet.
A wood-engraver, smoking a pipe.
[Ref: 7069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

You will be likely getting married, If your intentions out are carried, This little picture do not scorn, It shows a likeness of your first-born.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving with letterpress. 254 x 190mm. 10 x 7½".
A white hand holding a black baby.
[Ref: 27167] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hearken Not to the Voice of the Siren.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 630 x 255mm. Folded.
A woman with a fish's tail.
[Ref: 7035] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

'Me Thinks 'tis my Glass, not my Brother.' Shakespeare.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, sheet 635 x 250mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7055] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Mongrel.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 565 x 220mm. Folded.
[Ref: 7056] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Which is the Puppy?
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 220 x 175mm.
[Ref: 7057] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Your principles in vain you boast / You look just like Salvation's Ghost.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 560 x 220mm. Folded, some wear.
A Salvation Army trumpeter.
[Ref: 7029] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

One who can give a stab in the back.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Lithograph, printed in green, sheet 380 x 85mm. Folded, three small worm holes.
A woman with serpentine tongue & tail.
[Ref: 7034] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

As a Tailor's Goose, you're more known than admired...
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 370 x 250mm. Folded.
A dandy goose.
[Ref: 7037] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Venomous Reptile!
[n.d., c.1870.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 540 x 205mm. Folded, a few small tears.
A immaculately-dressed man with a serpentine tail.
[Ref: 7031] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[A pair of grotesque figures.]
Lewis Marks Del.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of hand-coloured etchings. Sheet: 245 x 180mm (10 x 7''). Laid on album sheets, cockling.
A pair of grotesque portraits of a man and a woman with huge, ugly heads. Portraits like these, with unkind verses below, were often given as Valentines.
[Ref: 50465] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Valentine] Baker. Baker, Baker, do you know, / Your head is like a lump of dough, / And though you may think I speak rough, / Your nose is like a penny puff.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet 445 x 140mm (17½ x 5½"). Tear touching title, pinhole.
A humorous valentine.
[Ref: 54503] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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