Grosvenor Prints

[Aircraft factory] Intelatura di Ali ''Caprioni''.
Carlo Vitali.
[n.d., c.1930.]
Scarce aquatint. 180 x 240mm (7¼ x 9½"), with letterpress title just outside plate, large margins. Some spotting.
A factory making wings for 'Caproni' aircraft.
[Ref: 60924] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bay of Amalfi. _ From the Convent.
from a sketch by C.W. Tho.s Picken, lith.
[London, n.d., c. 1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 270 x 320mm (10½ x 12½"), very large margins. Some spotting.
A view of the city of Atrani, squeezed into a small gap in the sea cliffs. Plate 3 of an unidentified publication, probably of a voyage through the Mediterrean
[Ref: 60905] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Atrani. _ Coast of Amalfi.
from a sketch by C.W. Tho.s Picken, lith.
[London, n.d., c. 1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 270 x 320mm (10½ x 12½"), very large margins. Some spotting.
A view of the city of Atrani, squeezed into a small gap in the sea cliffs. Plate 5 of an unidentified publication, probably of a voyage through the Mediterrean.
[Ref: 60904] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Artemisia of Caria.]
Heinrich van Bles pinxt: F:Piloty delin.
[Munich: J. Stuntz, 1811-1816.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 485 x 380mm (19 x 15"), large margins.
An early lithograph, depicting Artemisia II of Caria (d.351 BC) in Renaissance dress, holding a goblet in which her husband Mausolus's ashes are mixed with drink. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in his memory. From 'Les Oeuvres lithographiques. Contenant un choix de dessins d'après les grands maîtres de toutes les écoles, tiré des Musées de sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière.'
[Ref: 60955] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Artillery Duty.
[after Matthew Darly.]
Printed for Robert Sayer, No 53, Fleet Steet [n.d., c.1775].
Coloured etching. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Paper loss lower left margin.
Two military macaronis in uniform; a very tall soldier holds a huge umbrella or parasol over the head of a diminutive officer. A re-issue of Matthew Darly's plate of 1773.
See BM Satires 4646 for the original issue.
[Ref: 60981] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Ball Game]
91-100 [illegible signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, printed in colours, signed by the artist. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½").
Two men playing a game against a wall in a Spanish village.
[Ref: 60925] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontis to Caldecott's Musical Miscellany MS Vol. III.]
F. Bartolozzi sculp.
Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co. Music Publishers 20 Soho Sq. [c.1810].
Etching. 115 x 210mm (4½ x 8¼") very large margins. Old ink mss. name added, crack in platemark, some spotting and creasing.
Mrs. Wadham Wyndham "Caldecott's Musical Miscellany MS Vol. III” was a musical score book printed by Goulding D'Almaine, Potter & Co music publishers and musical instrument sellers, with a cartouche design by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), filled with songs and pieces, most with titles and some composers, with an index of titles and composers at the back, and various verses at the front and comments on John Barratt at the back. Music publishers 'Goulding & D’Almaine' was founded in 1785; it became 'Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter & Co.' c.1810.
[Ref: 60980] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Beckford's Tower] Views of Landsdown Tower Bath. The Favourite Edifice of the Late William Beckford Esq.r.
From Drawings by Willes Maddox. On Stone by S.J. Richardson, F.S.A.
Published by Edmund English, Jun.r Milsom S.t Bath and Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, London, 1844.
2°, original half morocco, moiré cloth, lettered in gilt on front board; lithographed dedication, list of plates and vignettes, letterpress 'To the Reader', facsimile mss. letter, 2pp. list of subscribers, errata slip; pp. 9, with six tinted lithographic vignettes and a wood engraving; 14 lithographs with fine hand colour on 13 sheets, trimmed to image and mounted on card as issued, as called for. Disbound, edges chipped, some spotting to text.
An example of the Subscription Edition of the account of Lansdown Tower in Bath, built by William Beckford in 1827. Now known as 'Beckford's Tower' and owned by the Bath Preservation Trust, it is Grade I listed.
Abbey Scenery 420.
[Ref: 60911] £1,800.00 view all images for this item

The Capture Of Atlanta, Georgia, Sep.t 2.D 1864. By the Union Army, under Major Gen.l Sherman. On the 30.th August, the Union Army, by the masterly strategy of Gen.l Sherman, made a rapid flank movement, cutting the Rail Road south of the City, attacking the rebels at Jonesboro, and capturing their guns and defences there. Hood, the rebel commander, finding himself completely outgeneraled, set fire to his stores, blew up his magazines, and "skedaddled." Gen.Slocum with the 20th Corps occupied the place and thus in the thrilling words of Sherman, "Atlanta is ours and fairly won.!!
Pubs by Currier & Ives 152 Nassau St. N.Y. [n.d. c.1864.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 250 x 350mm (10 x 14"). Mountburn. Residues of tape.
View showing several Union troops entering Atlanta. Military officers on horseback salute, lead a cannon, and direct the troops. Also shows an infantry man nursing his ankle in the foreground and the ammunitions store on fire in the middle of the city in the background. The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply hub of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 –91) overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood (1831–79). Currier and Ives was a New York City printmaking business that operated between 1835 and 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier (1813 –88), the company designed and sold inexpensive, hand painted lithographic works based on news events, views of popular culture and Americana.
[Ref: 60983] £490.00

The Surrender of Ulm _ or. _ Buonparte & Gen.l Mack coming to a right Understanding, _ intended as a specimen of French Victories _ i.e _ Conquoring without Bloodshed.!!!
J.s Gillray inv & f-
Publishd Nov.r 6th 1805. by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Str.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), very large margins.
Austrian General Karl Mack von Leiberich grovels before a tiny Napoleon, offering his sword and the keys to the city of Ulm. Mack eyes three French Grenadiers who each hold a large sack inscribed '20 Million Livres'. At the Battle of Ulm (16-19th October 1805) Napoleon surrounded Mack's entire army at Ulm: Mack surrendered with 25,000 men, 18 generals, 65 guns and 40 standards. He was later court-martialed for cowardice, but Gillray suggests here that he was bribed.
BM Satires 10437, with extensive description.
[Ref: 60962] £780.00

Beloochees in the Bolan Pass. Sketches in Afghaunistan by Ja.s Atkinson, Esq.r.
Louis Haghe del.t. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
London: Published July 1.st 1842 by Henry Graves & Co., Printsellers to Her Majesty & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6 Pall Mall and J.W. Allen & Co. Leadenhall Street.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 530 x 325mm (21 x 12¾"). Spotting, tear in top left edge.
A scene of natives armed with muskets and swords watching from the mouth of a cave. The illustrated titlepage of 'Sketches in Afghaunistan' by James Atkinson (1780-1852), 'Superintending Surgeon of the Army of the Indus, Bengal Division' during the ill-fated British expedition into Afghanistan (1838-42). A Persian scholar and linguist, Atkinson has been described as 'a Renaissance man among Anglo-Indians'. Because of his languages he met many of the Afghan protagonists, including both Shah Shoojah-ool-Moolk and Dost Mohammad Khan. Fortunately he left the British garrison in 1840 to take another post, thus avoiding the disastrous retreat from Kabul in 1842. In his book 'The Expedition into Afghanistan', also published 1842, he compared the British presence in Afghanistan to Sisyphus rolling his stone up the hill.
Abbey Travel: 508.
[Ref: 60941] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bowls.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men bowling on rough ground beside a church. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60897] £60.00 (£72.00 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)

The Caricaturist. A Monthly Show-Up. No. 11.
[C.J. Grant.]
June 1.st 1832.
Album sheet with four lithographs on two sides. Sheet 440 x 325mm.(17¼ x 12¾"). Lithographs with tears, stains & losses.
14 satires from the year of the 1832 Reform Act, several featuring the Duke of Wellington and William IV, one titled Playing at Football.
[Ref: 60988] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Sleeping cat]
[after Cornelis Visscher.]
[London: Henry Parker, n.d., 1763.]
Engraving. 140 x 205mm (5½ x 8"), with large margins. Stitch holes in top margin.
An adapted copy of Cornelis Visscher's engraving 'The Large Cat', which originally showed a mouse sneaking through the bards of a window behind the cat. From the 'Compleat Drawing Master', 1763.
[Ref: 60964] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Part the First, Containing Ten Prints Engraved in Chiaro Oscuro, after Original Drawings Of the following Masters: In the Collection of John Skippe, Esq; Parmegiano, Raphael, Andrea Mantegna, M. Angelo, Rubens, Pierino del Vaga.
[London: Torre & Co., c.1782.]
Letterpress title and six woodcuts (of ten], scarce but incomplete. Each plate 540 x 380mm (21¼ x 15"). Edges ragged.
A collection of plates after old master drawings, printed from multiple woodblocks to mimic the toning of the originals. The plates are: a male term after a drawing attributed to Raphael now in the British Museum (BM 1923,1015.19); a man standing (reading or drawing?) after Mantegna (See BM 1853,0611.7 for more detailed version); a group of monks after Rubens (BM 1891,0414.698); a seated youth after Michelangelo (variant of BM 1927,0614.315); a bearded saint after Parmigianino (variant of BM 1952,0117.5); and a man with arms tied, sitting on a rock, having a cloak thrown over his shoulders by another man, after Baccio Bandinelli (NM 1878,0713.2552).
[Ref: 60909] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

Childish Amusement.
Painted by G. Moreland. W. Dickinson Execudit.
London, Published June 10:th 1789 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Mezzotint. 510 x 350mm (16 x 13¾"), with large margins. Paper lightly toned.
A rustic man in rustic dress asleep on a bench outside an inn with a tankard beside him. As he sleeps, three children amuse themselves by placing their hat on his head, tying his ankles together and tickling his nose with a piece of straw. A sign reads 'Burton Ale'.
[Ref: 60969] £320.00

Cholera Preventive Costume.
[Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, March 1832.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed as scrap. Sheet 295 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Trimmed around image, laid on album paper with title excised and pasted below. Text with repaired tear.
A rare satire of the first cholera epidemic in the British Isles, beginning in 1831. It shows a man dressed with and carrying various spurious protections against the disease. After 32,000 deaths (and 72 riots usually aimed at the medical profession) the epidemic ended in 1832. It was not until 1854 that John Snow found the link between cholera and drinking water.
[Ref: 60965] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. To the Nobility and Gentry Proprietors of this College, this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Servants, S.W. Daukes & J.R. Hamilton Arch.ts.
G. Hawkins lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"), with large margins. Some foxing.
The Gothic Royal Agricultural College, published by the architects of the building, Samuel Whitfield Daukes (1811-80) and John R. Hamilton (dates unknown). When it opened in 1845 it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world; it is now the Royal Agricultural University.
[Ref: 60932] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Clarence River.
C.D. Barraud del. T. Picken Lith. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
From 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61025] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Cockney Sportsmen, or First of September. Three citizens, well arm'd they say [...]
Harrild, Printer, 20 Great East[cheap]. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching with letterpress. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Tear through text taped, surface abrasions affecting end of text. Very damaged.
A satirical verse about incompetent hunters.
[Ref: 61002] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Craigieburn Valley.
C.D. Barraud del. E. Walker Lith. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
From 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61022] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Cribb's Parlour. Tom introducing Jerry and Logic to the Champion of England.
Drawn & Eng.d by I.R. & G. Cruikshank.
Pub'd by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, Jan. 1, 1822.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9"). Trimmed within plate, binding notches affecting publication line.
The interior of the Union Arms, Panton Street, which Tom Cribb ran after retiring from boxing, the walls filled with boxing pictures. A man holds up a prize cup. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis".
[Ref: 60991] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Pair] Crofton Hall, Yorkshire To M,,rs Wilson (now) of New Miller Dam, This Plate is most respectfully Dedicated by her Ob,,t Serv,,t C. Cope. [&] To Miss Richmal Mangnall, of Crofton Hall, this Plate is most respectfully Dedicated by her Ob,,t Serv,,t C. Cope.
Drawn by C. Cope. Engraved by R. & D. Havell.
Published Dec.r 1st 1813, by Mr. Cope.
Pair of aquatints, printed in colours and hand-finished. Each sheet 335 x 250mm (13 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, laid.on board.
Crofton Hall, a school attended by the Bronte sisters, in Crofton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, now the site of Crofton High School. In 1808 Miss Richmal Mangnall (1769-1820), a former pupil, bought Crofton Hall, running the school there until her death. She was one of the most prominent educators of girls of her time.
[Ref: 61008] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Abenteuer in der Wüste. Adventure in the Desert.
Verlag u Druck v. Seitz, Hamburg [n.d., c.1860].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 300 x 390mm (11¾ x 15¼"). Spotting, faint crease.
A fanciful scene of a lion attacking an Arab couple from rocks. The woman is trapped with her child under her fallen camel, as the man rides his horse to intercept the cat's attack.
[Ref: 60946] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Diana & Callisto.]
A: Van der Werf pinx: Piloty delin.
[Munich: J. Stuntz, 1811-1816.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 500 x 420mm (19¾ x 16½"). Some spotting.
An early tinted lithograph, showing Diana and her nymphs bathing, after Adriaen van der Werff. From 'Les Oeuvres lithographiques. Contenant un choix de dessins d'après les grands maîtres de toutes les écoles, tiré des Musées de sa Majesté le Roi de Bavière.'
[Ref: 60954] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

''Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes''.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed to image, laid on album paper, title excised and pated underneath.
A foppish man pays court to a woman with a large wig. One of several satires based on the first line of Ben Jonson's 'To Cecilia', first published 1616.
[Ref: 61001] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[James Duff, 5th Earl Fife.]
[Engraved by George Raphael Ward, from a Sketch by Francis Grant, A.R.A.]
[n.d., c.1850.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 590 x 400mm (23¼ x 15¾") very large margins. Some creasing, a few small nicks in margins.
Full length portrait of James Duff, 5th Earl of Fife (1814-79) in Highland dress, with kilt, sporran, sword, gun and dog.
BM 2010,7081.5180, identifying him as James Duff, 4th Earl (1776-1857).
[Ref: 60961] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Easter Monday. or the Cockney Hunt.
Rowlandson 1807.
designed etched & Pub July 13 1817 by Rowlandson, N I James Street Adelphi London..
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"). Trimmed to printed border, partly laid on album paper.
Having leapt a fence and landing on a slope, an elderly man sits on the horse's neck, holding its ears to stop being unseated completely. A reckless young woman leaps the fence immediately behind.
BM Satires 10813, first published 1811.
[Ref: 60997] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Mount Egmont.
C.D. Barraud del. E. Walker Litho. C.F. Kell Lithographer, Castle S.t Holborn, London E.C.
[London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1877.]
Fine Chromolithograph, trimmed to image and laid sheet printed with title etc as issued. Sheet 435 x 560mm (17 x 22").
From 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Illustrations by C.W. Barraud.' Charles Decimus Barraud (1822-97) emigrated to New Zealand in 1849, opening a pharmacy in Wellington with such success that he opened branches in other towns.
[Ref: 61019] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The English Setter. Engraved after an Original Picture in the Possession of Mr. Bradford.
J. Milton pinx.t. T. Cook & S. Smith Sculp.t. John Boydell, excudit 1782.
Published July 9th, 1782 by John Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London.
Line engraving. 445 x 550mm (17½ x 21¾"). Repaired tears and holes, some surface abrasion. Top margin but messy.
A setter lying in a field, having scared up birds for two men to catch in a net. An early example: the BM has a scratched-letter proof (1877,0811.675) with the image similar to this example; a second print they describe as a 'published impression' (1917,1208.3215) has the dog reworked with a fluffier and more dappled coat.
[Ref: 60900] £420.00

Mad.e Duval Dancing a Minuet at the Hampstead Assembly. page 277.
W. Heath del.
London, Published by Jones & Co Feb.y 16 1822.
Etching and aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 130 x 215mm (5 x 8½").
Madame Duval dances with a flamboyant gentleman at the Hampstead Assembly, London, while the assembly looks on. A scene from Frances Burney's novel 'Evelina':
[Ref: 61000] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Studies of Fresh Water Fish. Drawn on stone from Nature, and respectfully dedicated (with permission) to S. Gurney, Jun.r, Esq.r, (Carshalton) by his obedient Serv.t. H.y Leonidas Rolfe. 1851.
Published by the Artist at his Studio, Shorter's Court, Throgmorton S.t City.
Oblong folio, contemporary half morocco gilt, with marbled boards, red morocco gilt title label on front board; lithographed illustrated title pasted on original wrapper; 7 tinted lithographs on thick paper, mounted on stubs, each sheet approx. 355 x 540mm (14 x 21¼"). Binding worn, plates with some surface soiling and spotting, two plates with bottom right corner knocked.
The plates are: Pope, Minnow, Perch, Gudgeon; Barbel, Bream, Chub; Eel, Roach, Dace, Bleak; Tench, Carp; Trout; Graylng; Pike. The set of plates by Henry Leonidas Rolfe (1823-81). As the plates were issued loose in wrappers, complete sets are unusual and very scarce.
[Ref: 60910] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

The Racquet Ground, Fleet Prison [pencil].
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾"). Mounted in album paper.
A view of the exercise yard of London's notorious Fleet Prison.
[Ref: 60921] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece] Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze.
Giuseppi Magni del. Jon. Gottofred Seuter Sculps. Aug. Vind.
Appresso Giuseppe Bouchard libraio Francese in Firenze 1754.
Etching with engraving. 475 x 675mm (18¾ x 26½"), large margins. Small tear at bottom taped.
The titleplate to Zocchi's 24 views of Florence, with a dedication to Empress Maria Theresa, first published 1744. The design, featuring the Olympian Gods on the left and women bringing offerings to three crowned figures on the right, is adapted from a fresco by Giovanni da San Giovanni on the outside wall of a house opposite the Porta Romana.
[Ref: 60929] £360.00

Fredericus III. rex Borussiae. Dans les cocurs de tous les morels. Ses vertus, ses exploits graveront son image, Bellone en pare ses Autela, Minerve en orn ouvrage.
G.F Schmidt, Sculpsit Parisus.
A Lausanne et Geneve, chez Marc-Michel Bousquet et Comp.e 1743.
Rare engraving. Sheet 240 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Half-length portrait of King Frederick I of Prussia (1657-1713) as Frederick III Elector of Brandenburg, in an oval frame, dressed in armour; coat of arms and four lines of text in French on a palette below. Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712-1775) was an engraver that trained in Paris 1736-46, when closely connected with Wille. Returned to Berlin as principal engraver to King of Prussia. Between 1757-62 present in St Petersburg, to engrave portrait of Empress Catherine and to set up an engraving school. Marc Michel Bousquet (1696-1762) was a Swiss printmaker and publisher working in Geneva 1728-1734 and Lausanne 1736-1758.
[Ref: 60987] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Frederic II Roi de Prusse.
Peint et grave par Daniel Chodowieki.
Je vend chez Himbourg Libraire a Berlin. [n.d. c.1777]
Etching and stipple, sheet 265 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). Trimmed within plate. Slight foxing.
Frederick II (1712-86) inspecting his troops; the personal guards in formation at left; the king on horseback in profile to left at centre; Crown Prince Frederick William (1744-97)and General Ziethen (1699-1786) with various other commanders on horseback at right.
[Ref: 61009] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Fridericvs. D.G. Marchio. Brandenbvrgicbs. Dvx Borvssiae et Silesiae; Bvrggr. Norimb Pater Patriae. Pivs. Felix. Avgvstvs.
G. Eichler Universit Calcographus. ad. Hirdeone Erlangenj. vivum del. et fc. Enlangoe.
[n.d. c.1744]
Very rare framed mezzotint on silk. Silk 455 x 355mm (18 x 14"). Frame 530 x 430mm (20¾ x 17"). Slightly warped but very good condition considering it is on silk! Unexamined outside of frame. Any silk engravings of this period in very good condition are extremely scarce.
Three quarter portrait of Frederick (Friedrich) Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1711 -1763), wearing armour, cloak, sash and holding a baton. He was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and eldest son of Georg Frederick Karl, nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (1688-1735), by his wife Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685-1761). His name has been added to the official name of the University of Erlangen, which he founded in 1743: the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (English: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Gottfried Eichler the Younger (1715-1770) was an engraver active in Augsburg and son of German painter and draughtsman Gottfried the Elder (1677-1759).
[Ref: 61010] £1,500.00

The Royal Mails Starting from The General Post Offce.
Painted by James Pollard. Engraved by R.G. Reeve.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean 26 Haymarket April 19th 1830.
Aquatint with etching, printed in blue and brown and hand finished. Sheet 490 x 660mm (19¼ x 26"). Trimmed within plate, a few small repairs, some surface wear, laid on paper. Bit messy.
Mail coaches queue in a court enclosed by iron railings, waiting to leave Robert Smirke's new General Post Office, completed 1829. St Paul's Cathedral, printed blue like the sky, appears like a shadow in the background.
[Ref: 60970] £650.00

His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Third. This print, Engraved from a Picture painted by S.r William Beechey, in his Majesty's Collection, is most humbly Dedicated to Her Majesty by her Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, J. & J. Boydell.
Painted by S.r W.m Beechey R.A. Engraved by Benjamin Smith.
Pub. Dec. 1. 1804, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside, London.
Stipple, printed in colours and hand-finished. 595 x 420mm (16½ x . 23½"). Some restoration to edges. Cut to platemark.
A full-length portrait of George III in riding gear, an ornamental urn to the right.
[Ref: 60930] £320.00

Manchester Square Cattle Shew.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d for the Proprietors of Town Talk May 1st 1812.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 430mm (10¾ x 17"). Some surface wear and soiling.
A satire of the influence of Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford, over the Prince of Wales, showing her as a prize cow at a show. It suggests she led him to desert the Whigs. Her husband Lord Hertford is attacked both for his complaisance and for accepting favours from the prince.
BM Satires 11878, with extensive description.
[Ref: 61036] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] To be seen at Mr S_n's Menagerie the wonderful, learned Han-r Colt, who writes a letter blindfolded. NB He is in training for sev.l other useful Purposes, Also a very curious Monkey, who can read & write a little, & imitates the human Voice, Also several very extraordinary Rats from Holland Buckinghamshire Wilton Poole and other Places.
JS [James Sayers].
Pub 27th Jany 1789 by Thos. Cornell.
Etching. 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼") very large margins.
The Prince of Wales depicted as a blinkered horse, writing a letter guided by Sheridan. Lord Derby is caricatured as an ape squatting on the table. To the left is Louis Weltje, George's cook, saying 'By Got he vill teach de Orse to speak'. A satire of the Regency Crisis, when Pitt attempted to limit the Regent's powers. Here it is suggested that George's response was drafted by Burke and Loughborough and touched up by Sheridan.
BM Satires 7493.
[Ref: 61004] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] Vox Populi, A Great Personage Incog.
[Robert Seymour.]
London, Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Nov:21, 1829.
Fine coloured lithograph, J. Whatman watermark, Turkey Mill 1829. Sheet 255 x 335mm (10 x 13¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
George IV, disguised as a commoner, sits with John Bull (representing national opinion) asking his opinion of 'His M*****y'. John Bull's response is unequivocally positive. This is one of several prints suggesting that in 1829 George retained the confidence of the nation.
BM Satires: 15914.
[Ref: 60995] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[George IV] A Fishing Party, What great enjoyments rise from trivial things.
[Drawn and engraved by William Heath.]
Pub. June 27th 1827 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on card very slight glue stains in three corners, old ink identification underneath.
A caricature of a very fat George IV in a walking frame being taken to fish on Virginia Water, pushed by Sir William Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, his mistress.
BM Satires 15413a.
[Ref: 61003] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Glorious Revolution] De Koningin en Prins van Walles, landen te Calais, en worden van d'Governeur ontfangen.
[Amsterdam, Marcus Doornik, 1689.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 135mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed to border and laid on album paper. Small stain in upper left corner of image.
Mary of Modena and James, Prince of Wales (the Old Pretender), arriving in Calais having fled the Glorious Revolution. A plate from Abraham van Poot's history of the Revolution, 'Engelands gods-dienst en vryheid hersteld, door syn hoogheid den heere prince van Oranjen'.
[Ref: 53743] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Golf.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men playing golf with clubs more like hockey sticks. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60895] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Jane Dutchess of Gordon.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by W. Dickinson.
Publish'd Feby. 28th, 1775. by V.M. Picot N.o16 Strand, & W. Dickinson Henrietta Street Covent Garden London.
Framed mezzotint, with Collector's stamp of Thomas Lawrence; plate 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"), large margins. Frame 490 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
Portrait of Jane Gordon (née Maxwell), Duchess of Gordon (1748 or 1749-1812), political hostess and agricultural reformer. In a square frame, with a high-collared dress, a choker of pearls and a miniature of her husband round her neck on a chain. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792).
See reference 61012 for her son. CS 28; Hamilton pg. 102.
[Ref: 60985] £380.00

''Great Britain'' Built at Bristol 1837-1843 [...]
L.H.M. [Leonard Harrison Matthews] del 1926 sculp 1931.
Etching. 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"), with second etching on reverse. Creased, some spotting.
An amateur etching of SS Great Britain, surrounded by vignette details. On the reverse is an etching os a woman sleeping in an armchair, with monogram 'UNK' Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was the largest passenger ship in the world when she was completed in 1845, but here she is shown being used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk in the Falkland Islands. Scuttled in 1937, she was brought back to England in 1970 and restored. Dr. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) drew this sketch when he was a zoologist with the 'Discovery Investigations' (1924-9) in the Falklands and South Georgia, studying the biology of whales and southern elephant seals. In 1931 he published a paper, 'South Georgia, the Empire's Sub-Antarctic Outpost'; over fifty years later his last publication was 'Mammals in the British Isles' (1982).
[Ref: 60913] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

''Great Britain'' Built at Bristol 1837-1843 [...]
L.H.M. [Leonard Harrison Matthews] del 1926 sculp 1931.
Scarce etching, very large margins. 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"). Some spotting.
An amateur etching of SS Great Britain, surrounded by vignette details. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she was the largest passenger ship in the world when she was completed in 1845, but here she is shown being used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk in the Falkland Islands. Scuttled in 1937, she was brought back to England in 1970 and restored. Dr. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) drew this sketch when he was a zoologist with the 'Discovery Investigations' (1924-9) in the Falklands and South Georgia, studying the biology of whales and southern elephant seals. In 1931 he published a paper, 'South Georgia, the Empire's Sub-Antarctic Outpost'; over fifty years later his last publication was 'Mammals in the British Isles' (1982).
[Ref: 60912] £320.00

Gretna Green, or the Red-Hot Marriage. Oh! Mr. Blacksmith ease our Pains _ and Tye us fast in Wedlocks Chains.
Published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street London [but later].
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), very large margins.
A young military officer and his partner are married by a blacksmith, surrounded by horses and apprentices at work. The tightening of marriage regulations in England in the 18th century prevented couples under the age of 21 from marrying without their parents consent. This gave rise to the phenomenon of young couples marrying over the border in Scotland. The proximity of Gretna Green to the border made it the most common location for such marriages, with the town's blacksmith (which remains a wedding venue to this day) in particular becoming synonymous with hasty, ad hoc marriages.
[Ref: 60974] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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