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

12 Old English Sports & Pastimes.
By Cecil Aldin.
London. Lawrence & Bullen, Limited [n.d., 1901.]
Portfolio, printed cover, flaps; twelve near mint colour plates, each 385 x 475mm (15¼ x 18¾") Portfolio worn, one plate with a tear in margin taped.
A very rare complete set of twelve satirical sporting scenes: Golf, Shooting, Racing, Hawking, Cricket, Coaching, Bowling, Fishing, Coursing, Skating, Curling & Hunting.
See Ref: 37827 for 'Golf'.
[Ref: 62518] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

Hazy October Day on the Apperley Canal, with Thackley and Greengates, Bradford.
J.C. Jones [? pencil signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, signed by the artist in pencil. 125 x 220mm (5 x 8¾"). Mounted on card in top corners as normal. Slight glue stains in top corners. Small margins.
A view near Apperley Bridge, near Bradford, West Yorkshire.
[Ref: 62570] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Archery and Cricket.
Drawn & Etch'd by W.H. Pyne.
Pub. by Pyne & Nattes 1805. London, Pub.d Oct.r 1805 by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint. 230 x 305mm (9 x 12") very large margins.
From Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain…'. William Henry Pyne was an English writer, painter and illustrator. He trained at a drawing academy in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.
[Ref: 62454] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Arizona] View on the Gila Below the Great Bend. U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 32º Parallel & Cal. General Report Plate VI.
[Washington: Govenment Printing Office, 1855.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 215 x 285mm (8½ x 11¼").
A view of the Gila River with a wagon fording and people swimming. Published in 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean'. This was to the first transcontinental railway in the USA.
[Ref: 62450] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Washing sheds, Avranches [in pencil].
G. Hayes [in pencil].
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching signed by the artist, 150 x 225mm (6 x 8¾"), with very large margins. Faint foxing.
Women wash laundry at a lavoir. By Gertrude Ellen Hayes (1872-1956), who married Alfred Kedington. Both were art tutors at Rugby School.
[Ref: 62607] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Vera Effigies Reuerendi in Christo, patris ac D. Geruasy: Babington, quondam Episcopi Wigormensis. Aetatis suae.59. Virtus dei in Infirmitate. Non melio, non integriae, non cultiae alter...Almi Deus, tales praefice ubique Gregi. MS.
Ren: Elstrack Sculpsit.
[n.d. c.1615.]
Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed to printed border, foxed.
Gervase Babington (1550-1610), bishop of Llandaff (1591-4), Exeter (1594-7 ) and Worcester (1597-1610).
BM: P,1.136, ''Probably intended as frontispiece to his 'Works' (1615)''. Hind: II.165.4.I.
[Ref: 62462] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Barcelona, 1714] Aggressio duorum propugnaculorum, a fossore cuniculario labe facta. Attaque de deux Bastions les breches faits par le Mineur. Median fol.º No. 75.
Georg Matthaüs Probst del. et sculp.
Georg Balthasar Probst excud. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1780.]
Coloured engraving. 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Mounted.
A vue d'optique of the siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession, based one of the set of six views of the siege by Jacques Rigaud for Belidor's 'La science des ingénieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile'. This plate shows soldiers entering the city through the three breaches made in the walls my miners. The image has been reversed for viewing through a zograscope, a device of lenses and mirrors designed to give a sense of depth, which transposed the image, resulting in the need for a title in reverse above the print.
[Ref: 62548] £280.00 (£336.00 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

Battersea.
C W Sherborn aqua forti [in image].
[n.d. c.1873]
Etching 80 x 120mm (3¼ x 4¾"), with very large margins. Lightly time stained.
View across the Thames with the moon rising over tall chimneys. Charles William Sherborn (1831 - 1912). Etcher and engraver, prominent designer working with Seymour Haden and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
[Ref: 62610] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Belvoir Castle, one of the Seats of the Most Noble John Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Granby, Earl of Rutland [...]
T. Badeslade Delin. Ger: vanderGucht sculp.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 430 x 600mm (17 x 23½"). Trimmed within plate, original folds. Slightly stained on left.
A view of Belvoir Castle and gardens, with a hunt bottom right.
[Ref: 62529] £320.00

The Right Hon.ble Lady Charlotte Bertie.
Painted by W.Peters R.A. Engrav'd by W.Dickinson
London Publish'd March 1st 1778 by W.Dickinson, No.20 Henrietta Street Covent Garden & T.Watson, No.142 New Bond Street
Very fine and rare mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Framed, total size 615 x 480mm (24¼ x 19"). Unexamined outside of frame.
Half length portrait in oval of Georgiana Charlotte Bertie (1764-1838), playing a lyre amongst the clouds. The daughter of Peregrine, 3rd Duke of Ancaster, she married George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl (from 1815 Marquess) of Cholmondeley in 1791.
CS: 8 state ii.
[Ref: 62575] £480.00

"Billing Mill" Northants. [Billing Mill, Northamptonshire.]
J.S. Adams [pencil signature].
[1924.]
Dry-point etching. 260 x 180mm (10 x 7”).
Two young boys sit fishing on a boat across the Billing river from a Mill.
[Ref: 62583] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Le Concert.
L. Boilly. I. lith. de Delpech.
[n.d., c.1824.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 310 x 245mm (12½ x 9¾"). Horizontal crease & foxing.
A group of heads: men play the recorder, flute and horn, and a man and woman sing.
[Ref: 62468] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Bowser] General Orders. Head Quarters, Ghoultry Plain, Bangalorem the 15th of December, 1824. G.O. by Lieutenant-General Bowser, Commanding the Army in Chief. Bangalore, 15th December, 1824. Lieutenant-General Bowser succeeds to the Command of the Madras Army...
[1824.]
Letterpress. Sheet 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 7¾"). Folds and stains, laid on album paper.
General orders announcing the appointment of Sir Thomas Bowser (1749-1833) to the command of the Madras Army, replacing Sir Alexander Campbell (1760-1824), who had died in Madras aged 64. Bowser returned to England in 1826. General Sir Thomas Bowser joined the Madras European Regiment of the East India Company as an ensign in 1773. He subsequently rose through the ranks and was eventually being appointed governor of Madras. These orders also reference General Sir Archibald Campbell (1769-1843) who, as Brigadier General, was fighting the First Anglo-Burmese War at this time.
[Ref: 62478] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A Brig at Anchor].
Seymour Haden. [in image].
1870.
Etching, 135 x 205mm (5¼ x 8¼"), with very large margins. Very faint foxing in margins.
View of a river bank, with a brig anchored at centre; a barge sailing towards the brig from the right; more sailing boats seen in the distance. One of the pioneers of the 19th century etching revival, Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910) married the sister of James McNeill Whistler and became an important influence on the American-born etcher's style
[Ref: 62625] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

View of Brighton, from the Old Steine.
Brighton, Drawn, Engraved, Printed & Publish'd by I. Bruce.
[n.d. c.1829]
Aquatint printed in blue and brown, finished by hand. 285 x 400mm (11¼ x 15¾"), on Whatman paper watermarked 1828 or 1829. Small margins.
A view looking toward the Royal Pavilion from the gardens on the Steine. By local publisher John Bruce.
Ford: Images of Brighton 136.
[Ref: 62488] £320.00

To Capt.n S. Brown RN. This plate representing the Entrance of the Chain Pier at Brighton is with permission respectfully dedicated by his Obl.d Ser.y J. Brown.
Drawn, Engraved, Printed & Publish'd, by J. Bruce, Brighton.
[n.d. c.1831.]
Aquatint printed in blue and brown, finished by hand. 295 x 410mm (11½ x 16"). Small margins.
The Royal Suspension Chain Pier, designed by Captain Samuel Brown and built in 1823. This is the first state of two, before an arch was added to the gateway.
Ford 240.
[Ref: 62489] £320.00

Royal Agricultural Society's Show Yard, at Bristol. July 14th 1842.
[c.1842.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, crease reinforced. Damaged bottom left, but very rare.
Gentlemen farmers in the yard, with horses and sheep, before a cast-iron building.
[Ref: 62278] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Brougham] State Cricket Match. HB Sketches No 357.
HB [John Doyle.] Ducote & Stephen's Lithog.y 70 St Martins Lane.
Published by T. Mc.Lean 26, Haymarket Dec.r 6th 1834.
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 355mm (10¼ x 14"). Trimmed close to printed border.
A cricket match, with Lord High Chancellor Henry Brougham using his mace as a bat, but a ball marked with the crown, bowled by the Duke of Wellington, smashes his wicket. In November 1834Sir Robert Peel's Tories had replaced Grey's administration.
[Ref: 62492] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Caernarvon Castle N. Wales. N.o2
W. Yetts.
[n.d. c.1850]
Etching, 225 x 150mm (9 x 6"), with margins. Glued to backing sheet at four corners.
A view of Caernarvon Castle and part of the River Seiont in Gwynedd, North Wales.
[Ref: 62596] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Where's Master?]
Published at 8 Clare Street, Bristol by Frost & Reed Printsellers of Bristol, Clifton & London January 2.nd 1911.
Etching. Sheet size 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼"). Trimmed within image at sides.
'Caesar, I belong To the King', in remarque of a dog collar. Portrait of a wire fox terrier by an empty chair. Caesar (1898–1914) was a dog owned by Edward VII and was a constant companion. He achieved worldwide fame in 1910 when he joined the funeral procession of his master.
[Ref: 62499] £380.00

The North-West Prospect of the University and Town of Cambridge.
[after Samuel and Nathaniel Buck.]
London Mag. [1775]
Engraving. Sheet 205 x 350mm (8 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, one corner snipped, partially mounted in album paper.
A view of Cambridge with a 31-point key and the University arms underneath, adapted from the large prospect by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. About this time the publisher Robert Sayer bought the Buck copper plates, re-publishing them in 1778.
[Ref: 62527] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
Drawn & Published by R.B. Harraden.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare aquatint. Sheet 175 x 230mm (6¾ x 9"). Trimmed within plate.
A view of the interior. The original watercolour, by Richard Bankes Harraden (1778-1862) is in the Fitzwilliam Museum housed in the Perse (1001)
[Ref: 62443] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

St. John's College - Cambridge. [in pencil]
Alfred. J. Bennett [in pencil]
[n.d. c.1900]
Etching signed by the artist, 225 x 175mm (8¾ x 6¾"), with very large margins. Faint mountburn.
A view of St. John's from the river Cam. Alfred J Bennett (1861 - 1923) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolour and etching. He worked as a jeweller whilst also regularly submitting paintings to the Royal Academy of which four were exhibited between 1861-1880. After this success, Bennett left the jewellery trade to concentrate on his art. Bennett exhibited extensively, regularly contributing work to the Royal Watercolour Society and British Institution exhibitions, the RA, Walker's Gallery in New Bond Street, Fine Art Society, New English Art Club, Grosvenor Gallery, International Society, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
[Ref: 62599] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity College. Cambridge. [in pencil]
W A Donald. [in pencil]
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching signed by the artist, 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Small margins.
A view of Trinity College Great Gate.
[Ref: 62603] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge.
E. Joyce Shillington Scales. [in pencil].
November, 1916.
Etching signed by the artist, 175 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"), with very large margins.
A view up the path to the Chapel.
[Ref: 62626] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

King's Gateway Trinity College Cambrige. [in image and in pencil]
E.J. Maybery [in image and in pencil]
Louis Wolff & Co. London. Copyright. [Embossed stamp]. [n.d. c.1920]
Etching signed by the artist, 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"), with very large margins.
Edgar James Maybery (1887-1966) etcher based in Newport, best known for views of buildings.
[Ref: 62624] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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)

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)

Etchings from Original Pictures in the Cleveland-House Gallery, Drawn, Etched, and Dedicated to the Marshioness of Stafford:
By her Ladyship's Porter [William Cantrill].
London: Published by Subscription. Price 12s. Printed by Law and Gilbert, St John's Square, Clerkenwell; and sold by Messrs. White and Co., Fleet Street; Clarke, New Bond Street; Ackermann, 101, Strand; Colnaghi, Cockspur-Street; and Molteno, Pall-Mall. 1812.
Large folio, 550 x 380mm (21½ x 15"), printed wrappers, letterpress dedication and six etched plates, with large margins, as called for, loose. With watermarks J. Whatman, Balston 1807, 1808, 1811. Minor staining to wrappers.
Six etchings (''first attempts from an untutored hand'' according to the dedication) after Old Master genre scenes in the collection of George and Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (infamous for their Highland clearances) in Cleveland House, Mayfair: three by David Teniers the younger, and one each by Antoine Le Nain, Jean Fyt and Quirijn van Brekelenkam.
See https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/cleveland-house for an extensive account of the series.
[Ref: 62514] £360.00 view all images for this item

Caricature Magazine by G.M. Woodward, Esq.r. Vol. 4. Ever Changing. Ever Now. Vive la Magatelle.
Woodward del. Rowlandson fc.
London Published by T. Tegg III Cheapside 1809.
Etching with wonderful hand-colour. Sheet: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½''). Small bottom margin. Some surface dirt. Creased and damaged.
A frontispiece showing two figures seated on either side of the image reading through earlier volumes of Woodward's Caricature Magazine. Above the figure on the left hangs a painting of a masquerade while on the other side hangs and painting of a country dance.
[Ref: 62640] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles I] Carolus, D.G. Angliæ, Scotiæ, Fran: et Hiber:P. Rex; Fidei Defensor etc.
Ant. van Dÿck Eques pinxit. R. White Sculpsit.
Sold by R. White in Bloomsbury Market, near the Golden Heart 1685.
Fine engraving. Sheet 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate, small nick in top edge.
A large and fine medallion portrait of Charles I, wearing a lace collar, in a wreath supported by cherubs. After Anthony van Dyck.
[Ref: 62480] £450.00

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A View of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea and the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens. ~ Vüe de l'Hôpital Royal de Chelsea et de la Rotunde des Jardins de Ranelagh.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d. c.1750.]
Engraving with fine hand colour. 270 x 420mm (10¾ x 16½"), large margins. Mounted. Small crease.
A view of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, with the river in the foreground, the edge of the bank visible at the bottom left and the Rotunda in Ranelaigh Gardens to the right of the hospital; boats and punts on the river.
[Ref: 62461] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Christian the 4th by ye grace of God King of Denmark, Norway, Vandalls &c. Frederick Christian by ye grave of God Heire of Norway, Duke of Holstein &c.
Wilh. Passeus sculp.
[Are to be sold by Thomas Jenner in Cornhill next ye White Bear.] [engraved c.1620 but later.]
Etching. Sheet 300 x 205mm (11¾ x 8"). Trimmed, losing publication line at bottom.
A double portrait of King Christian IV (1577-1648) and his second son Frederick Christian (1603-47), with 20 lines of verse.
[Ref: 62566] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Parish of S.t James Clerkenwell, Taken from ye last Survey with Corrections.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraved map, 18th century watermark. 365 x 290mm (14½ x 11½"), with very large margins.
A map of Clerkenwell centred on St John Street, marking Clerkenwell Green, St John's Priory, New River Pond and Sadler's Wells. Originally engraved for the 6th edition of Stow's 'Survey of London', 1720.
[Ref: 62526] £140.00

A General View of the City of Constantinople. Vüe Generale de la Ville de Constantinople.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d. c.1775].
Fine hand-coloured etching. 430 x 275mm (16¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on board.
Prospect of Istanbul from the Bosphorus, with British warships passing through the straits.
[Ref: 62477] £320.00

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Down along "Newlynn" [in pencil].
W Travis Jackson [in pencil].
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching signed by the artsit, 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"), with very large margins.
A view the old quay in Cornwall.
[Ref: 62621] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Plate 2. Cossacks, Flying to Annoy. vide Bonaparte's 28th Bulletin, Dedicated to Napoleon the Great, by his Non Allie John Bull.
Pub.d Jan.y 1 1813 by S.Knight, late Walker & Knight, No.3 Sweetings Alley, Roy.l Exch.e.
Scarce coloured etching. 235 x 355mm (9¼ x 14"). Trimmed into plate at sides, pinholes in margins. Repaired tear left margin.
Three cossack riders perform a hit-and-run attack on French troops.
[Ref: 62463] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Country Fair Pl. 1.
Drawn & Etch'd by W. H. Pyne.
Pub.d July 1804 by Pyne & Nattes.
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 230 x 295mm (9 x 11½"), with very large margins.
A busy composition featuring several popular entertainers. To the left is a stage, with a sign inscribed, 'The Grand Pantomine', upon which is a masked clown and dancing women. A crowd has gathered to watch below and to the side, with stalls and sellers in front. More stalls can be seen in the distance. From Pyne's ‘Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufacturers, &c. of Great Britain'. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate a book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
[Ref: 62459] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The House of Lord Archer in Covent Garden.
[Sutton Nicholls?]
Published according to Act of Parliament 1754, for Stowes Survey.
Etching with engraving. 350 x 465mm (13¾ x 18¼"). Original folds. Small margins.
43 King Street, Covent Garden, built in 1717 for Admiral Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, to designs by Thomas Archer. The Lord Archer of the title was the architect's nephew, also Thomas (1695-1768), who had married Lord Orford's great-niece in 1726 and came into ownership of the house in 1729. He was raised to the peerage in 1747 as 1st Baron Archer. The house, once the home of the National Sporting Club, is now the London premises of 'Glossier', a cosmetics firm. From the sixth edition printed in 1754 - 1755 of John Stowe's work 'A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminter and the Borough of Sothwark', originally published in 1598 and 1603.
[Ref: 62522] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Spires of Danzig]
Fred A. Farrell [in pencil].
[Vicars Bros, 12 Old Bond Street, London, W.1.] [n.d. c.1925]
Etching signed by the artist, 200 x 360mm (8 x 14¼"), with very large margins. Embossed stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild. Some paper toning in margins.
From Poland and Danzig Twelve Etchings By Fred A. Farrell. Frederick Farrell (1882-1935), a Scottish self-taught etcher & watercolourist, was the official artist with the 51st Highlanders during the First World War.
[Ref: 62629] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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

Miss Salethea Dawkens.
J. Toer pinx. P. Stee fecit.
[n.d. c.1778]
Framed mezzotint, sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Frame 505 x 390mm (20 x 15½"). Trimmed to plate. Unexamined outside of frame.
Miss Salethea (Salathea) Dawkens, leaning over a low wall, wearing a hat and ribbon around her neck and looking at viewer. According to 'Musgrave's Obituary' (The Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol LXV, 1900) Dawkens was a courtesan. The artist, engraver and sitter are unknown.
CS: 1. Le Blanc 388; Russell II of II.
[Ref: 62574] £360.00

[Portrait of a Deerhound.]
Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature].
Copyright 1924 by Frost & Reed Ltd (of Bristol, England) in the United States of America.
Etching. Framed, sight size 400 x 385mm (15¾ x 15¼"). Frame size 600 x 590mm (23¾ x 23¼") Unexamined outside of frame.
[Ref: 62496] £1,650.00

[Dirk II] Theodoricus II, Theodorici I. Filiusm Secundus Hollaniæ, etc. Comes [...]
[C. Visscher sculp.]
[Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, c.1650.]
Etching with engraving, slight 17th century watermark. 410 x 300mm (16 x 11¾"), very large margins Margins chipped and staining in right bottom margin.
Head and shoulders portrait of Dirk II (c.920-988), from Cornelis Visscher's series, 'Counts of Holland, Zeeland and West-Frisia', first published by Pieter Soutman in 1650. This second state has Visscher's name removed.
BM 1839,0413.337.
[Ref: 62537] £320.00

['The Downfall of Bonaparte'] The Western Luminary: The Family Newspaper of the Nobility & Gentry, Farmers & Traders of the Counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. Vol. II.--- Nº. 59. Price 8d.
Tuesday, April 19, 1814. Printed at Exeter by T. Flindell.
Letterpress newspaper. Folio (390 x 270mm), pp. (8), with tax stamp. Folds, tears with loss and surface dirt. Page 7 double-printed.
A regional newspaper giving a contemporary account of 'The Downfall of Bonaparte', with details of the new French constitution, an 'Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte' and a section on 'Bonaparte's Allies in Cornwall'.
[Ref: 62560] £250.00

Evening on the shore.
Jozef Israels [in pencil]
[n.d. c.1875]
Etching, 100 x 150mm (10 x 6"), with very large margins. Very slight back board staining.
Also known as Sur les Dunes (On The Dunes). The scene depicts a young woman and two children seated on a dune on the left, looking out to the sea, with a sailing boat in the distance. Jozef Israels (1824 – 1911) was a Dutch painter, born to Jewish parents. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and was, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century."
[Ref: 62586] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Plan of Edinburgh Exactly done From the Original of ye famous D: Wit.
[after ]
Printed for, and Sold by J. Smith, at his Shop in the West End of Exeter Change in the Strand [n.d., c.1724].
Engraved map, two sheets of three. Plates 430 x 515mm (17 x 20¼") & 195 x 530mm (7¾ x 21"). Left plate trimmed within plate top and bottom, right plate trimmed to printed border on right; both plates with restoration. Minus top right portion.
Three-quarters of a plan of Edinburgh based on the survey by James Gordon of Rothiemay in 1647, printed by others including Frederick de Wit of Amsterdam and Andrew Slezer. It has been augmented by the prospect of the city, which was drafted c.1690.
[Ref: 62277] £350.00

The Modern Athens [Edinburgh.]
Robert C. Robertson [in plate.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, 310 x 210mm (12 x 8"). Slight mount burn.
View on the bustling Princes Street, Edinburgh, looking towards the Scott Monument, The National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh Castle.
[Ref: 62585] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

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