Grosvenor Prints

[Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest] Pest.
Nach der Natur gez v. J. Alt. Gedr. b. J. Rauh. Lith. v. Sandmann.
Verlags _Eigenthum v. Josef Bermann in Wein. Vervielfältgung ausschliefslich vorbehalten [nd., c.1850].
Rare lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 320 x 450mm (12½x 17¾"), large margins. Slight mount burn.
A view of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, which opened in 1849 as the first permanent bridge linking Buda with Pest. Designed by English engineer William Tierney Clark, it is a larger scaled version of his suspension bridge over the Thames at Marlow.
[Ref: 60487] £490.00

Ferdinandus. IV. Dei. GR. Utrius. Sig. Et. Hier. Rex.
Franciscus Liani pinx. Gulielmus Morghen sculp.
Romae 1789.
Engraving, ink Collector's mark verso; sheet 430 x 305mm (17 x 12"). Trimmed to plate left and right. Small margins.
Oval half length portrait of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples (1751-1825), also styled as Ferdinand III of Sicily (1759-1816) and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1816-25). He wears armour and a fur trimmed royal cloak. Nelson helped him stay in power. After Francesco Liani (fl. 1765-1777), possibly reworked from another plate of Ferdinand IV by a relative of Filippo Morghen (1730-c.1807) and Raphael Morghen (1758-1833).
[Ref: 60606] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Veüe de Fontaineblaeu. A View of the Royal Palace of Fontainbleau. 2.
J. Rigaud Delin.
Printed for Bowles & Carver, S.t Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1819].
Etching with fine hand colour. 225 x 415mm (8¾ x 16¼"), on Whatman paper watermarked 1819, with large margins.
A view of Fontaineblaeu and the carp pond, with promenaders under avenues of trees in the jardin anglais. A copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 60198] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Genoa] Gênes. Vue prise de la porte de la Lanterne. Génova. Vista tomada de la puerta del Faro. Ports de Mer d'Europe _ Italie.
Dessiné et lith. par Deroy.
Paris, L. Turgis j.ne Imp.r Edit.r r. des Ecoles, 60_ Maison à New-York.
Lithograph with some hand colour. Sheet 420 x 555mm (16½ x 21¾"), large margins. Some spotting in sky.
A view of the port of Genoa from near the 'Lanterna di Genova', the famous lighthouse.
[Ref: 60382] £480.00

[Livonians and Kreevins] Lives d'Jrben Krevingues de Neuraden (Costume de fete.)
Dessiné par C. Huhn d'après les originaux de la Société géographique Impériale de Russie par Petzhold. Lith. par Winckelmann et fils à Berlin.
[St. Petersburg: F. Bellizard, 1862.]
Fine & scarce coloured chromolithograph. Printed area 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with very large margins.
The costumes of Livonians and Kreevins (a small tribe of Latvia), from Theodore de Pauly's 'Description Ethnographique des Peuples de la Russie'.
[Ref: 60244] £320.00

Lithuaniens. Dans le champ qu'il cultive il trove la richesse, / Et sous son toit rustique il trouve le bonheur.
A. Devéria del. Imp. de Lemercier. Paris.
Paris, chez Bulla, quai S.Michel No. 25 [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph with exceptional hand colour. Printed area 390 x 265mm (15¼ x 10½"), with large margins, with publisher's blind stamp..
A rustic Lithuanian couple and their infant outside a cottage.
[Ref: 60242] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Marie Christine de Naples, Queen of Spain.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare aquatint and etching. 220 x 155mm (8¾ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom.
A half-length portrait in profile of Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806-78), probably published shortly after her marriage to her uncle, Ferdinand VII, in 1829.
[Ref: 60376] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Veue du Chateau de Marli du bas du grand Parterre. A View of ye Palace of Marli from y.e bottom of y.e great Parterre.
J. Rigaud, del.
Published 12.th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London [but c. 1818].
Etching with strong original hand colour. 245 x 425mm (9¾ x 16¾"), very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album.
The garden at the château of Marly, with promenaders walking around ornamental pounds with fountains, the house in the background. While Versailles was being transformed to become the chief residence of the King and the Court, Louis XIV commissioned Jules-Hardouin Mansart to convert the Marly estate, to escape the stifling etiquette of Court life. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'.
[Ref: 60200] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Grecian Temples at Paestum.
J.Miller Sc. [after William Pars?]
[London: T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, c.1770.]
Rare engraving. 350 x 460mm (13¾ x 18"). Several taped tears in large margins.
The Greek Temples, two of Hera and one of Athena, at Paestum, Italy. From 'Ionian Antiquities, Published, with Permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler, M.A. F.S.A., N. Revett, Architect; W. Pars, Painter'.
[Ref: 60221] £320.00

A View of Paris, From the Church of Notre Dame de la Tournelle, taken from the Quai de Miramion, wherein are seen at a distance the Hotel de Ville, S.t Jean en Greve, S.t Gervais, and the Pont Rouge.
Rigaud delin. N. Parr sculp.
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London [but c.1818].
Coloured etching. 250 x 475mm (9¾ x 19¾"), large margins top and bottom. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album, trimmed into plate on right, old album paper pasted over plate on left, some staining, wear on right side.
An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681-1754).
[Ref: 60205] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A View of Paris, Taken from the Middle of Pont Neuf towards Pont Royal; Wherin are seen on one side the Samaritaine, le Quai d'Ecolem the Old Louvrem & the Galeries, & on the other the Quai de Conti, & College of 4 Nations.
Rigaud delin. N. Parr sculp.
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No 53 Fleet Street, London [but c.1818].
Coloured etching. 250 x 475mm (9¾ x 19¾"). Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album, trimmed into plate on right, old album paper pasted over plate on left, some staining and creasing on right.
An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681-1754).
[Ref: 60206] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Game of the Bridge, Pisa.]
Stefa della Bella Inventor. Anton Francesco Lucini D.D.D. Anton. Fra.co Lucini Fecit 1634.
Scarce etching, 360 x 500mm (14 x 19¾") with small margins. Folding crease in the middle. Slightly foxed, nicks and tears on margin, one slightly going into image on right top.
A view along the river Arno in Pisa, showing the Game of the Bridge with two groups battling for control of the bridge.
De Vesme 1059.I.
[Ref: 60642] £650.00

Regnard sur Les Bords de la Mer Glaciale.
Dessiné par Bouchot. Gravé par Charon. Imprimé par Veyron.
A Paris, chez Charon, Graveur, Rue St Jan de Beauvais, No. 26.
Rare & scarce aquatint. Sheet 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, paper toned.
Portrait of Jean-François Regnard (1655-1709), standing on a glacier in Lapland, writing on a block of ice. Regnard was a comic poet and traveller: at the age of 22 he was captured by an Algerian pirate and was taken to Constantinople as a slave, where he was ransomed by the French consul. in 1681 he travelled through Scandinavia, including Lapland, inspiring this fanciful portrait.
[Ref: 60492] £590.00

The Forum Trasni or Trajan's Square. Partly taken from ancient Medals [...] M.
Parr Sculp.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill 1741.
Engraving. 165 x 245mm (6½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A reconstruction of the forum, with Trajan's Column. From a series of classical views.
[Ref: 60655] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Palace of S.t Cloud. Vuë du Chateau de S.t Cloud.
Rigaud delin.
Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside 1756 [but probably Hurst & Robinson, c.1818]
Engraving with strong contemporary hand colour. 240 x 440mm (9½ x 17¼") very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album.
Promenaders in the grounds of the Château de Saint-Cloud, destroyed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'. This example was probably published by Hurst & Robinson, who bought most of the Boydell business when it folded in 1818.
[Ref: 60201] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[10 topographical gouaches of Sicily.]
T:o R:o.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Ten fine gouaches on card, titled in old ink mss. on reverse. Each sheet c. 110 x 140mm (4¼ x 5½". Seven cards with some oxidation of colour; seven cards with remains of album paper partially over titles.
Ten finely-executed gouache views of Sicily: three of Palermo, three of temples in Agrigento (here called by the Sicilian name Girgenti), Catania (with Etna smoking in the background), Syracuse, Messina and the Doric temple of Segesta.
[Ref: 60250] £1,900.00 view all images for this item

Jacques de Sollisel Querry to the Present French King for his Great Horses. Authors & Books a common Grave do find / Ours stands unshaken by the General Storm / His work preserves the Glory of his mind / And th'artful Sculptor saves hsi outward form.
[n.d., c.1695.]
Engraving. Sheet 270 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
The frontispiece portrait from Jacques de Solleysel's 'The Compleat Horseman', an English edition of 'Le Parfait Maréschal', translated by William Hope and first published in London in 1696. de Solleysel (1617-80) wrote several treatises on dressage and cavalry.
[Ref: 60400] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A View of the Palace & Walks of the Thuilleries. Les Promenades du Palais de Thuilleries.
Rigaud delin.
Sold by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1757 [but probably Hurst & Robinson, c.1818]
Engraving with strong contemporary hand colour. 240 x 445mm (9½ x 17½"), very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album.
Promenaders in the grounds of the Palais de Thuilleries, destroyed by the Paris Commune in 1871. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'. This example was probably published by Hurst & Robinson, who bought most of the Boydell business when it folded in 1818.
[Ref: 60202] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Court of the Magnificent Buildings of the Ducal Palace, over the front are seen the Cupolo's of S.t Mark's Church.
Mich.l Marieschi delin. T. Bowles sculp.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Rare hand-coloured engraving, sheet 290 x 405mm (11½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate losing publication line and glued on card. Slightly time stained.
A view of the Ducal Palace in Venice with St. Mark's Church in the background.
[Ref: 60665] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Vincennes] A View of the Royal Palace of Vincene taken from the border of the Terrass on ye Gardenside. Vüe du Chateau Royal de Vincene du Côté du Jardin prise du bord de la Terrasse.
Rigaud Delin.
Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside 1755 [but probably Hurst & Robinson, c.1818]
Engraving with strong contemporary hand colour. 270 x 475mm (10¾ x 18¾") very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album, trimmed into plate on right, old album paper pasted over plate on left.
A view of the Château de Vincennes as enlarged by Louis XIV before he moved to Versailles. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681 - 1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'. This example was probably published by Hurst & Robinson, who bought most of the Boydell business when it folded in 1818.
[Ref: 60203] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Vincennes] A General View of the Royal Palace of Vincene, on the side of the Grand Body Guard. Vüe Generale du Chateau Royal de Vincene, du côté du Grand Corps de Garde.
Rigaud delin.
Sold by J. Boydell Engraver at the Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside 1755 [but probably Hurst & Robinson, c.1818]
Engraving with strong contemporary hand colour. 250 x 475mm (9¾ x 18¾") very large margins. Laid on card for inclusion in a contemporary print album, trimmed into plate on right, old album paper pasted over plate on left.
A view of the Château de Vincennes with its 14th century 'Donjon', a fortified central tower, the tallest in Europe. The estate was enlarged by Louis XIV before he moved to Versailles. During the Revolution it was saved from the mob bent on destroying it by the Marquis de Lafayette. An English copy of the print by Jacques Rigaud (1681-1754), in his 'Recueil choisi des plus belles vues des palais, châteaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs'. This example was probably published by Hurst & Robinson, who bought most of the Boydell business when it folded in 1818.
[Ref: 60204] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

His Serene Highness, William V, Prince of Orange and Nassau, etc. [&] Her Royal Highness Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange and Nassau, etc.
Painted & Engraved by H.G Does.
London, Published June 12. 1799 by A. Milne Tottenham court road.
A pair of mezzotints, 18th century watermark, 465 x 340mm (18¼ x 13½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear going into the image slightly in Frederica at top.
Half length portraits in ovals of William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), and Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). They married on 4th October 1767.
[Ref: 60428] £520.00 view all images for this item

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