Grosvenor Prints

[La malade d'Antiochus.]
Peint par Lairesse. Dessiné par Desenne. Gravé par Baquoy.
[n.d. c.1816.]
Proof before title & publication line, engraving, 335 x 485mm (13¼ x 19"), with very large margins. Repaired tears to margins. Some surface dirt.
Seleucus giving up his wife for his son: classic interior with prince Antiochus I Soter lying ill on a canopied bed at right, his father Seleucus I pointing in despair at the crown and sceptre on a table at centre, his father's wife Stratonice standing by, the doctor Eristratos seen standing behind. Antiochus I Soter (c. 324/3 – 261 BC) was struck down by a mysterious illness. Erasistratus (c. 304 – c. 250 BC), Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria, realised that the illness of Antiochus was lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice (c. 320 BC - 254 BC), by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises when ever he sees her. Seleucus I Nicator (c. 358 – 281 BC) gave up his young wife to save his son and in 294 BC Antiochus married his stepmother.
[Ref: 60618] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Antiquary.] S.t Ruth's Priory.
Printed in Oil Colours by G. Baxter, the Inventor and Patentee. XI Northampton Square. Licenses Granted to work the process.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Baxter print, trimmed and laid on printed card with the red stamp, as issued. Sheet 220 x 145mm (8¾ x 5¾"). Some spotting on backing card.
A location in Sir Walter Scott's 'The Antiquary', the third of the Waverley novels and his own favourite. St Ruth's Priory is believed to have a buried treasure. It is said this is based on Arbroath Abbey in Scotland. Eleven blocks were used for this print.
[Ref: 60654] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

In lance Vatis abstulit caesum caput. Buchanan Bayt.
Pet: Schenck fec et exc.
Amstelod: cum Privil. [n.d. c.1700]
Rare mezzotint, 18th century watermark, sheet 250 x 185mm (10 x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene from George Buchanan's (1506 –82) tragedy 'The Baptist' (Baptistes). Title translates from latin as 'He removed the severed head on a tray.' A person in oriental dress, including turban, holds the the head of John the Baptist on a tray.
[Ref: 60427] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Treaty of Breda] Vreede-Handelingh tot Breda, Gesloten op den XXXI Iuly, inde Kamer van Conferentie, door de Gevolmachtighden van hare Koninckl: May.stn van Groot-Brittannien, Vranckryck, Deenmarcken, en hare Hooghm: de H.rn Staten Generael op den 24 Augusti 1667.
R. de Hooghe f. et. inv.
[Nicolaes Visscher excudit.] [n.d. c.1667.]
Etching. Sheet 250 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Trimmed around the image, two worm holes.
The interior of a conference chamber at Breda Castle, with delegates negotiating the Treaty of Breda in an attempt to end the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-7). The treaty confirmed Britain's ownership of New York. This is the central scene only, lacking eight further panels relating to the gathering.
See: Muller 2284. Hollstein 77. Landwehr p.56 See Ref: 55139 for complete image.
[Ref: 60229] £320.00

The Cinque Ports' Ball. To His Grace the Duke of Wellington, at Dover, Sept.r 5.th 1839.
On stone from a Drawing on the Spot by W.m Burgess. Printed at A. Ducote's Lithographic Establishment, No 70, St Martin's Lane, London.
Pub.d Oct.r 25th 1839 by Thomas Rigden, Dover; and in London by Ackermann & C.o 96, Strand, and Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Dusty in margins.
A view of the interior of the Wellington Pavilion, erected on the Priory Meadow (now St Martin's Terrace), during the Wellington Festival Ball in August 1839. The Duke can be seen in conversation. One of a set of three prints by William Burgess, with a view of the exterior of the pavilion and an interior during the Wellington Dinner, held a week before the ball.
[Ref: 60227] £360.00

The Cinque Ports' Banquet. To His Grace the Duke of Wellington, at Dover, August 30.th 1839.
On stone from a Drawing on the Spot by W.m Burgess. Printed at A. Ducote's Lithographic Establishment, No 70, St Martin's Lane, London.
Pub.d Sept.r 25th 1839 by Thomas Rigden, Dover; and in London by Ackermann & C.o 96, Strand, and Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Nick in left edge, slight staining in unprinted area on right.
A view of the interior of the Wellington Pavilion, erected on the Priory meadow (now St Martin's Terrace), during the Wellington Festival Banquet in August 1839. The Duke can be seen on the top table. One of a set of three prints by William Burgess, with a view of the exterior of the pavilion and an interior during the Wellington Ball, held a week after the dinner.
[Ref: 60226] £360.00

The Deserted Village. From D.r Goldsmith. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'etops the mould'ring wall...
Published 20 March 1797, by John Fairburn 146 Mi ories London.
Coloured mezzotint, 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large top and bottom margins. Thread margins left and right.
A family lead a donkey and a dog away from ruins in the background. They stop at a sign post 'To Auburn', an old man points in that direction. Illustration of the poem 'The Deserted Village' (published in 1770) by Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774). It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth.
[Ref: 60703] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[A fish market.]
Snyders pinxit. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
John Boydell excudit 1782. Publish'd June 1.st 1782 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 18th century watermark, 415 x 580mm (16¼ x 22¾") with large margins. Repaired margins, uncleaned. Platemark splits repaired.
A Dutch market scene, with a man shaking fish into a large basket and another chopping fish. A long table with a variety of sea animals. One of a set of four markets engraved by Earlom after Frans Snyders and Jan Boeckhorst. The original painting is now in the Hermitage Museum, having being bought by Catherine II.
[Ref: 60698] £580.00

The Tenth of August 1793.
J. Zoffany Esq.r Pinx.t R.A. R. Earlom Sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1795 by J.Zoffany, N.o 7, Bennet Street, S.t James's.
Mezzotint, sheet 570 x 680mm (22½ x 26¾"). Trimmed to plate, folding crease in the middle. Tears and creases. Damaged image of this rare and large mezzotint.
A scene depicting the events of the insurrection of August 10, 1792 (not 1793, as the title) during the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. In particular, mob of male and female sans-culottes, several carrying heads on pikes, help themselves to bottles of wine outside the King's wine cellar at the Tuileries Palace.
Wessely 96. Bindman 46.
[Ref: 60699] £650.00

[Wooded landscape with country cart and figures] 9.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with a figure standing in a stationary horse-drawn cart in the centre next to a rocky bank with trees behind, two figures sitting on the left, sheep and a small pool in the foreground. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60661] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Wooded landscape with herdsman and cows] 10.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½"), very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Landscape with four cows amongst trees, figure seen beyond at right. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60662] £230.00

[The Watering Place] 6.
Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough.
Pubd. as the Act directs Augt. 1797, by J.&J.Boydell No.90 Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall. [Published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, Newnham, Baldock, Hertfordshire. December 1971]
Framed soft-ground etching. Frame size 600 x 715mm (23¾ x 28½") very large margins. Unexamined outside of frame.
Wooded landscape with figures and cows at a watering place. From the limited editioned of seventy-five numbered sets of the 1971 reprints from Gainsborough's (1727-1788) original copper plates. Each impression was printed by Philip McQueen, who represents the fifth generation of his family in the trade .The edition was printed on specially watermarked ‘Penshurst’ paper made by J.Barcham Green Ltd, at Hayle Mill, Maidstone. These were published by Iain Bain at the John Boydell Press, and the copper-plates then entered the Tate Gallery’s collection.
From the Collection of Iain Bain.
[Ref: 60660] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Jubilee Celebrations in London's Parks.] View of the Bridge and Pagoda, from the Canal, St James's Park.[&] The Chinese Pagoda and Bridge in St James's Park (previous to the Fire.) [&] The Grand Pavillion in Green Park. [&] The View in Hyde Park, with the Fleet at Anchor, on the Serpentine River. [&] The Jubilee Naval Action on the Serpentine in Commemoration of the Battle of the Nile. [&] The Action between the British & American Frigates on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, 1st August, 1814.
Published Aug.t 12 [& 24th], 1814, by Tho. Palser, Surry Side, West.r Bridge.
Six etchings (of 8) with fine hand colour. Each c. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), with large margins. Laid on contemporary album card
On 1st August 1814 a series of events celebrating both the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the centenary of Hanoverian rule in England. In St James's Park a Chinese bridge with a pagoda was built over the lake; in Green Park a revolving Temple of Concord was constructed by Sir William Congreve (of rocket fame); and in Hyde Park naval battles with miniature frigates were fought (the 'Nile' and 'Trafalgar' against the French and a third against the Americans, a reminder that Britain was still fighting the War of 1812). The battles were successful events: however the pagoda in St James's Park was set alight by fireworks, killing one and injuring another; and the balloon ascent, by James Sadler (1753-1828, the first English balloonist) did not go as planned and he had to make an emergency landing.
[Ref: 60196] £1,200.00 view all images for this item

Hersilia in oram Deam.
B. Lens fe:
E Cooper ex: [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 6¾").
A scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses: Hersilia, the wife of Romulus, is taken to the Heavens to be deified as Hora Quirini (Querinus being the deified Romulus).
[Ref: 60434] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Larder. In the Common Parlour at Houghton.
Martin de Vos Pinxit. Joseph Farington Delin.t. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside. London.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 455 x 570mm (18 x 22½"), with large margins. Dusty margins.
A smiling man holds up a rabbit, standing before a display of game and other foods, with a cat on clawing a string of small birds and a dog surprised by another cat under the table. Among the foods are a deer, boar, lobster, pumpkins, artichokes and asparagus. The scene was drawn by Joseph Farington after the painting by Maarten de Vos and published in Boydell's series of engravings of the Walpole Collection. The painting, the enormous 'Cook at the Table with Game' (1.7 x 2.4 metres), was sold to Catherine the Great in 1779 and now hangs in the General Staff Building of the Hermitage.
[Ref: 60686] £480.00

A Fruit Market. In the Gallery at Houghton.
Snyders & Long John Pixerunt. Joseph Farington delin.t. Richard Earlom Sculpsit.
Published March 25th 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine mezzotint. 420 x 575mm (16½ x 22½"), large margins.
A Dutch market scene, with a woman examining a peach. A table laden with fruits is being ravaged by a monkey. One of a set of four markets engraved by Earlom after after Frans Snyders and Jan Boeckhorst. The original painting is now in the Hermitage Museum, having being bought by Catherine II.
[Ref: 60687] £580.00

[Parish Orphans.]
[A. Le Nain. W. Baillie.]
[British, n.d., c.1771.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), with large margins. Crease on right.
Two orphans, a boy sitting on a wall eating a piece of bread, a girl standing in front of it looking towards the viewer, holding a roll; her right hand is tucked under her apron. After Antoine Le Nain (French, c.1600 - 1648). Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1810) retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques.
Chaloner Smith undescribed.
[Ref: 60701] £320.00

[Rural landscape with castle.]
P. Sandby R.A. del. F. Jukes fec.t.
London Pub.d May 1 1788 by F Jukes Howland Street.
Etching and aquatint, 255 x 290mm (10 x 11½"). Some small creases. Repaired tears and small margins.
Rural landscape with a castle on the right which has a square gate-tower, seen across a bridge over a river which falls steeply on the right. A woman in the foreground speaks to a man who sits at the roadside on a rock, with a basket and stick.
[Ref: 60616] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Virgil writing his Epitaph. From an Original Picture in the Collection of George Bowls Esq.r to whom This Plate is Inscribed by his most obliged Humble Serv.t Tho.s Macklin.
Angelica Kauffman pinxt. Burke sculp.t
London, Published Jan.y 20.th 1794 by Tho.s Macklin, Poets Gallery Fleet Street.
Stipple, 430 x 510mm (17 x 20") with large margins. Laid on archival paper. Repaired tears, nicks and creases.
Virgil writing his own epitaph, after becoming ill on a trip to Greece. He died in Brindisi before he could return home.
[Ref: 60399] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

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