Grosvenor Prints

[18 Australian Gum leaf paintings with autograph album of Edwardian musicians.]
Album, autographs dated 1906-7.
An autograph album compiled by Miss Willis, daughter? of the proprietor of The Willis Music Company Ltd. Alongside the signatures of composers and musicians she came into contact with are a collection of paintings on gum leaves of Australian trees, including scenes of Sydney Harbour, kookaburras and flowers. There is also a regimental menu and a few watercolours of different subjects. 18 items. Edwardian musicians including H. Trotere, G. Clifton Bingham and Edward Nicholls.
See: Ref: 52938
[Ref: 52979] £1,500.00 view all images for this item

Capt.n Anderson. Commanding Irregular Cavalry, Shah Shujah's Force.
[after Vincent Eyre.]
[London, John Murray, 1843.]
Lithograph. Printed area 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼"). Slightly foxed.
William Anderson (1803-58) in Afghan dress. Promoted to captain in 1838, he served as Commandant of Shah Shuja's 2nd Cavalry during the 1st Afghan War (1838-42) and was taken prisoner during the retreat from Kabul in January 1842, and released on 22 September. Promoted to major in May 1853, Anderson later served as second-in-command of the Jodhpur Legion, a unit that mutinied in 1857, before eventually retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. A portrait from Vincent Eyre's 'Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners', from an original drawing made during Eyre's captivity in Afghanistan after the Retreat from Kabul during the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842).
[Ref: 53168] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Plan of A New Line of Road between Andover and Honiton, being part of The Great Western Road, from London to Exeter, Plymouth and Falmouth.
Mutlow sc. Russell Co.t.
[c.1802.]
Engraved map. Printed area 165 x 445mm (6½ x 17½"). Trimmed to the printed border left top, into plate on left, tear at fold.
A sketch map of William Hanning's suggested 'New Direct Road' between Andover and Honiton, ''beneficial... in quickening the Conveyance of Letters, Parcels, and Passangers, to and from the Western Ports' and 'expediting the March of Troops'. The difference between the old route (via Salisbury, Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport and Axminster) and the new (Amesbury, Deptford Wincanton, Ilchester and Ilminster, with a proposed new coaching inn and a new section of road between Ilminster and Honiton) was seven miles. The new route is now the A303.
[Ref: 53002] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Lancelot Andrewes] Reverendissimus Et Doctiss: Domini. Lancel: Andrewes Episcop. Elyensis Etc. Anno 1618. These Lineaments of Art, have well set forth Some outward features (though no inward worth) But to these Lines his writings added, cann Make up the faire resemblance of a Man For as the Bodies forme is figurd here So there the beautyes of his Soule appeare; Which I had praised; but that in This place to praise Them, were to praise Him to his Face. Ge: Wi:
[by Simon de Passe.]
[n.d. c.1618.]
Engraving. 180 x 105mm (7 x 4½"), with wide margins. Crease on left.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Under James I he served successively as Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester and oversaw the translation of the Authorised Version of the Bible. Depicted here with an open book with words 'Verbum Dei' ('Word of God') to which he points.
[Ref: 53125] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Temple of Apollo Didymeus near Miletus.]
John Miller Sculp.t. [after William Pars.]
[London: T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, 1769.]
Engraving. 320 x 490mm (12½ x 15¼"), with very large margins. Crease through sky top left.
The Temple of Apollo at Didyma near Miletus, the fourth largest temple in the ancient Greek world, built on the orders of Alexander the Great. 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'. Paul Sandby also engraved a version of this scene.
Pars' original ink sketch is in the BM (Mm,11.65), rubbed over with graphite for transfer to the engraver's plate.
[Ref: 52880] £360.00

de Bandel of Reede voor de Stadt Arakan.
[n.d., c.1708.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11") very large margins. Central fold.
A view of the coast off Arakan (Rakhine in Burma), with VOC (Dutch East India Company) ships at anchor. From Wouter Schoutens' 'Reys-Togten naar en door Oost-Indien'.
[Ref: 53064] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Travelling Post.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Published June 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Fine aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 325 x 520mm (12¾" x 20½"). Centre fold, as issued, repairs to centre fold and nicks in margins.
A coach pulled by four mules with a lead horse. One of the few double-page plates from Emeric Essex Vidal's "Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video". Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816, the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile. From one of the earliest representations of Argentinian life.
Abbey Travel: 698. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 52872] £320.00

[Two letters from William Armytage, Mate, RN to his mother and a third from William's friend to his mother.]
[Two letters dated 1841, the other undated.]
Three a.l.s., one on two sheets. One letter torn and taped, all with folds.
William Armytage was a Mate on the East India Station, serving on HMS Samarang, Dido (under Henry Kepple) and Cornwallis (flagship of Sir William Parker. In 1841, on Samarang during the First Opium War, he won praise during his actions helping the steamer Nemesis force the passage from Macao to Whampoa, the first time that a European vessel had done so. His letters relate to his return to England on the Sarmarang and his attempts to win promotion; the letter from his friend (William 'Shell'?) also relates to his promotion efforts. Armytage became a lieutenant in 1845, after which he served on the Vesuvius steam sloop in the South America and West Indian Stations. During the Crimean War he server on HMS Viper in the Black Sea; after being promoted to Commander in 1855 he returned to England. He was promoted to Captain in 1860.
[Ref: 53195] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Island of Ascension, from the Roads.
Drawn by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Drawn on Stone by G. Barnard. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the King, Gate S.t Linc. Inn F.ds.
London, Published by Lieu.t W.m Allen R.N. Feb.y 1835.
Rare lithograph with hand colour. 125 x 690mm (5 x 27¼"). Creases, stains, laid on thick paper.
Panorama. One of ten plates in Allen's 'Picturesque Views in the Island of Ascension'. He spent eight weeks with the garrison put on Ascension after Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, describing the island as a 'cinder'.
[Ref: 52868] £360.00

The Friend of the People. Thomas Attwood, Esq.r. Proof.
W Green del.t. Head eng.d. by E Scriven. Accompaniments by James B Allen.
Printed & Published by Josiah Allen 5. Bennett's Hill Birm.m Aug 20.1832.
Rare steel engraving with stipple. Sheet 270 x 175mm (10¾ x 7").
Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), political reformer, founded the Birmingham Political Union in 1830 campaigning for cities and large towns to be directly represented in Parliament.
[Ref: 53189] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Attwood, Esq.re. Founder of Political Unions.
Printed by C. Kellow, 13, Red Lions St, Holborn.
Published for the Proprietor by J. Drake, New Street, Birmingham [n.d., c.1832].
Rare lithograph. Sheet 335 x 235mm (13¼ x 9"). Foxing
Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), political reformer, founded the Birmingham Political Union in 1830 campaigning for cities and large towns to be directly represented in Parliament. The portrait seems to pre-date his election to Parliament in December 1832, after the passing of the Great Reform Act.
[Ref: 53188] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View on the Thames near Battersea.
Painted by Charles Deane. Engraved by William James Taylor.
London, Published May 1 1823 by Hurst Robinson & Co. Printsellers to His Majesty 90 Cheapside & 8 Pall Mall
Very rare engraving. 510 x 680mm (20 x 26¾"), with large margins. Exterior of margins tatty.
A large view of Battersea from across the Thames, emphasising the rural characteristics retained by the area around Battersea prior to the arrival of the railways in the 1830s. Engraved after a painting by the obscure landscape painter Charles Deane (1815-1855, fl.).
Not in BM.
[Ref: 53190] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Beauty looking in the Mirror of Prudence, with a Genius representing Innocence. From the Original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, To whom this plate is dedicated by his Grace's Obedient Servant, Ja.s Birchall.
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculpx.
London, Pub'd August 15 1786 by Jas. Birchall No.473 Strand.
Stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 385 x 345mm (15¼ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, creases and tears in inscription area.
[Ref: 53084] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Auszug aus einer See-Charte die Andreas Bianco im I[ahr] 1436 zu Venedig verfertigte... Auszug aus einer Charte die Fr. Picigano im I[ahr] 1367 zu Venedig verfertigte...
A.G. Ephem 1807. 10. stk.
Weimar, im Verlag des geograph. Instituts, 1807.
Engraved map. 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Folds as issued.
Two facsimiles of Venetian charts of the 15th & 16th centuries, showing the Atlantic before the known discovery of America, The presence of 'Y.a d'Antilla', a large island west of Madeira, is often used to argue that the Portuguese discovered America before Colombus.
[Ref: 53128] £140.00

The West Prospect of Boston Steeple and Church.
W. Stennit jun. delin 1715.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer Map & Printseller No. 53 Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 570 x 320mm (22½ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate lower left for binding, folds and tears. Damaged.
A view of St Botolph's Church, which boasts one of the tallest Medieval towers in the country. William Stennett, a merchant and antiquary, made many drawings of English buildings, many of which were engraved by George Vertue of the Society of Antiquaries. It is likely that this print is a re-issue of one of these.
[Ref: 53100] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Petrus Bouchu Abbas Firmitatis.
R. Nanteuil ad vivum pingebat et sculpebat. 1669.
[French, 1669.]
Engraving. Sheet 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10"). Trimmed into plate.
Portrait of Pierre Bouchu, Abbé de Clairvaux, in robe with crucifix around his neck; in lettered oval frame with coat of arms in the lower part. By Robert Nanteuil (1623 - 1678), engraver and portrait draughtsman.
With collector's stamp of Frederic Robert Halsey (1847-1918), lawyer and bibliophile (Lugt: 1308); second unidentified stamp. RD 47
[Ref: 26799] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd.]
J. Smart pinxit. John Boydell, excudit, 1785. Caroline Watson sculpsit.
Publish'd May 1st. 1785, by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London.
Stipple., proof before title 170 x 125mm (6¾ x 5"). Trimmed to plate, slight surface soiling.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Boyd (c.1710-1794), army officer during the Seven Years' War, including the Siege of Minorca of 1756. He served as governor of Gibraltar three times (1776-7, 1790 and 1790-4) and was buried there.
[Ref: 53056] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Robert Boyle.
J. Chapman sculp.t.
London Published as the Act directs April 19th. 1800 by J.Wilkes.
Stipple. Plate 160 x 109mm (6¼ x 4¼") with small margins. Bit messy.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) the natural philospher, chemist, physicist and inventor; his book 'The Sceptical Chymist' is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry, and as one of the founders of modern chemisty he is known for his 'Boyle's Law'. One of a number of stipple heads for the 'Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature' by Chapman, published by J. Wilkes, 1795-1810.
[Ref: 26050] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Calendarium Londinense or the London Almanack for the Year 1930. The City of Westminster and Charing Cross Bridge.
W. Monk [pencil signature.]
London. Published by W. Monk at 118, New Bond Street, W.1. Drawn, & Etched. by W. Monk.
Etched image, 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with calendar underneath, sheet 400 x 290mm (15¾ x 12"). Foxing. Horizontal fold through centre of "Calendarium".
The view past the Hungerford Railway Bridge towards the House of Parliament with Big Ben's clock tower. Boats on the Thames An issue of 'Monk's Calendar', a publication for print collectors founded in 1902 by William Monk (1863-1937) and published yearly until the year 2004.
[Ref: 36784] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Trinity College Bridge & Walks. University Entertainment. To their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia Matilda. July 6th 1819.
Drawn by R.B. Harraden. Etched by Elizabeth Byrne.
Etched ticket. Sheet 160 x 205mm (6¼ x 8"). Trimmed, laid on album sheet with a view of King's College Chapel also by Harraden.
[Ref: 53012] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Christ's College. Cambridge University Almanack 1810.
J.K. Baldrey del: S. Sparrow Sc.
Etching. Sheet 325 x 460mm (12¾ x 18"). Trimmed, small tear in top edge.
[Ref: 53011] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Clare College and King's College Chapel Cambridge.]
F.P. Barraud. G. Woolliscroft Rhead [pencil signatures].
London, Published Jany. 23rd 1892 by Mess.rs Dickinson & Foster, Publishers to The Queen , 114, New Bond Street, W, Copyright Registered.
Etching, signed by the artist and engraver. 390 x 520mm (15¼ x 20½"), large margins.
A view from King's Backs, looking over the Cam, by Francis Philip Barraud (1824-1900).
[Ref: 53093] £330.00

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Aquatint on chine collé. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼") with large margins. Holes in left margin where previously bound.
A view of the interior.
[Ref: 53013] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Jesus College from the Close.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53023] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

King's College New Building; Cambridge. from the Grove.
P.S. Lamborn del. & sculp.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Fine etching. 170 x 230mm (6¾ x 9") with large margins.
[Ref: 53014] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

The South East View of King's College. From Trumpington Street. According to the Intended Plan of Buildings.
Drawn on Stone by L. Hague.
London Pub.d May 1826 by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand & R.B. Harraden, Cambridge.
Lithograph on chine collé. Sheet 235 x 370mm (9¼ x 17½"), with wide margins. Some soiling. Trimmed.
The Gothic Revival Front Court completed in 1828 under plans by William Wilkins.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53015] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] The Entrance to King's College Chapel.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53026] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Magdalen College Library
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53022] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Court of Peter House.
F. Mackenzie del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Feb.y 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1812'.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53019] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Queen's College from the Private Walk.
W. Westall del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾") Narrow margins.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53018] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Doctor in Law or Physic. In Congregation Robes.
T. Uwins del.t. J. Agar sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Nov.r 1. 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Stipple engraving with hand colour. 295 x 245mm (11½ x 9¾"), with large margins.
The dress robes of a Cambridge scholar.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53017] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Part of St Peter's College from the Private Garden.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Aug.t 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾").
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53024] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Kitchen of Trinity College.
W.H. Pyne del.t. J.C. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d Dec.r 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides.
With kitchen workers preparing geese, fish, bread and vegetables.
Abbey Scenery 79. See Ref: 60095 & 60096
[Ref: 53027] £165.00 (£198.00 incl.VAT)

[Cambridge] Colonnade under Trinity Library.
W. Westall del.t. J. Stadler sculp.t.
London, Pub.d May 1. 1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. 260 x 300mm (10¼ x 11¾").
The library was designed by Christopher Wren.
Abbey Scenery 79.
[Ref: 53021] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Canbury Villa, Kingston.]
[Sketched by John Constable]
[n.d., c.1835].
Very scarce lithograph. Sheet 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Trimmed into image, some wear. Creasing at top.
A view of Canbury House, Kingston-on-Thames. An Italianate villa seen from the garden, with a church beyond on the left. After an original drawing by John Constable from p.37 of 'Constable's sketchbook' of July 1835, consisting of 50 sketches in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour. This particular sketch was made on July 27th 1835, a date that falls within the visit which Constable paid to George Constable at Arundel or his subsequent journeys to accompany Maria to and from the Fishers' house at Kingston.
[Ref: 53208] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Elizabeth Canning convicted of Perjury. May ye 7th 1754. Price 3 pence.
[n.d. c.1754.]
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed. Vertical crease.
Elizabeth Canning (1734-73), an 18-year-old London maidservant, claimed to have been kidnapped on New Year's Day and held for a month in a brothel in Enfield. She accused `Mother Wells', the madam of the establishment, of trying to force her to become a prostitute. A hideous gypsy crone staying in the house, Mary Squires, cut off the girl's stays (worth 10 shillings), and Elizabeth was imprisoned in an attic with only a few crusts of bread and a jug of water to live on. On January 29th she escaped through a window and walked all the way back to her mother's house in the City. Squires and Wells were apprehended, and tried at the Old Bailey; the former was condemned to be hanged, and the latter was burned in the hand and imprisoned. However opinion turned against Canning and new evidence led her to be charged with perjury and transported for seven years.
CS 36.ii.
[Ref: 53153] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of Canton in China. Engraved for the New Geographical Dictionary.
[London: printed for J. Coote, 1759-60]
Engraving, sheet 175 x 270mm (7 x 10½") very large margins.
Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Guangdong province of China.
[Ref: 53065] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Carl X] Carolus Gustavus King of Swethens, Goths, & Vandalls, greate prince of Finland, Duke of Estonia, & Carelia, Lo:d of Ingria. & Crowned An:º Dom:º 1654.
P.S excudit [Peter Stent, n.d., c.1660].
Etching. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed into image.
Carl X Gustav (1622-60), King of Sweden. He was in fact only the fourth King Carl: Carl IX ((1604-11) had read a fictitious history of Sweden before choosing his numeral. The publisher Peter Stent died of the plague in 1665; his widow sold his business to John Overton. Stent also published a reversed version of this portrait with the same date, title and wreath decorations.
[Ref: 53048] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Carr (late an attorneny in the Temple) was Executed at Tyburn the 18th day of Jan.y 1737 for robing (in Company with Elizabeth Adams) Mr W.m Quarrington in the Angel Tavern Temple-bar.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1737].
Rare engraving. Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, creased.
Thomas Carr was vestry clerk of the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden. He and Elizabeth Adams (with whom he lived) stole ninety-three guineas and a diamond ring from William Quarrington. At Tyburn the pair kissed and held hands as the cart moved away from under their feet.
[Ref: 53146] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

West View of the Ruins of Carteia, & it's River with a Prospect of the Rock of Gibraltar; Drawn by Francis Carter in the Year 1771.
P. Mazell sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan. 1 1777.
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 205 x 370mm (8 x 14½") very large margins.
Carteia, founded by the Phoenicians and captured by the Romans c. 190 BC, re-discovered by John Conduitt of the Gibraltar garrison c.1717. From Francis Carter's two-volume 'A Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga' (1777). Carter (1741?-1783), a traveller and collector of coins, was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries that same year, but died before completing his next work, a study of early Spanish printed books.
[Ref: 53059] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sir William Chambers, Architect to the King.
Falconet del. Pariset sculp.
Pub'd by E. Jeffery, opposite Carlton House. [n.d., c.1800.]
Stipple. 130 x 185mm (5 x 7¼"). Trimmed into plate on both sides.
Sir William Chambers (1722 - 1796), architect.
[Ref: 53173] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Charles the First, King of Great Britain. Ex Museo Sereniss. Domini de Wharton.
A.v. Dyk pinx. 1638. P.v. Gunst Sculps. et exc. Amstelod.
[n.d. c.1713.]
Very fine engraving. 515 x 330mm (20¼ x 13"), with large margins. Paper toned, tears in edges.
Portrait of Charles I (1600-1649), whole length, standing, wearing armour, holding baton; helmet and crown on table to right. From Gunst's series of ten plates after van Dyck, made 1713-15, from the Cracherode bequest.
[Ref: 53130] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Four statues of saints in the Great North Porch of Chartres Cathedral.]
AH [monogram of Axel Haig] 1881.
Etching. Printed area 100 x 80mm (4 x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, tape over bottom edge.
Within an elaborately decorated border in the style of illuminated manuscripts. Published as part of the 'Chartres Brochure'.
Mordant Crook & Lennox-Boyd: 31a. Ex: Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 53196] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)

[Depiction of a female saint on a shield.]
AH [monogram of Axel Haig] 1881.
Etching. Printed area 105 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼"). Narrow margins.
A decoration in Chartres Cathedral. Published as a tailpiece in the 'Chartres Brochure'.
Mordant Crook & Lennox-Boyd: 31b. Ex: Collection Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 53197] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Cheese Monger] Highty, tighty! Mr Witey, / Don't you think my question hard: / I want to know the price per pound / Of your own bladder of lard!
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured woodcut. Writing sheet; Sheet 165 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾").
An egg-headed man scoops out a dollop from a barrel marked 'Fat' and slaps it on a scale, to a customer's disgust. 'Highty, tighty' is an obsolete variant of 'hoity-toity'.
[Ref: 53169] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Chinese Barges of the Embassy preparing to pass under a Bridge.
W. Alexander del.t. W. Byrne sculp.t.
London, Published April 12, 1796, by G. Nicol.
Engraving. 340 x 480mm (13¼" x 19"), with large margins.
A river scene with various boats, a stone bridge and an archway. From Sir George Staunton's 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', describing the expedition of Lord Macartney (1737 - 1806) as the first British ambassador to China. The artist William Alexander accompanied Macartney, and his watercolours were the basis for subsequent prints such as this one.
[Ref: 53222] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Chirk Viaduct, Denbighshire.
Drawn & Engraved by C. Jackson from a Sketch by C.A. Hulbert.
Published by C. Hulbert Shrewsbury, 1827.
Rare aquatint. 520 x 340mm (20½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate on right.
The Chirk Aqueduct, completed 1801 to carry the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley, now Grade II* listed. It was designed by Thomas Telford for the Ellesmere Canal, which was never built. The acqueduct is shown before the building of the railway vaiduct beside it in 1848.
[Ref: 53001] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Nocturne.
L. Balestrieri Pinx & Sculps.
Imp. Eug. Delatre, Paris. Copyright 1904 by L. Balestrieri, Paris.
Etching. Pt stamp verso H. Levasseur. 410 x 700mm (16 x 27½").
A dark scene with Frédéric Chopin playing the piano. Drawn and engraved by Lionello Balestrieri (1872-1958), an artist who moved in musical circles, coming to know Puccini, Giordano and Cilea.
[Ref: 53097] £460.00

Christina queene of Swethland, Goths & Vandalls,
R. Gaywood fecit.
Sould by P. Stent [n.d., c.1660].
Etching. Sheet 155 x 140mm (6 x 5½") at most. Trimmed around image.
A copy of Hollar's etched portrait of Christina (1626-69), Queen of Sweden, remembered as one of the most learned women of the 17th century. The publisher Peter Stent died of the plague in 1665; his widow sold his business to John Overton. Stent also published a reversed version of this portrait with the same date, title and wreath decorations.
[Ref: 53049] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The Devil and the Hackney Coachman.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured etching. Sheet Sheet 65 x 125mm (2½ x 4½"). Trimmed, pasted on album sheet.
An illustration to a ballad about Ben, a Hackney coachman, ''how he used to swear''. After being hired by the Devil to drive to Hell, Ben has a narrow escape and forsakes swearing.
[Ref: 53004] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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