Grosvenor Prints

  Check out our highlights here: https://www.chelseabookfair.com/exhibitors/profile/8661 You can download an e-ticket for Friday 3rd November here:  https://www.grosvenorprints.com/jpegs/PDF/2023-Chelsea-eticket.pdf otherwise it is £10 on the door!

Cover image: Tabac. V. Adam. [n.d., c.1830.] Rare lithograph. Sheet 590 x 385mm (23¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed into image top and bottom, repaired tears. An elaborate design of a vase filled with, and surrounded by, smoking paraphernalia, including pipes, ranging from plain to exquisitely carved, and Turkish hookahs. [Ref: 61074 ]   £390.00       We are pleased to present our newest listing: Catalogue 131! It contains just under 300 items and features:   Americana Decorative Items Etching Club Ephemera  Framed Items   Gardening & Greenhouses Mezzotints Military & Naval Napoleon   Portraits Satire  Science  Scottish Clans  Sports & Pastimes   Views Overseas Views UK   Some highlights: Pharoah's Seat, with the sacred Island of Philae [pencil title on reverse] By Owen Jones [pencil on reverse]. [n.d., c.183

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  Cover image: 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

  Cover image:    A Tigress. In the Possession of the Duke of Marlborough; to whom this place is most humbly dedicated, by his Graces most dutiful & obedient Serv,t John Dixon. G. Stubbs Pinxt. J. Dixon fecit. J. Dixon fecit. [Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1st Feb.y 1773. & sold by J. Boydell Cheapside, S. Hooper Ludgate Hill, T. Bradford Fleet Street, T. Burford Bridge Street Westminster, & J. Dixon Kempe's Row, facing Ranelagh Walk (near the Whim) Chelsea. Mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 550mm (15¼ x 21¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, through publication line at bottom, a few marks & repairs, laid on archival tissue. An example of Dixon's rare mezzotint rendering of the Stubbs painting of a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger in Stubbs's possession when he died. It is described in Lennox-Boyd as 'the mo

 The Wallace collection have a fantastic exhibition of dog art! Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney from 29th March – 15th October 2023. Highlights from the collection include a large oil by Edwin Landseer 'Trial by Jury' otherwise know as 'Laying Down the Law'. Which is on loan from Chatsworth . We have a wonderful print after this painting:    [Laying Down the Law]. To the Right Honourable John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of England, This Engraving of Laying Down the Law, is by special desire dedicated to His Lordship by his obedient humble servant Thomas McLean. Painted by Sir E. Landseer, R.A. Engraved by Thomas Landseer. London, Published Dec. 1. 1860 by A.J. Isaacs, 56, Bishopsgate St. Within. Mixed method engraving. 685 x 725mm (27 x 28½"), large margins. Part of dedication weakly inked, laid on backing paper. A parody of a courtroom, with a larg