Grosvenor Prints is back open!
We are thrilled to be back open to the public at our usual opening times Monday-Friday 10am-6pm!
The Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection!
Christopher Lennox-Boyd who died in 2012 aged 71 stood in the great tradition of great eccentric English antiquarian scholars and formed the finest collection of British Mezzotints in private hands. Christopher Lennox-Boyd was a most unusual collector. Much more than either the excitement of the chase or the satisfaction of ownership, it is the acquisition of information and knowledge that motivated him. He undoubtedly possessed the best impression of many a famous print, but much dearer to him, was a battered proof or intermediate state which provided him with data, as he called it, which was previously unrecorded. He was like an untypical lepidopterist, one who does not have to pin down his specimens, each with its label, in display cases and glass topped drawers. The label itself is what ultimately mattered to Christopher, once catalogued his captures may fly where they will. Mezzotint engravings provide a perfect field for collecting. The standard reference work, by John Chal...
