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Catalogue 125: Dogs is out now!

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  Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our special dog listing Catalogue 125! Containing over 400 doggy items. Featuring these eminent artists: George Vernon Stokes Henry Wilkinson Edwin Landseer Richard Ansdell Maud Earl Herbert Dicksee Cecil Aldin Arthur Wardle Lilian Cheviot Heywood Hardy George Morland And many more! Like Crufts you can also browse by breed group: Gun Hound Terrier Toy Utility Working We also have: General Dog Scenes Dogs and Owners Humour View the whole catalogue here!  A few highlights: [Bimbo the Clown, Pekinese.] Cecil Aldin. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswode (Publishers) Limited, London, E.C.4. Printed in England [n.d., c.1930]. Photolithograph. Printed area 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Laid on mount board, named in pencil on mount. A white pekingese after Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935). [Ref: 60131 ]   £180.00   (£216.00 i
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Special Dog listing out 8th March 2023

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 ðŸ“£ Attention all dog lovers! 📣 A special dog listing will be out 8/3/23 to coincide with Crufts!
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Catalogue 124 is here!

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  Cover image: [James Christie] The Specious Orator. Will Your Ladyship Dome the Honor to day £50-000- A Mere Trifle- A Brilliant of the Finest Water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely. R. Dighton 1794. Etching with very fine hand colour, sheet 350 x 225mm (13¾ x 9"). Tipped into album sheet. A portrait of auctioneer James Christie (1730–1803) shown standing at an auctioneer's rostrum. BM Satire 8526. [Ref: 60013 ]   £320.00   A   miscellany of just under 300 items. It features the following subject matters: Ephemera Portraits including mezzotints Military Naval Satire including etchings by James Sayers Maps Views UK Views Overseas including Greece and China Music A few Decorative items Natural History including Jacob Strutt trees Key Plates Historical, Social and Political Some Photos and a smattering of Americana  A fe
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14 recommended books for the beginner collector!

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 So you're new to print collecting, where do you start? These books can help: Investing in Maps. Roger Baynton-Williams. Published by Barrie and Rockliff, The Cresset Press, 2 Clement's Inn, Strand, London, W.C.2. 1969. Book: 4to (297 x 214mm). pp. 160. Profusely illustrated with colour and b/w images.Cloth binding with title in gilt stamped along the spine. Complete with dust jacket and library stamp. Dust jacket worn and creased. A comprehensive illustrated narrative to understanding maps, their various styles and developments. An introduction details the methods of map-making and the techniques used. [Ref: 10354 ]   £45.00     Chats on Old Prints. with 110 Illustrations a
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Catalogue 123: Reference Books!

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  Cover image: James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire. Tim Clayton. New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022. 4to (300 x 250mm, 11¾ x 9¾"), printed boards and illus. d/w; pp. viii + 400, profusely illustrated. New. A superb study of James Gillray (1756-1815), the leading satirist of his times. Tim Clayton has written several books on prints, including 'The English Print, 1688-1802' (1997) and 'Bonaparte and the British: prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon', the catalogue of an exhibition at the British Museum (2015). [Ref: 59895 ]   £60.00        We are pleased to present Catalogue 123! A special listing of over 300 reference books. It features the following subject matters: Art Artist Biography Baxter Books on Books Collections and Auctions Engravers Etchings and Lithographs C19th-20th European Etchings General Referen
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Grosvenor prints is now closed until 10am 3rd January!

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    Season's Greetings!  Grosvenor prints is now closed for a well deserved Christmas break. We're back 10am Tuesday 3rd January 2023 . If you want anything reserving over our Christmas Holiday you can place an order; it'll reserve it on our website automatically and you won't be charged; just follow up with an email with your questions and we'll get back to you in 2023. Happy Holidays!   A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year in London. [&] The Same to you_Sir,_ & Many of E'm._ M.E. Esq.r [M. Egerton] del. G.Hunt, sc. London, Published by Thos. M.c.Lean, 26 Haymarket, 1827. Pair of hand-coloured aquatints with etching. Each sheet: 260 x 320mm (10 x 12½"). Some slight damage to sheet. A pair of English satirical prints: a man and women, both carrying umbrellas, fighting their way through a blizzard on the streets of London. Hickman p.60. [Ref: 40213 ]   £640.00
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Christmas Sale: Catalogue 122!

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  We are pleased to present Catalogue 122: A special discounted list of 65 wonderful items we'd thought deserved to be shown again. It features:  Mainly Portraits inclusive of mezzotints . A tiny bit of Satire . A few Decorative items inclusive of mezzotints . Some Science related portraits. A few UK scenes. A couple of Overseas scenes. Military & Naval . View the whole catalogue here! Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year! A few highlights: [Series of 30 Dwarfs.] [English, n.d., c.1730.] £1500 Stock Ref: 42722 For more Satire click here.     [Sir Francis Drake] Franciscus Draeck Nobilissimus Eques Anglia An Aet Sue 43 [...] £1250 Stock Ref: 37214 For more Naval prints click here.     [Ziethen sitzend vor seinem König.] £1250 Stock Ref: 33687 For more Overseas Scenes click here.  
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