Grosvenor Prints

 Wondering what prints would fit in your home; find some inspiration below! Countryside cottage A still life or country view would make an excellent addition to this home: [Still-life banquet piece] I Beckett ex [illegible traces of effaced inscription, lower right] Mezzotint, platemark 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins. 19th century impression on wove paper. Crabs and prawns on a platter on a covered table; grapes, peaches, an open melon, plums and a lemon behind; silver tobacco jar upper left. Mezzotint by painter and engraver Robert Robinson (fl.1674-d.1706). Robinson is chiefly remembered for early mezzotints such as this, while the most notable of his surviving paintings are the panels he painted for a house on St Botolph Street in the City of London, now housed at the Sir John Cass School in Aldgate. State ii/ii (Christopher Lennox-Boyd database). [Ref: 40220 ]   £1...

    The March of Interlect or a Dust-Man & Family of the 19th Century. Marks fecit. [n.d., c.1830.] Coloured etching. Sheet 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper, with second droll on reverse. A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine). The second droll is 'Very Wet', a coloured aquatint (180 x 140mm, trimmed to image), with a well-dress woman getting soaked despite her umbrella. Not in BM. [Ref: 56617 ]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)  We have the pleasure in sending out our new Catalogue 111; a listing of over 200 items. It includes portraits , topography both Foreign and UK , s ports and pastimes such as b oxing and ...