Grosvenor Prints

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  [Valentine.] [American?, n.d., c.1840.] Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 9"). A woman looks out of her window to see three winged hearts with men's heads bearing down on her. [Ref: 53232 ]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)   Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Grosvenor Prints! Hopefully you're as excited to see the postman as these girls in this print: The 14th February. G. B. O'Neill. [n.d, c.1872]. Etching with very large margins. Laid, on India. Plate: 150 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Some foxing around the edges. Scene in a country cottage in which two girls reach up to a post man, waiting to see if they have received any valentines. A young boy reaches into the postman's satchel and an older woman reads her valentine behind a door. From 'Etchings for the Art Union of London by the Etching Club...

Valentine's Day? A special someone's birthday? Paper anniversary? Here are a few ideas on what to get your romantic interest: Symbolic of your love  Prints of pairs or allegorical prints of love could work. [Pair of red Birds of Paradise.] [n.d., c.1860.] Coloured lithograph. Border 400 x 280mm (15¾ x 11"), on backing sheet. A pair of birds of paradise with long tails in a landscape. [Ref: 51308 ]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT) [Cupid and Psyche?] [Engraved by W. Baillie. n.d., c.1800.] Stipple, 240 x 180mm. 9½ x 7". Decorative stipple by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a vari...

  Puck. [n.d., c.1860.] Pen & ink sketch on folded letter sheet, side 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"), with printed version; Baskerville vellum wove watermark. Printed version trimmed from booklet cover. A grotesque, winged Puck, sitting on a toadstool. Apparently a preparatory sketch for the cover illustration of 'Virtue's Imperial Shalespeare', a 40-part illustrated series published by Charles Knight, 'with Illustrations by Cope, R.A. Leslie, R.A., Maclise, R.A. E.M. Ward. R.A. W.P. Frith, R.A. H.S. Marks, A.R.A. and others'. [Ref: 57783 ]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)   We are pleased to present our first catalogue of the New Year! This miscellaneous listing of over 290 items contains: Portraits including Mezzotints and Eastern Europeans . Decorative items encompassing trades . Transport such as ballooning . ...

 This year is the year of the Tiger! [A Tigress.] Herbert Dicksee [pencil signature]. London, Published December 1st 1891, by C. E. Clifford & Co. 200 Piccadilly W. Drypoint etching on vellum, limited edition of 225 signed proofs. 580 x 495mm (22¾ x 19½), with Printsellers' Association stamp. Unexamined out of frame Dramatic head of a snarling tigress, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1891. [Ref: 12055 ]   £950.00   You can see the rest of our catalogued tiger stock here ; we also have more in store!  Let's check out the other members of the Chinese zodiac: 2023: Rabbit  Tom and his Pidgeons. [&] The Favorite Rabbit. J.Russell Esq.r pinx.t. C.Knight sculp.t. Published June 1. 1792 by C.Knight, Stoke Bucks & Random, Stainbank & Sayer, 17 Old Bond Street, London. ...