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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

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.  

⛄ Christmas Listing: Catalogue 121! ⛄

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Daughters of Sir Thomas Frankland Bar.t. Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. Portrait Painter to His Royal Higness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by W. Ward. Publish'd March 1. 1797 by W. Ward, Delancy Place, Hampstead Road. Fine mezzotint. 580 x 455mm (22¾ x 18"). Framed in a very good 'Daniel' type frame. Small margins. Unexamined out of frame. A portait of Marianne and Emilia Frankland in a landscape, a spaniel asleep at their feet. Amelia holds a crayon and a portfolio of sketches. They were two of the many daughters of the naval officer and politician Sir Thomas Frankland (1718-84), fifth baronet. Extremely fine and decorative image. Engraved by William Ward from the 1795 portrait by John Hoppner. The painting hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., having previously been in the collection of Andrew Mellon. CS 38 iii/iv; Frankau 125 iii/iv. Provenance Brussels Gentleman's Club.

Christmas gift ideas under £100!

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The links below will take you to items under £100 (not including VAT) for other ideas check out more of our gift guides here: General Gift Guide Teachers/Professors Gift Guide Mother's Day Gift Guide Romantic Gift Guide Christmas Gift Guide London   London is a good choice with iconic landmarks , you're bound to find something that relates to the person you're gifting to. Calendarium Londinense or the London Almanack for the Year 1927. The Strand. London. Published by W. Monk. Drawn, & Etched, by W. Monk, 118, New Bond Street, W.1. Etched image, 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with calendar underneath, sheet 400 x 290mm (15¾ x 12"). An issue of 'Monk's Calendar', a publication for print collectors founded in 1902 by William Monk (1863-1937) and published yearly until the year 2004. The view looks towards St Mary-Le-Strand. [Ref: 31626 ]   £90.00   (£108.00