Grosvenor Prints

  [Amalia Augusta, Prinzessin von Anhalt Dessau. Ihro Hochfürstl: Durchlaucht der Frau Erbprinzessin zu Anhalt Dessau &c. &c. &c.] [Nach Tischbein. Geschabt von Michelis.] [unterthangiggst gewidmet von der Chalcographischen Geserllschaft in Dessau 1797.] Mezzotint, proof before letters, printed in sepia. 520 x 370mm (20½ x 14½"), with very large margins. Some restoration in centre, laid on archival paper. A young girl in a white dress putting an ornament on a Christmas tree. Princess Amalie Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (1793-1854) married her first cousin, Frederick Günther, becoming Princess Consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt See: Ref: 57927 for titled impression. [Ref: 55063 ]   £380.00 Seasons Greetings! Grosvenor Prints is now closed for a well deserved Christmas Break. We reopen 10am 2nd January 2024.   If you want anything reserving over our holiday period...

  Renowned landscape historian Michael Symes is publishing a book featuring many prints bought from Grosvenor over the years. We have prints from this book in stock so let us know if you like anything! You can pre-order a discounted copy of the book by right clicking the below image, opening it in a new tab, printing it off, filling it out and sending it off! Alternaively we have physical forms in the shop.  

    Peacock and Pie. [Francis Barlow] [illegible] N44 Wells S.t Oxford [J Hinton?] [illegible] 268 Hol[born?] [William Elliott?] Mezzotint with wonderful printed colour, hand finished. 480 x 595 (18¾ x 23½"), with large margins. From Fable CIV of Aesop Fables. Also known as the Parliament of Birds plate 33, Fable XVI. We have been unable to find any reference to the large mezzotint. A peacock on full display is surrounded by birds mostly open beaked seemingly in reverence. Birds include: an owl, an ostrich, an emu, a parrot, a heron, chickens, a duck, a dove, a magpie and a falcon. See BM 1867,0413.394 for the drawing. [Ref: 61503 ]   £4,500.00      We are pleased to present our listing for the festive period: Catalogue 133! It contains 360 items and features: Mostly Satire Portraits Music Views UK Views Overseas Americana Australiana Sports and ...

As you are hopefully all aware by now; we are exhibiting at the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair 3rd & 4th November. You can download a free e-ticket for the Friday here or you can pick up a physical one from our shop. If you would like one posted to you let us know ASAP! Please contact us if there is anything you would like us to bring to the fair!   Cover image: A View from Richmond Hill. Drawn by W. Havell. Engraved by R. Havell. Published March 1. 1815, for the Proprietors by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. No 23 Cockspur Street. London. Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 275 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), large margins. Trimmed to plate. Old ink mss. in title area. A view from Richmond Hill, looking down to across Petersham Meadows to Ham, St Margarets and Twickenham. Wick House, built for Sir Joshua Reynolds can be seen on the right. Gascoigne 78. [Ref: 61669 ]   £500.00...

  Check out our highlights here: https://www.chelseabookfair.com/exhibitors/profile/8661 You can download an e-ticket for Friday 3rd November here:  https://www.grosvenorprints.com/jpegs/PDF/2023-Chelsea-eticket.pdf otherwise it is £10 on the door!

Cover image: Tabac. V. Adam. [n.d., c.1830.] Rare lithograph. Sheet 590 x 385mm (23¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed into image top and bottom, repaired tears. An elaborate design of a vase filled with, and surrounded by, smoking paraphernalia, including pipes, ranging from plain to exquisitely carved, and Turkish hookahs. [Ref: 61074 ]   £390.00       We are pleased to present our newest listing: Catalogue 131! It contains just under 300 items and features:   Americana Decorative Items Etching Club Ephemera  Framed Items   Gardening & Greenhouses Mezzotints Military & Naval Napoleon   Portraits Satire  Science  Scottish Clans  Sports & Pastimes   Views Overseas Views UK   Some highlights: Pharoah's Seat, with the sacred Island of Philae [pencil title on reverse] ...

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  Cover image: Studies of Fresh Water Fish. Drawn on stone from Nature, and respectfully dedicated (with permission) to S. Gurney, Jun.r, Esq.r, (Carshalton) by his obedient Serv.t. H.y Leonidas Rolfe. 1851. Published by the Artist at his Studio, Shorter's Court, Throgmorton S.t City. Oblong folio, contemporary half morocco gilt, with marbled boards, red morocco gilt title label on front board; lithographed illustrated title pasted on original wrapper; 7 tinted lithographs on thick paper, mounted on stubs, each sheet approx. 355 x 540mm (14 x 21¼"). Binding worn, plates with some surface soiling and spotting, two plates with bottom right corner knocked. The plates are: Pope, Minnow, Perch, Gudgeon; Barbel, Bream, Chub; Eel, Roach, Dace, Bleak; Tench, Carp; Trout; Graylng; Pike. The set of plates by Henry Leonidas Rolfe (1823-81). As the plates were issued loose in wrappers, complete sets are unusual and very scarce...

  Cover image:    A Tigress. In the Possession of the Duke of Marlborough; to whom this place is most humbly dedicated, by his Graces most dutiful & obedient Serv,t John Dixon. G. Stubbs Pinxt. J. Dixon fecit. J. Dixon fecit. [Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, 1st Feb.y 1773. & sold by J. Boydell Cheapside, S. Hooper Ludgate Hill, T. Bradford Fleet Street, T. Burford Bridge Street Westminster, & J. Dixon Kempe's Row, facing Ranelagh Walk (near the Whim) Chelsea. Mezzotint. Sheet 390 x 550mm (15¼ x 21¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, through publication line at bottom, a few marks & repairs, laid on archival tissue. An example of Dixon's rare mezzotint rendering of the Stubbs painting of a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger in Stubbs's possession when he died. It is described in Lennox-Boyd as 'the mo...

 The Wallace collection have a fantastic exhibition of dog art! Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney from 29th March – 15th October 2023. Highlights from the collection include a large oil by Edwin Landseer 'Trial by Jury' otherwise know as 'Laying Down the Law'. Which is on loan from Chatsworth . We have a wonderful print after this painting:    [Laying Down the Law]. To the Right Honourable John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of England, This Engraving of Laying Down the Law, is by special desire dedicated to His Lordship by his obedient humble servant Thomas McLean. Painted by Sir E. Landseer, R.A. Engraved by Thomas Landseer. London, Published Dec. 1. 1860 by A.J. Isaacs, 56, Bishopsgate St. Within. Mixed method engraving. 685 x 725mm (27 x 28½"), large margins. Part of dedication weakly inked, laid on backing paper. A parody of a courtroom, with a larg...

 It's Father's day Sunday, 18th June so let us inspire you with some ideas below!   For the classics scholar Depictions of the faithful son Aeneas and his father:   Eneas carrying his Father Anchyses from the Ruins of Troy. From the Original Picture, Painted by Jacopo Robusti commonly called Tintoretto, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Size of the Picture, 1' 0" by 1' 4" in height. Tintoretto pinx.t R. Earlom delin.t & Sculpsit John Boydell excudit London 1767 Mezzotint with etching, 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9". Large margins; creasing through centre Aeneas carrying his father away from Troy before beginning the journey that will lead to the foundation of Rome. Illustration to an episode featuring in Virgil's 'The Aeneid'. From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes produced in late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to ...