Grosvenor Prints

  Portrait of the late extraordinary Artist, Thomas Girtin, Natus Feb.y 18. 1775 Obiit Nov. 9. 1802. To Sir George Beaumont Bar.t, One of his earliest Patrons This Print is with Permission respectfully dedicated by his very obliged & grateful Serv.t John Girtin. J.Girtin in the recent fire in Broad Str.t having lost all his property, excepting some prints & c. which with this portrait of his late Brother, he respectfully offers to a liberal Public. Painted by John Opie Esq.r R.A. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds. London: Pub.d May 16, 1817, by J. Girtin, Engraver, Printer &c. No 25 Old Compton Street, 3 doors from Princes Street, Soho. Fine mezzotint. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"0. Trimmed to plate. Half-length portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), holding a porte-crayon and sketch-book. Watercolourist, friend and rival of J.M.W. Turner. , with whom he closely worked. He died aged just twenty-seven, shortly after comple...

Images which have graced the front cover of literary works published by Penguin and Oxford University Press:  OUP used Quentin Matsys' The Misers for the cover of Five Plays by Ben Jonson . The original is lost but there are many surviving copies, including one in the Royal Collection which was the basis for our print: The Misers. From the celebrated Picture by Quintin Matsys in His Majesty's Collection Windsor Castle. Les Avares. D Apres le celibre tableau par Quintin Matsys de la galerie de sa Majeste au Chatea de Windsor. Dean & Munday Litographer's Threadneedle St. [A. Friedel.] [n.d. c.1830.] Lithograph on india, rare with large margins. 406 x 272mm. 16 x 10¾". Slight foxing bottom right Misers sat at a table logging in a book their worth. Three bulging bags of coins, tied into one, sit on the table in front, with coins spread out to the right; a bird on a perch sits behind on the wall below the shelf. After the 'Blacksmith of...

Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola, from a 1561 self-portrait (still at Althorp, as mentioned on the print):   Sofonisba Angosciola. From an original Painting by herself in the Gallery at Althorp. Engraved by Hawksworth. London, Pubd. by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, Paternoster Row, Novr. 20, 1827. Engraving from an unidentified publication, sheet 185 x 120mm. 7¼ x 4¾". Trimmed to plate.   Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532-1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, and one of few female artists mentioned in Vasari's "Lives of Artists." [Ref: 19562]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT) This early portrait of Rubens was probably engraved from a now-lost original of the artist with his son, executed in the 1620s, of which a copy is now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg: Excellentissimus Dns D. Petrus Paulus Rubenius pictorum Apelles, decus huius saeculi, Orbis miraculum. Aulam Hispanicam, Gal...

A list of prints which include maps, plans, globes or charts as decorative elements or for their value as symbols: A map of Mildmay Fane with a map behind him which shows the area between his estate at Apethorpe (at the bottom) and Hull (at the top):   The Efiges of the right Honnorable Mildmay Earl of Westmorland Baron LeDespencer & Burghersh and Knight of the Bath etc. JBN Invent [intials in the form of a monogram]. P. Williamson Sculp. 1662. Engraving, with large margins. Plate 260 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8". Portrait of Mildmay Fane, half length in an oval wreath, short beard and moustache, wearing cap, collar and sash; curtain to the left, and map of part of Lincolnshire on the right. Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, (1602-1665) was an English nobleman, politician and writer. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. NPG: D8277. [Ref: 24082]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT) ...

A selection of prints which carry the collectors' stamps of their illustrious former owners: A fine portrait with decorative border, from the 'admirable and rich' Cabinet Brentano-Brickenstock, founded by the Viennese J.M. von Birckenstock (1738-1809), friend of the great print scholar Adam Bartsch, and continued through subsequent generations: Athanasius Rodulphius. Patritius Florentinus, pro Seren.mo Magno Hetru riae Duce ad Pacis universalis trae tatus 1648. Inquirunt Pacem et Peresquuntur Eam. Anselmus van Halle pinxit. Petrus de Ioden sculpsit. Accessit Privilegium Caesareum. Cum privilegio Regum eet Hollandiae Ordinum 1649. Engraving, with collector's stamp on verso with very large margins. Plate 305 x 196mm (12 x 7¾"). Excellent impression. Anatasio Ridolfi, a Catholic theologian and secretary of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He served as Envoy for the Peace of Westphalia. Lugt 1921: [Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock]. ...

With two exhibitions dedicated to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo taking place simultaneously in London (at Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Wallace Collection ), we have put together a list of prints based on the paintings of the Seville-based artist. Murillo's paintings were highly regarded Britain in the 18th century, hence the number of fine engravings made from them. Examples of his religious paintings in Britain and the time are this Holy Family :   The Holy Family  Thomas Chambars after Murillo  Published by Boydell, 1764  platemark 515 x 390mm  £140 + VAT  At least two of Murillo's paintings were in the famous Walpole collection at Houghton, which was the subject of an ambitious series of engravings published by Boydell before the collection was sold to Catherine the Great. Most of the collection can still be seen at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, including a painting described by some as the The Immaculate Conception and other...