Grosvenor Prints

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...

  A Representation of the Royal Fire-Work perform'd by the directions of Coll. Hopkey and Coll. Borgard on the River of Thames near Whitehall, y.e 7.th of July 1713. being y.e day appointed for a publick Thanksgiving for the General Peace. B. Lens fec. et exc. [n.d. 1713] Extremely rare & fine mezzotint. 520 x 410mm (20½ x 16"). Trimmed to plate mark. Horizontal centre fold crease with minor creasing and scratches across the image. Small nicks to the edges. Loss to bottom left corner filled in with ink. An architectural facade of paired columns adorned with statues and the royal crest. Fireworks burst into the sky in the background as well as on the Thames in the foreground. The statues take the allegorical form of Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, Justice, Courage, Victory, Peace and Conduct. The year of peace, or Anno Pacis, refers to the Peace of Utrecht signed in April 1713 by Queen Anne, Louis ...

  Napoleon Buonaparte. F. Gerard Pinx.t. W. Bromley Sculp.t. I.G. Murray Fecit. Pub.d by R. Bowyer, 1825. Engraving. Sheet 515 x 370mm (20½ x 14½"). Tears taped, cracks in image. A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in his coronation robes by François Gérard (1770-1837), whose painting is now in Versailles. This is a copy of the important 1808 etching by Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers (1779-1857) personally comissioned by Napoleon, for which Desnoyers is said to have been paid 2000 livres, as well as the right to sell his own prints after 600 impressions had been printed. [Ref: 55834 ]  Catalogue 108 in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death! This large listing of over 450 items contains; portraits of Napoleon and others , battle scenes , Waterloo , Views Overseas including political scenes of Napoleon, Saint Helena , Ephemera , Broadsides , Satire and a few dec...

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     Cover: [Satan Alarmed.] R. Westall R.A. F. Graves. Printed by J Yates. Printed 1835 James [sic, recte John] Macrone, 3 St, James Square & E Graves King William Street West Strand. Engraving and etching, scratched-letter state, proof before title, printed on chine collé. 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate, some spotting. Satan standing on the top of the globe, holding shield and spear, illustrating Book IV Line 986 of 'Paradise Lost'. 'On the other side, Satan alarm'd, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe, or Atlas, unremoved: His stature reach'd the sky, and on his crest Sat horrour plumed; nor wanted in his grasp, What seem'd both spear and shield.' Published as a frontispiece to ''The Poetical Works of John Milton'. [Ref: 55518 ]       We look forward to welcoming you back in person to Covent Garden very soon....