Grosvenor Prints

 Our new catalogue is here! P inchbeck. Isaac Whood pinx.t. J. Faber fecit. [n.d., c.1725.] Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾"). Small repaired tear into margin on left. Printer's crease bottom right in margin. Christopher Pinchbeck (1670?-1732), maker of clocks and automata, here shown holding an open pocket watch. He also invented 'pinchbeck', an alloy of copper and zinc that resembled gold, which created a new market for costume jewelry. Among his clients was Louis XIV, for whom he made a music clock. In 1717 he advertised a clock at one thousand guineas (appoximately £140,000 today). From 1721 until his death his address was 'at the sign of ‘The Astronomico-Musical Clock' in Fleet Street. CS 289 i/ii. [Ref: 57864 ]   £950.00   Come see us at the fair at Chelsea Old Town Hall Friday 29th April (2pm-7pm) - Saturday 30th April (11am-5pm). We are stand 78 on the ...

    [Hirayama Jinta] Japanese Prints of Shell Effects. [n.d., c.1877.] Six very scarce Japanese woodblocks, printed in colours. Each sheet c. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"), laid on card in pairs, with a typed English title label (as above). A little wear. Six rare Japanese Ukiyo-e prints promoting shell-effect fireworks by Hirayama Jinta (1840-1900), each titled in Japanese. In 1877 Hirayama Jinta founded a firework manufactory famous for its innovations in bringing new colours to Japanese fireworks. He exported fireworks to Britain, where they were marketed by Brocks, who offered versions of these prints numbered to refer to a price list. In 1883, Hirayama Jinta became the first Japanese to earn a patent from America as a fireworks expert. The Japanese titles suggest these were issued for the Japanese market but acquired by a Briton, perhaps at the first public display of Hirayama Jinta's products (see ref 57178). An exp...

 Our Science catalogue: Astronomy, Science, Natural Phenomena including space, railways, canals, aerial ships, planes, the weather, balloons, caves, ancient rock formations, landslips, fossils. Will be out 15th October .   Most of the astronomy items come from the collection of our friend and old restorer Gerald Morris, sadly no longer with us and the collection of David Smith forms the core of Railways, Steam Ships and engineering in this new listing. David was a good customer of ours and others for over 40 years. We will be exhibiting at Firsts London at the Saatchi Gallery 21-24 October 2021. Click here for a free E-ticket.    

 Is a beloved Professor retiring? A long-standing lecturer leaving? Or do you just want to show your teacher some appreciation after a long school year? Check out some great gift ideas below!   Prints of  specific schools  Eton College from the River Thames.] David Law [pencil signature; 'D Law' etched in image.] [British, n.d., c.1885.] Drypoint etching on india paper, artist's presentation proof with his personal dedication in pencil lower right (dedicatee unclear). 250 x 355mm, 9¾ x 14". Remarque of books with lamp and ink pot to lower margin. A very fine impression with full margins, mint. Artist's signature in lower right. Inscribed 'Private proof' in pencil lower left. David Law (1831 - 1901), etcher and landscape painter, born in Edinburgh; moved to London in 1850s, one of the founders of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers, Engravers in 1881. Died in Sussex. ...

  Jacob Bates. The Famous English Horse Rider. Der berhumte Englishe Berieter Jacob Bates. Jeaque Bates Fameux Piquer anglois. G. P. Nusbeigel, ad viv. del et sculpsit. Norib 1766. Extremely scarce engraving, 18th century watermark. 375 x 480mm (14¾ x 19"). Engraver's text weakly inked, margin notched lower left, slight creasing in right margin. Small margins. Jacob Bates, an eighteenth century English equestrian performer, was one of the first showmen to make a mark as an entertainer. Although his emulators (Price, Johnson, Balp, Coningham, Faulkes, and 'Old' Sampson), had become fixtures of London's pleasure gardens, it does not appear that Bates ever performed in England. Instead he based himself in the German States, but performed as far away as Russia (1764-65) and America (1772-73). This portrait was drawn and engraved in Nuremberg in 1766 by Georg Paul Nusbeigel, showing him standing proudly by his horse, with more portraits of Bates various stunts on one,...

  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...