Grosvenor Prints

    Cover image : [Mrs Jordan] Lubber's-hole, -alias- The Crack'd Jordan. [Ref: 54605 ]  For more royal satire click here   In these ever changing times, we have pleasure in offering our customers and friends a new listing of over 300 images of satire. Notable artists include Gillray , Cruikshank , Bunbury , Darly , Davison , Woodward , Hogarth and both the Heath 's, William and Henry . From 18th century onwards satirical images were a way of bringing scandal and amusement to the general public on a daily basis - nothing has changed! We hope you enjoy the content.   We are still open in a very empty central London, but by appointment only. We look forward to seeing you in Covent Garden.   Our long awaited special Catalogue 100 will be online from November 18th, 2020. Happy browsing and keep healthy,   Nigel, Henrietta, Sasha and Jenny . Browse the full catalogue here or on issu here A few highlights:     ...

Gracing the front cover of Antonia Fraser's new book Perilous Question: the Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 is a reproduction of HB's 1832 lithograph New Reform Coach , a Tory view of the consequences of the bill, in which the 2nd Earl Grey negligently drives the 'Reform' coach while William IV anxiously looks from the window: New Reform Coach. HB Sketches No 207, published June 1832 Lithograph, sheet 31 x 45cm Staining to edges. £90 + VAT

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...