Grosvenor Prints

  This is “London’s Book Fair week” and we have pleasure in issuing Cat101.  An exciting collection of portraits , topography, ephemera and decorative items   including a good selection of prints after Mortimer. A few highlights:   Vaisseau du troisiême rang a la Voille. Twee Decks Schip vande derde Rang. a Amsterdam Chez Gerard Valk Avec Privil. [n.d., c.1720.] £520 Stock Ref: 54058 Fore more ships click here [The Battle of Anghiari.] L. d'la finse [Leonardo da Vinci], pin. G. Edelinck Sc. [n.d, 1660.] £360 Stock Ref: 53906 To see more battle scenes and military prints click here Vue de la Ville d'Orleans. Desinnée par AT Desfriches Negociant a Orléans en 1761. Gravé par PP Choffard en 1766. £650 Stock Ref: 54043 For more overseas views click here The Yellow Doors will hopefully open on June 15th subject to Government approval. Under Covid-19 rules, we will be operating by appointment only, with reduce...

The Houghton Revisited exhibition currently taking place at Houghton Hall in Norfolk provides the opportunity to see some of Robert Walpole's collection displayed in its original setting for the first time since Walpole's famous collection was sold to Catherine the Great of Russia in 1779. Like several other famous collections, the paintings in the Houghton collection were engraved and published, in an ambitious project organized by the Georgian print world's 'Commercial Maecenas' John Boydell, with the result that even after the paintings had left for Russia, they continued to exert great influence on British artists and connoisseurs in engraved form. Here we show a selection of engravings from paintings in the Walpole collection: This full-length portrait of Robert Walpole hung in his 'blue damask bed chamber', although like several of the prints in this list it is not part of the Houghton exhibition: Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford....