Grosvenor Prints

Hot picks for a heatwave ☀️  Catalogue 155 contains just under 320 items, comprising the following subjects: Satire Portraits Mezzotint Portraits Crime & Punishment Decorative Items including prints of Vases and Urns Views Overseas Views UK  including Putney Sports & Pastimes Musicians and Actors Ephemera Natural History and a couple of Books . Highlights include: [Two watercolours of the Sundarbans.] [By Hubert Cornish, unsigned.] [n.d., 1794-5.] £2200 Stock Ref: 68729 For more India click here.   Love & Hope. [&] Love and Jealousy. H. Bunbury Esq.r Delint. C. Knight fecit. London: Published Dec.r 1st 1786 by W. Dickinson, Engraver and Printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street. £690 Stock Ref: 69298    The Overland Alphabet, from Sketches taken ''en route'' by Isabel D_ with 28 Illustrations Coloured. Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lithog.rs 36, Walbrook, London. London. William Tegg & C.º, 85 Queen Street, Cheapside, and Sold by ...

  [''Old Man Wearing Velvet Cap'' or ''Old Man with Spectacles''.] Thos Frye, Pictor, Invenit & Sculpsit [c.1760]. Sold at the Golden Head of Red Lamp, near the Corner of Greville Street in Hatton Garden. Mezzotint, 515 x 365mm (20¼ x 14¼), with small margins. A fine impression of this magnificent image. Light foxing at the bottom, not in image. Very faint crease near left margin in the centre. A man wearing a velvet cap facing the right, his left side profile on show. He holds in his right hand a pair of spectacles. From Thomas Frye's (1710-62) set of mezzotint 17 life-size heads which he published in two series between 1760 and 1762 and for which he is chiefly remembered. Russell believes this could be a self-portrait or another artist that dwelled with Frye, 'Query, a portrait of Thomas Frye. On an impression in Mr. J. Holland's handwriting: "Mr Mellish a painter of shi...

  Cover image: Studies of Fresh Water Fish. Drawn on stone from Nature, and respectfully dedicated (with permission) to S. Gurney, Jun.r, Esq.r, (Carshalton) by his obedient Serv.t. H.y Leonidas Rolfe. 1851. Published by the Artist at his Studio, Shorter's Court, Throgmorton S.t City. Oblong folio, contemporary half morocco gilt, with marbled boards, red morocco gilt title label on front board; lithographed illustrated title pasted on original wrapper; 7 tinted lithographs on thick paper, mounted on stubs, each sheet approx. 355 x 540mm (14 x 21¼"). Binding worn, plates with some surface soiling and spotting, two plates with bottom right corner knocked. The plates are: Pope, Minnow, Perch, Gudgeon; Barbel, Bream, Chub; Eel, Roach, Dace, Bleak; Tench, Carp; Trout; Graylng; Pike. The set of plates by Henry Leonidas Rolfe (1823-81). As the plates were issued loose in wrappers, complete sets are unusual and very scarce...

  Puck. [n.d., c.1860.] Pen & ink sketch on folded letter sheet, side 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"), with printed version; Baskerville vellum wove watermark. Printed version trimmed from booklet cover. A grotesque, winged Puck, sitting on a toadstool. Apparently a preparatory sketch for the cover illustration of 'Virtue's Imperial Shalespeare', a 40-part illustrated series published by Charles Knight, 'with Illustrations by Cope, R.A. Leslie, R.A., Maclise, R.A. E.M. Ward. R.A. W.P. Frith, R.A. H.S. Marks, A.R.A. and others'. [Ref: 57783 ]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)   We are pleased to present our first catalogue of the New Year! This miscellaneous listing of over 290 items contains: Portraits including Mezzotints and Eastern Europeans . Decorative items encompassing trades . Transport such as ballooning . ...

   Cover image: A Tigress. Engraved by John Murphy by Permission of Mr. George Stubbs from the Picture Painted by himself and in his Possession. London, Published July 27, 1798 by J. Murphy, North side Paddington Green. Rare and extremely fine mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24¼"). Framed. Thread margins. Unexamined out of frame. A superb example of the finest images produced in the history of mezzotint, depicting a a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger in Stubbs's possession when he died. The painting had originally been engraved by John Dixon in 1772; however that mezzotint plate had been destroyed, so John Murphy was allowed to engrave a new plate. Lennox-Boyd 133: ii of ii. [Ref: 57221 ]   £12,500.00    Seasons greetings! We have pleasure in sending out our new catalogue, a festive miscellany of over 300 items containing: Portraits including...

    [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.    

  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...