Grosvenor Prints

   Cover image: This Print representing M.r John Goldham, field Adjutant of the London Volunteer Cavalry, executing the six Divisions of the Austrian Broad Sword Exercise at speed, with a Sab re in each hand, and with the utmost effect and precision, Is Dedicated to Lieut. Col.l Anderton, and the other Officers & Members of the Regiment, by their most obedient and very humble Serv.t Dean Wolstenholme. Painted by D. Wolsteholme. Engraved by S.W. Reynolds. Published Feb.y 1, 1806 by Mess.rs Colnaghi & C.º Cockspur Street, London. £480 Stock Ref: 68209     Our newest listing contains just over 360 items, including the following subjects: Satire Portraits Mezzotint Portraits including some after Reynolds Decorative Items Decorative Mezzotints Views Overseas Views UK Natural History Sports and Pastimes Military Naval Science Americana Religious Music, Dance & Opera     A few highlights:   [Sir Sidney Smith.]  £850 Stock Ref: 68216 ...

  Cover image: Robert Burns. Born MDCCLIX. Died MDCCXCVI. RB Parkes [pencil signature] [after Alexander Naysmyth.] London, Published June 5.th 1888, by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East. Mezzotint, printed on chine collé, limited edition of 150 signed by the engraver, PSA blindstamp. 515 x 410mm (20¼ x 16¼"), with large margins.  Alexander Nasmyth's famous portrait, which was painted so that it could be engraved for the 1787 second edition of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'. His oil is now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (PG 1063). Engraved by Robert Bowyer Parkes (1830-1904)   Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. PSA p.42.  [Ref: 66396 ]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)    We hope you had a refreshing holiday season. Welcome to our first listing of 2026!   Catalogue 151 contains just over 350 items, including the following subjects: Satire Portraits Mezzotint Portrai...

 Cover image: The Children of their Royal Highnesses Frederick & Augusta, Prince & Princess of Wales. Prince William Born 14 Nov.r 1743. Prince George Born 24 May 1738. Prince Edward Born 14 March 1738/9. Du Pan Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit. Printed for John Bowles at N.º 13 in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, at N.º 69 in St Paul's Church Yard. Mezzotint, fine & scarce impression. Sheet 355 x 500mm (14 x 19¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into plate at bottom, very slight staining at bottom. A group portait in a garden, with: George (later George III) firing an arrow at a popinjay; Edward (Duke of York & Albany), holding a gun; William Henry (Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh), still in skirts, holding a garland of flowers; Elizabeth in a small carriage drawn by a dog; and Augusta holding the baby Henry. CS 147, state iii of iii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. [Ref: 67545 ]   £480.00   We dedicate this final listing of 2...

  Cover image:  [A youth with a cricket bat.] Drawn & Engraved by T. Gaugain. Published Han.y 18, 1809, by E.d Orme, London. Etching. Framed, sight size 380 x 310mm (15 x 12¼"). Some spotting and staining, unexamined out of frame. A half-length portrait of a boy wearing a white shirt and waistcoat, a cricket bat resting on his shoulder. A very decorative image. See [Ref: 67293 ] for a drawing. [Ref: 67068 ]   £650.00   We are pleased to present our listing for the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair: Catalogue 149! It contains just under 450 items, including the following subjects: India Satire Portraits Mezzotint Portraits Decorative Items Views Overseas Views UK Natural History Sports and Pastimes Cricket Military Naval Science Americana Music      A few highlights:   [Six Studies from Nature of Mountainous, Marine, & Rural Scenery.] Holywell Mill, O...

  T. E. Lawrence, 1928 [pencil]. [WITH STEEL PRINTING PLATE.] Henry Rayner. £990 Stock Ref: 66081 For more Frames click here.     We are pleased to present another small listing: Catalogue 146!   It contains just over 50 items including the following subjects: India Portraits Portraits Satire View the whole catalogue here Happy browsing!    A few highlights:   William Fairlie Esq.re. Engraved from a Picture of M.A. Shee by John Young, Engraver to H.R.H. the Prince Regent. 1817. Rare mezzotint. 660 x 390mm (26 x 15¼"). Creasing. Small margins. A full length portrait of Scottish merchant William Fairlie (1754-1825), known as the 'Prince of Indian Merchants', a highly successful merchant in Bengal, independent of the East India Company. Fairlie Place in Calcutta is named after him. Shee's oil was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816, no. 142. CS 22 i of ii.. Ex: Collec...

    Mr. John Jackson. From an original Picture in the posession of Sir Henry Smyth Bart. Painted by B.Marshall. Engraved by Charles Turner. London Published May 19 1810, by C.Turner No.50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square. Mezzotint. 640 x 450mm (25¼ x 17¾"), with large margins. Central crease and repaired tears. Title area bit messy top left. Damaged. Full length portrait of the pugilist known as Gentleman Jackson (1769-1845), standing to front in a gallery beside a sculpture of a boxer, holding a top hat with his right hand on the pedestal, pictures of a fight between two boxers hangs on the wall, English champion 1793-1803. A very rare large boxing image. Whitman: 277. [Ref: 65936 ]   £1,800.00     We're participating in  Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery 15th-18th May . You can download a complimentary ticket for the 16th ...

  Cover: [Nicholas Largilliere & family.] N. de Largilliere Pinx. I.Beckett fe. I. Smith ex. [n.d., c.1686.] Mezzotint. 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate, crease in top right corner. Largilliere's portrait of himself and his family in an ornamental garden with statuary including a female nude and a fountain of a cherub riding on a dophin. He stands, leaning against a pedestal, looking down on his wife, who is seated with two small children, to whom she feeds grapes and other fruit. Also depicted are a peacock and a King Charles Spaniel. CS: Beckett 60, state ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. [Ref: 65321 ]   £360.00      We are pleased to present our listing: Catalogue 144: The Birth of Mezzotint! In the mid-17th century, a groundbreaking new form of engraving was introduced in Europe. Dur...

  Cover: Cupid.  C. Vanloo pinx.t. C. Corbutt [Richard Purcell] fecit. London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller; at N,,º 53 in Fleet Street [n.d., c.1765]. Very rare mezzotint with fine hand colour. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere.  Very decorative image, Cupid stands by a rosebush, drawing his bow and aiming at the viewer, his quiver and loose arrows at his feet. A mezzotint copy of an etching, 'L'Amour menaçant' by Christian von Mechel after Carle van Loo, 1764 (BM 1875,1009.356), engraved by Richard Purcell under his pseudonym Charles Corbutt. Lennox-Boyd records it being listed in the catalogues of Sayer in 1766 & Sayer & Bennett in 1775, but we have found no other mention.   Not in CS or BM. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.  [Ref: 65315 ]  We are pleased to present our listing: Catalogue 143. It contains just under 400 items, consisting mostly of wonderful 18th-19t...