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: [Untitled self-portrait of Ellis Martin.] Ellis Martin 1907. Watercolour, signed. 230 x 180mm (9 x 7") Mint A head and shoulders self-portrait of Ellis Martin (1881-1977), famed for his illustrated covers for Ordnance Survey maps, 1921-40. [Ref: 66855 ]   £650.00      We are pleased to present our autumn listing: Catalogue 148!   It contains just over 460 items including the following subjects: India Satire British Portraits Foreign Portraits Mezzotint Portraits Decorative Items Decorative Mezzotints Views Overseas Views UK Natural History Sports and Pastimes Military Naval Science Americana   A few highlights:   [India] [15 plates from ''Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being the Journal of a Tour in India''.] [Captain Godfrey Munday] London. Published by John Murray, April 1832. ...

Cover image: [Dr Mizer of Manchester.] [n.d., c.1780.] Rare mezzotint, proof before title, printed in brown. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease An oval portrait of a blind man, wearing dark spectacles, queue wig and cravat, identified by the BM as 'Dr Mizer of Manchester'. BM: 1874,1010.16, their example trimmed to oval. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. [Ref: 66212 ]   £320.00       We are pleased to present our summer listing: Catalogue 147!   It contains just under 480 items including the following subjects: India Portraits Satire Mezzotint Portraits Decorative Items Views Overseas Views UK Natural History Books Sports and Pastimes Military Naval Music Maps Napoleon   A few highlights:   [Francis Rawdon Hastings] Right Hon.ble Earl of Moira. ...

  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...

  Cover image: [Charles Edward Stuart.] Routed, oer Hills the young Adventurer flies, / And in a cottage sinks to this Disguise. / Fled his gay Hopes, defeated his fond Scheme, / His throne is vanish'd like a golden Dream. / By manly Thoughts He'd charm His Woes to rest: / In vain! Culloden still distracts His Breast. J. Williams Fecit. Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾"), with large margins. A few faint creases. Bit rubbed. Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-1788), disguised as a woman, three-quarter length in an oval directed to right, looking towards the viewer with head turned to left, holding the frilled edge of a cap in front of him, wearing a lace-trimmed fichu and cap. J. Williams is named on the print as engraver and it is the only known work so inscribed. Sharp: 218. CS: 1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. [R...

    [Caroline of Brunswick] Her Royal Highness Caroline Princess of Wales. Born 17.th May 1768 _ Married to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on Wednesday Evening 8.th April, 1795. Published 25th March 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London. Rare mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, laid on album page. Small margins on 3 sides. Full-length portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, wearing plumed head-dress and full court dress decorated with large ribbons and tasselled bows, in front of an arcade with pillars and a classical urn. Not in Chaloner Smith. [Ref: 64014 ]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)   We are pleased to present our October Offers: Catalogue 140. It contains slightly over 180 items including:   Portraits Mezzotints Decorative Items Views UK View...

Cover image: [George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Joachim Quantz, Christoph Gluck and Niccolò Jommelli.] [n.d., c.1780.] £1350 Stock Ref: 62576   We are pleased to present our latest summer listing: Catalogue 138. It contains slightly over 200 items including: Music Portraits Mezzotints Decorative Items Views UK Views Overseas Americana Ephemera Science Napoleonic Items Military Naval Satire Sports and Pastimes Natural History.  A couple of highlights:   S.t James's Park. [&] A Tea Garden. Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by F.D. Soirson. London Publish'd Jan.y 1790, by T. Gaugain, N.º 9 Manor Street, Chelsea. £1100 Stock Ref: 63332   [Five plates from Nieuhof] Nanking. [&] Kanton. [&] [Porcelain Tower, Nanjing.] [&] Peking. [&] Prospect of the Inner Court of the Emperours Palace at Pekin. [1 & 2 by Francis Place, 3-6 by Wenceslaus Hollar] [London: John Ogilby, 1673.] £900 Stock Ref: 63516   View the ...

As you are hopefully all aware by now; we are exhibiting at the ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair 3rd & 4th November. You can download a free e-ticket for the Friday here or you can pick up a physical one from our shop. If you would like one posted to you let us know ASAP! Please contact us if there is anything you would like us to bring to the fair!   Cover image: A View from Richmond Hill. Drawn by W. Havell. Engraved by R. Havell. Published March 1. 1815, for the Proprietors by Mess.rs Colnaghi & Co. No 23 Cockspur Street. London. Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. 275 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"), large margins. Trimmed to plate. Old ink mss. in title area. A view from Richmond Hill, looking down to across Petersham Meadows to Ham, St Margarets and Twickenham. Wick House, built for Sir Joshua Reynolds can be seen on the right. Gascoigne 78. [Ref: 61669 ]   £500.00...

   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...