Grosvenor Prints

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

In the week of Margaret Thatcher's death, a selection of portraits of some of her predecessors as Prime Minister: Sir Robert Walpole [not technically Prime Minister but generally regarded as having held the post de facto 1721-42]:  Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford. Prime Minister to King George the First, & King George the Second. In the Blue Damask Bed Chamber at Houghton. Vanloo pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit. Published Jan.y 1.st 1788, by John & Josiah Boydell, No.90, Cheapside, London. Mezzotint, very fine with small margins. Plate 502 x 349mm. 19¾ x 13¾". NPG: D39367. Goodwin: 131. CS: 149. [Ref: 27338]   £480 Henry Pelham (1743-54):   The Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and John Roberts Esq.r. J.Shackleton Pinx.t R.Houston fecit. Printed and Sold by Jos. Edmondson, at his House in Warwick Street, Golden Square, St James's. [n.d., c.1752.] Mezzotint. 395 x...