Grosvenor Prints

Windsor conceived as a stage design, the artistic education of a young aristocrat, and reflections on the Thames Embankment in a selection of prints connected with painter and printmaker Paul Sandby (c.1731-1809). Sandby started out working for the Board of Ordnance as a draughtsman, honing the skills he would subsequently exploit in his prints and watercolours, but aside from his skills as a landscape artist he was also a talented caricaturist. He produced a set of biting satires against Hogarth and also a set of London Cries which avoid the generic sentiment so often found in such subjects. The following two prints also show Sandby's skill as a caricaturist: The Well Fed English Constable. P.Sandby Invt. MDarly sc. Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. Octr. 1st: 1771 by MDarly Engraver No.39 Strand. Etching, 350 x 250mm. 13¾ x 9¾". Some offsetting. A watchman in profile patting his enormous belly, holding his staff, two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in h...

A list of prints which include maps, plans, globes or charts as decorative elements or for their value as symbols: A map of Mildmay Fane with a map behind him which shows the area between his estate at Apethorpe (at the bottom) and Hull (at the top):   The Efiges of the right Honnorable Mildmay Earl of Westmorland Baron LeDespencer & Burghersh and Knight of the Bath etc. JBN Invent [intials in the form of a monogram]. P. Williamson Sculp. 1662. Engraving, with large margins. Plate 260 x 203mm. 10¼ x 8". Portrait of Mildmay Fane, half length in an oval wreath, short beard and moustache, wearing cap, collar and sash; curtain to the left, and map of part of Lincolnshire on the right. Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, (1602-1665) was an English nobleman, politician and writer. Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. NPG: D8277. [Ref: 24082]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT) ...

To coincide with Radio 3's Baroque Spring season and the series of programmes on Baroque in Britain on Radio 4, a list of prints highlighting some of the great names and achievements of this style and period: King Charles I played a key role in bringing continental artists to Europe. During his reign the likes of Rubens and Orazio Gentileschi spent time in London executing major commissions. This engraving was made from van Dyck's famous 'triple portrait' of Charles (now in the Royal Collection), itself executed to send to Italy as the basis for a marble bust of Charles by another great baroque artist, Bernini: Charles The First, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. Antonius Vandyck Eques pinxit. Aug.t 12.th 1817. W. Sharp, Member of the Imperial & Royal Academy of Vienna, sculpsit. London: Pub.d 1.st Feb.y, 1815 for the Select Work of Celebrated Portraits and Illustrious Characters, after Pictures of the Great Masters of the various Schools...

  The Foundling Hospital was established in London by the sea captain Thomas Coram, who had been 'shocked by the sight of infants exposed in the streets, abandoned by their parents, 'left to die on dung hills''. Coram's portrait was painted by his friend William Hogarth and presented to the hospital: Catn. Thos. Coram who after 17 Years unwearied application, obtained the Charter of the Foundling Hospital, To the Governors & Guardians of the Hospital, this Print is humbly dedicated by their obedient humble Servt. R. Cribb. W. Hogarth Pinxt. W. Nutter sculpt. London, Published Dec. 1. 1796, by R. Cribb, No.288 Holborn. Stipple, 580 x 405mm. 22¾ x 16". Light foxing, mostly marginal. One tear to lower margin. [Ref: 11732]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT) A founding Governor of the hospital was the barrister John Milner, who had a major influence on the development of the hospital. His portrait was painted by Thomas Huds...