Grosvenor Prints

 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 selection of prints relating to the exhibition Doctors, Dissection & Resurrection Men currently at the Museum of London . One of the most famous representations of dissection in art is the final plate from William Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty , in which Hogarth's antagonist Tom Nero gets his comeuppance. The following illustration is from a set of copies of Hogarth's print, published with permission shortly after Hogarth's death: [The four stages of cruelty] Design'd by W.m Hogarth. [London: Robert Sayer, 1767.] Set of four engravings, with large margins. Each 360 x 260mm, 14¼ x 10¼". The progress of Tom Nero from his childhood torturing of a dog to murder, the gallows and the dissection table. After Hogarth's death in 1764 his widow Jane petitioned Parliament for extra copyright and was granted an additional twenty years of exclusivity. However she gave the London publisher Robert Sayer permission to publish 'Le...