Grosvenor Prints Catalogue 100
Grosvenor Prints Catalogue 100
Grosvenor Prints Catalogue 100
Catalogue 100
23. Amberley & Houghton Almanack. 1885. 26. [For the Benefit of Mr Salpietro.]
Printed by Bemrose & Sons, 23 Old Bailey, London; [F. Bartolozzi inv: et sculp. 1773]
and Derby. Very fine stipple with etching, proof before letters,
Wood engraving and letterpress, printed in black and printed in brown. 140 x 180mm (5½ x 7"), with very
red. Sheet 760 x 500mm (30 x 19¾"). Some large margins. £520
restoration, laid on archival paper. £280 Three putti on clouds decorated with laurel branches,
A religious broadsheet, tailored for use in Amberley & holding music scores.
Houghton, near Arundel in West Sussex. Around a The design was first used as a billhead for the benefit
wood engraving illustrating a scene from Exodus, are of the Italian violinist Giovanni Salpietro, who came to
various notes about local customs and rules, for London with his wife (a singer) c.1779. He was
example what days baptisms are held and Post Office portrayed in 'A Sunday Concert at Dr Burney's',
regulations. Underneath is a calendar, with days engraved by Bretherton after C.L. Smith.
marked with a biblical quotation. Later it was used as the trade card of William
Stock: 53999
Humphrey, brother of Hannah Humphrey, James
Gillray's publisher and partner. De Vesme 1939, state i
24. Royal Assent to the Bill for the Repeal of of iv.
the Sacramental Test. May 9th 1828. Stock: 53404
Commemoration Dinner at the Freemason's
Hall, Wednesday June 18th 1828, his Royal 27. History of England.
Highness the Duke of Sussex in the Chair, W.m Publish'd Oc.bre 29 1771 by J. Farrell Printer , at No 7
Smith Esq.r M.P. Deputy Chairman. PaterNosterRow Cheapside London.
[1828] Engraving with old ink mms. Sheet 440 x 355mm
Engraving with letterpress, signed at bottom Rob (17¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, folds split with
Winter No 53. Sheet 440 x 300mm (17¼ x 11¾"). Laid loss, repaired tears, bottom left corner ripped off but
on album paper, glue stains and browning. £280 present, mounted on card. Damaged. £180
A dinner celebrating the repeal of the requirement that A writing sheet with six scenes from Collier's 'History
governmental officials take communion in the Church of England' and a maritime scene.
of England, a step towards the Catholic Relief Act of Stock: 55060
1829.
Stock: 54938 28. Venatio.
Joan: Stradā. Academic. Fiorentin. figurauit. Raphael
25. For the Benefit of Mr Giardini. Sadeler scalp. et excud. [Venice, c.1579.]
G.B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp 1778. Engraving. Sheet 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"). Trimmed
Etching and engraving. Sheet 135 x 115mm (5¼ x into plate top right, affecting title. Creasing. £380
4½"), with large margins. £230 'The Hunt'. The goddess Diana sits under a tree, a
Venus Anadyomene naked and seated on a conch shell, falcon in her left hand, surrounded by hunting
accompanied by Cupid (drawing his bow), with other equipment, including bows, crossbows, an arquebus
cherubs holding a torch and the drapery around Venus. (musket), fishing nets and hunting dogs. In the
Felice Giardini (1716 - 1796), an Italian composer and background riders are chasing deer and boars,
violinist, came to London in 1751, where he was crossbowmen are shooting birds and fishermen are
highly successful as a performer and society music using nets and line. Tennis racket on ground. Very
teacher. For many years he served as the concertmaster early real tennis image.
and director of the Italian Opera and gave solo concerts From the series 'Schema, Seu Speculum Principum'.
under the auspices of close friend Johann Christian BM: 1874,0110.447.
Bach (son of Johann Sebastian). He remained in Stock: 54794
29. [Landscape with Abraham and Isaac]. A Finely hand coloured etching. Sheet 535 x 410mm (21
Sua Eccellenza Il Sig.re Guiseppe Maria De x 16¼"), on card, as issued. Dusty. £350
Gerando. Barone dell' Impero, Referendario, A scarce and decorative view of the coronation
Segretario Genereale del Ministro dell' ceremony with 12 numbers depicting the orders.
Whitman: 798; this state with key below not seen by
Interno, Membro del Instituto e della Legione
Whitman.
d'onore. Pietro Parboni D. D. D. Stock: 55055
Gasparo Pussino dipinse. Pietro Parboni incise. Nicola
de Antoni impresse. [Rome, n.d. c.1810-1815].
Engraving. 490 x 610mm (19¼ x 24"), with large
margins. Crease in bottom left corner. £350
A pastoral landscape with for figures; in the right hand
of the foreground Abraham and Isaac walk up the path
carrying kindling. Beyond, in the centre, are two seated
figures with a donkey. After 'Landscape with Abraham
and Isaac' (1665) by Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675), a
student of Poussin. Dughet's successful career as a
landscape artist saw him become one of the best known
painters in Rome, alonside Poussin and Claude
Lorrain. From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
Stock: 55089
James Walker.
Engraver to her Imperial Majesty and Member of the 41. [The Sorrows of the Young Werter]
Imperial Academy of Arts St. Petersburg. July 1st 1789 Charlotte. The Shade of my Mother hovers
published by James Walker St. Petersburg and John round me, when in a still evening I sit in the
Dean London. midst of her Children, I wish that she could
Very rare mezzotint. 505 x 695mm (20 x 27¼") large look down upon us, and see that I fulfil the
margins. A few small markings. Repaired tear made up promise I made her to be a Mother to them.
in top right margin. £650 Sorrows of Werter. To the Hon.ble Miss
An interior scene depicting a musical party of men and
women in costume, seated around a table on which lies
Grenville. This Print after an Original
a patterned Turkish carpet. Two women at the left are Drawing by H. Bunbury Esq.r is with the
greatest respect Dedicated by Her most Very fine etching with stipple, proof before title,
obedient humble Servant W. Dickinson. printed in brown. 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), with
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi. large margins. £450
London, Publish'd August 21.st 1783 by W. Dickinson A scene from William Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline':
Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street. Imogen sleeps in her bed while Iachimo leans over her
Etching with stipple. 400 x 361mm (15¾ x 14¼"), with writing a letter suggesting he has seduced her.
large margins. Paper toned. £260 After William Martin (1753 - c.1831), historical
A woman seated in profile to right, holding a painter who was pupil and assistant to Cipriani until
handkerchief on her laps with both hands; a little girl c.1784. De Vesme 1840, state ii of iii.
Stock: 53335
standing next to her, almost in profile to left, putting
both hands on the woman's lap and looking up towards
her; to right, an older girl seated, holding a book open 44. Evelina Surprising M.r Macartney
on her lap with both hands, looking up to the sky; to preparing to load his Pistols.
left, a boy seated, in profile to left, blowing a small N. Colibert Delin.t. Engraved by N. Colibert. London,
trumpet. Publish'd March 20th 1786 by W. Dickinson Engraver
A scene from 'Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The & Printseller No.158 Bond Street.
Sorrows of the Young Werter)' by Johann Wolfgang Stipple. 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6¾"), watermarked
von Goethe (1749 - 1832). De Vesme: 1415. '178[?]', with large margins. £190
Stock: 55054 The heroine of Fanny Burney's 'Evelina' stops the
impoverished Scottish poet from loading his pistols,
she believes to commit suicide. He later admits that he
had been unable to decide between that and armed
robbery.
First published 1778, 'Evelina' is a significant precursor
to the romanticism of Jane Austen.
Stock: 54745
Dundas.
Painted by C.W. Pegler. Engraved by C. Turner, 135. [George Alsop] This but the shade of him
A.R.A. [London, Published March 8, 1832, by Mr. adorn'd in White...
Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.] W. Sherwin fecit. [London: R. Reynolds, 1669.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 420 x 330mm (16½ x 13"). Trimmed Rare engraving. Sheet 110 x 80mm (4¼ x 3¼").
within plate, losing publication line. £260 Trimmed to image, notch in bottom edge. £260
A group portrait of Lawrence Dundas (1766-1839), 1st Portrait of George Alsop, the frontispiece of his ''An
Earl of Zetland, with his wife one of his sons, John Orthodox Plea for the Sanctuary of God, Common
Charles Dundas (1808 –1866). Whitman: 2, II. NPG: Service, and White Robe of the House''. This was a
D7147. polemic in support of church worship. While he does
Stock: 55067 not mention any nonconformist sects by name, he
condemns 'wretches' who claim to have 'a quickening
132. The R.t Hon.ble William Pitt, Late spirit within them that informs them of all things',
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Engraved from apparently a reference to the Quaker 'inner light'.
the Original Picture in the Possession of S.r Alsop was ordained deacon by Henry King, Bishop of
Chichester c.1666, then priest in 1669.
Brook Watson, Bar.t. Stock: 54812
Painted by Gainsborough Dupont, 1792. Engraved by
Richard Earlom. Published by Boydell & Co. Aug.t 1.
1806, No. 90 Cheapside, London.
Mezzotint. 515 x 350mm (20½ x 13¾"). Framed. £360
136. [Leonard of Port Maurice]. Pio Sexto Seated portrait of Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) (1640-
Pont. Max Quod Beatorum Caelitum fastis 1709), mistress of Charles II during the 1660s. In 1670
adscripserit Leonardum a Portu Maurito... Charles made her Duchess of Cleveland, giving her
Joan Emili scul. 1797. Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace. In 1683 she had the
Engraving. 600 x 365mm (23½ x 14½"), with large palace pulled down to sell the building materials to pay
margins. £230 her gambling debts. CS 5, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The
A scene of Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (1675-1751), Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
Stock: 54650
a Franciscan missionary, preaching in Corsica. This
print was published the year after Pope Pius VI
pronounced his beatification in 1796; he was canonised
by Pius IX in 1867. From the Berkeley Collection,
Spetchley Park.
Stock: 54979
163. [Eleven silk place mats, each with a G. MacGregor (wicket keeper for Middlesex). All but
hand-painted portrait of a cricketer from the Radcliffe also played for England.
collection of the MCC.] These mats were Lot 636 in the MCC sale in 1987 and
[n.d., c.1893.] were purchased by Michael Pearce for £605, who had
Eleven silk mats, 170mm (6¾") in diameter, plus them restored by a V&A specialist and framed. The
fringe. Framed. Unique. Unexamined out of frame. MCC paddle and subsequent paperwork are included.
Stock: 55124
£2200
The cricketers are: A.G. Steel (Lancashire), J.R.
Mason (Kent), W.G. Grace (Gloucestershire & London
County), C.B. Fry (Sussex & Hampshire), Martin
Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (Yorkshire), O.G.
Radcliffe (bowler for Gloucestershire & Somerset),
A.E. Stoddart (Middlesex), W.W. Read (Surrey), A.C.
McLaren (Lancashire), F.S. Jackson (Yorkshire) and
164. [Japanese Golf Satires] The Golf of 167. Eileen Bennett
Rokkosan. ''Me to the Mountain Tops''. [&] Helen Wills [pencil signature]. [n.d. c.1930s].
The Golf of Yokoya. ''The Soup-plater's Etching signed by artist. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"), with
Dream, or Ye Flyers of the Flat''. large margins, in original mount. £260
H.E.D. 04. [& 05]. [Japan?, 1904 & 1905?] Portrait of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis.
Pair of chromlithographs. Each sheet c. 180 x 690mm Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand
(8 x 27"). £690 Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the
Extremely scarce golfing images. Two satires, each French and US Championships and lost on two
with six anthropomophic golf balls illustrating quotes occasions to Helen Wills. Etching by Helen Wills
from golf enthusiats including Rudyard Kipling. One (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her
sits under a road sign marked 'The Golf of Japan'. paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
Stock: 54853
Although all the text is in English the style of the
drawing and calligraphy has a Japanese influence.
Stock: 54707 168. [Eileen Bennett].
Helen Wills [pencil signature]. [n.d. c.1930s].
Etching, proof, signed by artist. 175 x 140mm (7 x
5½"), with very large margins. Holes in margins where
previously bound. £350
Portrait of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis.
Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand
Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the
French and US Championships and lost on two
occasions to Helen Wills. Etching by Helen Wills
(1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her
paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
Stock: 54851