Grosvenor Prints 19 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9JN Tel: 020 7836 1979 Fax: 020 7379 6695 E-mail: [email protected] www.grosvenorprints.com Dealers in Antique Prints & Books Catalogue 67 Agge of Revolution: A War of Propaganda through the Printed Image 1600-1720 Item 182: The Prospect of The Royal Army As it was Encamped on Hounnslow Heath 1686. A collection of over 400 Dutch, English andd French 17th & 18th century views, battle scenes, historical events, poortraits and satirical prints All items listed are illustrated on our web site: www.grosvenorprints.com Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Villlage, Station Roaad, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Elliis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. [Royyal Coat of Arms] Carolo Dei Gratia Wood-engraving, sheet approx 410 x 190mm (16 x Fidei Defensori Anno Restaurato DDD 7½"). Sheet repaired along ceentral tear. £320 CLVIIIII Advertisement giving advance notice of the sale of a R. Gaywood fecit [1660] plleasure-boat in Amsterdam,, giving detailed Etching, sheet 255 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Text and tomb specifications of the vessel. of Charles I verso. £230 Stock: 42813 Illustration from 'The Sphere of Gentry' (1661) by the herald-painteer Sylvanus Morgan. Although not credited here, the painter and etcher Francis Barlow (d.1704) iis known to have worked on designs for the book's illustrations. British Museum cataloguing states that Barlow's hand is visible in the rendering of the lion and unicorn in this print. Stock: 42828 2. [Swords of Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Fairfax and John Lambert, each striking relevant document; with facsimile of 1821 text by Walter Fawkes] Cause and Efffect 1626- 1648. Aquatint with hand-colouring, very scarce; sheet 295 x 475mm (11½ x 18½"). Folded in half as issued. Private plate. £420 Trompe l'oeil depiction of the swords of Cromwell, Fairfax and Lambert at Farnley Hall, each striking relevant documents. Besides it is an explanatory text written by Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes (1769-1825), politician and art collector. One of Fawkes' closest friends was J.M.W. Turner, who often visited Fawkes at Farnley Hall (which he inherited in 1792). Fawkes was a notable collector of 5. England's Black Tribunal; or the Royal Turner's work, and Turner painted a series of gouachees Martyrs Being the Characters of King Charles around Farnley, depicting shooting parties, expeditions and domestic scenes. This print was made after a the First, And the Nobiliity that Suffered for design by Turner and issued as a private plate. Him [...] Rawlinson 826a ('The drawing is at Farnley Hall, annd London: Cut, Printed, Painteed, and Sold by William the Engraving was made for the Fawkes family'). and Cluer Dicey, in Bow Church Yard, Sold also by Stock: 42833 them at their Wholesale Warrehouse in Northampton [c.1740] 3. The Achievement of our Soveraigne King Woodcut, scarce; sheet 570 x 450mm (22½ x 17½"). James as he nowe beareth With the Armes off Repaired tears, losses, damaged; glued to album sheet and folded through centre. £850 the Severall kings that have aunciently raigned Large popular broadside commemorating Charles I and within his nowe Dominions other executed royalists. Jodocus Hondius Flander coelavit Anno Domini 16111. William Dicey and his son Cluer took over the Bow Engraving, sheet 375 x 235mm (14¾ x 9¼"). Trimmed Churchyard premises from William's brother, John and glued to backing sheet at edges. £260 Dicey, in 1736. William's other son, Robert, ran the The Royal Arms at the time of James I, with border Northampton office. Not listed in ESTC with this comprising the arms of the different kingdoms he publication line. reigned over. It was engraved by Jodocus Hondius as a Stock: 42832 frontispiece for John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain', his county atlas, first published 1611-12. 6. An Exact List of All the Bubbles. 1. Sir Stock: 42622 Richard Sc__l's Fish pool. 2. Garraway's Fishery. 3. Robin's Dittoo for Gudgeons [...] 4. [Advertisement for sale of a pleasure- London: Printed by J. Lightbody in Black and White boat] Een Extraordinary en meer als gemeen Court in the Great Old Bayley [c.1721] Welbezeyld Speel-Jagt, Te Koop tot Letterpress broadside, scarce, sheet 415 x 280mm (16¼ Amsterdam. Op Mandagh zynde den 16 Juny, x 11"). Folded and glued to backing sheet, with a 1732, s'Avonds ten 6 uuren precys [...] second, smaller broadside off the same title, published t'Amsterdam, by Cornelis van der Stolk, byy J. Parry, pasted verso. £650 Boekverkooper op 't Water, by de Nieuwe Brug, in de List of investment schemes innspired by the South Sea Delftse Bybel. Company, whose share value rose rapidly before collapsing in the famous 'South Sea Bubble'. The text of this broadside was reproduced in the novelist Sir peerspective. Two copies listed in ESTC (both British Walter Scott's 'A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Library). Tracts' (13 vols, 1809-15), which dates it to 1721. Stock: 42570 Scott wrote 'the following extraordinary list, though decorated with the names of Steele and De Foe, 9. A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish contains striking instances of the madness of the Popish Plot. To the Tune of Packington's period'. The list includes 'Daniel de Foe's Employing of Pound. Weavers' and 'Sir Richard S---l's Fish pool'. The Fish [Matthew Turner, 1682] Pool was an uunsuccessful scheme which the writer and Two engravings, each approx. 295 x 415mm (11½ x politician Sir Richard Steele (bap.1672-d.1729) 16¼") and two sheets of letterpress, scarce, each became involved in in around 1716, which sought to approx. 230 x 395mm (9 x 155½"). Letterpress and deliver live fish to the London market. Not in ESTC. images cut out separately (orriginally printed together Stock: 42583 as two large broadsides). £750 Satirical narrative recounting the 'Popish Plot' concocted between 1678 and 1681 by Titus Oates, alleging a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and his brother James, duke oof York, and trigger an insurrection. BM Satires 1092 & 1093 Stock: 42600 10. [Als from Edward Nicholas to Montagu Bertie, Baron Willoughby de Eresby.] Whitehall 11 May 1640. 1pp. als in ink, folded with wax seal, addressed in the same hand, scarce. Later ink mss. description. £850 A manuscript letter from Sir Edward Nicholas (1593- 1669) at the time a clerk in ordinary to Charles I's Privy Council. As one of Chaarles's most trusted advisors he helped negotiate the Treaty of Uxbridge (1645), Charles's surrender to the Scots and the Surrender of Oxford (both 1646). He continued to serve Charles II in exile, beccooming secretary of state in 1654, a role he kept after thee Restoration. The letter is written to Montagu Bertie (1608-66), the year he became Baron Willouughby de Eresby, probably for raising 'The King's Life Guard of Foot' for service 7. A Copy of a List of all the Cavalliers, and in the First Bishops' War of 11639. He fought at the brave Commanders of His Majesties Marching First Battle of Newbury, Cropredy Bridge, Lostwithiel, Army, with the number of Captaines, in each Second Battle of Newbury and was wounded at severall Regiment, and every Regiment Naseby. At the Restoration he officiated as Lord Great containing about a thou'and Solderis [...] Chamberlain at the coronation of Charles II on 23 London Printed for Francis Wright. 1642. April 1661. Letterpress, scarce; sheet 330 x 215mm (13 x 8½"). Stock: 42120 Glued to baccking sheet. Trimmed at edges. £490 List of royalist commanders at the outset of the English 11. [Triumphal Arch erected for William III Civil War (1642-50). ESTC lists six copies in British in the Hague] Arc de Triomphe dans l'Avant and American institutions. Cour, erige pour sa Majesté Britannique, 1691 Stock: 42841 [parallel text in Dutch] J. V. D. Avele fec. Apud Carrolum Allard cum Priv. 8. [Letter containing prophecies relating to ord. Holl et Westvrisiae. Charles III of Spain, the Russian Czar, the Etching, 17th century watermark; sheet 250 x 295mm duke of Savoy, and the kings of Poland and (9¾ x 11½"). Tipped into album sheet; central fold. Sweden] Sir, You desire me to send you an Trimmed to border. £260 Account of all memorable Transactions in our Huge triumphal arch erectedd in the Hague on the part of the World [...] occasion of William III's visiit in 1691 (the first time he had returned to the Netherlands since being crowned London: Printed for J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall 1704. king of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1688). The Rare letterpress. Sheet 305 x 190mm (12 x 7½"). £350 arch was one of a series which channelled the Text of a letter written at the Hague, signed J.M., prrocession towards the townn hall. purporting to quote from a set of prophecies in Latin Plate from a Dutch publication comprising twenty 'Discovered this Summer in an Abbey in Germany'. pllates depicting key episodes from the Glorious The broadside is probably a piece of Jacobite Revolution. propaganda making 'prophecies' about the destiny of Stock: 42804 European countries and rulers from a Jacobite royal hunting lodge of Het Loo; the same year he beecame a Doctor of Law at Harderwijk University; he designed ceiling paintings for municipal buildings and church windows; and he wrote several political and historical treatises. Landwehr 159 ii/iii Stock: 42823 14. Thomas Armstrong Binnen Londen, gehangen en gevierendeelt. J.L. [c.1690] Etching, rare, sheet 185 x 135mm (7¼ x 5¼"). Glued to backing sheet.