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Grosvenor Prints Tel: 020 7836 1979 19 Shelton Street Fax: 020 7379 6695 Covent Garden [email protected] London WC2H 9JN www.grosvenorprints.com This is an e-catalogue of our Web Catalogue 69, a collection of over 400 antiquarian prints and books, includes a largee selection of satire, sporting prints, portraits, natural history, transport, topography, a few Old Masters and much more. This collection can be browsed with images on ouur web site www.grossvenorprints.com Our forthcoming listings are: 26th April 2017 to coincide with the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy 4th-7th May. 24th May 2017 for the London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olymmpia 1st -3rd June. Cover illustration: Sartorius Hunting, set of fofour Item 382 43277 Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Village, Station Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Ellis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. Designs for Free Churches, Manses and Schools James Raeburn Architect, Edin. Drawn and presented by Rob.t R. Raeburn. Fr. Schenck Lith. Edin.r [1845] Lithograph, printed area approx. 250 x 390mm (9¾ x 15¼"). Creases. £260 Architectural designs promoting the work of Scottish architect James Raeburn (1787-1851) and drawn here by his son Robert Reid Raeburn (1819-88), also an architect. James was principal clerk at the Scottish Office of Works until its abolition in 1839, whereupon he retired to set up his own practice. The Dictionary of Scottish Architects suggests that James' 3 Warriston Place address at the time these designs were published indicates that his practice had not flourished, and this sheet of designs (including churches for Montreal and Banff in Canada) was presumably made in an attempt 4. [A Group of Figurres Representing to generate more business. It also publically indicated Study] the Raeburns' support of the Free Church of Scotland G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt. London Pubd. following the Disruption of 1843. as the Act directs F. Bartolozzi, 1788 Following James' death in 1851, Robert Reid continued Etching printed in sepia, plattemark 240 x 295mm (9½ his father's prractice, living in Edinburgh for the x 11½") very large margins. £180 remainder of his career. A drawing lesson. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi Stock: 43412 (1725-1815), Florentine engrraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting 2. A Room in the House of A.H. Burkitt George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, F.S.A. Clapham, Surry 1851 Antiquarian Dalton invited Bartolozzi to LLondon with a promise of an appointment as engraver tto the king. In England he Etching Club, Pl. 63 Vol. III beecame the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' A.H.B. [in image] technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather Etching, rare; platemark 165 x 120mm (6½ x 4¾"), than lines. This is the medium employed here, one of very large maargins. £95 many prints he made from designs by his fellow Etching by the printmaker and antiquary A.H. Burkitttt, Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of of a room in his house in Clapham containing his Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of collection. Prrivate Collection. Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Stock: 43362 Cipriani R.A.' in 1788. Calabi & De Vesme 692.iii Stock: 43415 3. [Titlepage and woodcut illustration from Hieronymus Rodler, 'Eyn schön nützlich 5. [The Chellini Madonna] Ex Archetypo büchlin und underweisung der kunst des AEreo penes Nobilis: Virum Marchionem de Messens [...]'] Rockingham. [Simmern: Hieronymus Rodler, 1531] Edw.d Rumsey Del.t J.K. Sherwin Sculp.t in aqua forti Two woodcuts, one with letterpress in black and red [London Published by R. Polllard Spa Fields Nov.r 25 ink; very scarce; sheets 290 x 185mm (11½ x 7¼") and 1790] 175 x 170mm (7 x 6¾"). Both glued to backing sheet. Etching, sheet 310 x 290mmm (12¼ x 11½"). Repairs £480 boottom left at corner. Trimmed inside platemark; £80 Two woodcut illustrations of artists at work, one Etching made from Donatelloo's relief of the 'Chellini showing five men at work in a studio, the other Madonna', at the time it was in the collection of showing an artist depicting the view from his window. William Wentworth Fitzwilliiam (1748-1833), From Hieronymus Rodler's 'Eyn schön nützlich büchhlin poolitician and landowner. The bronze roundel served as und underweisung der kunst des Messens mit dem a glass mould and perhaps allso as a birth tray for Zirckel Richtscheidt oder Linial. Zu nutz allen brringing sweetmeats to a moother after birth. Named for kunstliebhabbern furnemlich den Malern, Bildhawern,, the Florentine physician Giovvanni Chellini Samminiati, Goldschmiden, Seidenstickern, Steynmetzen, who received the roundel as ppayment from a patient he Schreinern, auch allen andern, so sich der kunst des was treating, it was brought tto England by Charles Messens (Perspectiva zu latin gnant) zugebrauchen lust Wentworth-Watson, second mmarquess of Rockingham haben...' (1531). Rodler adapted ideas from Albrecht and prime minister (1730-822). It then passed on Dürer's 1525 'Unterweysung der Messung', simplifying through the Wentworth familly by descent, before it them to make them accessible to a wider range of was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in craftsmen. London in 1976. It is one of tthe most important objects Stock: 43669 in the V & A collection. Stock: 43150 Engraving. Plate: 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼") very large margins. £120 Plate eight of a series of 10 engravings of antique vases taken from frescos painted beetween 1520-1527 by Polidoro da Carravaggio in the Palazzo Milesi in Rome. Aegidus Sadeler II's engravings are a copy of a series of the same subject ennggraved by Cherubino Alberti in 1582. Stock: 43873 10. Poolydorus de Caravagio. In. Romæ. 7. [Aegidus Sadeler II after Cherubino Alberti.] Cum Privil. S. C. Mtis. [1605.] Engraving. Plate: 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼") very large 6. Tabula II animalium ex vetustissimis margins. £120 picturis Romae tractorum. [Picture II. From Plate seven of a series of 10 eengravings of antique the oldest picture of animals drawn in Rome.] vases taken from frescos painted between 1520-1527 Formis Ant. Lafrerii. [1547] byy Polidoro da Carravaggio iin the Palazzo Milesi in Engraving. Sheet 295 x 430mm (11½ x 17"). Trimmed Rome. Aegidus Sadeler II's engravings are a copy of a just within plate. Stained. £280 series of the same subject ennggraved by Cherubino A plate of exotic animals including an elephant, lion Alberti in 1582. and leopard, one of three plates of animals published Stock: 43872 by Lafreri in his 'Speculum Romanæ Magnificentiæ', the 'Mirror of Roman Magnificence'. He started this 11. Poolydorus de Caravagio. In. Romæ. 6. monumental series of prints recording the buildings [Aegidus Sadeler II after Cherubino Alberti.] Cum and artifacts of Ancient Rome in 1540 and completed it Privil. S. C. Mtis. [1605.] in 1575, two years before he died in 1577. BM: Engraving. Plate: 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼") very large 1871,0812.803. margins. £120 Stock: 43951 Plate six of a series of 10 engravings of antique vases taken from frescos painted beetween 1520-1527 by 7. An Address Delivered by William Morris Polidoro da Carravaggio in the Palazzo Milesi in at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Rome. Aegidus Sadeler II's engravings are a copy of a Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. series of the same subject ennggraved by Cherubino 21, 1894. Alberti in 1582. [Printed at the Chiswick Press, in the ''Golden'' types Stock: 43871 designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. 1898.] 12. Poolydorus de Caravagio. In. Romæ. 4. Crown 8vo, quarter cloth, paper covered boards, titled [Aegidus Sadeler II after Cherubino Alberti.] Cum in black on front board. 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). Privil. S. C. Mtis. [1605.] Boards marked, corners worn. £70 Engraving. Plate: 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼") very large A bound copy of the speech given by designer William margins on 3 sides. £120 Morris (1834-1896) to the Birmingham School of Arrtt. Plate four of a series of 10 engravings of antique vases Extra-illustrated with a half-tone portrait and wood- taken from frescos painted beetween 1520-1527 by engraved facsimile of Morris's woodcut 'Psyche in Polidoro da Carravaggio in the Palazzo Milesi in Charon's Boat' after Edward Burne-Jones. Rome. Aegidus Sadeler II's engravings are a copy of a Stock: 43863 series of the same subject ennggraved by Cherubino Alberti in 1582. 8. Poolydorus de Caravagio. In. Romæ. 10. Stock: 43870 [Aegidus Sadeler II after Cherubino Alberti.] Cum Privil. S. C. Mtis. [1605.] 13. Poolydorus de Caravagio. In. Romæ. 3. Engraving. Plate: 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼") very large [Aegidus Sadeler II after Cherubino Alberti.] Cum margins. Paper tone. £120 Privil. S. C. Mtis. [1605.] Plate ten of a series of 10 engravings of antique vases Engraving. Plate: 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼") very large taken from frescos painted between 1520-1527 by margins. £120 Polidoro da Carravaggio in the Palazzo Milesi in Plate three of a series of 10 engravings of antique vases Rome. Aegidus Sadeler II's engravings are a copy of a taken from frescos painted beetween 1520-1527 by series of the same subject engraved by Cherubino Polidoro da Carravaggio in the Palazzo Milesi in Alberti in 1582. Rome. Aegidus Sadeler II's engravings are a copy of a Stock: 43874 series of the same subject ennggraved by Cherubino Alberti in 1582. 9. Poolydorus de Caravagio. In.