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Grosvenor Prints Tel: 020 7836 1979 19 Shelton Street [email protected] Covent Garden www.grosvenorprints.com London WC2H 9JN Catalogue 105 Item 145: A Vision of Judgment by Robert Cruikshank Cover: Detail of item 40 Back: Detail of Item 148 Registered in England No. 305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Village, Station Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Ra ment. C.E. Ellis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. Etch'd from an original Painting of 3. Arms of the Trading Companies, Hospitals, Rembrandt, now in the Collection of Mr Inns of Court, Scocieties &c. Plate IV. Hudson of Great Queen Street. Engraved for Noorthouck's History of By T: Worlidge Portrait Painter, in the Piazza London. Covent Garden [c.1757-8] Longmate sculp. [London: R. Baldwin, 1773.] Etching, platemark 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), Engraving. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). with thread margins. £160 Trimmed into plate on left, notch in bottom Unidentified portrait supposedly after edge. Repaired tear on left. £65 Rembrandt, showing sitter in his study. Thirty costs-of-arms, including those of the Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) specialised in Russia, South Sea, Turkey or Levant and etchings either copied from, or in the style of Virginia Companies. Rembrandt. Ex: Collection Hon. C. Lennox- Stock: 55350 Boyd. Stock: 55261 4. Arms of the City Companies, Scocieties &c. Plate III. Engraved for Noorthouck's History of London. Longmate sculp. [London: R. Baldwin, 1773.] Engraving. 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate at sides. £65 Thirty costs-of-arms of City Companies, alphabetically from Pewterers to Woomen, and trading companies including those of the African, Hudson's Bay and East India Companies. Stock: 55351 5. [Pair of images of elaborate tombs, one with title.] The Tomb of the worthy Patroness of the Hon.ble & Ancient Family of the Cousins. Born in the 719th Year of the World, Died 1201 Years before the Birth of the Messiah. Æt 81. [n.d., .1780.] Two etchings, printed in sepia. Each 310 x 2. [Bound collection of 42 medallion portraits 200mm (12¼ x 8"). One trimmed within engraved by Simon Thomassin.] plate, repaired tear, both with old ink mss., [Published by Thomassin, plates dated laid on album paper. £320 between 1696-1710.] One tomb has a classical theme; the second Folio, large paper copy, contemporary full has Masonic symbolism. calf, 42 engraved plates, each c. 230 x 180mm Stock: 55247 (9 x 7"). Rebacked, spine distressed, hinges strained, a little spotting throughout. Small 6. Oak, near Bisham, Berks. foxing hole in 'Victor Amadeus II'. £4000 W.m Delamotte 1805? Drawn & Etched by 42 portraits of European monarchs, nobles W.m De la Motte. Pub.d as the Act directs by and popes, in medallions set on plinths. W.m De la Motte G.t Marlow Jan.ry 1806. They include Louis XIV and the Dauphin, Rare soft ground etching. Sheet 495 x 370mm Louis Prince de Condé, Philippe V of Spain, (19½ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate top and Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, John III Sobieski left; remains of album paper on reverse. of Poland, several German electors and £180 Popes Innocent XII and Clement XI. For A country lane, with a foraging donkey in England there are two Jacobite portraits of the foreground. James II dated 1695 & 1701 (1st state of 2nd), William Delamotte (1775-1863), painter and so after his overthrow, and one of the Old drawing-master at the Royal Military Pretender as James III, although portraits of College at Sandhurst. Roger Baynton- William & Mary and Queen Anne are also Williams: Art of the Printmaker, Plate 90. present. Not in Sharpe. James II & III in Sharpe. Stock: 55243 Stock: 55186 7. Tapisseries du Roy, ou sont Representées les Quatre Elemens. I Bailly in. Le Clerc Sculp. [n.d., c.1668.] Engraving. 420 x 295mm (16½ x 11½"). Thread margins. Slight loss left corner. £140 A decorative frontispiece to a set of engravings of the Four Elements, with vignettes of the Elemetns in a triumphal array. Stock: 55354 8. Tapisseries du Roy, ou sont Representées les Quatre Saisons. I Bailly in. Le Clerc Sculp. [n.d., c.1668.] Engraving. 420 x 295mm (16½ x 11½"). Thread margins. £140 12. Wales. A decorative frontispiece to a set of London J. Fairburn 110, Minories [n.d., engravings of the Four Seasons, with c.1800.] vignettes of the Seasons in a triumphal array. Rare etching with original hand colour. Stock: 55353 Sheet 200 x 150mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed within 9. Tapisseries du Roy, ou sont Representez les printed border, edges soiled. £130 Quatre Elemens et les Quatre Saisons de A pair of young lovers representing Wales, L'Année. with the girl wearing a black top hat. To the I Bailly in. [n.d., c.1668.] left are mountain goats. Stock: 55333 Engraving. 415 x 285mm (16¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed to plate. £75 13. Agriculture. A decorative frontispiece to a set of G.B. Cipriani Inv. I.M. Delattre Sculp.t. engravings of the Four Elements and Four London. Publish'd March 31st; 1788, for the Seasons. It takes the form of a monument, Proprietor, by Palmer & Fielding No. 163 with the Four Elements in a triumphal array Strand. above and the Four Seasons on the plinth Stipple. 180 x 165mm (7 x 6½"), with very below. Stock: 55352 large margins. Uncut. £160 A cherub holding a sickle, seated on the 10. Devises Pour les Tapisseries des Quatre handle of a spade in a cloud. Stock: 55310 Elemens. [n.d., c.1668.] 14. Temple of Flora or [...] Engraving. 415 x 285mm (16¼ x 11¼"). [Engraved by P.W. Tomkins after Edward Thread margins. £140 Burney.] Published as the Act Directs June A decorative frontispiece to a set of 1804 by D.r Thornton, Hynd St. engravings of the Four Elements, with Stipple, proof, Sheet 180 x 335mm (7 x 13¼"). vignettes of the Elements in a triumphal Trimmed within plate right and bottom, array. Stock: 55355 lettering of title only slightly inked. Stain bottom right. £130 11. Ireland. An allegorical figure of Flora, seated in a London J. Fairburn 110, Minories [n.d., chariot drawn by winged cherubs, published c.1800.] as a vignette on the title page of Dr Robert Rare etching with original hand colour. Thornton's magnificient 'Temple of Flora', Sheet 195 x 145mm (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed the grandest British botantical book. The within printed border. £130 absence of the artist and engraver's A pair of young lovers representing Ireland, signatures and the scant inking of the letters with a harp top left. of the title suggest this is proof impression of Stock: 55332 the vignette. Stock: 55245 15. [Bassett Hounds.] joyous greeting they receive from their Henry Wilkinson. [signed in pencil.] [n.d., family on their return. c.1960.] William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828) Etching. 250 x 300mm (10 x 11¾"). Edition: specialised in genre scenes, often depicting 73/75 very large margins £180 children and acts of charity. Because of the An etching by artist Henry Wilkinson (1921- popularity of his paintings he could 2011) who specialised in sporting dogs and commission the best engravers to produce scenes. prints from his works, including Jones, Stock: 55301 Robert Dunkarton, William Ward and John Raphael Smith. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Stock: 55284 17. Harrow School. Drawn by Marcus A. Boss. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Ltd, London W.C.2 [n.d., c.1930]. Chromolithograph. Sheet 355 x 430mm (14 x 17"). £190 A view of the Old Speech Room Gallery from the junction of Church Hill and High Street. Stock: 55248 18. Highgate School [pencil]. Wallace Hester [pencil signature]. [n.d., c.1912.] Etching with 'Artist's Proof' blindstamp number 17 in ink. 260 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Narrow margins, paper toned. £95 The Chapel of Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School), established by Royal charter in 1565. Stock: 55300 19. King's College Chapel, The Public Library, and East End of the Senate House, in the 16. Black Monday or the Departure for School. University of Cambridge. [&] Dulce Domum or the Return from Drawn & Engraved by Tho.s Malton. Pub. School. June 25th 1798 by David Hood, Printseller, Painted by W.R. Bigg A. Engraved by John Cambridge. Jones. Principal Engraver to his Royal Coloured aquatint. 400 x 540mm (15¾ x Highness the Duke of York [&] Engraved by 21¼"), with small margins. Repaired tear John Jones. Extraordinary Engraver to his entering plate on right. £480 R.H. the Prince of Wales, and Principal From King's Parade. Engraver to his R.H. the Duke of York. Pub.d Stock: 55298 as the act directs. Dec.r ye 1st, 1790 by W. R. Bigg No.11 Tavistock Row Covent Garden. 20. A View of Baliol College (a), Trinity College (b), &c. in the University of Pair of mezzotints. 485 x 610mm (19 x 24"). Oxford. 'Black Monday' trimmed to plate, re- I. Donowell Arch. del. Published according margined to two sides; 'Dulce Domum' to Act of Parliament Feb. 1755 & Sold by trimmed into plate, re-margined on left. John Tinney at ye Golden Lion in Fleetstreet, £450 London. Two of the most famous education scenes: Etching, 18th century watermark. 295 x the first shows two boys leaving for 435mm (11½ x 17"). Several repaired tears in boarding school; the second shows the margins, one entering image at top, crease 24. The Westminster Society. For Insurance on top right. £320 Lives and Survivorships, and Granting After John Donowell (1753 - 1786; fl.), Annuities.
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