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[email protected] Covent Garden www.grosvenorprints.com London WC2H 9JN Catalogue 109 Item 42. ` Cover: Detail of item 81 Back: Detail of Item 172 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. Rainment. C.E. Ellis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. Blondin's Gigantic Arena. Dimensions. 4. [Satirical frontispiece] Length of Fence 400 English feet. Width of R.W[hite] Sculp Printed for A. Mearne, T. Dring, B. Fence 800 English Feet. Height of Fence 8 Tooke, T. Sawbridge, & C. Mearne [c.1683] English Feet. Length of Tent 250 English Feet. Rare engraving; sheet 300 x 185mm (11¾ x 7¼"). Width of Tent 200 English Feet. Height of Tent Trimmed within plate. £250 50 English Feet. [Accompanying Sheet]: A satirical frontispiece to John Nalson's (1638–1686) "Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State" Explanations of further measurements and alluding to the execution of Charles I and the condition details of erecting the tent. of England. A ship is struggling in a stormy sea and the [n.d. c.1860.] crew throw a king overboard while shore standing Very scarce lithograph 265 x 420mm (10½ x 16½"), onlookers watch, some disputing and others in full on and etched sheet folded in half 280 x 256mm (11 x brawls. A church acts as a lighthouse and a beam from 10"). £290 the window projects onto the boat. It is suggested that Jean François Gravelet Blondin (1824-1897) was a the scene depicted is the Royal Sovereign (previously French tight-rope walker and acrobat.