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Grosvenor Prints Tel: 020 7836 1979 19 Shelton Street [email protected] Covent Garden www.grosvenorprints.com London WC2H 9JN Catalogue 86 Occtober 2018 Item 671: Michael Xin This catalogue is illustrated in full on our web site www.grosvenorprints.com Cover illustration: detail from item 83 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. Vase in the Conservatory Room at byy Gavin Hamiton. It was soold to the British envoy at Bromley Hill, brought from Rome by the Earl the court of Naples, Sir Williiam Hamilton, who Brownlow. shipped the vase to his elder nephew, George Greville, A L [monogram of Amelia Long.] Printed by C. 2nd Earl of Warwick, who commissioned a special Hullmandel. [n.d., c.1820.] greenhouse for it to preservee it from the British Rare & scarce lithograph on chine collé. 270 x 240mm Climate. (14½ x 9½"), with large margins. Surface wear & Stock: 50280 soiling. £160 A vase belonging to John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, 4. At Warwick Castle The Celebrated who was married to the artist's suster. Warwick Vase in Marble, Height 4 fett 10 Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772- inches, exclusively of thee Plinth._Greated 1837). In 1793 she married Charles Long, created diameter of the Lip 6 feet 3 inches. Baron Farnborough in 1826. An amateur etcher and a Engraved by Henry Moses. London Published by W.B. vigorous patron of the arts, he assisted the Cookes, 9 Soho Square, Oct..r 13.th 1827. watercolourist Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) to make his Engraving on porcelain card.. Sheet: 155 x 200mm (6 x one visit to Paris in 1801. Lady Farnborough was 8''). £140 Girtin's favourite pupil, and her work was widely The Warwick Vase is a Roman marble vase with admired by professional artists and drawing masters. Bacchic ornament, discovered in the silt of a marshy Her watercolours also show the influence of her poond at Hadrian's Villa abouutt 1771 by Gavin Hamilton. contemporary John Varley. He sold the fragments to Sir William Hamilton who Stock: 49996 repaired it with Carrara marble and shipped it to his nephew George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who 2. The Portland Vase. set it on a lawn at Warwick Castle before building a Chromo-lith.d & Pub.d by C. Burton, 5 Lit: Russell St conservatory for it. As a famous piece, a mould was Cov. Gar. [n.d., c.1845.] made of it and two full-size bronze replicas were cast, Chromolithograph. Sheet 345 x 245mm (13½ x 9¾")). one now Windsor Castle, the other in the Fitzwilliam Small foxing. £160 Museum. At auction in 19788 the vase was purchased The Portland Vase, a 1st century Roman vase that byy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but after it was passed through the hands of the Barberini family, Sirr declared an object of national importance an export William Hamilton and the Duchess of Portland beforre licence was denied. It is now in the Burrell Collection being acquired by the British Museum in 1945. This near Glasgow in Scotland. print was probably published in the aftermath of the Stock: 50486 smashing of the vase by William Lloyd in 1845. Stock: 49781 5. Titania, Puck, the Changeling, &c. (From Shakespear's Play of "Midsummer Night's Dream"). Engraved by Edward Scriven, Historical Engraaver to the Prince of Wales from an unfinished Picture by George Romney, Esq. in the Poseession of Sir John Fleming Leicesyer, Bar.t. Who by appropriating a Gallery exclusively to English Pictures has evinced a patriotic love for the Fine Arts of his Countryy, & to whom this plate is most respectfully inscribed. Class 1. Painting for ''the Fine Arts of the English School''. London: Published December 1, 1810 by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row: J Taylor, High Holborn & W. Bond 87 Newman St. Stipple. Sheet: 270 x 320mm (10¾ x 12½''). Crease in 3. The Warwick Vase, as it appears in thee top left corner. Trimmed to pplatemark. £130 Green House erected for it, at Warwick Castle. Portrait of Emma Hamilton as Titania after Romney, Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. Brandard. lying at right, leaning on her elbows and resting her [Leamington, Published by C. Elston, 12, Lower Unioon hands on her chin, looking to front with a smile, Puck Parade. M&N Hanhart, Lith Printers.][n.d. c.1845.] tying a ribbon around the ankle of baby lying at left, Lithograph. Sheet: 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9''). Creasing fairies in the sky behind. £75 Lady Emma Hamilton (c.1765-1815), was the famous A view of a large antique vase, standing on an wife of Sir William Hamilton, and mistress of Nelson. inscribed pedestal among trees planted in pots and in Horne: 56. II. Ex Collection: Earl of Bute. the ground, with figures of a man and woman standing Stock: 50251 at its side to the left, and a man on crutches pointing at the vase. The Warwick Vase is an ancient Roman marble vase that was discovered at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli c.1771 6. Grand Album des Célébrités 10. [Stained Window iin Rugby School.] Industrielles Contemporains. 1862. [n.d., c.1875.] Paris: Imprimerie de Georges Kugelmann. Watercolour. Sheet: 545 x 195mm (21½ x 7¾''). Rare folio, original blind-decorated cloth gilt, with five Stained, laid on card. £160 studs on front and back boards; letterpress title and 14 A drawing of a stained glass window in Ruugby School tinted lithograph plates, one wood engraved, each with Chapel. Dedicated to Mary Arnold (1790-1873) who a page of letterpress. Inner hinges and plates strainedd; was the widow of Dr Thomaas Arnold who was one of some plates damaged. £750 the greatest headmasters of the school from 1828-42). A scarce book of descriptions of the premises of 15 Stock: 49688 French industrialists, Wine & Champagne houses including Mumm etc, including the musical instrumeent 11. Model of an original Design for a factory of Adolphe Sax (1814-94), inventor of the Monument to the Memorry of Gen.l Wolfe, in saxophone. An advert for "photo albums from Scherrff the possession of Charles Thomaartyr Crane, Freres " at back. Merch.t London. Stock: 50436 Roubiliac fecit. Cook sculp. [Gent. Mag. Jan. 1789. Pl.1.] Engraving. Sheet 215 x 165mm (8½ x 6½"). Trimmed, folds as normal. £80 A design for a memorial to General James Wolfe, hero of Quebec, by Louis Françoiis Roubiliac (1702-62). The dying Wolfe is supporteed by Victory, Britannia looking on. Stock: 48998 12. Arc de Triomphe de Titus Vespasien. Dedié à Monsiegneur Armand Thomas Hüe, Chevalier, Marquis de Miroménil, Conseiller du Roi en tous ses Conseils, Premier Président du Parlement de Normandie Par son tres Humble et tres Obéissant Serviteur N. Le Mire. De la Croix. Le Mire. à Paris chés le Mire Graveur, des Académies de Vienne et de Rouen, rue S. Etienne des Grècs. [n.d., c.1760.] 7. Standing Bowl & Cover of Silver-gilt Engraving. 355 x 475mm (14 x 18¾"), with very large presented by William Camden, Clarencieux margins. £320 King at Arms, to the Worshipful Company of A capriccio of Rome's Arch oof Titus, relocated to the Paper Stainers. baanks of a river with men fisshing with nets from a boat, R.B. Schnebbelie sculp. [n.d., c.1840.] a fortified tower behind. Rare etching: 245 x 170mm (9¾ x 6½''). Trimmed. Stock: 50665 £60 A print of an ornate cup presented to the Worshipful 13. [River and Landscape from a Cave.] Company off Paper-Stainers by historian and herald J. Vernet p.t. A. de Marcenay s.bat 1756 No. 14. William Camden (1551-1623). Fine engraving, unfinished proof. Plate: 250 x 290mm Stock: 50461 (9¾ x 11½''), with large margins. £260 A view showing men on the banks of a river fishing. 8. [Chinoiserie wallpaper design?] After a painting by Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789). [French, c.1770?] Stock: 50407 Etching with fine original hand colour. 460 x 460mm (18¼ x 18¼"). Centre fold, chipping to wide margins. 14. qui du Texel de Londres, de Bordeaux, £490 S'en vont chercher, par un heureux echange A parrot with multicoloured wings and tail, in a tree .De nouveaux biens nes aux sources du Gange, with different flowers and fruit in vibrant colour. Idem Ibid Stock: 50623 Venet pinx. Franc:co Pedo sculp ap. Nic. Cavalli. Venetÿs. [n.d., c.1770.] 9. [Watercolour of a Roman Fresco?]. Engraving. Sheet: 325 x 410mmm (12¾ x 16''), 18th Jessex ? pinx.t. [n.d, c.1830.] century watermark. Trimmed within plate. £260 Watercolour. Sheet: 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼''). Laid on Fisherman bringing in their nets on the shore in the album sheet. £180 foreground, with a castle and other buildings around A portrait of a serving girl in pink and yellow robes, the lake behind. From a series by Francesco del Pedro carrying a tray of figs and a jug. Perhaps a copy of an (1749 - 1806) after Joseph Vernet (1714 - 1789), the Ancient Roman fresco? famous marine painter. Vernet studied and worked in Stock: 50478 Rome (1734-53) until recalled to Paris where he was commissioned to paint a set representing French An architectural drawing showing the interiors of an harbours (the 'Ports de France'). Published in Venice by arch, showing measurements of the walls and spaces Nicolo Cavalli (1730 - 1822). and high and low tide marks.. Stock: 50412 Stock: 50639 15. [Wellsh Landscape with Fishing.] 21.