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Cat Talogu E 57 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 57 th The 18 Century! Item 574: James Seymour Going to Cover. [&] Making a Cast at a Fault. [&] The Chace of a Fox. [&] The Death of the Fox. For other images from this list please see 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. Analysis of Beauty, Pl. 1 Smartly dressed people play with scientific instruments Designed, Engraved, and Publish'd by W.m Hogarth, in a garden decorated with Italianate ruins. March 5th 1753, according to Act of Parliament. Stock: 38799 Engraving, platemark 390x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Large margins. Repaired tear. Bit dusty. £260 6. Painting. The statuary yard of John Cheere, adjoining Hyde Park London Printed for H. Overton without Newgate & R. Corner and Piccadilly in London, filled with ancient Sayer in Fleet Street. Price 1s 6d. sculptures juxtaposed with objects and people from the Coloured mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). time of William Hogarth (1697-1767). Bordering the Framed. Paper toned in margins. Unexamined out of c. image are numerous small diagrams, including 1900's frame. £450 references to P.L. Ghezzi, François Duquesnoy and A woman paints a portrait of another woman, watched Albrecht Durer. by four others, in a garden decorated with Italianate One of 'Two Explanatory Prints, serious and comical ruins. engraved on large Copper-Plates, fit to frame for Stock: 38801 Furniture' which accompanied William Hogarth's theoretical treatise 'The Analysis of Beauty'. Paulson 7. [Jan Uytenbogaert, Goldweigher] 195 iii/iii. Rembrandt f 1639 [reworked by William Baillie Stock: 38524 c.1792] Etching on laid paper, sheet 245 x 255mm (9½ x 10"). 2. The Life, Death and Burial of Cock Trimmed inside platemark lower edge £950 Robin. Dulce est desipere in loco. Rembrandt's portrait of Jan Uytenbogaert, 'The Fer.d Bawer delt. / M.no Bovi Sculp. [c.1810] Goldweigher'. Uytenbogaert sits in a fur-trimmed cloak Very rare engraving, sheet 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). and soft beret at a table, writing in a ledger while Trimmed inside platemark. £260 handing a small bag to a youth who kneels beside him. "Who Killed Cock Robin" is an English nursery rhyme, Chests and barrels in right foreground, a scale hanging which is often used as a murder of archetype in world from a hanging-shelf above the table which is littered culture. The earliest record is in 'Tommy Thumb's with bags and coins, a picture of Moses and the brazen Pretty Song Book' published c. 1744. Here it is serpent on the wall behind and a man and woman accompanied by images of the animals from each waiting at a counter on left. stanza. The dealer and printmaker William Baillie (1723-1810) Stock: 38330 acquired three original Rembrandt plates: 'Jan Uytenbogaert, Goldweigher' (offered here); 'Cornelis 3. Etchings & Aquatintas by the Rev.d J.G. Anslo, Preacher'; and 'The Hundred Guilder Print'. Due Spurgeon A.M. 1799 to their age and the number of impressions that had Etching, sheet 75 x 120mm (3 x 4¾"). Trimmed to been taken from them since Rembrandt etched the image; glued to backing sheet. £95 plates, they required reworking by Baillie in order to Rocky landscape; frontispiece to a set of prints by yield further impressions. Baillie's own prints were also amateur printmaker John Grove Spurgeon (1747- often impressions of Rembrandt. For another version 1829), also a magistrate and rector of Clopton and of 'the Goldweigher', see ref. 28969. Stock: 38311 Oulton in Suffolk. Stock: 38658 8. Sculpture. 4. An Academy. Frontispiece to Vol: II. Printed for R. Sayer in Fleet Street & H. Overton John Mortimer pinxit. John Boydell excudit. S. F. without Newgate. Price 1s 6d. Ravenet. Published November 1.st. 1771, by John Coloured mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Boydell, Engraver in Cheapside London. Framed. Paper toned in margins. Unexamined out of c. A fine engraving. Plate: 425 x 510mm, (16¾ x 20"), 1900's frame. £380 with very large margins. £520 A smartly-dressed couple enter an outdoor sculpture A scene in a life class at the Society of Artists in which workshop, decorated with Italianate ruins. a collection of students study a male nude. Frontispiece Stock: 38800 to the second volume of the series 'The Most Capital Paintings in England', Boydell's first major initiative as 9. [Cupid and Psyche] Ill: D. Equiti Fran: a pioneering publisher of fine engravings. Ex M. Nicolao Gabburri Patricio Florentino Collection Duke of Westminster. Bonarium artium [...] Stock: 38286 Phil della Valle Florentinus inv. et Fec [1732] Fine etching, platemark 290 x 225mm (11½ x 9"). 5. Astronomy. Creases; small margins. £260 Printed for R. Sayer in Fleet Street & H. Overton Engraving of a sculpture of Cupid and Psyche, without Newgate. Price 1s 6d. dedicated to the original owner of the sculpture, the Coloured mezzotint. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). patron of Florentine artists Francesco Maria Niccolo Framed. Paper toned in margins. Unexamined out of c. Gabburri. The sculpture is now in the Wallace 1900's frame. £450 Collection, London. Rare print by Florentine sculptor Filippo della Valle 1759 while he was at Horkstow in Lincolnshire survive (1698-1768), who occasionally made engravings of his in the library of the Royal Academy. These form the sculptures. Della Valle was working in Rome by the basis of this great work, an undertaking too demanding time this print was made, and benefited from many it seems for some of the premier engravers of the time, commissions from Popes Clement XII and Benedict such as Charles Grignion, who declined Stubbs's XIV. He was also popular with British patrons approaches. The task took up the following six years, including Horace Walpole (della Valle's sculpture of all the while the artist refining his rather rudimentary Walpole's mother is now in Westminster Abbey), engraving technique. The impact of the publication of Thomas Watson-Wentworth and Hugh Percy. See the work was immediate and considerable, not only in Vernon Hyde, 'Passive Tranquility: the Sculpture of scientific terms, but in an age of Enlightenment when Filippo della Valle', part 5, p.43. the aesthetic ideal was closely connected with Stock: 38316 observation of the natural world, the artistic community derived great benefit also. 10. The Anatomy Of The Horse. Including Freshly appreciated and re-discovered in the 20th A Particular Description of the Bones, century, George Stubbs is now widely considered to be Cartilages, Muscles, Fascias, Ligaments, the pre-eminent animal painter of the 18th century. Nerves, Arteries, Veins, and Glands. In Throughout his life Stubbs displayed an inquisitive Eighteen Tables, all done from Nature. By scientific temperament, and he had a life-long interest in deconstructing anatomy, one of his earliest works George Stubbs, Painter. including a set of illustrations for a textbook on [Designed and etched by George Stubbs.] London, midwifery which was published in 1751. Lennox-Boyd: Printed by J. Purser, for the Author. 1766. 166 - 188. Large oblong folio, half-calf gilt, rebacked, Spanish Stock: 5777 hand-made marbled boards c.1804, marbled endpapers, within modern box; title + (i)+ pp.47; 24 etched plates, 11. A Political and Satirical History of the each c.375 x 480mm. Binding generally scuffed and rubbed (unrestored), spine rebound. Spots of residue Years 1756 and 1757. In a Series of Seventy- from expertly removed mould visible in upper margin five Humourous and Entertaining Prints of several plates. This residue particularly prominent in Containing All the most Remarkable Tabs. IX and XI, encroaching into plate Tabs. XIII and Transactions, Characters and Charicaturas of XIV. Vertical 'scuff' line from upper edge of paper c. those two memorable Years. To which is 5cm into plate centre left Tab. XII. Diagonal crease annexed, An Explanatory Account or Key to though top edge of upper right corner of sheet Tab. every Print, which renders the whole full and XIV, well outside plate. Lower right corner and lower significant. left corner extremities missing Tabs. I and key London, Printed for E. Morris, near St. Paul's. respectively ('skeleton'). £13,000 73 of 75 images; 16mo. Calf boards. Morroco spine Complete volume of this masterpiece of equine with gilt. 130 x 110mm (5 x 4¼"). Plates 46 and 74 anatomical exploration by George Stubbs [1724 - missing. Plates 23 and 39 inserted from another copy. 1806]. It takes the form of what are effectively two sets £1800 of etchings combined. The first part, of four plates, An extremely rare volume of political and social deals exclusively with the skeletal structure of the caricatures covering a pivotal period in the history of horse and comprises three finished etchings labelled Great Britain and the Americas. Subjects include Tabs. I, II and III, and one key plate corresponding to Henry Fox and William Pitt's struggle for power in late Tab I. The second part explores the muscles, fascias, 1756, Horatio Walpole (1st Baron Walpole), the Duke ligaments, nerves, veins, glands and cartilages. This of Newcastle and many other prominent political consists of 15 etchings, Tabs. I - XV, nos. I - V each figures of the day. The defeat of General Braddock at with corresponding separate key plates. This volume is Fort Duquesne, the capture of Calcutta, the Seven compiled from two separate first editions. The binding Years War, the Byng disaster and British adventures in and letterpress sheets, along with four plates, come India and North America are all directly, or covertly from a copy ex-Royal Veterinary College.
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