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Cat Talogue E 47 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 47 October 2014 Item 375. The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, Called the Bed of Phharaoh. Tinted lithograph after David Roberts This catalogue is illustrated in full at www.groosvenorprints.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. The Booroom Slave. 'Isabella, or the Pot of Basil'.. Goodwin 205.II. Ex: H. Thomson, R.A., del / E. Finden sc. Pub. by R. Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. Ex Collection of the Ackermann, 1828. Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Steel engraving on india, sheet 110 x 75mm (4¼ x 3"). Stock: 34469 Trimmed inside platemark; creases. £65 Young slave kneeling in prayer, from an 1827 painting 5. Strephon & Myra.. O Myra, Why_ Are by Henry Thomson. This print was published in the you so shy!_Thou nature's best invention! [/] 'Forget Me Not' of 1828, where it was accompanied by Your Stephron sues, _Can you refuse_To yild a short story, 'The Booroom Slave', by the Sarah to his pretention. Bowditch, wife of African traveler Thomas Edward Published 26 Nov.r. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Bowditch. Bowditch's story described the plight of Fleet Street London. Inna, an African chief's daughter abducted by slave Stipple. Sheet: 160 x 135mm, (6¼ x 5¼"). Trimmed to traders of Bowditch's story. The same image was pllate. £130 subsequently used as the frontispiece for the first Scene set within an oval in which a young man leans antislavery book published in the United States, Lydia over a reclining woman whille holding her face in his Maria Child's 'An Appeal in Favour of That Class of hands. Strephon is the name often given to the lover in Americans Called Africans'. The popularity of the paastoral verse, a genre which flourished during th 18th image can be seen from its later use in banners in other Century, while the name Myyrra is also a name of poetic abolitionist materials in the US. invention. The manner in which Strephon holds Myra Early state before text altered. For more information, and leans over her is slightlyy unsettling, which along see: Jo-Ann Morgan, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual with the verse beneath which lacks much of the Culture'; William Dillon Pierson, 'Black Legacy: idealism of pastoral poetry, serves perhaps, to satirise America's Hidden Heritage'; and particularly Jill the pastoral genre. Rappoport, 'Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Stock: 35103 Victorian Culture'. Stock: 34505 6. The Village Vanderer. Health sparkles in her sprightly eye. 2. Conventual Love. For the General Painted by S. Shelley. G. Zancon Sculp.t. Pub.d. Apr.l. Magazine. 1788. [n.d., c.1787.] Stipple, rare. Sheet: 110 x 175mm, (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed Stipple, printed in sanguine, scarce. Sheet 195 x within plate on right edge. Small pin holes in lower 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed into printed border. edge. Some surface dirt. £80 £130 A half portrait of the protagonist from a poem called A young man approaches a finely-dressed woman in an 'Wanderer, or the Village Maid'. Italianate cityscape. It was probably published in the Stock: 35105 'General Magazine and Impartial Review', published brtiefly in 1787 by Thomas Bellamy (1745-1800). Stock: 34964 3. Lavinia. The lovely young Lavinia once had friends. Thompson. Painted by S. Shelley. G. Zancon Sculpt. Publ.d. Apr.l. 1788. Stipple, rare. Plate: 110 x 150mm, (4¼ x 6"). Trimmed to plate on right edge. Pin holes in bottom edge. surface dirt. £120 Half-length portrait of a forlorn looking woman who holds some leaves, from Thompson's poem 'Autumn'. Stock: 35106 4. Lisabetta. Boccaccio, Giornata quarta, Novella V. Done from the Orginal in the Collection oof Mr. Reynolds. Fuerino pinx.t J. McArdell fecit. [n.d., c.1750.] Mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9") £320 Lisabetta, a young woman in loose robes, her dead 7. [Arabesque Ornament.] lover's head in her right hand, a character from [Barthel Beham. Allaert Claesz.] [n.d., c.1530.] Boccaccio's 'Decameron'. After her brothers kill Engraving. Sheet: 25 x 75mm, (1 x 3"). Framed. Lorenzo he appears in Lisabetta's dreams, telling her Trimmed. Unexamined out of frame. £240 where his boody is buried. She moves his head to a pot Decorative item depicting seea monsters and a horned, of basil, which she painstakingly cares for until her winged creature. Hollstein 214. From Collection of brothers take it away, whereupon she wastes away. Christopher Mendez. Stock: 35189 John Keats used the story in his narrative poem, 8. Enlêvement of a Circassian. imaginative subjects. Ex: Coollection of the Late Hon. G.Hayter Pinxit et incidit Decr 17 1828 Paris. Bit C. Lennox-Boyd; Lennox-Booyyd 83.ii later. Stock: 35012 Etching with very large margins. 225 x 265mm (9 x 10½"). Slight creasing. £160 11. G. Stubbs, Animallium Pictor. The abduction of a Cicassian horse. Sir George Hayter P. Falconet del. 1769. D.P.Pariset Sculp. (1792 - 1871), portrait and history painter, son of the Stipple. 178 x 127mm (7 x 5"). Cut. £160 miniaturist Charles Hayter. He was appointed Queen George Stubbs (1724-1806), the British painter of Victoria's court portraitist in 1837. Ex: Collection of poortraits, animal pictures, herroic animal histories and the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. pooetical scenes of rural life. He is known primarily for Stock: 34968 his images of horses and in 1758 he began his dissections of horses, which lead to the engraved work 'The Anatomy of the Horse' iin 1766. Stock: 34761 12. [Statue of 'Capitolline Gaul'] Statua del Gladiatir moribondo, chhe si conserva nel Museo Capitolino [...] Pietro Angeletti disegno / Andrea Rossi sculps. [n.d., c.1780] Engraving, platemark 370 x 5500mm (14½ x 19¾"). £320 Engraving of a wounded Gaul, after the famous sculpture in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. The statue was acquired for the museum in 1734 from the Ludovisi Sculpture Collection. Stock: 35217 9. Lion and Horse 13. Christmas Eve. J. Collett Pinx.t / R. Laurie fecit London. Printed for Eng. by G. Beyer. [n.d. c.1820.] Rob.t Sayer & John Bennett, Print & Mapseller, No. 53 Engraving on india with very large margins. Plate 246 in Fleet Street, as the Act Directs, 1st July 1774. x 165mm (9¾ x 6½"). £75 Mezzotint, sheet 455 x 555mm (18 x 21¾"). Trimmed A rural scene: inside a cottage where an elderly on platemark. Rare with artists' names (Lennox-Boyd). woman, child and mother sitt playing cards; a cat sat by £690 the elderly woman. The woman turns towards her Pastiche of Stubbs' horse and lion subjects, issued as a husband who reaches over her shoulder to look at her companion to Robert Sayers' reprint of Stubbs' 'Lioness card; mistletoe hangs from the ceiling above them. and Lion' by George Townley Stubbs. Lennox-Boyd Stock: 34783 (p.123) supposes that Collett's painting was commissioned by the publisher specifically with a view 14. England. to being engraved as a pair for the Stubbs print. Collet R. Corbould del. J. Chapman sc. London, Published as (c.1725-80) was a painter and prolific designer of the Act directs, Dec.r 1 1810. predominantlly humorous scenes for publishers to maakke Fine hand coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 270 x 210mm prints of. see Lennox-Boyd p.23. Rare in any state. (10½ x 8¼"). Trimmed inside platemark. £140 Stock: 35013 An allegorical female figure stands with a shield, spear and plumed helmet, holding a palm, looking to the left 10. The Frighten'd Horse From an Original at infants representing the fouur continents. Further left Picture by Mr. George Stubbs. is a sea-shore with a ship and fortress flying the French Geo.e Stubbs Pinx.t / Robert Laurie feciti London / flag behind. A lion is at her ffeet to the right, growling Published 20 June 1788 by Robert Sayer, No. 53, Fleet at three figures with staffs and a blazing torch. Street. Stock: 35081 Mezzotint, rare; sheet 460 x 560mm (18 x 22"). Trimmed to plate; several creases; laid on conservation 15. Magna Charta. Frrontispiece to tissue. Finished proof with title in open letters. Barnard's New & Compllete History of Damaged. £450 Horse and lion, after George Stubbs. Engraved by England. Explanation of this Elegant Plate. Robert Laurie as a replacement for a worn-out plate of History (emblematically representing the the same subject by Benjamin Green. Lennox-Boyd Author of this Work) attended by Wisdom & notes how in this plate 'the eye is drawn away from the Justice, presenting to Brriitannia the Manuscript central image of the horse by distracting virtuoso detail of This New History of England...for which this and unnatural highlighting'. kingdom has been so lonng conspicuous, are also Stubbs (1724-1806), established his reputation mostly alluded to in the various Emblematic Figures. on portraits of horses and dogs, although he also Hamilton delin. Pollard sculp. [n.d. c.1780.] painted human portraits, conversation pieces and Engraving. Plate 311 x 213mm (12¼ x 8½") Some A man and woman embracing, from a painting staining to lower edge. £85 attributed to Giorgione. Frontispiece allegory with History, Wisdom and From "Schola ItI alica Picturae sive Selectae Quaedam Justice presennting the History to Britannia. Summorum e Schola Italica Pictorum Tabulae Aere Stock: 34707 Incisae Cura et Impensis Gavini Hamilton Pictoris", a series of forty plates. 16. The 14th February.
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