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Catalogue 107 Grosvenor Prints Tel: 020 7836 1979 19 Shelton Street [email protected] Covent Garden www.grosvenorprints.com London WC2H 9JN Catalogue 107 Item 5: The children of Charles I Cover: Detail of item 51 Back: Detail of Item 30 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. Belgian Troops Sep 1815. Bois de Boulogne. Pergolesi Inve.t scul.t Pub.d Anccrding to A. Long. [n.d., c.1815.] Act of Parliament August 30, 1792, No 16 Rare amateur lithograph. Sheet 150 x 265mm Broad Street, Golden Squ.e. (6 x 10½"). Laid on card as issued. £120 Engraving. 420 x 285mm (16½ x 11¼") very A camp with huts made of straw. A large margins. £260 wounded soldier limps with a crutch. A cameo bust portrait of Elizabeth Scott (née Amelia Long (née Hume) (1772-1837), Montague, 1743-1827), wife of Henry Scott, married Charles Long who was created 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, within a page of Baron Farnborough in 1826. Lady festoons. It was published in Michel Angelo Farnborough was Girtin's favourite pupil, Pergolesi's 'Designs for Various Ornaments and her work was widely admired by on Seventy Plates', 1777-1801. professional artists and drawing masters. For Little is known about Pergolesi other than he a sketchbook by the artist see V&A E.21080- came to England to work for Robert Adam, 1957. designing furniture, mantelpieces, ceilings, Stock: 55711 chandeliers, doors and mural ornament. He returned to Italy c.1801. Stock: 55691 4. [French landscape] Engraved from the Original Picture. Boucher Pinxit. Aliamet Sculpsit. Published Oct.r 2.d 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. Engraving with sepia wash. 205 x 285mm (8 x 11¼"), on wove paper. Glue stains in very large margins at corners. £140 A river with an old bridge. Stock: 55618 2. Design of a Bridge in imitation of the 5. [Italianate landscape.] No 202. Aqueducts of the Ancients proposed to be Zuaurelli del. [Francesco Zuccarelli?] Joh: built over the Lake at Bowood Park, in Georg Hertel excud. A.V. 3. [Augsburg: Wiltshire. One of the Seats of the Earl of Johann Georg Hertel, c.1750.] Shelburne. Etching. 190 x 295mm (7½ x 11½"). Trimmed R.t Adam Architect 1768. Bened: Pastorini within plate. £130 incidit. Published as the Act directs 1778. An untitled Italianate landscape, with a Engraving. 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"), with building and a tower by a river. From a large margins. Central crease as normal. series of landscapes after various artists £390 Stock: 55611 A bridge designed by Robert Adam (1728- 92) to resemble a half-ruined classical bridge, 6. Engraved after an Original Picture of Mr. with classical rustic figures fishing. It was George Smith, in the possession of Mr intended for Bowood House in Wiltshire, Rob.t Saltonstall. during Adam's work on the interiors as well G Smith of Chichester pinxit. T. Morris as creation of an orangerie, menagerie and Sculpsit Pupil to Mr Woollett. Published mausoleum. April 4th. 1774 by John Boydell Engraver Published in Adam's 'Works on No. 90 in Cheapside, & Rob.t Sayer, Map & Architecture'. Printseller opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. Stock: 55680 Etching. Sheet 320 x 355mm (12½ x 14"). Trimmed within plate. £180 3. CCCCCXXXII. 66. To Her Grace Elizabeth Thatched farm buildings by a river, Duchess of Buccleugh, Encourager of the overlooked by a ruined church, after George Artists, No 13 of this Work, Is most humbly Smith of Chichester (1714-76). Dedicated by Her Grace's most obedient & Stock: 55669 obliged humble Serv.t Michael Angelo Pergolesi. 7. [Italianate landscape.] G. Vitalba inv. et incis. Publish'd as the Act directs, March 17, 1792, by the Author, Mo 19 Weymouth Street. Etching, printed in brown and hand finished with original coloured borders; Sheet 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on 18th century album paper in borders. £130 A landscape with a lake, with a man angling. Giovanni Vitalba (1738-c.1816, a pupil of Bartolozzi, is best known for his plate of Kenwood House in Robert and James Adam's 'The Works in Architecture', 1774. Stock: 55601 8. [Dutch landscape] Engraved from the Original Picture. Ph. Wouvermans Pinxit. Aliamet Sculpsit. Published Oct.r 2.d 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. Engraving with sepia wash. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11"), on wove paper. Glue stains in very large margins at corners. £140 A river with a half-dead tree on the bank. Stock: 55617 11. [Twelve Months.] Januarius. [&] Febuarius. [&] Martius. [etc] 9. L'Adolescenza. [Hamilton pinx. Gabrieli [& Bonato] sculp. G. Zocxhi inv. F. Bartollozi Scul. Wagner [n.d., c.1790.] Venezia C.P.E.S. [n.d., c.1761.] Set of twelve engravings. Each c.310 x Very fine engraving, 18th century 255mm (12½ x 10"). Most trimmed to plate, watermark. 520 x 340mm (20½ x 13½"), with some with stains to edges. £2800 large margins. £320 A set of twelve ovals representing each Young people, read, play a pipe and flirt month, named in Latin and with lines from among classical ruins. Ovid, including scenes of skating, angling, a Stock: 55693 may pole, harvesting, sheep-shearing hop- picking and chopping fire wood. Engraved 10. Premio della virtu. by Amedeo Gabrielli and Pietro Bonato. G. Zocchi inv. F. Bartollozi Scul. Wagner May with slight loss at top; June very small Ven.a C.P.E.S. [n.d., c.1761.] tear top centre margin; September small Very fine engraving, 18th century repaired tear left top margin and crease on watermark. 515 x 335mm (20¼ x 13¼"), with left in image; December repairs in title area. large margins. £320 Stock: 55633 'The First of Virtue'. A female angel kneels on a monument, blowing a trumpet as three 12. Summer. Now swarms the village o'er the figures festoon the monument with jovial mead'... garlands. A half-naked woman with sagging Drawn by T. Hearne. Engraved by W. Ellis. breasts (a Sin?) covers her ears. De Vesme London: Published as the Act directs, 12 740. Aug. 1784, by W.m Ellis, No. 9 Gwynne's Stock: 55692 Build.gs Islington. Etching with engraving, signed in ink by the engraver on reverse. Sheet 345 x 375mm (13½ x 14¾"). Trimmed within plate. creasing, small tear taped. £320 An oval harvesting scene, one of a set painted by Thomas Hearne illustrating Thomson's poem 'The Seasons'. The BM's Writing Sheet; lithograph with very fine example (1849,0328.73) is also signed by hand colour. Sheet folded as issued, front William Ellis. 245 x 205mm (9¾ x 8"). £130 Stock: 55668 A young woman in a flower garden overlooking a river is presented with a valentine by Cupid. Stock: 55723 13. The Evening. Phoebus now setting, Collin then retires... Vangoen pinx.t. Austin sculp.t. Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster [Thomas Major, c.1740, but later]. Etching with sepia wash. 275 x 365mm (10¾ x 14¼"), on wove paper. Very small tear in top right margin. £230 Houses at the side of a river, after Jan van Goyen. One of four plates of the times of day engraved by William Austin after Dutch masters, with 'Morning' after Anthonie Waterloo, 'Noon' by Jacob van Ruisdael, and 16. Le Courtisan Suivant le Dernier Edit. La Laquay. 'Night' after Aert van der Neer. Stock: 55619 [Etched by Abraham Bosse.] [Paris: Jean Leblond, c.1635.] 14. The History of St Paul's School. Rare etching. Sheet 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8"). [London, R. Ackermann, 1816.] Trimmed within plate, small repaired tear Extract, 4to, disbound; pp. 34, partially top, creasing. £260 unopened, two coloured aquatints, very A full-length portrait of French courtier large margins. Soiling to front (back of first dressed in more sombre fashion, his young plate) and edges. £160 valet (lackey) removing his more elaborate The complete text relating to St. Paul's dress. A contemporary print showing the School from "Ackermann's Public Schools", effects of the ordinance of 18th November with the two aquatint plates, each c. 250 x 1633, one of two sumptuary laws in which 300mm (8 x 12"): "St. Paul's School", Louis XIII banned extravagant dress styles. engraved by Stadler after Pugin; and "The No one but princes and the nobility could School Room of St Paul's, by Bluck after wear gold embroidery or caps, shirts, collars Mackenzie. Large paper copy. Abbey Scenery and cuffs embroidered with metallic threads 438. or lace; and puffs, slashes, and bunches of Stock: 55728 ribbon were severely restricted. From a series 'Les Metiers' (Trades) by Abraham 15. [Valentine] Youthful in years and not Bosse (c.1604-76), which contained several deformed to view / With heart devoted references to these mostly-ignored constantly to you... regulations. [n.d., c.1830. Stock: 55654 17. [The Flight of Lot and His Family from image. We have a photocopy of the keyplate Sodom.] Eruditione et probitae Cl.mo V.D. to be included. De Vesme: 538. iii of iv. Joanni Brantio Lc.to Urbi Antverpiensi Ab Stock: 48180 Actis Socero Amantissimo, Petrus Paulus Rubens Gener. Observantiiæ Ergo D.D. P.P. Rubens pinxit. Lucas Vosterman Sculp. et excud. An.o 1620. Engraving, 17th century watermark. Sheet 325 x 385mm (12¾ x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate, repaired tear & nicks. Damaged. £240 An angel leads Lot, his wife and daughters from Sodom before the city is destroyed, after Peter Paul Rubens.
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