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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 SUMMER LISTING July 2011 Item 365 [Ref 21250] Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Village, Station Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW1 Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Ellis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. My Heart's in the Highlands. Chasing 4. Le Graveur. 1. No.54. the Wild deer & following the roe, My à Augsbourg chez J.J.Haid et fils. heart's in the highlands wherever I go. Fine mezzotint. Sheet 410 x 305mm. 16¼ x 12". Trimmed to plate, laid on album paper. £450 [Separate poem text:] Illustrated Song.- An engraver at work sitting behind his desk. With his No.3. My heart's in the Highlands, my left hand he holds a knife poised ready to draw onto the heart is not here, My heart's in the plate. On the work table to the left above is a Higlands a chasing the deer...I sigh fot the candleholder throwing light onto the plate. Behind to hour that shall me retrace The path of my the left, there is an engraving depicting a woman with a crucifix. childhood, my own native place. My Johann-Jakob Haid (1704-1767), pupil of Ridinger, heart's, &c. belonged to a famous German family of portraitists and T.C. Wilson. Alfred Carlile, Lithographer, London. engravers based in Augsburg. [n.d. c.1845.] Rijksmuseum: RP-P-2005-100. Lithograph and text. 268 x 209mm. 10½ x 8¼". Some Stock: 21344 toning around the edges. £65 My Heart's in the Highlands, a song written by the 5. The New and Splendid Diorama, acclaimed Robert Burns in 1789; accompanied by an illustration of Scotsman in full clan dress holdng a Designed and Painted by Mr. Stanfield, rifle, with a stag and deerhound jumping across a From Sketches taken on the spot, during stream. his last Continental Tour. The Various Stock: 21527 Views will display, The Stupendous and Extraordinary Military Pass of the 2. Le Peintre. Gravé d'après le tableau Simplon. 1.-- Town of Sion, in the Valais. original de Corneille Bega qui se trouve ... Lago Magiore, with The Boromean dans la Gallerie de S.E. Mons.gr le Comte Islands. Books of the Pantomime to be had de Brühl, Premier Ministre de S.M. le Roi at Kenneth’s Dramatic Repository, Russell de Pol: Elect: de Saxe. de la même Street... Lord Byron’s Tragedy of Werner; grandeur que l'estampe. or, The Inheritance. M. Kuyl sculp. à Dresde chez P. Resler Marchand Vivant Rex et Regina. No Money to be returne. J. d'Estampes de la Cour [German, n.d., c.1755]. Tabby, Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Etching, 390 x 270mm. 15¼ x 10½". A fine impression Letterpress poster. 336 x 209mm. 13¼ x 8¼". £150 on a full sheet, with wide margins, printed on 18th Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) was a century watermarked paper £280 prominent English marine painter who partnered with A painter's studio with the artist standing next to a David Roberts in several large-scale diorama and painting on an easel at left (looking at the viewer panorama projects in the 1820s and 1830s these uneasily), while his client in rich clothes sits examining sometimes included moving pieces, sound effects, and the painting. Another man beyond; coat of arms to title live actors. A 1830 tour through Germany and Italy area. furnished Stanfield with material for two particular After Cornelis Bega (Dutch, 1620 - 1664). Numbered moving Dioramas with one in particular that went to 'No.23' lower right; from 'Recueil d'estampes gravées London that very September: The Military Pass of the d'après les tableaux de la galerie de S. E. M. le Comte Simplon. This is the bill-poster for that show. de Brühl', reproductions of master drawings in the Stock: 21431 collection of statesman Count Heinrich von Brühl (German, 1700 - 1763). Stock: 21369 6. Minerva. All' Illustrissimo Signor Daniel Antonio Bertoli. Nell' antisala della 3. Le Modeleur. 2. Libreria di S. Marco. à Augsbourg chez J.J.Haid et fils. G. Ant. Faldoni Sculp. [Venice: Zanetti Snr. & A rare mezzotint. Sheet 410 x 305mm. 16¼ x 12". Jnr.,1740-1743.] Trimmed to plate, laid on archival tissue. £450 Copper engraving on laid paper, 410 x 280mm. 16 x A sculptor with his hat on, sat at his raised drawing 11". Full untrimmed margins. £220 table looking away, possibly towards his subject The sculpted bust of the Roman goddess Minerva in matter; a candlelit-lamp attached to the desk at top left. the Biblioteca Marciana (St Mark's Library) in Venice, His hand poised over the table and paper ready to engraved by Giovanni Antonio Faldoni from a drawing draw. To his left: tools and various stones. The early by Antonio Daniele Bertoli. The library is one of the stages of copying. earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in Johann-Jakob Haid (1704-1767), pupil of Reidinger, Italy, holding one of the greatest collections of belonged to a famous German family of portraitists and classical texts in the world. Equated with the Greek engravers based in Augsburg. goddess Athena, Minerva was the virgin goddess of Rijksmuseum: RP-P-2005-101. poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, Stock: 21732 magic, and the inventor of music. Plate 'X' from the folio 'Delle Antiche statue greche e woman seated beside him at table in a shop, as a man romane che, nell'antisala della libreria di San Marco e entering the room glances towards them. in altri luoghi pubblici di Venezia..' (100 plates total). In 1765 Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far Published by Antonio Maria Zanetti (1680 - 1757) in south as Naples, and after returning determined to collaboration with his son. describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. BNF: FRBNF31681530. The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly Stock: 21363 represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised alter ego. The book recounts his various 7. Christiana and her Children at adventures, usually of the amorous type, in a series of Supper in the Interpreter’s House. self-contained episodes. The book is less eccentric and [J. Sturt?] [London, n.d., c.1722.] more elegant in style than Tristram Shandy and was Engraving, image 160 x 95mm. 6¼ x 3¾". Trimmed better received by contemporary critics. It was just within plate on two sides. £80 published on February 27 1768, and on March 18 A family in medieval dress sitting around the supper Sterne died. table in an interior; a man in armour at centre. A Four line quotation in English and French below servant (right) brings a plate of food, jug and wine corresponding titles. glasses to foreground. Illustration to an edition (the After James Northcote (1746 - 1831). 10th?) of John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'. Ex Collection: Christopher Lennox-Boyd, from Numbered 'Page 43 P.II' upper right. Northcote Albums. Stock: 21255 See BL 04414.de.18. C.37.b.33. Stock: 21469 10. Peggy, 8. Nampont. Vide Yorick's Sentimental Drawn & Engrav'd by Wickstead. London Publish'd May 1st. 1786 by Wm. Dickinson Bond Street. Journey Vol.1.Page 124. From the Stipple printed in brown ink, rare, 175 x 125mm. 7 x Original Picture, in the Possession of 5". Stitching holes to left margin; a fine impression. Commodore James. To whom this Print is £160 inscribed by his very humble and Obedient A young woman in a tartan or patterned dress and hat, Servant, George Carter. shepherd's crook(?) over her shoulder. An oval [Inside image plate: ] George Carter pinxit. V. Green, illustration to Allan Ramsay's dramatic pastoral 'The Mezzotinto Engraver to His Majesty fecit. [Inside title Gentle Shepherd' (1725). Four line verse quotation plate area:] George Carter pinxit. V. Green Metzotinto from the poem below title. By Irish caricaturist James Engraver to his Majesty fecit. [Inside image plate: ] Wicksteed (1786 - 1787; fl). who shared an address in Publish'd by J. Boydell Engraver, Cheapside, May 9.th 1780s with G.T.Stubbs, who may have worked from 1774. [Inside title plate area:] Published May 9.th 1774 his designs. Stock: 21466 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London. Mezzotint, uncut with large margins. Sheet 706 x 531mm. 27¾ x 21"; image and title area in two 11. Le Concert Agreable. separate plates. Soiling to upper margin edge. £450 Peint par Lavreince, Peintre du Roi de Suede et de Nampont, from Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'; "The l'Acad. Rle. de Stokolm. Grave par C.N. Varin. A mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door, Paris chez Vidal, Graveur, rue des Noyers No.29. [n.d., with the ass's pannel and its bridle on one side, which 1785.] he took up from time to time,--then laid them down,-- Copper engraving on laid paper, 385 x 460mm. 15¼ x look'd at them, and shook his head. He then took his 18". Fine impression with full margins. £420 crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat it; An attractive outdoor scene demonstrating the leisurely held it some time in his hand,--then laid it upon the bit pursuits of fashionable French society. A group of men of his ass's bridle,--looked wistfully at the little and women partake in a musical recital; featuring flute, arrangement he had made--and then gave a sigh." guitars and a lute, one woman preparing to sing from CS: 151.