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 58 Item 50: Edward Julius Detmold The Captive All items listed are illustrated on 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. [Woman holding a bird and cherries] After Adam Buck (1759 - 1833), draughtsman and Sunt Oculi Scopuli, quos parat illa Venus specialist in watercolours. E. Back a H. sc. Jeremias Wolff excud . Aug. Vind. Stock: 40031 Engraving, platemark 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½") very large margins. £160 6. [Adrian von Seumenicht] Hadrianus, a One of a series of engravings by Augsburg printmaker Minsicht, Germanus, Com: Pal: Phil: Et Med: Jeremias Wolff after Elias Bäck (1679-1747), also of D: P.L. Caes: Nec Non Diver: S.R. Prin. Consil Augsburg. Et Arch: Stock: 40173 D. Diricksen Hamburg sculpt [in image] [n.d., c.1685.] Rare engraving, sheet 175 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed 2. [Sleeping woman] ____praestat si talia and glued to album sheet. £160 somnus, Blandimenta vigil quae dare posse Adrien von Seumenicht (1588-1638), alchemist best putas? known for his work 'Aureum Saeculum Redivivum' E. Back a H. sc. Jeremias Wolff excud . Aug. Vind. (The Golden Age Restored). In an oval frame Engraving, platemark 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½") very surrounded by alchemical and mathematical large margins. £140 instruments, two of which supported by angels, with One of a series of engravings by Augsburg printmaker six lines of Latin text by Jonas Angelus in cartouche Jeremias Wolff after Elias Bäck (1679-1747), also of below. Augsburg. Probably a frontispiece to a volume of his works. Stock: 40174 Wellcome Library no. 7128i; for another portrait of Seumenicht see ref. 13322. 3. [Woman sealing a letter] Tertius haud Stock: 39754 penetrat Veneris mysteria testis, Et sunt clausa aslys Cordaq charta simul. 7. [Inscription, in Greek, in honour of the E. Back a H. sc. Jeremias Wolff excud . Aug. Vind. musician Crato]. Marmori antiquo sub Engraving, platemark 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½") very Eumene Pergami rege ante Christianam aeram large margins. £160 plus CLannis in Cratonis [...] One of a series of engravings by Augsburg printmaker [c.1737] Jeremias Wolff after Elias Bäck (1679-1747), also of Rare engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark Augsburg. 525 x 420mm (20¾ x 16½"), very large margins. £290 Stock: 40175 Engraving, on a scale one third of the original, of a Greek inscription in honour of Crato, the musician of 4. Basle. Pergamus. It was erected in the reign of Eumenes in Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner R.A. Engraved by the pre-Christian era and brought from the village of C. Turner. Published as the Act directs by J.M.W. Segucque (between Smyrna [now Izmir] and Ephesus) Turner, Harley Street [n.d., c.1807]. by Captain Thomas Morley. The plate was engraved at Mezzotint and etching. Plate: 280 x 210mm, (11 x the expense of the antiquary Joseph Ames, and 8¼"), very large margins. £260 dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries (to which Ames View of the town of Basel (Basle) in north-west had been admitted in 1736). See Ames, 'Typographical Switzerland on the river Rhine, with the Cathedral on Antiquities'. the right behind tall houses. The sun is breaking Stock: 39684 through clouds. A collaboration between the draughtsmanship and 8. Society for the Encouragement of Arts, etching of J.M.W. Turner and the considerable skills of &c. Adelphi. engraving in mezzotint provided by Charles Turner Pugin & Rowlandson del.t et sculp.t J.Bluck, aqua.t. (1773 - 1857). For the artist's 'Liber Studiorum', a London. Pub. July 1st, 1809 at R. Ackermann’s series of compositional studies for various types of Repository of Arts 101, Strand. landscape painting, which he published in 14 parts at Coloured aquatint. 235 x 275mm (9¼ x 10½") very irregular intervals between 1807 and 1819. large margins. £180 Incribed with the initial 'A' 4mm above the image. Founded in 1754 by William Shipley as the Society for Finberg: 5,state III of VI. Rawlinson: 5, state III of V. the Encouragement of Arts, the RSA moved into a Stock: 40055 purpose-built building designed by the Adam Brothers (James and Robert Adam) in their Adelphi 5. Jessica. development,. This scene shows the Great Room, with Adam Buck del.t Rich.d Reeve sculp. London, its sequence of six paintings by Irish artist James Published Jan.y 1.st 1808 by R. Reeve 7 Vere Street. Barry: called "The progress of human knowledge and Hand coloured aquatint with stipple. Very rare, 'Proof' culture". inscribed lower right. Sheet size: 420 x 335mm (16½ x Plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' (1808- 13¼"). Repaired damage to right edge of sheet. 9) was a landmark publication in the documentation of Trimmed inside plate. Loss left bottom. £220 London, bringing together two specialist artists, An unidentified young lady with a flowing shawl Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and posing in a landscape in front of an urn on a pedestal; Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural she holds a book in her left hand. draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity battles during the War of the Austrian Succession and architectual accuracy. Abbey, Scenery: 212. which he intended to depict in a series of pictures for Stock: 39725 the chateau of Choisy (although he only completed two, now at Versailles). 9. Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Stock: 40289 &c. Adelphi. Pugin & Rowlandson del.t et sculp.t J.Bluck, aqua.t. 12. Reitres et Lansquenets Dédiés à London. Pub. July 1st, 1809 at R. Ackermann’s Monsieur Wasserschlebe Premier Secretaire Repository of Arts 101, Strand. des affaires Etrangeres de S.M. le Roi de Coloured aquatint. Platemark: 235 x 275mm (9¼ x Dannemark et de Norwege, par son Ami et 10¼") very large margins. £180 très-humble Serviteur Will. Founded in 1754 by William Shipley as the Society for C. Parrocel inv. J.G. Will fecit. A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, the Encouragement of Arts, the RSA moved into a Quay des Augustines, à côté de l'Hotel d'Augurgne. purpose-built building designed by the Adam Brothers [c.1753.] (James and Robert Adam) in their Adelphi Complete set of 12 numbered etchings. Each sheet c. development,. This scene shows the Great Room, with 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, its sequence of six paintings by Irish artist James mounted on album paper, a few signs of wear. £480 Barry: called "The progress of human knowledge and Twelve plates of 'ruffian soldiers', etched by Johann culture". Georg Will after Charles Parrocel (1688 - 1752). The A plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' second plate is dated 1753. (1808-9), a landmark publication in the documentation Stock: 40310 of London, bringing together two specialist artists, Thomas Rowlandson to design the figures and 13. [Sight.] Augustus Pugin to provide the architectural [after Hendrick Goltzius.] [n.d., c.1620.] draughtsmanship. The result was a series of scenes Etching. Sheet 200 x 140mm (8 x 5½"). Trimmed, unprecedented in their combination of vivid activity lacking top right corner, laid on album sheet. £80 and architectual accuracy. Abbey, Scenery: 212. 'Sight', from a series of the five senses by Goltzius. A Stock: 40125 man touches a woman's breast as she looks at her reflection in a mirror. A lynx peers past the couple. 10. Opera House. Plate 59. Goltzius (1558-1617) was the first artist to portray the Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J. Bluck, aquat. senses as pairs of contemporary lovers with the lynx London Pub. 1st. March 1809, at R. Ackermann’s being a more traditional symbol for sight. Repository of Arts 101 Strand. Stock: 40315 Hand-coloured aquatint. Plate: 235 x 266mm (9¼ x 10½") large margins. £320 14. Epicurus, on Onyx, Dr. Chauncey. Her (or His) Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket. After 1709, T. Worlidge sc. According to Act of Parliam.t [n.d., the theatre was devoted to Italian opera and was c.1760] sometimes known informally as The Haymarket Opera Etching, platemark 80 x 70mm (3 x 2½") very large House. The theatre was established by architect and margins. £65 playwright John Vanbrugh, in 1705, as the Queen's A cameo of ancient philosopher Epicurus, founder of Theatre. This is the interior of the second theatre which Epicureanism, a school of philosophy holding that hosted performances between 1791 and 1867. pleasure is the greatest good (although obtained Plate from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', one through living modestly and gaining knowledge of the of the key visual sources for London in the late workings of the world). Georgian period. Abbey, Scenery: 212. From a collection of 180 prints the 'English Rembrandt' Stock: 39911 Thomas Worlidge (1700-66) made from antique gems. For another print from the same collection see refl. 11. [19 military subjects by and after 32584. Charles Parrocel] Stock: 39758 Parrossel Pinx Sculp A Paris chez M.me Marel Rue St Jacques 39 [c.1740] 15. Siquis est Parwlus Veniat ad Me. Prov. Nineteen etchings with original stitching, each sheet 9.V.4. 305 x 225mm (12 x 9). Mint condition, very large S. Françoys Turonen inve. et pinx. N. Pitau sculp. cum margins. Mint condition. £750 privil.