2013 ABA.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

R. Benning del. et sculp. Sold by J. Boydell Engraverr
at the Unicorn in Cheapside London 1756.
Panoramic view on two sheets; engraving, paper
watermarked
with very large margins; rare r in good
condition. Plate 305 x 489mm (12 x 19¼"). £1500
A long view of London as it was in 1647, before the
Great Fire, from Westminster Abbey to St. Katharine's
and Essex on
the north side of the Thames. Very
detailed view
of Southwark on the south
of the Thames
in the foreground.
From "A Collection of One Hundred Views In England
and Wales".
John Boydell's 'Collection
of Views' was made after he
turned from engraver to print publisher in 1767. The
first collection was issued in 1770, and included some
plates by printmakers other than himself.
Adams (London): 47.45 & 46.
[Ref: 29381]
6. [A Polar Bear.]
[n.d. c.1900.]
Etching, signed artist's proof, limited to 150
impressions; framed. Plate
215 x 279mm. 8½ x 11".
Frame 419 x 458mm. 16½
x 18". Paper lightly toned. .
£590
Polar bear facing up rocky
slope taking scent.
The only recorded state; the plate was then destroyed.
[Ref: 25915]
7.
This Plate (representing a Negroes
Dance in thee Island of Dominica) is
humbly dedicated to the Honble,, , Charles
O'Hara, Brigadier General of hiss Majestys
Army in America, Col, ,, of Foot, & Lieut,,
Col,, of the ColdstreamC
m Regimentt of Foot
Guards.
A. Brunias Pinxt. et Sculpt,, London, Published 15
Feby, 1779, by the Proprietor, N [blank] Broad Street,
Soho.
Stipple and etching on laid paper, fine impression;
sheet 290 x 355mm. 11½ x 14". Margins trimmed. t
Two small tearss into inscription area. A few worm
holes to lower right r edge of image.
£950
A group of black people dancing, on the Caribbean
island of Dominica, with drums and tambourines.
Agostino Brunias (1730 - 1796). Whilst working in
England for thee architect Robert Adam as a
draughtsman and decorative artist, Rome-born Brunias
met William Young who, in 1764, was nominated the
first Commissioner and Receiver for sale of lands in
the ceded (fromm France) West Indies islands of
Dominica, St Vincent, V Grenada and Tobago. Brunias
agreed to accompany Young g to the West Indies I as his
personal artist. He spent seven years in thee Caribbean
creating romantic genre scenes of markets, village and
harbour scenes. . Brunias’s treatment of his human
subjects reflects that of artists recording natural history
specimens: every aspect of dress and accessory is
captured in exhaustive detail l yet the figures appear as
‘types’ rather than individuals. Dress is used as the
marker of particular colonial l identities encountered on
the islands: Carib, Black Carib, mulatto, slave,
freedman, and planter. p Brunias’s romanticised images
of
island life, which w denied the harsh realities of
plantation slavery, were popular with members of the
white plantocracy, both in the West Indiess and in
Britain.
[Ref: 27814]