09 Natural History.pdf - Grosvenor Prints
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400. ('Black Buck') The Alarm [in pencil]<br />
Horace W. Williamson [signature in pencil] [n.d.<br />
c.1930.]<br />
Etching. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8" x 10½". Small crease<br />
in the paper. £180<br />
Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is a species of<br />
antelope found mainly in India, but also in parts of<br />
Pakistan and Nepal.<br />
Ref: 8951<br />
NAVAL & MILITARY<br />
401. Faits Mémorables. de la Vie Militaire<br />
et Privée de sa Majesté L'Empereur des<br />
Français et Roi d'Italie.<br />
Paris, chez Ostervald Ainé, rue du Petit-Lion-Saint-<br />
Sulpice, No 20. 1807 [-18<strong>09</strong>].<br />
Large oblong folio, original half calf with marbled<br />
boards, rubbed, front board detached, endpapers<br />
creased; engr. title, 1pp. text, 33 engraved plates. Some<br />
creasing and tears throughout. £850<br />
The achievements of Napoleon Bonaparte including,<br />
despite the date on the titlepage, the Battle of Wagram<br />
in 18<strong>09</strong>.<br />
Ref: 8838<br />
402. The Landing of the British Forces<br />
under Lord Hood on the Island of Corsica.<br />
Publish'd as the Act directs Sep.r 4th by C.Sheppard,<br />
No 15, St Peters Hill Doctors Commons.<br />
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 275mm. Trimmed within plate,<br />
laid on album sheet. £160<br />
Ref: 8537<br />
403. [Taking of Delhi.]<br />
[Signed by Orlando Norrie.] [n.d. c.1850.]<br />
Watercolour Sandwiched between old mount boards,<br />
although not laid flat. £650<br />
Orlando Norrie (1832-1901) was a popular and prolific<br />
painter of military subjects. He exhibited at the Royal<br />
Academy between 1876 and 1889 and had a studio at<br />
Aldershot to study his military subjects at first hand.<br />
The Sepoy Mutiny: On the morning of 11 May,<br />
mutineers stormed into the Red Castle in Delhi, killed<br />
what British officers they found, and begged Bahadur<br />
Shah, the aging Moghul king, to lead them. He knew<br />
the likely outcome, but felt compelled to cooperate. His<br />
sons quickly joined the uprising, Mirza Moghul taking<br />
command of the army. More sepoys in Delhi killed<br />
their British officers and joined the mutiny. After a few<br />
hours’ defense, the British blew up the magazine rather<br />
than have it fall into rebel hands. Most Europeans,<br />
living outside the city, fled for Meerut or Karnal. Fifty<br />
British civilians, including women and children, were<br />
held for a few days, then hacked to pieces when they<br />
refused to convert to Islam. The Britsh regained the<br />
city and showed very little mercy on their return. It<br />
lead to the downfall of the Moghul Dynasty.<br />
Ref: 8855<br />
404. The New York & London Packet<br />
Ship Devonshire, 1300 Tons. To Captain<br />
E.E. Morgan, this print is by permission<br />
most respectfully dedicated by his obedient<br />
Servant, Thomas G. Dutton.<br />
T.G. Dutton del & lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the<br />
Queen. Published June 1848 by the Artist, at Bale's<br />
Cottage, Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, also by<br />
Ackermann & Co Strand, & W.Foster Fenchurch<br />
Street.<br />
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 460mm. £1250<br />
Very scarce. One of Dutton's very first shipping scenes.<br />
NMM: PAH061.<br />
Ref: 8444<br />
405. Paul Jones Attaque une Flotte<br />
Anglaise commandée par Pearson revenant<br />
de la Baltique en 1793.<br />
Dessiné et lith par Ferd. Perrot. Imp. par Lemercier.<br />
London, published 15th March 1844, by the<br />
Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berniers St., Oxford St.<br />
Paris, publié par V.or Delarue & C.ie, Place de Louvre,<br />
10.<br />
Lithograph on india. 380 x 495mm, 15 x 19½".<br />
Publisher's blind stamp in title. £580<br />
The Battle of Flamborough Head, 23 September 1779<br />
[not 1793 as the title], was one of the most bitter naval<br />
contests of the century. The American naval<br />
commander, John Paul Jones, attacked a British<br />
convoy escorted by Captain Richard Pearson in HMS<br />
Serapis. Jones took the Serapis but his own ship was so<br />
badly damaged that she sank two days later. The<br />
convoy escaped<br />
Ref: 9071<br />
406. 'Mirage', R.Y..S., 200 Tons. 5th<br />
October 1872.<br />
T.G. Dutton, del.t et lith. M. & N. Hanhart, Imp.t.<br />
London: Published March 1st 1873 by Arthur<br />
Ackermann, 191, Regent Street.<br />
Colour tinted lithograph. Printed area 420 x 600mm.<br />
£1450<br />
Ref: 8402