09 Natural History.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

400. ('Black Buck') The Alarm [in pencil]
Horace W. Williamson [signature in pencil] [n.d.
c.1930.]
Etching. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8" x 10½". Small crease
in the paper. £180
Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is a species of
antelope found mainly in India, but also in parts of
Pakistan and Nepal.
Ref: 8951
NAVAL & MILITARY
401. Faits Mémorables. de la Vie Militaire
et Privée de sa Majesté L'Empereur des
Français et Roi d'Italie.
Paris, chez Ostervald Ainé, rue du Petit-Lion-Saint-
Sulpice, No 20. 1807 [-1809].
Large oblong folio, original half calf with marbled
boards, rubbed, front board detached, endpapers
creased; engr. title, 1pp. text, 33 engraved plates. Some
creasing and tears throughout. £850
The achievements of Napoleon Bonaparte including,
despite the date on the titlepage, the Battle of Wagram
in 1809.
Ref: 8838
402. The Landing of the British Forces
under Lord Hood on the Island of Corsica.
Publish'd as the Act directs Sep.r 4th by C.Sheppard,
No 15, St Peters Hill Doctors Commons.
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 275mm. Trimmed within plate,
laid on album sheet. £160
Ref: 8537
403. [Taking of Delhi.]
[Signed by Orlando Norrie.] [n.d. c.1850.]
Watercolour Sandwiched between old mount boards,
although not laid flat. £650
Orlando Norrie (1832-1901) was a popular and prolific
painter of military subjects. He exhibited at the Royal
Academy between 1876 and 1889 and had a studio at
Aldershot to study his military subjects at first hand.
The Sepoy Mutiny: On the morning of 11 May,
mutineers stormed into the Red Castle in Delhi, killed
what British officers they found, and begged Bahadur
Shah, the aging Moghul king, to lead them. He knew
the likely outcome, but felt compelled to cooperate. His
sons quickly joined the uprising, Mirza Moghul taking
command of the army. More sepoys in Delhi killed
their British officers and joined the mutiny. After a few
hours’ defense, the British blew up the magazine rather
than have it fall into rebel hands. Most Europeans,
living outside the city, fled for Meerut or Karnal. Fifty
British civilians, including women and children, were
held for a few days, then hacked to pieces when they
refused to convert to Islam. The Britsh regained the
city and showed very little mercy on their return. It
lead to the downfall of the Moghul Dynasty.
Ref: 8855
404. The New York & London Packet
Ship Devonshire, 1300 Tons. To Captain
E.E. Morgan, this print is by permission
most respectfully dedicated by his obedient
Servant, Thomas G. Dutton.
T.G. Dutton del & lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the
Queen. Published June 1848 by the Artist, at Bale's
Cottage, Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, also by
Ackermann & Co Strand, & W.Foster Fenchurch
Street.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 340 x 460mm. £1250
Very scarce. One of Dutton's very first shipping scenes.
NMM: PAH061.
Ref: 8444
405. Paul Jones Attaque une Flotte
Anglaise commandée par Pearson revenant
de la Baltique en 1793.
Dessiné et lith par Ferd. Perrot. Imp. par Lemercier.
London, published 15th March 1844, by the
Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berniers St., Oxford St.
Paris, publié par V.or Delarue & C.ie, Place de Louvre,
10.
Lithograph on india. 380 x 495mm, 15 x 19½".
Publisher's blind stamp in title. £580
The Battle of Flamborough Head, 23 September 1779
[not 1793 as the title], was one of the most bitter naval
contests of the century. The American naval
commander, John Paul Jones, attacked a British
convoy escorted by Captain Richard Pearson in HMS
Serapis. Jones took the Serapis but his own ship was so
badly damaged that she sank two days later. The
convoy escaped
Ref: 9071
406. 'Mirage', R.Y..S., 200 Tons. 5th
October 1872.
T.G. Dutton, del.t et lith. M. & N. Hanhart, Imp.t.
London: Published March 1st 1873 by Arthur
Ackermann, 191, Regent Street.
Colour tinted lithograph. Printed area 420 x 600mm.
£1450
Ref: 8402