cat2 09.pdf - Grosvenor Prints
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General Peace concluded at Aix le Chapelle<br />
Oct:18, 1748) and exhibited June 13, 1749.<br />
N.S.<br />
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine according to Act<br />
of Parliament 1749, for J. Hinton at ye Kings Arms in<br />
St. Pauls Church-Yard London.<br />
Etching and engraving, 180 x 300mm. 7 x 11¾".<br />
Vertical folds as normal, tearing at lower paper edge.<br />
Some staining. £90<br />
Preparations for a display of fireworks to celebrate the<br />
second Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) of 1748,<br />
which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.<br />
Fold-out illustration to the Universal Magazine.<br />
9654 An Arabian belonging to John Warde<br />
Esqr.<br />
Painted by Mr. Stubbs. London, Printed for R. Sayer &<br />
J. Bennett Map & <strong>Prints</strong>ellers No.53 Fleet Street, as the<br />
Act directs 2 June 1777.<br />
Mezzotint, 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¾". Two surface<br />
scratched to right. A few stain spots; unexamined out<br />
of frame. £650<br />
Numbered '522' lower right.<br />
Lennox-Boyd: 22, IV of VIII. Siltzer: pg. 270.<br />
9845 Royal and Ancient [St. Andrews<br />
1798].<br />
by Frank Paton, Signed in pencil. Published by Leggatt<br />
Bros, 62 Chaepside, London. 1894<br />
Proof etching, 200 x 265mm £320<br />
Frank Paton (1856-1909) was a successful artist during<br />
his lifetime and could even count Queen Victoria as an<br />
admirer of his work. He is perhaps most widely known<br />
for his series of etched Christmas cards published<br />
annually by Edward Ernest Leggatt from 1880 until<br />
Paton's death in 1909. They were intended to be a cut<br />
above the average Christmas card and sold for half a<br />
guinea each. Their format became quite formulaic over<br />
the years. A central subject reflecting the title of the<br />
print was usually complemented by a series of often<br />
humorous sketches around its border. A number of the<br />
prints would be sent from the printers to be signed in<br />
pencil by Paton.<br />
The Green at St. Andrews surrounded by anecdotal<br />
vignettes from golfing teminology is from this series.<br />
9835 Ruines de la partie interieure d'une<br />
basilique a Rome [in pencil.]<br />
Robert pinexit Guyot Sculpsit [ink mss.] [n.d.,<br />
c.1790.]<br />
Hand coloured etching with aquatint, proof before all<br />
letters (with ink ruled border). 305 x 380mm. 12 x 15".<br />
Small split in printed border. Minor soiling/staining.<br />
£420<br />
Women attending to their laundry inside a ruined<br />
church in Rome. In fine colour.<br />
9829 Tyre, from the Isthmus. Tsur, ancient<br />
Tyre, from the Isthmus, April 27th 1839.<br />
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith. London,<br />
Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, Aug.t<br />
18th , 1843.<br />
Tinted lithograph, printed area 355 x 510mm. £520<br />
Early in the 6th century B.C. Nebuchadnezzar, king of<br />
Babylon, laid siege to the city for 13 years. Later<br />
Alexander the Great stormed Tyre without success for<br />
seven months. Only by joining the island city to the<br />
mainland by a causeway was he able to bring up his<br />
siege engines to scale Tyre's formidable walls.<br />
9664 The first Interview of Christopher<br />
Columbus with the Natives of America.<br />
Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of<br />
Geography. [n.d., c.1777.]<br />
Etching and engraving, 295 x 175mm. 11½ x 7". Trace<br />
of water stain to lower left corner. £75<br />
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) landed within the<br />
Bahamas Archipelago in October 1492 at a locale he<br />
named San Salvador. Mistaking the Carribean island<br />
for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its<br />
inhabitants as "Indians". Severely underestimating the<br />
circumference of the Earth, Columbus had<br />
hypothesized that a westward route from Iberia to the<br />
Indies would be shorter and more direct than the<br />
overland trade route through Arabia. If true, this would<br />
have allowed his royal Spanish patrons entry into the<br />
lucrative spice trade.<br />
Plate to Charles Theodore Middleton's 'A new and<br />
complete system of Geography ... Embellished ... with<br />
... copper plates, etc.', London 1777-78.<br />
9828 Engedi. Convent of St Saba April 4th<br />
1839.<br />
David Roberts. R.A. London, Published F.G.Moon, 20<br />
Threadneedle Street, Nov.r 1st, 1842.<br />
Tinted lithograph, printed area 350 x 505mm. £490<br />
Mar Saba in the West Bank, a Greek orthodox<br />
monastery founded in 439 C.E.and believed to be the<br />
oldest surviving monastery in the world, today housing<br />
20 monks.<br />
9827 Baalbec. [Ruins of Baalbec, May 5th<br />
1839.]<br />
David Roberts. R.A. L. Haghe Lith. London,<br />
Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, Sept.r<br />
18th, 1843.<br />
Tinted lithograph, printed area 350 x 510mm. £850<br />
The Acropolis of Baalbek is the largest and best<br />
preserved corpus of Roman architecture left to us. Its<br />
temples, dedicated to Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus<br />
(larger than the Parthenon in Athens), were built in the<br />
second and third centuries A.D.<br />
9812 [Scene On The French Coast.]<br />
Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner R.A. Engraved by<br />
C. Turner. Published as the Act directs by J.M.W.<br />
Turner Harley Street [n.d., c.1807].<br />
Mezzotint and etching in sepia, 210 x 290mm. 8¼ x<br />
11½". £260<br />
A ship on the shore in the foreground is being unloaded<br />
with the aid of horses and carts.<br />
A collaboration between the draughtsmanship and<br />
etching of J.M.W. Turner and the considerable skills of<br />
engraving in mezzotint provided by Charles Turner<br />
(1773 - 1857). For the artist's 'Liber Studiorum', a