06 London.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

277. The North-East View of the OldDormitory, in 1788 When the NewBuildings Were Begun in Old Palace yardWestminster.W. Courteney fect. 1760.Etching, sheet 145 x 175mm. 5¾ x 7". Tipped intoalbum page. £90Very rare and interesting etching of a dormitory inWestminster School.The school may have been attended by the artist,William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (1742 - 1788),amateur etcher and caricaturist, who would have beenof schoolboy age when he etched this plate.See Guildhall Library Record: 28413 for a 1788engraving of the same image by William Angus.Ref: 8778278. Old Chelsea Seymour Haden 1863Out of Whistler's window.Seymour Haden [signed in pencil.]Framed Etching, trial proof, 150 x 225mm. 6 x 9".Framed. Light age toning. Unexamined out of frame.£230Battersea Reach. One of the pioneers of the 19thcentury etching revival, Sir Francis Seymour Haden(1818 - 1910) married the sister of James McNeillWhistler (1834 - 1903) and became an importantinfluence on the American-born etcher's style.Harrington: 52c.Ref: 9083279. Vue du Palais de St. James.. Prospectvon dem König & Pallast zu St. Jaesohnweit London in Engelland ~ Vüe duPalais de St. James du Roi d'Angle terre.Gravé par Jean Benoit Winckler Se vend à Augsbourgau Negoce comunde L'acadenie Imperiale d'Empire desArts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majeste Imperialeet avec Defense ni d'au faire ni de vendre les Copies.[n.d., c.1720]Coloured engraving, 305 x 400mm. Some small stains;small tear inside platemark at top. £320Vue d'optique from Augsbourg showing St. James'sPalace and park.. The scene is reversed for viewingthrough a Zograscope.Ref: 8413280. The Yorkshire Irishman, orAdventures of a Potatoe Merchant,Written by Mr. G. Nicks & Sung by Mr.Emery. My Father was once a greatMerchant, As any in Ireland was found, /But faith he could ne'er save shilling, ,Tho'tatoes he sold by the pound... / At last Iwas drawn up to town, without in mypocket a Farden, / But since I've earn'dmany a crown, By the shop here, in sweetCommon Garden.[Publish'd Augt. 20. 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53Fleet Street, London.]Copper engraving 198 x 258mm. Framed. Trimmedwithin platemark, losing publication line, laid on albumpaper. £140Ex: Blackburn collection.Ref: 8242281. A Perspective Sketch of the Northand East Fronts of Wilson TerraceBelgrave Square.H.B. delt. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1830.]A very scarce lithograph. 147 x 222mm. 5¾" x 8¾".Cut and stuck on scrap. £75A View of Wilton Terrace on Belgrave Square.Ref: 8998282. View of Black Fryers Bridge, fromSommerset Place.J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculp. Pub. June 1.1795, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare- -Gallery, PallMall, & No. 90, Cheapside.Coloured aquatint, image 220 x 320mm. Faint staining.£220A view looking east down the Thames from the terraceof Somerset House. St. Paul's can be seen, with TheMonument and the Tower of London further downriver. From William Combe's 'History of the RiverThames' published in two volumes. Abbey: 432.Ref: 8747283. A View of part Blackfriars Bridge ofthe Tower and of the Manufacture forCartridge Balls taken from the Terraceover Somerset House. [Translated intoFrench below.][n.d., c.1790.]Aquatint and etching, sheet 195 x 225mm. 7¾ x 8¾".Trimmed inside plate. £240View of part of Blackfriars Bridge and Watt's ShotTower on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames,London, from Somerset House.After painter Louis Bélanger (1756 - 1816), engravedby Laurent Guyot (1756 - 1806).Numbered '15' above image. Very rare.Ref: 9138284. St. John's Church, Clapham, Surrey.The first stone of this church was laid onthe 24th of September, 1840, by John