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On the occasion of the coronation of Charles III, Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present its new selection of references: its catalog number 127: God save the King!   Highlights include: [George IV] The King seated in St Edward’s Chair Crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 19.th July 1821. Figures by J. Stephanoff. Architecture by Aug.s Pugin. F.C. Lewis, Sculpsit. [London Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1824 by Sir George Nayler, Garter.] Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22″). Trimmed to plate, laid on card at borders. The interior of Westminster Abbey...

Grosvenor Prints uploaded Catalogue 126 to its website! Highlights include: Cover: M.r James Gillray. From a miniature painted by himself & Engraved by Cha.s Turner.London, Published april 19 1819 by G.Humphrey, 27 S.t James’s Street.Mezzotint, plate: 300 x 395mm (12 x 15½”), with very large margins, on 19th century watermarked paper. Oval head and shoulders portrait of caricaturist and printmaker James Gillray (1757-1815). State with title in thick and thin letters, and all inscriptions engraved within border of horizontal and vertical lines surrounding image. Whitman 1907: 224.II. [Ref: 60043] £380.00 Venus. Elias Martin pinx.t J. Fried.k Martin Aculp.tPublish’d as the...

We have the pleasure of uploading our new Catalogue 121! Highlights include: Cover: Daughters of Sir Thomas Frankland Bar.t. Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. Portrait Painter to His Royal Higness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by W. Ward.Publish’d March 1. 1797 by W. Ward, Delancy Place, Hampstead Road.Fine mezzotint. 580 x 455mm (22¾ x 18″). Framed in a very good ‘Daniel’ type frame. Small margins. Unexamined out of frame. A portait of Marianne and Emilia Frankland in a landscape, a spaniel asleep at their feet. Amelia holds a crayon and a portfolio of sketches. They were two of the many...

We have the pleasure of uploading our new listing: numéro 118! Highlights include: Cover image: Fête du Sacre et Couronnement de Leurs Majestés Imperials. Vue de la Décoration elevée en face de la Place de Grève de l’autre cote de la rivière, à l’occasion de la Fête donnée à leurs Majestés, par la Ville de Paris.Le Cour del. et sculp.[Paris, 1806.]Scarce aquatint with hand colour. Sheet 440 x 330mm (17¼ x 13″). Trimmed within plate, repairs in inscription area with loss of text including publication line. A view of a fireworks display held on the Place de Grève (now Place...

We have the pleasure of uploading our new Summer Satire listing: Catalogue 117! Highlights include: Cover image: [Robert Walpole] Idol- Worship or The Way to Preferment. And Henry the King made unto himself a great Idol, the likeness of which was not in Heaven above, nor in the Earth beneath; and he reared up his Head unto y.e Clouds, & extended his Arm over all y.e Land; His Legs also were as y.e Posts of a Gate, or as an Arch stretched forth over y.e Doors of all y.e Publick Offices in y.e Land, & whosoever went out, or whosoever...

Grosvenor Prints has the pleasure in sending out our new catalogue of over 230 items. Highlights include: Cover image: Pinchbeck. Isaac Whood pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.[n.d., c.1725.]Mezzotint. 330 x 225mm (13 x 8¾”). Small repaired tear into margin on left. Printer’s crease bottom right in margin. Christopher Pinchbeck (1670?-1732), maker of clocks and automata, here shown holding an open pocket watch. He also invented ‘pinchbeck’, an alloy of copper and zinc that resembled gold, which created a new market for costume jewelry. Among his clients was Louis XIV, for whom he made a music clock. In 1717 he advertised a...