Catalogue n°114, Grosvenor Prints

Catalogue n°114, Grosvenor Prints

We have the pleasure of uploading our new miscellaneous catalogue of over 290 items.

Highlights include:

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Puck. [n.d., c.1860.]Pen & ink sketch on folded letter sheet, side 155 x 100mm (6 x 4″), with printed version; Baskerville vellum wove watermark. Printed version trimmed from booklet cover. A grotesque, winged Puck, sitting on a toadstool. Apparently a preparatory sketch for the cover illustration of ‘Virtue’s Imperial Shakespeare’, a 40-part illustrated series published by Charles Knight, ‘with Illustrations by Cope, R.A. Leslie, R.A., Maclise, R.A. E.M. Ward. R.A. W.P. Frith, R.A. H.S. Marks, A.R.A. and others’. [Ref: 57783] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

 

[Sequence of ten portraits of British Monarchs from Elizabeth I to George II, plus two consorts.] Elizabetha D.G. Angliæ. Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Regina. [&] Jacobus, D.G. Angliæ. Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Rex. [&] Carolus… [&} Carolus II… [&] Jakobus II… [&] Gulielmus III… [&] Maria… [&] Anna… [&] Georgius, Daniæ Princeps. [&] Georgius Lewis… [&] George II, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland &c. [&] Caroline, Queen of Great Britain…Phil: a Gunst Sculpsit.M. Marrebeeck excudit [n.d., c.1730.]12 engravings, very scarce separately and extremely rare complete. Each c.360 x 285mm (14¼ x 11¼”), very large margins. Plates toned and spotted, Elizabeth with two creases in image. Twelve head and shoulders portraits in matching architectural borders: Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III & Mary III, Anne & George, Prince of Denmark, George I, George II & Catherine of Ansbach. Rare: the BM list only three. From the Davidson album. [Ref: 57769] £3,000.00

 

Verapadroog, in the Barramahl. No XIII.Drawn & Engraved by Tho.s & W.m Daniell.Published as the Act directs, by Tho.s Daniell, R.A. Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Aug.t 1, 1802.Coloured aquatint. 480 x 650mm (19 x 25½”), on thick pt J. Whatman watermarked paper with large margins. A landscape near Mysore in southern India, with a herder climbing a staircase in a rocky hillside. From ‘Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan’. Abbey Travel 420. [Ref: 57688] £1,300.00

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