17 Addenda.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

The Colonel, winner of the St. Leger stakes in 1828.
The oldest of the British five classic races, the St.
Leger stakes were first held in 1776. Born in 1795,
John Frederick Herring spent the first eighteen years of
his life in London, before moving to Doncaster. In
Yorkshire, he married and began to earn his living as a
humble painter of inn signs and coach insignia.
Sketching equestrian subjects in his spare time,
Herring’s talent was quickly noticed and he soon found
himself painting hunters and racehorses for local
patrons. He lived for a time in Newmarket, and then in
London, where he may have been tutored by a wellknown
artist of the time, Abraham Cooper.
Siltzer 146
Ref: 9359
he beat the famous horse Bucephalus & on
the 19th following he won the Kings 100
Guins against some of the most famous
Horses & double distanc'd them the
Second Heat.
Geo. Stubbs. Pinx.t. Publish'd June 4, 1804 by Laurie
& Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 250 x 350mm. 9¾ x 13¼". £550
A reduced version of either the mezzotint by Burke or
the stipple by G.T.Stubbs, unlikely to have been
authorised by the artist.
Lennox-Boyd:144.
Ref: 8110
1196 General Gilbert_on Passport.
Painted by T.R. Davis Drawn on Stone by T. Fairland
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare Coloured lithograph, 365 x 460mm. 14¼ x 18".
Unexamined out of frame. £520
A coloured lithograph of a racehorse and its rider.
Ref: 9368
1197 Rowton, The Winner of the Great St.
Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, 1829. Rode by
W.m Scott.__ 97 Subscribers___19 started.
By Oiseau, out of Katherina (late
Perspective) by Woful, her Dam, Lanscape,
by Rubens_ The Property of the Hon.ble E.
Petre. To whom this Print, by Special
Permission, is most respectfully dedicated
by his very obliged and obedient servant.
R. Ackermann, Jun.r
Painted by J. Ferneley, Melton Mowbray. Engraved by
C. Turner, A.R.A. London. Published by R.
Ackermann, Jun.r at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 194
Regent Street (between Conduit St. & New Burlington
St.) [1833.]
Coloured aquatint., 360 x 42mm. 14 x 16½".
Unexamined out of frame. £580
Rowton, winner of the St. Leger stakes in 1829, with
trainer J. Scott to the left. The oldest of the British five
classic races, the St. Leger stakes were first held in
1776. By John E. Ferneley (1782-1860) The son of a
village wheelwright whose trade he followed until the
age of twenty-one, before moving to London and
studying with Benjamin Marshall.
Siltzer 120
Ref: 9360
1198 Eclipse, the Property of Capt.n O
Kelly, was got by Mask when in the
Possession of Mr. Wildman, he won the
Following Prizes, Vizt. in 1769, six Kings
Plates of 100 Gunis each at inchester,
Canterbury, Newmarket, Salisbury, Lewes
& Litchfield most of them he walk'd over
the Course alone, No Horse daring to Start
against him. At Newmarket 17 April 1770,
1199 [George Family Scrap Album.]
[James George a.o.] [n.d., c.1826.]
Album, 320 x 245mm. 12½ x 9½". Some pages loose.
£1500
Scrap album belonging to the family of the amateur
watercolourist James George. Containing eleven fine
watercolours of India by George, images of Indian
flowers, insects, and numerous other drawings of India,
as well as various other material.
Ref: 9438
1200 Port Louis from the Champs de Mars.
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour, c.165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼". £550
A view from above Port Louis, the capital of
Mauritius, in the southwest Indian Ocean. A drawing
from life by a skilful amateur artist from a sketch book
of scenes on a voyage of the ship 'Elphinstone'. She
was a sloop in the service of the Honourable East India
Company launched c.1824 which travelled to the
Mediterranean, around the southern tip of Africa and
on to the East Indies and Australia. The identity of the
artist who travelled on board the Elphinstone drawing
the different landscapes and scenes he saw is not
ascertained. The sketch book is inscribed in ink with
the initials 'W.B.' on the front endpaper.
Ref: 9406
1201 Port Louis Isle of France from the
Harbour.
[Unsigned, n.d., c.1820s.]
Watercolour on two sheets, total 165 x 335mm. 6½ x
13¼". Some staining to sky. £950