Catalogue Part 1.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

68. [Textile designs.] Bonneville Paris.
Gravé par Deschamps. Dubreuil, rue Lacharie, No. 8, à
Paris. [n.d., c. 1800.]
Engravings, each approx. 300 x 450mm. 12 x 17¾".
Some foxing, creasing, slight tears and scuffing to
paper. £390
Seventeen sheets of patterned textile designs.
Ref: 9053
69. [A young woman reading a
valentine.]
London, Published August 22nd. 1866, by Moore,
McQueen & Company Limited 25, Berners Street,
Oxford Street; Pairs, chez François Delarue, Editeur,
18, Rue J.J. Rousseau.
Mixed method engraving, proof before title, 720 x
515mm. 28¼ x 20¼". £220
A young woman reading a love letter by a fire place, a
rose having fallen to the ground, while her father works
in a back room. A fine impression.
Ref: 8489
70. Das Vater Unser eines
Underwaldners.
erfunden von J. Martin Usteri in Zürich ausgeführt und
in Tuschmanier geäzt von Marquard Wocher in Basel
Freiburg im Breisgau in der Herderschen
Kunsthandlung. [n.d., c.1814.]
4to. Cover and 8 leaves of calligraphic lithograph text,
with 8 aquatint plates.330 x 240mm. 13 x 9½". Some
foxing on pages but not on plates; loosely bound. £420
Usteri's anti-French series of illustrations and one of
his most important works. The aquatints depict the
Schwarzer September ('Black September'), as the
bloody rebellion of the Swiss Nidwalden against the
invading French revolutionary troops in September
1798 became known. 600 houses were burned down
and a large number of women and children perished.
The illustrations follow a Nidwald mountain shepherd
and his young nephew accompanied by a text based on
the Lord's Prayer.
Ref: 8909
71. Le Temps qui détruit tout, donne à
tout l’existence: Des débris que tu vois, j’ai
reçu la naissance.
Fortier Sculpsit. A Paris, chez L. Dubois Peintre, Rue
de L'Éperon No.8. Et chez tous les Mds. de
Nouveautés. Déposé à la Bibliothèque Impériale. [n.d.
c.1780.]
Engraving. 260 x 292mm. 10¼" x 11½". Small tear
that comes into the top platemark. Repaired hole to the
right-hand side of the image. £120
Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745-1794), french poet. These
words feature in his poetry set "Les Mois" - 'Avril'. The
image shows the face of a man with a beard when
turned upside down.
Ref: 8750
72. Cupido Dormiens. Cupid Sleeping.
From a painting of Guido Reni, in the
Collection of Sir Laurence Dundas Bar.t.
[With framer's trade label on verso:]
Thomas Fentham, Carver, Gilder and
Picture-Frame Maker, At No. 52. Opposite
Old Round-Court, Strand, London, Sells
all Sorts of Picture, Print, and Looking-
Glass Frames, of any colour to match
rooms; various Sorts of Green and Gold
Dressing-Glasses, rich Girandoles, &c. and
Green and Blue Venetian Window-Blinds.
Old Pictures and Prints Cleaned, lined,
repaired, and secured from Dust.
Guido Reni Pinxit. Rob.t Strange delin.t et Sculp.t.
[n.d., 1766.]
Engraving. 380 x 435mm. Narrow margins, laid on
linen. £230
Cupid asleep on a couch, his chin on his hand, the
elbow propped on a cushion on the right, with a curtain
above to right and a view of a landscape with a castle
in the background to left.
Thomas Fentham had several addresses in the Strand
between 1774 and 1825: he occupied No.52 between
1778-94.
Ref: 8352
73. [A putti playing a lyre and riding a
lion.]
Engraved by F. Bartolozzi. London, Publish'd May 25;
1785 by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No. 158
Bond Street.
Stipple and etching, proof, 155 x 130mm. 6 x 5". £90
A beautifully engraved classical design, possibly for a
ticket.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
Ref: 9179
74. Almanac 1883.
From T.J. Sawyerr, 162, Rawdon Street, Freetown.
A.J. White, Limited, 21, Farringdon Road, London,
E.C.
Printed pamphlet wrapper, chromolithograph, and one
disbound sheet. 12vo, 150 x 95mm, 6 x 3¾". £120
An Almanac printed for the British settlement at
Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. The printed text