Catalogue Part 1.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

Coecill of Burleigh and Patron of this
Noble Structure the Church of St.
Clements Danes This Plate is Humbly
Dedicated by John Kip….
Ino. Kip deliniavit et fecit. Printed & Sold by I. Smith
in Exeter Change in ye Strand.
Engraving. 600 x 435mm. Centre crease, printed across
conjoined sheets. £350
Standing in a dominant position at the junction of Fleet
Street and the Strand, the church was not reached by
the Great Fire. It was still deemed unsafe by its
parishioners and in 1680 the body of the church was
rebuilt by Christopher Wren. Joshua Marshall had built
the west tower over a decade before Wren designed the
main body, and James Gibb added a spire in 1719.
Ref: 8250
265. To the Right Honorable and Right
Reverend William Howley, D.D. Lord
Bishop of London and the Right Reverend
the Dean and Chapter; This North West
View of the Cathedral Church of Saint
Paul, is by Permission most humbly
dedicated, by their Lordship's much
obliged and devoted Servant, John
Buckler.
Drawn & Etched by J. Buckler, F.S.A. Engraved by G.
Lewis. Published May 1814, by J. Buckler,
Bermondsey, Surrey.
Etching with aquatint, 520 x 675mm. Mint. £580
St Paul's Cathedral showing the colonnaded west front
and the dome, with figures walking in the foreground
admiring it. A rich and early impression from Buckler's
series 'Views of the Cathedral Churches of England
and Wales'.
On Whatman paper watermarked 1810.
Ref: 8378
266. A View of Stocks Market. Veue de la
place nommé Stocks Market.
Nichols Pinx.t. Fletcher sculp. Publish'd according to
Act of Parliam.t 1753 by J.Boydell Engraver at the
Unicorn the corner of Queen Street Cheapside,
London.
Engraving. 320 x 450mm, 12½ x 17¾". Watermarked
1819. Ink mss. in margin. £260
Stocks Market, so-called because it was originally the
site of the only permanent punishment stocks in the
City. It was cleared in 1737 for the building of
Mansion House.
Of interest is the equestrian statue of Charles II.
Originally an unfinished statue of King John Sobieski
of Poland trampling on a Turk, Sir Robert Vyner had
Charles's head added and changed the Turk to Oliver
Cromwell!
Ref: 9039
267. Admodum Reverendis, Amplissimis,
Clarissimisq. Viris, Curatoribus ex
Authoritate Senatus delegatis ad extruenda
Quinquaginta illa Templa qua Hortante et
Auspicante ANNA fælicis Piæq memoriæ
Reginâ Londini instaurari cæperunt,
Prospectum hunc Templi S.tæ Mariæ in
Vico dicto The Strand. Debito Obsequio D.
D: Jacobus Gibbs Architectus.
Jo: Harris Sculpsit. [n.d., c.1715.]
Engraving 600 x 450mm, 23½ x 17¾". Splits in folds.
£280
South west view of St Mary le Strand as proposed by
the architect James Gibbs, which was not as completed.
It shows a statue of Queen Anne above the portico
which was abandoned on her death in 1714.
St Mary-le-Strand was James Gibbs' first public
building, the first of the fifty new churches built in
London under the 'Commission for Building Fifty New
Churches', at a cost of some £16,000. Building started
in February 1715, but work was halted because of the
Jacobite rebellion. Gibbs, a secret Catholic and widely
believed to have Jacobite sympathies, was dismissed as
Surveyor to the Commissioners for building New
Churches in August 1715 but was allowed to complete
the church without pay. The steeple was completed in
September 1717, although the church was not
consecrated for use until 1 January 1723. Gibbs
complained about how the commissioners changed his
plans, including the addition of the steeple, which
meant Gibbs was 'obliged to spread [the church] from
south to north, which makes the plan oblong, which
should otherwise have been square'.
Ref: 9029
268. Surrey Chapel. Dedicated by
Permission to the Rev.d James Sherman by
his Obed.t & Humble Serv.t John T.S.
Ping.
Drawn by John Flowerdew. Engraved by Cha.s
Rosenberg and John T.S. Ping. London. Published for
the Proprietor, by David Stroud. 163. Blackfriars Road.
Aquatint. 490 x 650mm. 19¼ x 25½". Proof after
lettering. Paper scuffing and small tears outside of
image. £360
The Surrey Chapel on Blackfriars Road in London.
The chapel was built for the non-conformist preacher
Rowland Hill in 1783 using an inheritance from his
father. The chapel was destroyed during the Blitz.
Ref: 8534