Catalogue Part 1.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

277. The North-East View of the Old
Dormitory, in 1788 When the New
Buildings Were Begun in Old Palace yard
Westminster.
W. Courteney fect. 1760.
Etching, sheet 145 x 175mm. 5¾ x 7". Tipped into
album page. £90
Very rare and interesting etching of a dormitory in
Westminster School.
The school may have been attended by the artist,
William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (1742 - 1788),
amateur etcher and caricaturist, who would have been
of schoolboy age when he etched this plate.
See Guildhall Library Record: 28413 for a 1788
engraving of the same image by William Angus.
Ref: 8778
278. Old Chelsea Seymour Haden 1863
Out of Whistler's window.
Seymour Haden [signed in pencil.]
Framed Etching, trial proof, 150 x 225mm. 6 x 9".
Framed. Light age toning. Unexamined out of frame.
£230
Battersea Reach. One of the pioneers of the 19th
century etching revival, Sir Francis Seymour Haden
(1818 - 1910) married the sister of James McNeill
Whistler (1834 - 1903) and became an important
influence on the American-born etcher's style.
Harrington: 52c.
Ref: 9083
279. Vue du Palais de St. James.. Prospect
von dem König & Pallast zu St. Jaes
ohnweit London in Engelland ~ Vüe du
Palais de St. James du Roi d'Angle terre.
Gravé par Jean Benoit Winckler Se vend à Augsbourg
au Negoce comunde L'acadenie Imperiale d'Empire des
Arts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majeste Imperiale
et avec Defense ni d'au faire ni de vendre les Copies.
[n.d., c.1720]
Coloured engraving, 305 x 400mm. Some small stains;
small tear inside platemark at top. £320
Vue d'optique from Augsbourg showing St. James's
Palace and park.. The scene is reversed for viewing
through a Zograscope.
Ref: 8413
280. The Yorkshire Irishman, or
Adventures of a Potatoe Merchant,
Written by Mr. G. Nicks & Sung by Mr.
Emery. My Father was once a great
Merchant, As any in Ireland was found, /
But faith he could ne'er save shilling, ,Tho
'tatoes he sold by the pound... / At last I
was drawn up to town, without in my
pocket a Farden, / But since I've earn'd
many a crown, By the shop here, in sweet
Common Garden.
[Publish'd Augt. 20. 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53
Fleet Street, London.]
Copper engraving 198 x 258mm. Framed. Trimmed
within platemark, losing publication line, laid on album
paper. £140
Ex: Blackburn collection.
Ref: 8242
281. A Perspective Sketch of the North
and East Fronts of Wilson Terrace
Belgrave Square.
H.B. delt. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1830.]
A very scarce lithograph. 147 x 222mm. 5¾" x 8¾".
Cut and stuck on scrap. £75
A View of Wilton Terrace on Belgrave Square.
Ref: 8998
282. View of Black Fryers Bridge, from
Sommerset Place.
J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculp. Pub. June 1.
1795, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare- -Gallery, Pall
Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside.
Coloured aquatint, image 220 x 320mm. Faint staining.
£220
A view looking east down the Thames from the terrace
of Somerset House. St. Paul's can be seen, with The
Monument and the Tower of London further down
river. From William Combe's 'History of the River
Thames' published in two volumes. Abbey: 432.
Ref: 8747
283. A View of part Blackfriars Bridge of
the Tower and of the Manufacture for
Cartridge Balls taken from the Terrace
over Somerset House. [Translated into
French below.]
[n.d., c.1790.]
Aquatint and etching, sheet 195 x 225mm. 7¾ x 8¾".
Trimmed inside plate. £240
View of part of Blackfriars Bridge and Watt's Shot
Tower on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames,
London, from Somerset House.
After painter Louis Bélanger (1756 - 1816), engraved
by Laurent Guyot (1756 - 1806).
Numbered '15' above image. Very rare.
Ref: 9138
284. St. John's Church, Clapham, Surrey.
The first stone of this church was laid on
the 24th of September, 1840, by John