Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our October Offers: Catalogue 140!

Highlights include:

 

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[Caroline of Brunswick] Her Royal Highness Caroline Princess of Wales. Born 17.th May 1768 _ Married to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on Wednesday Evening 8.th April, 1795.
Published 25th March 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Rare mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10″). Trimmed to plate at bottom, laid on album page. Small margins on 3 sides.
Full-length portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, wearing plumed head-dress and full court dress decorated with large ribbons and tasselled bows, in front of an arcade with pillars and a classical urn.
Not in Chaloner Smith.
[Ref: 64014]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Birmingham. The Winner of the Great S.t Leger Stakes at Doncaster, 1830. 69 Subscribers _ 28 Started. By Filho da Puta, dam Miss Craigie by Orville, The Property of M.r Beardsworth, to whom this Print by Permission is most respectfulyl dedicated by the Publishers, J.F. Herring and S. & J. Fuller.
Painted by J.F. Herring, Doncaster. Engraved by R.G. Reeve.
London, Published March 21, 1831, by S. & J. Fuller, at their Sporting Gallery, 34, Rathbone Place, and at J.F. Ferrings, Doncaster.
An aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished, subscription issue. Framed, sight size 360 x 435mm (14¼ x 17″). ‘Minerva Head’ blindstamp over publication line. Unexamined out of frame.
A superb example of this classic racehorse portrait, in a Thomas Agnew frame.
[Ref: 63981]   £1,200.00

 

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