Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our summer selection: Catalogue 138!

 

Cover:

[George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Joachim Quantz, Christoph Gluck and Niccolò Jommelli.] 
[n.d., c.1780.]
Extremely fine & rare mezzotint. Sheet 240 x 245mm (9½ x 9¾”). Framed loosely. Trimmed into image, losing all inscriptions, laid on card.
A satirical portrait, with Tartini playing the violin, Quanz the flute and Gluck plating the harpsicord. The others sing. The figures are identified from a German engraved version of the scene in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, Accession no 5559.
[Ref: 62576]   £1,350.00

S.t James’s Park. [&] A Tea Garden. 
Painted by G. Morland. Engraved by F.D. Soirson.
London Publish’d Jan.y 1790, by T. Gaugain, N.º 9 Manor Street, Chelsea.
Pair of colour-printed stipples. Sheets 480 x 550mm (19 x 21½”). Trimmed to plate on three sides, edges chipped; ‘St James’s’ with repairs outside image area.
Pair of fine oval views: ‘St James’s’ shows a soldier’s family being served milk fresh from the cow; ‘The Tea Garden’ has slightly more civilized surroundings, posssibly the famous Bagnigge Wells or Ranelagh Gardens. Two of the finest colour-printed English stipples.
[Ref: 63332]   £1,100.00