Grosvenor Prints

Admonition and Gratitude.
Woodward del.t _ W_S Sculp.t [Charles Williams].
London Pub.d Decm.r 1st 1807 by Tho.s. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 320mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, stained.
A man in ragged clothes stands before a justice, who points at the book in his hand: 'Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape - here it is - Burns Justice page 22 - if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!'. The ragged man replies 'Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman -I humbly thank you - and hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!'.
[Ref: 56613] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Admonition and Gratitude.
Woodward del.t _ W_S Sculp.t [Charles Williams].
London Pub.d Decm.r 1st 1807 by Tho.s. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 345mm (10 x 13½"). Trimmed just within plate. Very slight damage in centre.
A man in ragged clothes stands before a justice, who points at the book in his hand: 'Yes, Yes, you have brought yourself into a pretty scrape - here it is - Burns Justice page 22 - if you are not hang’d for this, I’ll be hang’d for you!!'. The ragged man replies 'Sir you are very good and speak like a Gentleman -I humbly thank you - and hope when the day comes you will not be out of the way!'.
[Ref: 40502] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Set of eight scenes] The Baliff's Hunt. Going Out in the Morning. [&] Plate 2. In Full Scent. [&] Plate 3. Breaking Cover. [&] Plate 4. The Pursuit. [&] Plate 5. At Fault. [&] Plate 6. The Second Escape. [&] Plate 7. Double and Squat. [&] Plate 8. The Seizure.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[n.d., c.1809.]
Eight coloured etchings. Each sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed and laid on album paper in a strip, concertinaed into a leather pouch with facsimile of Rowlandson's signature.
A work of bailiffs chasing a debtor through the streets satirised as a fox hunt.
[Ref: 60674] £700.00 view all images for this item

Whims of the Moment or the Bedford Level!!
Woodward del. [Etched by Isaac Cruikshank]
[London Pub No 20 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening]
Coloured etching, E & P watermark. Sheet 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line at top.
Two panels: on the left a well-dressed man staggers back in horror as he regards his queue of hair which has been roughly cropped from the back of the neck; on the right a farmer smiles as he shows off his neck, shaved at the back of his head. Francis Russell (1765-1802), 5th Duke of Bedford, protested against the imposition of a tax on hair powder in 1795 by cutting his hair short, a style that became known as the 'Bedford Level', after the area of the Fens reclaimed by his family.
BM Satires 8763.
[Ref: 54563] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Worcestershire. Breaking Cover.
Painted by T. Woodward. Engraved by Theodore Fielding.
London, Published 1826 by J. Brooker, 5, Southampton Row, Russell Sq.r
Aquatint, very fine. 408 x 603mm. 16 x 23¾".
The fox breaks cover and is chased by the hounds and horses. A man with his dog sits by the side of the road holding-back his excited dog. Plate 1 from the set of very rare Worcestershire Hunt aquatints.
Ex Collection: Norman Blackburn. Siltzer: Pg 315.
[Ref: 20754] £480.00

The Bull and Mouth.
Woodward Del. Rowlandson scul.
by Tho.s Tegg No.11 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 335 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½''). Trimmed within plate.
An elderly ugly and obese 'cit', seated full face in an arm-chair, yawns cavernously, with closed eyes. He wears a nightcap. His comely and meretricious-looking young wife holds up her fingers above his head, to signify the cuckolds horns, while she slips a letter into the hand of a handsome young military officer who stands in the doorway behind her, a finger on his nose.
BM Satire 11145.
[Ref: 50748] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Business and Pleasure.
Woodward del. Rowlandson scul.
London Published by Thomas Tegg No 111 Cheapside. [n.d., c.1810.]
Coloured etching. 'J. Whatman Turkey Mill' watermark. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") large margins.
A cobbler and his neighbour chat: their idea of pleasure is to go to see five men being hung.
BM Satire 11133B.
[Ref: 50796] £320.00

A Tender Parting at the Grand Junction Canal. U.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
London Pub.d as the Act directs Sep.t 1st 1801 by P. Roberts Middle Row Holborn. Pub.d by T. Tegg 111. Cheapside. Jan.y 1. 1807
Etching with hand colour. 260 x 355mm (10¼ x 14"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A satire on the dangers of travel by canal. A weeping wife and daughter try to prevent a husband embarking on a canal boat, despite the husband having 'bought a pair of trowsers to look like a sailor'. The wife urges him to 'go quietly back in the Coach', thus avoiding the 'hugly coal barges'. The plate was originally published by the engraver Piercy Roberts. This example is an early Tegg issue, as examples exist with the Roberts publication line removed and a plate numbers replacing 'U' top right.
Not in BM satires, but see BM 1985,0119.182.
[Ref: 51852] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Caricature Magazine by G.M. Woodward, Esq.r. Vol. 4. Ever Changing. Ever Now. Vive la Magatelle.
Woodward del. Rowlandson fc.
London Published by T. Tegg III Cheapside 1809.
Etching with wonderful hand-colour. Sheet: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½''). Small bottom margin. Some surface dirt. Creased and damaged.
A frontispiece showing two figures seated on either side of the image reading through earlier volumes of Woodward's Caricature Magazine. Above the figure on the left hangs a painting of a masquerade while on the other side hangs and painting of a country dance.
[Ref: 62640] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Title Page] Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror, By Thomas Rowlandson, Esq.r Vol. II.
[After Woodward]
Published by T. Tegg N.o 111 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1807]
Hand-coloured etching, sheet 250 x 405mm (10 x 15¾"). On paper watermarked '1816', with large margins left & right. Trimmed to plate at top & bottom. Some staining.
The title is engraved across the centre of the page. Comic Mirror' is inscribed on a half-length figure of a jester wearing a fool's cap, strung from two ribbon festoons that are centred by a bow. A ribbon loop with the words "To hold as t'were the Mirror up to Nature" is engraved beneath it. Shakespeare. Half-length figures scrutinising bound numbers (or volumes) of the Magazine are supported by one festoon with the inscription 'Country Observations on the Caricature Magazine'. A attractive woman approaches John and says, "Come on, let me look, don't keep it all to yourself." "Don't be in a hurry well these things be the drollest things ever sent into our Country," and "There is one exactly like our Exciseman," are said by two oafish men while holding an open book. As he looks through a volume, a third man remarks, "I wonder how they think of all these things." The second festoon, "Town Observations on the Caricature Magazine," features two men and two ladies (three-quarter length), who appear unattractive but rather stylish, as they enthusiastically examine the bound images. They respond with: "It is certainly very amuseing" ; "Pray Sir have they commenced the second Volume" ; "Just got the first number Ma'am from Mr Teggs." Two processions surround the sides and lower portion of the motif. 'Whimsical Characters climbing to the Temple of Fame' are located on the left. Back view of men and women ascending, perspective regressing to a circular temple where Fame sounds his horn. A chubby parson, a flirtatious military officer with a large cocked hat, and a plump 'cit' walking hand in hand with a slender woman are the people in the foreground. They see a Highlander walking ahead of them. "A Grotesque Deputation from the Temple of Momus-returning thanks for past favors and soliciting future patronage" is the text on the left. These are Lilliputian figures, with large grotesque heads of men and women, all smiling, descending from a temple that straddles Momus."The Genius of Caricature opening the Second Volume" is positioned between the two processions and forms a tail-piece. Perhaps a fantastic representation of Tegg, the man has a large smile on his face, faun's ears, and butterfly wings. He is sprawled on the ground with an open volume in his hands, which is "Caricature Magazine Vol 2d." He has "Caricature Magazine, Vol. 1" resting on his elbow. Next to him are documents with the following inscriptions: 'Bulls,' 'Anecdotes,' 'Jests,' 'Puns,' 'Bon Mot[s]', and distinct prints.
BM Satires 10917.
[Ref: 61921] £360.00

[Title Page] The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror. By G.M. Woodward. Esq.r. Author of Eccentric Excursions. Vol. I.
Woodward Del.t Cruickshanks Sculp.t.
Published by Thomas Tegg N.o 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching, plate 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"), with large margins left & right. Thread margins top and bottom. Nicks to bottom margin. Paper toned and surface dirt in margins.
The title is written on a traditional curtain that is symmetrically placed throughout the design, with a John Bull-style smiling mask in the centre. The design features an ugly and aged man and woman sitting and smiling, holding a print that appears to be a mirror reflection of their heads and shoulders. Caricature heads are shown densely clustered together, as though they are in a theatre gallery, while the curtain descends on either side of the central mask. Liliputian figures are below.
BM Satires 10889.
[Ref: 61920] £360.00

[The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature Magazine.] Ladies and Gentlemen, having compleated the final volume of the Caricature Magazine, I am desired in the name of the Proprietors, Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large _ long, and small headed Bretheren to return to you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced...
Woodward Inv.t and Delin; [etched by Charles Williams.]
London, Published 1st Sept.r 1807, by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), large margins on 2 sides. Trimmed into plate at bottom, small tear entering plate but not image at top,
A group of 'Lilliputians' stand on a stage surrounded by a curtain festooned with satire prints.
BM Satires 10916, with extensive description of the prints illustrated.
[Ref: 58268] £380.00

Celia Retiring. 298.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 330 x 260mm (13 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene showing an old woman, bald without her wig, preparing for bed, aided by a pretty chambermaid. Originally published by the engraver, Piercy Roberts.
Not in BM Satires. BM 1872.1012.5084.
[Ref: 61907] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Celia Retiring. 298.
Woodward delin. Etch.d by Roberts.
Pub'd Decr 29 [c.1805] by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London. London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle-row Holborn.
Hand-coloured etching. 270 x 360mm (10½ x 14"). Date scratched out. Narrow margin to left and right.
A scene showing an old woman, bald without her wig, preparing for bed, aided by a pretty chambermaid. Originally published by the engraver, Piercy Roberts.
[Ref: 51871] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Cruise to Covent Garden!!
[I. Cruikshank F. ?Woodward del.]
[Pub.d By T. Tegg 111 Cheapside Decr. 1. 1812.]
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 255 x 400mm (10 x 15¾"); large margins left & right. Trimmed inside plate top and bottom; watermarked 'C Wilmott 1819'
Two sailors carry a sedan chair through the Covent Garden Piazza (St Pauls church is in the background). A glamorous woman topless is in the chair, while on top sits another sailor who commands 'come Messmat[e]s heave a head'.
BM Satires 10900
[Ref: 40798] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

An Easy Reply. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl. 6.
G M Woodward delt. [Williams]
Pub,d Jan,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Tears and creasing. Trimmed nearly to image.
A dishevelled young man is restrained by two companions as he invokes Hamlet when addressing a burly watchman. One of a set of six satires.
BM Satires 10329.
[Ref: 50718] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Sudden Thought. Specimens of Dramatic Phrenzy. Pl. 2.
G M Woodward delt. [Williams]
Pub.d Janr,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching, watermark Russell & Co 179?. 300 x 375mm (11¾ x 14¾"). Tears and creasing.
A young man, fashionably dressed, postures as if terror-struck before two astonished waiters, invoking Macbeth. One of a set of six satires.
BM Satires 10325
[Ref: 50719] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An Easy Reply. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl. 6.
G M Woodward delt.
Pub,d Jan,y 1,st 1804 by S W Fores N°50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"). Losses at corners.
A dishevelled young man is restrained by two companions as he invokes Hamlet when addressing a burly watchman. One of a set of six satires.
BM Satires 10329.
[Ref: 54276] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Bacchus] The Constitution _ Gentlemen.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A rotund man seated in an armchair raises a glass of wine to make a toast. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62156] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Bacchus] To the Memory of our Departed Friends.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 165mm (9¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A seated man in wig and breeches, holding cane and glass of wine, making a toast. Described in the text as 'Doctor Bolus', he has been identified as a 'Doctor Butler'. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62155] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Bacchus] Drops of Comfort and Draughts of Delight.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"). Trimmed within plate, old ink mss. on bottle.
A country woman makes a toast as she fills her wine glass from a bottle. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62153] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Bacchus] All true Hearts and Sound Bottoms.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 235 x 160mm (9¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate. Some staining.
A man makes a naval toast with a glass of wine. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62154] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Elements of Bacchus] May the Eye of Science pierce through the mists of Obscurity.
G M Woodward Delin.
Pub by Wm Holland Nº 50 Oxford St. [n.d., 1792.]
Coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A man stands before a table, making a toast, glass of wine in his hand. The text (not present here) describes him as an amateur astronomer. One of the forty caricature portraits in 'Elements of Bacchus, or, Toasts and sentiments, given by distinguished characters: illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain'. Each was accompanied by a leaf of text describing the subject.
[Ref: 62152] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Acute Pain. No. 10. The curious observer of the Passion, has only to get a careless Servant to pour some hot water on his foor, in a case of the Gout, & he will soon know the nature of Acute Pain.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub: 21 Jan. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Acute Pain is portrayed by a man who suffers with gout crying out because his servant has poured tea on his foot. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46596] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Admiration. No.3. Various are the ways this Passion might be depicted in this Delineation the subjects chosen are simple_a Hungry Boy_and a Plumb Pudding.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub.d Jan.y 20. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 295 x 240mm (11½ x 9½"). Two holes in left edge, some paper tone. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. This scene portraying admiratation shows a hungry young man staring through a window at a large plum pudding. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46594] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Admiration. No.3. Various are the ways this Passion might be depicted in this Delineation the subjects chosen are simple_a Hungry Boy_and a Plumb Pudding.
Woodward Del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub.d Jan.y 20. 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 290 x 235mm (11½ x 9¼"). Hole in left edge, some paper tone. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. This scene portraying admiratation shows a hungry young man staring through a window at a large plum pudding. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46593] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Anger. No.18. This unruly Passion shews itself in a forcible degree in a termagant Mistress, scolding her Maid servant.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin, creasing. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Anger is portrayed by a mistress being cross with a maid. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46603] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Simple Bodily Pain. No.11. A termagent Wife- a hen-peck'd Husband & a Cudgel are three principal ingredients for bringing forward the Passion of Simple Bodily Pain, as many an unfortunate sufferer can witness.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. The emotion of 'Simple Bodily Pain' is shown by an angry woman attacking her husband. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46597] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Compassion. No. 14. He whose misfortunes can draw two-pence from the purse of a Miser, is certainly an object of Compassion, & the most capable of giving that passion its full force.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Compassion is portrayed in a scene in which a miser gives a penny to a beggar. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46600] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Hatred or Jealousy. No. 19. Mons le Brun in his delineation of the Passions, makes a Man jealous, without assigning a cause why or wherefore_If the connoisseurs will give himself the trouble to look behind the curtain in the above sketch, he will find sufficient reason for the excitement of the Passion.
[Woodward. Rowlandson.]
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin, creasing and paper tone. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Hatred is portrayed by the response of a husband walking in on his wife with another man. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46604] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Horror. No.16. It is impossible to account for Antipithies in this instance Horror is excited by the appearance of a harmless Mouse.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Horror is portrayed by a woman scared of a mouse carried by a young boy. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46601] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Joy with Tranquility. No. 8. This passion is represented by a Philosophical Brewer, who having gained a considerable Prize in the Lottery, receives it with the most perfect composure- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of Fortune.
Woodward del. Etched by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21 Jan: 1800. at R. Ackermann's Respository of the Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). Binding holes in left edge. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. A brewer, having won five thousand pounds in the lottery receives his prize with composure. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46595] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Terror or Fright. This Passion is frequently exited by dressing up firghtful objects to represent Sprites, Apparitions &c: frequently practiced with success in Country Villages, as delineated in the above sketch of the Countryman & the Ghost.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. Terror is portrayed by a countryman being terrified by a person dressed up as a ghost. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46602] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Weeping. No. 13. As Laughter is often exited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping in this instance the hard & obourate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. 'Weeping' is portrayed by two figures crying at a sad ballad. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46599] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Weeping. No. 13. As Laughter is often exited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping in this instance the hard & obourate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. 'Weeping' is portrayed by two figures crying at a sad ballad. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46598] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

A Farmer's Philosophy in Death. 299.
Woordward Delin. Bunbury Sc.
Pub. by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside. One Shilling Colour'd. [n.d. c.1809.]
Hand-coloured etching; watermarked Charles Wise 1812 or 19. Plate 242 x 343mm (9½ x 13½"). Small margins.
The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling.
BM Satires: 11472.
[Ref: 52231] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Frederick Augustus Duke of York] The Magician!!
[etched by Thomas Rowlandson after George Moutard Woodward.]
Pub.d Feb.ry 25 1809 by Tho.s Tegg No111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼"), on laid paper watermarked 'Edmunds & Pine'. Loss touching printed border on left. Small margins. Bit messy.
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, as a beared magician, waves a wand marked 'Petticoat Influence'. Before him, in a cloud of smoke, a young man becomes a captain. A satire of the Duke's relationship with Mary Anne Clark (1776-1852), who testified before the House of Commons that she had sold army commissions with the Duke of York's knowledge. It refers to Samuel Carter, a servant of Mrs. Clarke, who was given an ensign's commission. As he was well-educated and the illegitimate son of a 'very worthy captain of the army', the appointment was defended as suitable and an act of humanity.
BM Satires 11223 with title 'The York magician transforming a foot-boy to a captain'. Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 148.
[Ref: 61810] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan for General Reform. Respectfully submitted to the attention of Members of Parliament _ During the Summer Recess_
Woodward Del. Rowlandson Scul.
[London Pubd. ****] 1829 by Tho.s Tegg No 111. Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Eight caricatures of figures expressing their view on reform.
Grego II pg.45. Not in BM.
[Ref: 51704] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

An Olio of Good Breeding: With Sketches Illustrative of the Modern Graces.
By G.M. Woodward, Author of Eccentric Excursions, &c. [Etched by Rowlandson].
London Publish'd May 27, 1801, at R. Ackermann's 101 Strand.
7 etchings with wonderful hand colour. 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6), with large margins. Frontispiece and Plate 7 on paper watermarked '1799'. Tear in Frontispiece going into image. Incomplete; missing plates 2, 3 & 4.
7 out of 10 plus titlepage and frontis (9 pages) from the second edition of 'An Olio of Good Breeding' published by Ackermann. Satire on etiquette. Plates with titles include 'The Graces! The Graces! The Graces!!' and 'Horror Personified.' The first edition was published in 1797 by Woodward, in Berners Street.
[Ref: 60536] £990.00 view all images for this item

The Holy Friar.
Woodward del. Rowlandson sc.
Lond. Pub. June 15th 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside.
Etching with hand-colouring. Sheet 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Trimmed within platemark.
Two gluttenous friars feast in a Gothic cloister, seated in easy chairs. A lean old friar or lay brother brings in a sucking-pig. An illustrated songsheet, containing the lines 'What Baron, or Squire, or Knight of the Shire, Lives half so well as a Holy Friar'.
BM Satires 10924; Grego: ii 72.
[Ref: 51679] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Homer Travestie.] A Burlesque Translation of Homer. In Two Volumes. The Fourth Edition Improved.
[by Thomas Bridges, plates after George Moutard Woodward.]
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1797.
8vo (215 x 140mm, 8½ x 5½"), half calf with contemporary marbled boards; vol 1: pp. (vi)+360; Vol 2: pp. 432; complete with two engr. titles, 24 engraved plates. Spines rebacked, inner hinges taped; spotting throughout. Bookplates of E.F. Bolton on front paste-downs.
The fourth edition of a work written by Thomas Bridges under the pseudonym 'Caustic Barebones', first published 1762. This edition was the first with plates after Woodward, which are said to have been engraved by Francis Grose.
Lowndes, The Bibliographers Manual of English Literature, volume II, p. 1101: ''Best edition, with humorous plates. A work full of humour... which often transgresses the bounds of decency''.
[Ref: 60711] £490.00 view all images for this item

[24 illustrated plates from 'Homer's Iliad, a Burlesque Translation']
[after George Moutard Woodward.]
[Published by G.G. & J. Robinson, 1797.]
Etchings, each platemark approx 180 x 115, bound together. Foxing to some plates.
Plates etched by an unidentified printmaker after Woodward's satires for Thomas Bridges' 'Homer's Iliad, a Burlesque Translation' in its 1797 edition. Bridges (b.1710?, d. in or after 1775) was a playwright and novelist from Hull, who first published his Homer parodies in 1762 under the pseudonym Caustic Barebones. He also wrote 'The Battle of the Genii' (1765), parodying passages from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.
[Ref: 25582] £480.00 view all images for this item

An Irish Epitaph.
Woodward del. Cruikshank F.
Published by T. Tegg. 111 Cheapside. [n.d. c.1807.]
Hand-coloured etching. 235 x 331mm (9¼ x 13"). Trimmed to the image. Messy.
A scene in a country churchyard; An old Irish couple, with a dog, gaze at a (tilted) tombstone to the right, inscribed: 'Here lies Iohn Highley. whose Father & Mother. were Drown'd in their passage to America. Had they both lived they would have been Buried Here.' The dog is seen cocking his leg below.
BM Satires 10914. Reid 23.
[Ref: 52240] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Bull and Bonaparte!! To the Tune of the Blue Bell of Scotland. When and O when does this little Boney come? / Perhaps he'll come in August! - perhaps he'll stay at home; / But it's O in my heart, how I'll hide him should he come...
Woodward del. I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank.]
Broadside, etching with letterpress. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14¼ x 9¾"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Foxing.
John Bull, a fat citizen in old-fashioned dress, facing down Napoleon Bonaparte, wearing an outsize bicorn and carrying a huge sabre, across the Channel. Britain ended the Peace of Amiens when it declared war on France in May 1803.
BM Satires 10064.
[Ref: 54575] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Jolting Preventatives.]
Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp.
London Published by Allen & Co, 15 Paternoster Row, March 4, 1797.
Coloured etching. Sheet 180 x 240mm (7 x 9½"). Trimmed, losing title at top.
Four scenes of the inside of a coach, each with two people and their different ways of holding onto the safety straps, expressing from attraction to distain. A pair to 'Symptoms of Jolting'.
BM Satires 9134.
[Ref: 60579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Justice. [Country Characters No 2.]
[Woodward Delin. Etch'd by Rowlandson.]
[Pu]bd Aug 30 1799 by R. Ackermann N 101 Stra[nd.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 180mm (9 x 7"). Trimmed to image and around title, losing inscriptions and sub-title.
A country bumpkin before a magistrate, misunderstanding the clerk.
[Ref: 51264] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Sudden Emotion. Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy Pl.5.
G.M. Woodward del.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 1804 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Hand coloured etching. On watermarked paper, 'Russell & Co.' Sheet size: 310 x 420mm (12¼ x 16½"). Large margins left & right, cut to platemark top & bottom. Ink stain in upper right. Small tears in top edge of sheet. Pin holes in left margin where bound.
The interior of a lawyer's office. A smartly dressed young man, pen in hand, addressing an elderly man who looks at him in dismay. To the right, a maid holds a pail of water, prepared to throw its contents, while a terrified old lady watches from behind. On the wall is a large calendar inscribed, 'Year 1803' and a notice of 'Terms and Returns'. Plate five from the series, 'Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy'.
[Ref: 38763] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Long Headed Election. 108
Woodward del.
Published by T. Tegg in Cheapside [n.d., c.1806.]
Fine hand coloured etching. Plate 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼") Trimmed to plate in part at top. Small margins. Slight crease lower right.
A crowd of 'Long Heads' listening to politicians on the hustings. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
BM Satire 10610.
[Ref: 61899] £360.00

A Long Headed Election.
Woodward del.
Published by T. Tegg in Cheapside [n.d., c.1806.]
Fine coloured etching. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with wide margins Top margin with loss.
A crowd of 'Long Heads' listening to politicians on the hustings. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
BM Satire 10610.
[Ref: 52697] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Long Headed Minuet. 243.
Woodward del. Cruikshank sp.
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside Febr.y 13 1807.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13¾"), 1819 watermark.
A comic scene showing a room full of people with large heads, in the foreground a couple dance a minuet. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
[Ref: 46623] £360.00

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