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[Major-General William John Arabin] (Sir Call. O'Brall:) _ ''only look at the General, Madam!''
[Major-General William John Arabin] (Sir Call. O'Brall:) _ ''only look at the General, Madam!'' _ See Love a la Mode.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d March 5th 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 200 (9¾ x 8"), very large margins. Creased at top. Slightly time stained.
A caricature portrait of General Arabin (1750-1828) in uniform with epaulettes, sword, and gorget and a spotted foulard or nightcap on his head. His head is turned, showing a Jewish profile and broad ogling grin. The BM records that Arabin was 'in Angelo's opinion the best amateur actor in the Pic Nics (see BMSat 9916, &c), and outstanding in anecdote, song, and imitation'.
BM Satires 9917.
[Ref: 58373]   £380.00  
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Ars-musica.
Ars-musica.
[After Brownlow North.] [By James Gillray.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Rare hand-coloured etching with aquatint. 180 x 238mm (7 x 9½"). Damaged. Trimmed. Small hole left, right & centre.
Ars-Musica; a grinning woman playing a square piano, at her feet is a dog, two men on either side playing a violin and cello respectively.
BM Satires: 9586.
[Ref: 52244]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sarah Sophia Banks?] An Old Maid on a Journey.
[Sarah Sophia Banks?] An Old Maid on a Journey.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 385mm (10¼ x 15¼"), with very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour slightly faded.
This is said to be an unkind caricature of Miss Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818), sister of Sir Joseph Banks the naturalist. If so she wears one of her three riding habits, which she called 'hitem, titem, and scrub', as she enters an inn with her entourage. Sir Joseph donated her collection of prints and coins to the British Museum.
BM Satires 10300.
[Ref: 56156]   £360.00  
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Count Roupee. - Vide. Hyde Park.
Count Roupee. - Vide. Hyde Park.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d June 5.th 1797. by H. Humphrey 27. S.t James's Street
Very rare hand-coloured etching, sheet 385 x 540mm (15¼ x 21"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing card.
Caricature of Paul Benfield (1741-1810), of the East India Company, who made a fortune in India as a trader, banker, and contractor, and was notorous through Burke's (published) speech on the debts of the Nabob of Arcot oppresser. He lost his fortune establishing a mercantile firm in London, called Boyd, Benfield, & Co which engaged in speculations which turned out badly, and Benfield's fortune collapsed rapidly. He died in Paris in poverty. A small dark-complexioned man wearing spectacles rides a galloping horse through Hyde Park. There is a background of grass and trees, and in the distance a building with a pediment, evidently the new Knightsbridge Barracks.
BM Satires 9066. For one with slightly different colouring check out Yale University Library.
[Ref: 61958]   £780.00  
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Billy the Gamekeeper.
Billy the Gamekeeper.
Design'd from Life by R. Frankland Esq.r. Engrav'd by J.s Gillray.
Publish'd April 23d 1810 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, London.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 320 x 245mm (12½ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into plate at bottom. Bit messy.
A man dressed as a coachman, holding a long-lashed coach-whip. According to Grego, he was first a gamekeeper of the Earl of Aylesford, then his coachman.
BM Satires 11592.
[Ref: 61761]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Surrender of Ulm _ or. _ Buonparte & Gen.l Mack coming to a right Understanding,
The Surrender of Ulm _ or. _ Buonparte & Gen.l Mack coming to a right Understanding, _ intended as a specimen of French Victories _ i.e _ Conquoring without Bloodshed.!!!
J.s Gillray inv & f-
Publishd Nov.r 6th 1805. by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Str.
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), very large margins.
Austrian General Karl Mack von Leiberich grovels before a tiny Napoleon, offering his sword and the keys to the city of Ulm. Mack eyes three French Grenadiers who each hold a large sack inscribed '20 Million Livres'. At the Battle of Ulm (16-19th October 1805) Napoleon surrounded Mack's entire army at Ulm: Mack surrendered with 25,000 men, 18 generals, 65 guns and 40 standards. He was later court-martialed for cowardice, but Gillray suggests here that he was bribed.
BM Satires 10437, with extensive description.
[Ref: 60962]   £780.00  
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The Bulstrode Siren.
The Bulstrode Siren. Blest as th'immortal Gods is he / The youth who fondly sists by thee, / And sees and hears thee all the while / Softly Sing and sweetly smile.
J. Gillray del.t. 1803.
London, Published by John Miller, Bridge Street & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. [n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured engraving. 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½").
Caricature of William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck (1738-1809), 3rd Duke of Portland and Elizabeth Billington (1768-1818), a famed opera singer whom he paid to sing for him at his estate at Bulstode. A copy of Gilray's original caricature, as published by Humphrey.
BM: 10168.
[Ref: 42447]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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[Francis Burdett] French Habits No. 12.
[Francis Burdett] French Habits No. 12. Messager d'Etat.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins. Slight stain bottom right.
Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), 5th Baronet, in the dress of the French Republican state messenger, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He was a supporter of the Radicals and opponent of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9213.
[Ref: 59154]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Lady Godina's Rout -or Peeping Tom spying out Pope Joan.
Lady Godina's Rout -or Peeping Tom spying out Pope Joan. Vide Fashionable Modesty.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] d: et f:
Pub.d March 12th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street [but c.1830].
Hand coloured etching, 260 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins.
A fashionable gathering around card tables where 'Pope Joan' is being played. A man uses a candle-snuffer as an excuse to lean over a woman (identified as Georgiana Gordon, Duchess of Bedford) and ogle her décolletage. Most of the women have elaborate feather headresses.
BM Satires 8899.
[Ref: 60484]   £450.00  
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Posting in Scotland.
Posting in Scotland. Hald your Haund Mun, hold your haund! - en troth mun: e'n gin you na mind yoursel, youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels.
C. Loraine Smith Esq.r _ pinxt. [but James Gillray.]
Publish'd May 25th by H. Humphrey St. James's Street.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 320 x 395mm (12½ x 15½"). Trimmed close to printed border, two tears taped top left corner and centre bottom.
A scene by James Gillray satirising the coaching prints of Charles Loraine Smith (1751-1835). A post-chaise breaks apart as it descends a mountain road onto a bare moor. All four kilted Scotsmen are bare-footed and show their bare posteriors.
BM Satires 10479.
[Ref: 61777]   £650.00  
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A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe.
A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe. Vednesday was a veek, my Vife & I vent to Vest-Vycombe, vhether it vas the Vind, or vhether it vas the Veather, - or Vat it vas! - ve vhip'd & vhip'd - & vhip'd! - & could not get off a Valk!
[James Gillray]
Published June 10th 1805 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching with aquatint. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1808 W Balston'. Colour slightly faded, stain in top margin.
A smartly dress couple in a gig drawn by a horse so emaciated and decrepit that it attracts carrion crows.
BM Satires 10471
[Ref: 56152]   £480.00  
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Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game.
Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game. Pl.1.
[After James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 225 x 330mm (9 x 13''), on Whatman paper. Trimmed, some damage in top right corner.
A hunting scene showing two London 'cits' out shooting, the figure at the front holds his gun facing backwards and it has gone off causing his companion to fall backwards over a fence. The sign between them points toward Hornsey Wood and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the background. From a series of shooting scenes showing the cockney sportsmen.
BM Satire 9596.
[Ref: 50780]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Plate 1st. Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game.
Plate 1st. Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game. [&] Plate 2.d. Cockney-Sportsmen Shooting Flying. [&] Plate 3.d. Cockney-Sportsmen Re-Charging. [&] Plate 4.th. Cockney-Sportsmen finding a Hare.
I.C. [Issac Cruikshank?] Esq.r del.t. J.s. G.y fec.t. [Etched by Gillray].
London Publish'd November 12th. 1800. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Set of four etchings with very fine hand colour. Sheets: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Trimmed to printed borders.
Four hunting scenes showing two London 'cits' out shooting near Hornsey, showing their incompetence. A fashionably dress young man is accompanied by a poodle; the older and fatter John Bull-type has a bulldog.
BM Satire 9596-9599.
[Ref: 61805]   £1,500.00   view all images for this item
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Comfort to the Corns.
Comfort to the Corns.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 6th 1800. by H. Humphrey. 27, St James's Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 200mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to printed border.
A grotesque old woman sitting in a gothic chair before the fire with her cat, slicing her corns on her feet with a large knife.
BMM Satires 9585.
[Ref: 61764]   £380.00  
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Comfort to the Cross.
Comfort to the Cross.
J.s Gillray inv.t & fec.t
Pub.d Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate: 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Surface dirt.
A scene showing a old woman cleaning her feet and scraping her corns.
[Ref: 42713]   £320.00  
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Councillor Ego. _ i:e: little i, myself i.
Councillor Ego. _ i:e: little i, myself i.
J.s Gillray d & f.
Published Oct.r 1st 1798. by J.Wright, No. 169 Piccadilly London.
Engraving. 190 x 220mm.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, (1750-1823), Lord Chancellor, known for his egotism.
[Ref: 6856]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[John Courtnay] French Habits No. 9.
[John Courtnay] French Habits No. 9. Juge du Tribunal Correctionel.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Courtnay (1736-1816), then MP for Appleby, in the dress of the French Republican Tribunal Correctionnel, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He opposed Pitt's suspension of habeas corpus. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9210.
[Ref: 59150]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Cymon & Iphigenia.
Cymon & Iphigenia.
J.s G.y des. T. Adams sculp.t. [drawn and engraved by Gillray].
Pub,d May 2.d 1796 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), watermarked 'E & P 1806', very large margins. Slight stain near man's head.
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep, with a hideous yokel finding a fat black country-woman leaning back against a sandy bank. He drops his stick and gapes with delighted surprise.
BM Satires 8908.
[Ref: 56159]   £480.00  
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Cymon & Iphigenia.
Cymon & Iphigenia.
J.s G.y des. T. Adams sculp.t. [drawn and engraved by James Gillray].
[Pub,d May 2.d 1796 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.]
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 375mm (9½ x 14¾"). Trimmed to printed border, losing publication line.
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep, with a hideous yokel finding a fat black country-woman leaning back against a sandy bank. He drops his stick and gapes with delighted surprise.
BM Satires 8908.
[Ref: 61734]   £520.00  
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A broad hint of not meaning to Dance.
A broad hint of not meaning to Dance.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r - del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street, London.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 255 x 380mm (10 x 15"). Trimmed to printed border.
A pretty young woman walks away from a ugly fop, taking her chair with her but leaving a fragment of her dress under his foot.
BM Satires 10302.
[Ref: 61797]   £580.00  
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A broad hint of not meaning to Dance.
A broad hint of not meaning to Dance.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r - del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 250 x 385mm (9¾ x 15¼"), with wide margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour faded.
A pretty young woman walks walks away from a ugly fop, taking her chair with her but leaving a fragment of her dress under his foot.
BM Satires 10302.
[Ref: 56158]   £390.00  
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A Decent Story.
A Decent Story.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795, by H. Humphrey, No 37, New Bond Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 220 x 300mm (8¾ x 11¾") Trimmed within printed border at top, to border elsewhere.
Five people sit around a table drinking port, a raconteur holding forth. Hannah Humphrey (second right, with distinctive chin) and a parson listen with smiles, although an officer is more interested in the woman at the other end of the table. Although the British Museum describes this print as being 'From a sketch by an amateur', it is likely to be by Gillray, who lived with Hannah Humphrey for many years. This and 'Two-penny Whist' (1796) are intimate scenes of their domestic arrangements: both prints are visible in the Humprey shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside Gillray's more famous prints, suggesting a sentimental importance.
BM Satires 8753.
[Ref: 61788]   £480.00  
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A Decent Story.
A Decent Story.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 9th 1795, by H. Humphrey, No 37, New Bond Street.
Hand coloured etching, printed border 225 x 295mm (9 x 11½"). Laid on card; lacking margin outside the plate mark at sides.
Five people sit around a table drinking port, a raconteur holding forth. Hannah Humphrey (second right, with distinctive chin) and a parson listen with smiles, although an officer is more interested in the woman at the other end of the table. Although the British Museum describes this print as being 'From a sketch by an amateur', it is likely to be by Gillray, who lived with Hannah Humphrey for many years. This and 'Two-penny Whist' (1796) are intimate scenes of their domestic arrangements: both prints are visible in the Humprey shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside Gillray's more famous prints, suggesting a sentimental importance.
BM Satires 8753.
[Ref: 23165]   £450.00  
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[William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry] Push-Pin.
[William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry] Push-Pin.
J.s G.y [James Gillray] inc. & fec.t ad vivam.
Pub.d April 17th 1797. by H. Humphrey. 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 310mm (9½ x 12¼"). Trimmed into printed border, small hole in border bottom left.
Three people play push-pin: the Duke of Queensberry is push the pin, while leering over his double lorgnette at a very corpulent woman opposite. The chairs are decorated with ormolu and Queensberry's crest. William Douglas (1724-1810) was a rich landowner and high-stakes gambler. The fat woman is identified by Wright and Evans as Mother Windsor, the bawd.
BM Satires 9082.
[Ref: 61798]   £450.00  
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[Thomas Erskine] French Habits. No 7.
[Thomas Erskine] French Habits. No 7. L'Avocat de la Republique.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d May 21.st 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight staining bottom left.
Barrister Thomas Erskine in the robes of a Republican lawyer, sheaf of paper in hand, declaiming. Erskine had successfully defended a number of Radicals against charges of treason brought by Pitt's government. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9208.
[Ref: 59148]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Farmer Giles & his Wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their Neighbours, on her return from School.
Farmer Giles & his Wife shewing off their daughter Betty to their Neighbours, on her return from School.
Drawn by an Amateur _ Etch'd by J.s Gillray.
London, Publish'd January 1st 1809 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 320 x 480mm (12½ x 19"). Trimmed within plate.
A rich farmer and wife stand looking down adoringly at Betty Giles as she plays 'Bluebell of Scotland on the piano', with another girl singing on the left. Four guests sitting at a table look less impressed. A small foot-boy comes in with a decanter and glasses on a salver and a cake-basket on his arm. A satire on social climbing.
BM Satires 11444.
[Ref: 51715]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Fast-Asleep. [&] Wide-Awake.
Fast-Asleep. [&] Wide-Awake.
[by James Gillray].
London Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1806 by H. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street.
Pair of coloured etchings. Sheets 245 x 210mm (9¾ x 8¼") & 240 x 210mm (9½ x 8¼"), 'awake' on Whatman paper dated 1811. 'Asleep' trimmed close to printed border; 'Awake' trimmed close to printed border on three sides, into border at bottom.
Two plates: in the first a corpulant man sleeps in a dining chair, his wig falling off his head; in the second a man seated in an armchair by the fair is woken by two cats hissing at each other.
BM Satires 10644 & 10655.
[Ref: 61774]   £490.00   view all images for this item
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Fast-Asleep.
Fast-Asleep.
[James Gillray.]
London, Publish'd Nov.r 1.st 1806 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Hand-coloured etching. In ink verso "Leighton"; Sheet: 210 x 260mm (8¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed, surface dirt and marking. Creases.
A comic scene showing a man fast asleep in his chair, his wig falling to the ground.
[Ref: 42714]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Mrs Fitzherbert & Mary Seymour] The Guardian-Angel.
[Mrs Fitzherbert & Mary Seymour] The Guardian-Angel. the hint taken from the Red.d M.r Peter's sublime Idea of ''an Angel conducting the Soul of a Child to Heaven.''
J.S Gillray inv. & f.t.
Pub.d April 22.d 1805. by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 375 x 265mm (14¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to plate.
Mrs. Fitzherbert as a stout angel, carrying Mary (Minney) Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, from Brighton towards a burlesqued altar, surrounded with cherub's heads with the faces of politicians, including Sheridan, Norfolk, Fox, Burdett, and Derby. A satire on a legal struggle (not decided till 14 June 1806) between Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Seymour family for the guardianship of Mary (Minney) Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, who had died in 1801. It has been suggested that Mary, born in 1798, was the daughter of Mrs Fitzerbert and George IV. She was one of the two principal beneficiaries in Mrs Fitzherbert's will.
BM Satires 10389.
[Ref: 61782]   £950.00  
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Fortune - Hunting.
Fortune - Hunting.
B [compass monogram (North)] Esq. _del._ [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street.
Hand coloured etching, pt 1804 watermark. 265 x 385mm (10½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate. Small losses to each corner.
A fat elderly man in hunting-cap has dismounted under an oak-tree to have his fortune told by a ragged old gipsy woman, who reads his hand. Meanwhile another gipsy, kneeling beside him, with a child on her shoulders, picks his pocket. Behind to left stands a groom in livery, gaping at the fortune told him by a pretty girl. Behind him a boy leans from a tree to rifle through the portmanteau on his horse. The scene is the edge of a wood; in the distance two huntsmen are galloping. After Brownlow North (1778 - 1829), amateur draughtsman of satires, by James Gillray (1756 - 1815).
BM Satires: 10301. Grego: pg. 313.
[Ref: 53838]   £480.00  
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Fortune-Hunting.
Fortune-Hunting.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 255 x 385mm (10 x 15¼"). Trimmed to plate.
Two gypsy women read the fortunes of a pair of hunters, as their accomplices empty their pockets and saddlebags.
BM Satires 10301.
[Ref: 61781]   £650.00  
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[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers.
[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers. ''Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves''.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d April 16th 1783 by W. Humphrey, N.o 226, Strand.
Etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12½"). Trimmed to image on three sides.
A scruffily-dressed Charles James Fox, with a fox's head and brush, holds open a sack marked 'For Private Use' for Frederick North to shovel guineas into. Empty sacks hang on a wall under a scroll reading 'For the Use of the Publick'. In April North returned to power as Home Secretary in an unlikely coalition with Fox, the radical Whig leader, only lasting to December. 'Cole' was slang for gold or money.
BM Satires 6213.
[Ref: 61043]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers.
[Charles James Fox & Frederick North] The Cole-Heavers. ''Two virtuous Elves, / Taking care of themselves''.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d April 16th 1783 by W. Humphrey, N.o 226, Strand.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"). Trimmed within plate.
A scruffily-dressed Charles James Fox, with a fox's head and brush, holds open a sack marked 'For Private Use' for Frederick North to shovel guineas into. Empty sacks hang on a wall under a scroll reading 'For the Use of the Publick'. In April North returned to power as Home Secretary in an unlikely coalition with Fox, the radical Whig leader, only lasting to December. 'Cole' was slang for gold or money.
BM Satires 6213.
[Ref: 60795]   £680.00  
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[Charles James Fox] Habits of New French Legislators, and other Public Functionaries, No 1.
[Charles James Fox] Habits of New French Legislators, and other Public Functionaries, No 1. Le Ministre d'Etat, en Grand Costume.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins.
Charles James Fox in the costume of a Revolutionary Minister of State, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He stands with hands on hips on a Royal Crest, legs astride, wearing a looped hat with large ostrich feathers, long loose coat with a lace collar and long revers over a tunic with a sash which defines his vast paunch. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9196.
[Ref: 59139]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The York-Minuet.
The York-Minuet.
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d Dec.r 14th 1791. by H. Humphrey No 18 Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 225 x 280mm (9 x 11") very large margins Crease in top left corner, stains.
George, Prince of Wales, dances with Frederica, Duchess of York, who shows not only her famously small feet but also an immodest amount of leg.
BM Satires 7933.
[Ref: 54603]   £520.00  
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[George, Prince of Wales] The Grand-Signior retiring.
[George, Prince of Wales] The Grand-Signior retiring.
J.s G.y d. et f. [James Gillray]
Pub.d May 25th. 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Small margins. Stitch holes in left edge, a few spots.
A fat and pompous Prince of Wales leaves his bedroom and walks towards that of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Her husband, George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, dressed in his nightclothes, lights the way with a candle and raises his night-cap deferentially, although George brushes him off. A torn map of the back of a door is titled 'A Map of the Road into the Harbour of Jersey'. Lady Jersey, a 40-year-old mother of ten and grandmother, replaced Maria Fitzherbert as George's principal mistress in 1794.
BM Satires 8807.
[Ref: 54604]   £680.00  
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The Jersey Smuggler detected; - or - Good cause for Discontent [Seperation]. _
The Jersey Smuggler detected; - or - Good cause for Discontent [Seperation]. _ ''Marriage vows, are false as Dicers oaths.''
[by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 24th 1796 by H. Humphrey N 18. New Bond St.
Coloured etching. 260 x 365mm (10¼ x 14¼"). Small margins. A few spots.
Caroline of Brunswick discovers the Prince of Wales in bed with Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. She gestures through a door to a crib with Princess Charlotte asleep. Above the Princess's head hangs a 'Map of the Road back to Brunswick'. Jersey's part in the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales was well known, gaining sympathy of Caroline and distain for Jersey. The quote is from Hamlet.
BM Satires 8806.
[Ref: 54606]   £680.00  
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Company shocked at a Lady getting up to Ring the Bell.
Company shocked at a Lady getting up to Ring the Bell.
B [compass monogram of Brownlow North], Esq.r_del. [etched by James Gillray.]
London. Publish'd November 20th 1804, by H. Humphrey No27, St. James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). Trimmed to plate.
A dinner party scene: the only lady has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull, causing apoplexy amoung the five elderly men at the table. Etched by Gillray after Brownlow North (1778-1829), an amateur draughtsman of satire.
BM Satires 10303.
[Ref: 61787]   £520.00  
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Un Diplomatique, settling affairs at Stevens's.
Un Diplomatique, settling affairs at Stevens's. Comte Haslang [ms in lower margin]
Pubd June 9th 1797 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Square.
Etching with hand-colouring, sheet 340 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼"). Trimmed inside platemark; slight crease.
Count Haslang sits in Stevens's, the fashionable Bond Street coffee-house, holding a wine-glass as if gesticulating in response to some person (not pictured) at whom he looks sourly. Haslang, Bavarian envoy to London, had long the subject of ridicule for both his love affairs and lack of money.
BM Satires 9067.
[Ref: 50337]   £480.00  
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Hounds Finding. [&] Hounds Throwing Off. [&] Hounds In Full-Cry. [&] Coming In At The Death.
Hounds Finding. [&] Hounds Throwing Off. [&] Hounds In Full-Cry. [&] Coming In At The Death.
B. [North] Esqr del. J.s G.y fec.t.
Publish'd April 8th 1800, by H.h Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London.
Set of four hand coloured etchings. Fine colour. Sheet size: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½") each. Trimmed inside plates.
A complete set of four hunting scenes with punning titles, with the same signatures and imprint on each. 'Hounds Finding'; A rider has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming. The horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence. From one pocket spouts the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a chicken. 'Hounds Throwing-Off'; Three riders are being violently thrown off their horses, caused by the pack of hounds below. 'Hounds in Full-Cry'; A rider leans back in the saddle tugging at his rein. He is riding over the hounds which are yelping and squealing. Behind, an enormous splash. A horse immediately behind him rears. In the background to the right, a huntsman stands holding out a fox by the tail to the hounds. Published by Hannah Humphrey (1745 - 1818), publisher of expensive satirical prints, especially by Gillray who worked for her exclusively from 1791, and who lived in her house for the last twenty years of his life.
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Hounds Throwing Off.
Hounds Throwing Off.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del.t. J.s G.y fec.t.
Publish'd April 8th 1800, by H.h Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), on Turkey Mill paper. Trimmed to plate.
Three riders are being violently thrown off their horses, caused by the pack of hounds below. One of a set of four hunting scenes with punning titles.
BM Satires 9589.
[Ref: 61785]   £360.00  
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Hounds Finding.
Hounds Finding.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del.t. J.s G.y fec.t.
Publish'd April 8th 1800, by H.h Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), on Turkey Mill paper. Trimmed to plate.
A rider has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming. The horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence. From one pocket spouts the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a chicken. One of a set of four hunting scenes with punning titles.
BM Satires 9590.
[Ref: 61784]   £360.00  
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Taking Physick.
Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border, long tear taped. Damaged.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 59505]   £150.00   (£180.00 incl.VAT)
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Taking Physick.
Taking Physick.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Feb.y 6.th 1800, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J. Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
An invalid, with unbuttoned breeches and nightcap, standing before a fire drinking medicine from a bowl, pulling a face. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 9584.
[Ref: 61791]   £360.00  
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Gentle Emetic.
Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 61792]   £320.00  
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Gentle Emetic.
Gentle Emetic.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 275 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear taped top left.
An invalid sits before a bowl, his mournful-looking manservant holding his head as he waits for the inevitable. One in a series (with 'Taking Physick', 'Brisk - Cathartic', 'Breathing a Vein' & 'Charming - Well again), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10304.
[Ref: 59502]   £380.00  
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Charming - well again.
Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jan.y 28.th 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"), watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Trimmed to printed border.
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 61793]   £320.00  
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Charming - well again.
Charming - well again.
[by James Gillray.]
Publish'd Jany. 28th. 1804, by H. Humphrey, St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½").
A convalescent, still wearing a nightcap, sits at small dinner-table, his appetite restored. He holds up a glass of wine with a smile of satisfaction and is about to carve a bird. Behind his chair stands a stout footman in livery, pleased with the improvement. One in a series (with 'Gentle Emetic', 'Taking Physic', 'Brisk - Cathartic' & 'Breathing a Vein'), all of which appear in Humphrey's shop window in Gillray's 'Very Slippy-Weather' (1808), alongside some of Gillray's more famous satires. As the display celebrates Gillray's domestic arrangements (it includes two prints in which Hannah Humphrey, Gillray's partner and publisher, is recognisable) it is conceivable that the patient in this satire is Gillray himself. The series certainly had significance for the caricaturist.
BM Satires 10307.
[Ref: 59504]   £380.00  
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[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[James Gillray.]
[Pub.d Nov.r 23.d 1796, by H. Humphrey] New Bond Street.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"). Trimmed close to plate on three sides, around title at bottom, losing part of publication line.
A caricature of George Hanger riding a pony past the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', in Grosvenor Street, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. Hanger (1751-1824) had served with Banastre Tarleton's Legion as a major during the American Revolutionary War, commanding it at the defeat at the Battle of Charlotte of 1780, in which he was wounded. Returning to England he became a friend of the Prince of Wales and Charles James Fox, becoming known as an eccentric. In 1814 he inherited the barony of Coleraine from his brother but declined to assume the title. In his autobiography ('The life, adventures and opinions of Col. George Hanger', 1801) he predicted that one day the northern and southern states of America ''will fight as vigorously against each other as they both have united to do against the British''.
BM Satires: 8889. See Ref: 58356.
[Ref: 61760]   £480.00  
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[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[George Hanger] Georgey a'Cock-horse.
[James Gillray.]
Pub.d Nov.r 23.d 1796, by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 345 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"). Slight central crease. Trimmed to plate top and left, laid on album paper.
A caricature of George Hanger riding a pony past the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', in Grosvenor Street, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. Hanger (1751-1824) had served with Banastre Tarleton's Legion as a major during the American Revolutionary War, commanding it at the defeat at the Battle of Charlotte of 1780, in which he was wounded. Returning to England he became a friend of the Prince of Wales and Charles James Fox, becoming known as an eccentric. In 1814 he inherited the barony of Coleraine from his brother but declined to assume the title. In his autobiography ('The life, adventures and opinions of Col. George Hanger', 1801) he predicted that one day the northern and southern states of America ''will fight as vigorously against each other as they both have united to do against the British''.
BM Satires: 8889.
[Ref: 58356]   £450.00   (£540.00 incl.VAT)
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