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The Crops Last Shift. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Cruikshanks. Etch.d by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by W.Locke Nov.r 1.st 1791.
Etching, sheet 210 x 230mm (8¼ x 9"). Small margins. Trimmed to plate on two sides, folding creases, as normal.
Four young bloods have attacked an old woman on a donkey with a pannier of potatoes. Their hair is cropped, and they have bludgeons. One has cut off the donkey's tail; another, who holds it, has fallen backwards. A third fills his hat with potatoes which have fallen from the donkey's basket, while a fourth stands with clenched fists facing the old woman. On the collar of a bulldog beside him is inscribed 'Barrymore' (reversed, and only legible in a mirror). The print was published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
BM Satires 7998.
[Ref: 59536] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Cruikshanks. Etch.d by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by W.Locke Nov.r 1.st 1791.
Etching, sheet 210 x 230mm (8¼ x 9"). Small margins. Trimmed to plate on two sides, folding creases, as normal.
Four young bloods have attacked an old woman on a donkey with a pannier of potatoes. Their hair is cropped, and they have bludgeons. One has cut off the donkey's tail; another, who holds it, has fallen backwards. A third fills his hat with potatoes which have fallen from the donkey's basket, while a fourth stands with clenched fists facing the old woman. On the collar of a bulldog beside him is inscribed 'Barrymore' (reversed, and only legible in a mirror). The print was published in the 'Attic Miscellany' in 1791.
BM Satires 7998.
[Ref: 59536] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Major G****n & Lady landing at Southampton in Cripples walk
[William Austin]
Pubd as the Act Directs May 1st 1773
Rare engraving, 270 x 375mm. 10½ x 14½".
Scene at Southampton, with the Isle of Wight faintly visible in the background. In the foreground a man stands with crutches to support his gouty foot is followed by a woman carrying a bottle labelled 'Hartshorn'. Nearer the shore are several figures, one of whom is labelled 'The Rabbit Doctor', and who carries a large rabbit under his arm. 'This is St. André (1680-1776), an unqualified but fashionable surgeon who investigated the case of Mary Tofts in 1726, who professed to be delivered of rabbits [...] He vouched for her story in all its impossible details. In spite of the scandal caused by its exposure he eloped with, and afterwards married, Lady Elizabeth Molyneux on the night of the death of her husband whom he had been professionally attending. They settled in Southampton about 1750' (Stevens and George). This episode was also depicted by William Hogarth in his engraving 'Cunicularii, or the Wise Men of Goodliman in Consultation'. Engraved by William Austin (1721-1820).
BM Satire 5115. For a portrait of Mary Tofts, see ref. 18959
[Ref: 18916] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
[William Austin]
Pubd as the Act Directs May 1st 1773
Rare engraving, 270 x 375mm. 10½ x 14½".
Scene at Southampton, with the Isle of Wight faintly visible in the background. In the foreground a man stands with crutches to support his gouty foot is followed by a woman carrying a bottle labelled 'Hartshorn'. Nearer the shore are several figures, one of whom is labelled 'The Rabbit Doctor', and who carries a large rabbit under his arm. 'This is St. André (1680-1776), an unqualified but fashionable surgeon who investigated the case of Mary Tofts in 1726, who professed to be delivered of rabbits [...] He vouched for her story in all its impossible details. In spite of the scandal caused by its exposure he eloped with, and afterwards married, Lady Elizabeth Molyneux on the night of the death of her husband whom he had been professionally attending. They settled in Southampton about 1750' (Stevens and George). This episode was also depicted by William Hogarth in his engraving 'Cunicularii, or the Wise Men of Goodliman in Consultation'. Engraved by William Austin (1721-1820).
BM Satire 5115. For a portrait of Mary Tofts, see ref. 18959
[Ref: 18916] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)
The Levee, or the Maecenas of Scrubs and Scaramouches. Attic Miscellany.
Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° June Ist 1791.
Etching. 195 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). Original binding folds.
A boxing satire. A group of parasitic followers surround Richard Barry (1769-1793), 7th Earl of Barrymore, including boxers, jockeys, cock-fighters and a man resembling the Prince of Wales. On the back wall are paintings of 'Scrub' (after his nickname 'Lord Scrub), racing, cockfighting and a pierrot and harlequin. On the floor is an open book: 'New Pantomime by Bar & Co'. Despite being painted at an early age as an angelic Cupid by Richard Cosway, Barry found infamy as a rake, beginning at school at Eton, from where he would hire cabs to London to visit prostitutes. The Prince of Wales nicknamed him 'Hellgate'. He married the daughter of a sedan chair man: after he accidently killed himself with his own musket aged 23, she turned to prostitution and bare-knuckle boxing before becoming a matron of the female prisoners at the Tothill Fields Bridewell.
[Ref: 60162] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Collings. Etch'd by Barlow.
Published as the Act directs, by Bentley & C° June Ist 1791.
Etching. 195 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). Original binding folds.
A boxing satire. A group of parasitic followers surround Richard Barry (1769-1793), 7th Earl of Barrymore, including boxers, jockeys, cock-fighters and a man resembling the Prince of Wales. On the back wall are paintings of 'Scrub' (after his nickname 'Lord Scrub), racing, cockfighting and a pierrot and harlequin. On the floor is an open book: 'New Pantomime by Bar & Co'. Despite being painted at an early age as an angelic Cupid by Richard Cosway, Barry found infamy as a rake, beginning at school at Eton, from where he would hire cabs to London to visit prostitutes. The Prince of Wales nicknamed him 'Hellgate'. He married the daughter of a sedan chair man: after he accidently killed himself with his own musket aged 23, she turned to prostitution and bare-knuckle boxing before becoming a matron of the female prisoners at the Tothill Fields Bridewell.
[Ref: 60162] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
A Scene in the Honey Moon or Conjugal Felicity.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub the Largest assortment of any House in Town. [n.d., 1828.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed 'Best Wiltshire' . The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, married Harriet Mellon, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. The following year, to celebrate their anniversary, they held a reception, attended by two royal dukes and Prince Leopold (seen on the left). The Duke presented his wife with a silver fruit basket on which was engraved a flitch of bacon; the Duchess then announced her gift of a six-oared cutter called The Falcon, and the boatmen in their liveries made an appearance.
BM Satires 15600.
[Ref: 39607] £360.00
[Monogram of Paul Pry, i.e. William Heath] Esq.r Del.
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket where Political and other Caricatures are daily Pub the Largest assortment of any House in Town. [n.d., 1828.]
Coloured etching. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Small margins.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans stand facing each other; the little Duke staggering under an ornamental basket which supports a side of bacon, inscribed 'Best Wiltshire' . The Duchess holds on her shoulder a cutter in which are seated six oarsmen with oars held erect, and a helmsman. The Duke is dressed as Grand Falconer and wears a hood with bells indicating both a fool's cap and the hood and bells of falconry. In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, married Harriet Mellon, widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. The following year, to celebrate their anniversary, they held a reception, attended by two royal dukes and Prince Leopold (seen on the left). The Duke presented his wife with a silver fruit basket on which was engraved a flitch of bacon; the Duchess then announced her gift of a six-oared cutter called The Falcon, and the boatmen in their liveries made an appearance.
BM Satires 15600.
[Ref: 39607] £360.00
Militia galantry - or The Soldiers cowardly retreat to save his Bacon; at the expence of his fair Inamorata.
[by Charles Williams.
Pub.d 1821 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins.
Between signs pointing to Cheltenham and Gloucester, a woman kneels at the feet of Col. Berkeley, a tall handsome man in regimentals, wearing a plumed cocked hat. He holds a flag inscribed Letters to Amuse the Public expose the Writer and save my Pocket; on this hangs a letter-file on which papers are spiked. She begs ''In Pity don't Expose me!''. He says ''They will save me thousands''. A coach of onlookers comment, including ''Where's the Honor of a Soldier and Faith there is none in this''. William Berkeley (1786-18570, 1st Earl FitzHardinge, was sued by coach proprietor John Waterhouse for ''Criminal conversation'' with Waterhouse's wife. Despite the attempts satirised here, Waterhouse was awarded £1000 damages at Gloucester Assizes. The scandal did not stop Berkeley becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1836.
BM Satires 14274a, a second state with 'Militia' instead of 'Military'.
[Ref: 54579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[by Charles Williams.
Pub.d 1821 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins.
Between signs pointing to Cheltenham and Gloucester, a woman kneels at the feet of Col. Berkeley, a tall handsome man in regimentals, wearing a plumed cocked hat. He holds a flag inscribed Letters to Amuse the Public expose the Writer and save my Pocket; on this hangs a letter-file on which papers are spiked. She begs ''In Pity don't Expose me!''. He says ''They will save me thousands''. A coach of onlookers comment, including ''Where's the Honor of a Soldier and Faith there is none in this''. William Berkeley (1786-18570, 1st Earl FitzHardinge, was sued by coach proprietor John Waterhouse for ''Criminal conversation'' with Waterhouse's wife. Despite the attempts satirised here, Waterhouse was awarded £1000 damages at Gloucester Assizes. The scandal did not stop Berkeley becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1836.
BM Satires 14274a, a second state with 'Militia' instead of 'Military'.
[Ref: 54579] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Boxers of Bangor or Messengers of Peace.
Pub.d Aug.t 6. 1796 by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman 1794 watermark; S.W.F. ink stamp on right. Plate: 255 x 395mm (10 x 15½"). Stain in small margins. Very slight printer's crease.
A satirical scene showing the Bishop of Bangor leading a riot to remove Samuel Grindley from a building attached to the Cathedral. Kneeling at the Bishop's feet are two young women, one of which is Mrs Elizabeth Warren who succeeded in calming the mob.
BM Satire 8882.
[Ref: 46736] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d Aug.t 6. 1796 by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caricatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman 1794 watermark; S.W.F. ink stamp on right. Plate: 255 x 395mm (10 x 15½"). Stain in small margins. Very slight printer's crease.
A satirical scene showing the Bishop of Bangor leading a riot to remove Samuel Grindley from a building attached to the Cathedral. Kneeling at the Bishop's feet are two young women, one of which is Mrs Elizabeth Warren who succeeded in calming the mob.
BM Satire 8882.
[Ref: 46736] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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)
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)
The Carlton House Botchers.
For the Oxford Mag.
[1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼'') large margins. Foxing.
A satirical scene in a tailors workroom showing early image of an iron, above the figures heads hangs the petticoats of the Princess of Wales. A group including Lord Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, the Duke of Bedford and the Duke of Grafton who stand around Mr Jeremiah Dyson who is sewing a coat probably intended for the King. A masonic image.
BM Satire 4425.
[Ref: 48431] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
For the Oxford Mag.
[1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 105mm (6¼ x 4¼'') large margins. Foxing.
A satirical scene in a tailors workroom showing early image of an iron, above the figures heads hangs the petticoats of the Princess of Wales. A group including Lord Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, the Duke of Bedford and the Duke of Grafton who stand around Mr Jeremiah Dyson who is sewing a coat probably intended for the King. A masonic image.
BM Satire 4425.
[Ref: 48431] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
The Cheltenham Dandy or Glocestershire Macke-roni.
Pub.d 1819 by S.W.Fores, 50 Piccadilly London.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm. Watermarked Whatman 1818.
Mr Mackay of Cheltenham, a noted eccentric, draped in a tartan cloak.
Not in BM, but see BM 14559 for a lithographic version, 1823.
[Ref: 2540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d 1819 by S.W.Fores, 50 Piccadilly London.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm. Watermarked Whatman 1818.
Mr Mackay of Cheltenham, a noted eccentric, draped in a tartan cloak.
Not in BM, but see BM 14559 for a lithographic version, 1823.
[Ref: 2540] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Cocking the Greeks.
Pub.d May 16th 1796 by S.W.Fores, No 50 the Corner of Sackville Street. NB Folios of caractures lent for the Evening.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate. Taped tear top left in sky.
Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamshire in the pillory, Lady Buckinghamshire standing on her Faro bank box with her breasts bare. Lord Kenyon stands beneath, ringing a bell and declaiming against illegal gambling. Aristocratic women were unable to gamble in public houses so often set up their own private tables, however, following the start of the French Revolution any behaviour by the aristocratic classes which might cause the working and middle to react was stongly clamped down on. Chief Justaice Lord Kenyon, while judging a case about gambling debts, suggested the pillory as punishment for gamblers, 'whatever may be their rank. or station in the country'. The ladies here ran a notorious faro-bank.
BM 8878.
[Ref: 61897] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d May 16th 1796 by S.W.Fores, No 50 the Corner of Sackville Street. NB Folios of caractures lent for the Evening.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate. Taped tear top left in sky.
Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamshire in the pillory, Lady Buckinghamshire standing on her Faro bank box with her breasts bare. Lord Kenyon stands beneath, ringing a bell and declaiming against illegal gambling. Aristocratic women were unable to gamble in public houses so often set up their own private tables, however, following the start of the French Revolution any behaviour by the aristocratic classes which might cause the working and middle to react was stongly clamped down on. Chief Justaice Lord Kenyon, while judging a case about gambling debts, suggested the pillory as punishment for gamblers, 'whatever may be their rank. or station in the country'. The ladies here ran a notorious faro-bank.
BM 8878.
[Ref: 61897] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Packing Up!!! Had sly Ulysses at the Sack Of Troy, brought thee his pedler's pack. vide Cleaveland.
W. Heath
Pub July 1st 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾").
Royal mistress Elizabeth Conyngham, her husband Henry, and their daughter Harriet Maria Somerville prepare to leave Windsor following the death of George IV, struggling to pack up their belongings, including the giraffe skeleton carried by Harriet. According to the DNB, 'society believed that she was accompanied by 'wagonloads' of plunder; but although the king had bequeathed her all his plate and jewels (some of which, as family heirlooms, were not his to give) she refused the entire legacy'.
BM Satires 16143. For other satires on Conyngham's departure see refs 30461 and 30463
[Ref: 39544] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
W. Heath
Pub July 1st 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket.
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾").
Royal mistress Elizabeth Conyngham, her husband Henry, and their daughter Harriet Maria Somerville prepare to leave Windsor following the death of George IV, struggling to pack up their belongings, including the giraffe skeleton carried by Harriet. According to the DNB, 'society believed that she was accompanied by 'wagonloads' of plunder; but although the king had bequeathed her all his plate and jewels (some of which, as family heirlooms, were not his to give) she refused the entire legacy'.
BM Satires 16143. For other satires on Conyngham's departure see refs 30461 and 30463
[Ref: 39544] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Court of Equity, Bell-Savage Ludgate Hill.
Rob.t Dighton Pinxit. Rob.t Laurie Fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1778, by John Smith, Cheapside, London.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 16¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on card, extensive cracking and surface rubbing. Damaged.
The interior of a club room, with a convivial group of men drinking and smoking. The motto behind the presiding officer's chair reads 'Mirth with Justice'. Through its lifespan The Bell Savage Inn was an Elizabethan playhouse, the coaching inn where Pocahontas stayed, the home of England's first rhinoceros and John Cassell's publishing house. It was demolished in 1873. George writes: ''The persons are well-characterized portraits. The chairman is 'Hurford, the Guildhall orator' (William Hurford, Deputy of Castlebaynard Ward). On his r., and on the extreme l. are Wright, distiller in Fleet Street, and Hamilton, clerk to William Woodfall, printer, holding the 'Morning Chronicle'. Opposite the latter sits Smith the printseller. On the chairman's l. are (l. to r.), Lamb, silversmith in Fetter Lane; Clark, sausage maker; Stephenson, an attorney; Clark, a bricklayer in Shoe Lane; Russell, a broker of Harp-Alley; Good, the auctioneer; Thorn; Dighton, the artist, on the extreme r. In the foreground (r.) by a small table sits Dighton's father; between the two Dightons is a man reading the 'Morning Post'. In front of him and facing the chairman stands Towse of Vauxhall, speaking, pipe in his l. hand, r. hand thrust in his waistcoat. Pipes, glasses, pots, papers of tobacco, and a punch-bowl are on the tables. Tom Thorpe, of the Globe Tavern, advances in the middle of the room, carrying a punch-bowl''. A rare print: the British Museum has two proof examples, yet George takes the title from Chaloner Smith, 'Court of Equity or Convivial City Meeting' with a date 1779. Apparently neither had seen a titled example.
BM Satire: 5530; CS 18. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 44334] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Rob.t Dighton Pinxit. Rob.t Laurie Fecit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1778, by John Smith, Cheapside, London.
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 16¾"). Trimmed to plate, laid on card, extensive cracking and surface rubbing. Damaged.
The interior of a club room, with a convivial group of men drinking and smoking. The motto behind the presiding officer's chair reads 'Mirth with Justice'. Through its lifespan The Bell Savage Inn was an Elizabethan playhouse, the coaching inn where Pocahontas stayed, the home of England's first rhinoceros and John Cassell's publishing house. It was demolished in 1873. George writes: ''The persons are well-characterized portraits. The chairman is 'Hurford, the Guildhall orator' (William Hurford, Deputy of Castlebaynard Ward). On his r., and on the extreme l. are Wright, distiller in Fleet Street, and Hamilton, clerk to William Woodfall, printer, holding the 'Morning Chronicle'. Opposite the latter sits Smith the printseller. On the chairman's l. are (l. to r.), Lamb, silversmith in Fetter Lane; Clark, sausage maker; Stephenson, an attorney; Clark, a bricklayer in Shoe Lane; Russell, a broker of Harp-Alley; Good, the auctioneer; Thorn; Dighton, the artist, on the extreme r. In the foreground (r.) by a small table sits Dighton's father; between the two Dightons is a man reading the 'Morning Post'. In front of him and facing the chairman stands Towse of Vauxhall, speaking, pipe in his l. hand, r. hand thrust in his waistcoat. Pipes, glasses, pots, papers of tobacco, and a punch-bowl are on the tables. Tom Thorpe, of the Globe Tavern, advances in the middle of the room, carrying a punch-bowl''. A rare print: the British Museum has two proof examples, yet George takes the title from Chaloner Smith, 'Court of Equity or Convivial City Meeting' with a date 1779. Apparently neither had seen a titled example.
BM Satire: 5530; CS 18. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 44334] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A Trip to Coventry an Old Dance to a New Figure.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d June 2d 1802 by S W Fores Picc[adilly.] Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Eve[ning.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; S.W.F. in ink bottom right; 250 x 400mm (9¾ x 15¾"). Patched hole in publisher's inscription, losing text on bottom right. Small margins
An elderly Lord Coventry, attempts to dance with two young girls, propped up with two walking sticks.
BM Satires 9930.
[Ref: 51860] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d June 2d 1802 by S W Fores Picc[adilly.] Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Eve[ning.]
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; S.W.F. in ink bottom right; 250 x 400mm (9¾ x 15¾"). Patched hole in publisher's inscription, losing text on bottom right. Small margins
An elderly Lord Coventry, attempts to dance with two young girls, propped up with two walking sticks.
BM Satires 9930.
[Ref: 51860] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
The Effigies of the Right Hon.ble William Earle of Craven, Viscount Craven of Uffington, Baron Craven of Hampsted = Marshall, Lord Leiutenant of the County of Middlesex and Borough of Southwarke, and one of the Lords of his Majestys most Hon.ble privy Councell &ca.
[Anon., 1679.]
Engraving. 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate, and laid on backing paper.
Portrait of William, Earl of Craven; one hand on his helmet to the right, the other holding a truncheon. Illustration to John Guillim's, 'Display of Heraldrie' (1679). William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608-1697), an English nobleman, Royalist and soldier. He fought for Frederick V on the Continent and fell in love with his wife, Elizabeth of Bohemia, the daughter of James I. On the outbreak of civil war in 1642, Craven was living at The Hague with Elizabeth, whom he supported financially for many years. He took no direct part in the civil wars, but his royalist sympathies and and financial assistance to the Crown provoked retaliation- in 1651 his English estates were seized and sold to raise funds for the Commonwealth fleet.
NPG: D29510.
[Ref: 53630] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Anon., 1679.]
Engraving. 265 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾"). Trimmed to plate, and laid on backing paper.
Portrait of William, Earl of Craven; one hand on his helmet to the right, the other holding a truncheon. Illustration to John Guillim's, 'Display of Heraldrie' (1679). William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608-1697), an English nobleman, Royalist and soldier. He fought for Frederick V on the Continent and fell in love with his wife, Elizabeth of Bohemia, the daughter of James I. On the outbreak of civil war in 1642, Craven was living at The Hague with Elizabeth, whom he supported financially for many years. He took no direct part in the civil wars, but his royalist sympathies and and financial assistance to the Crown provoked retaliation- in 1651 his English estates were seized and sold to raise funds for the Commonwealth fleet.
NPG: D29510.
[Ref: 53630] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife] A Discharg'd Fife=r. Lord Fife.
Drawn Etched by Richard Dighton 1821 April 25.
Pub.d. by T M.c.Lean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 180 x 310mm (7 x 12").
Full length portrait in profile, facing right, of James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife (1776-1857) who, while serving as MP for Banffshire, was dismissed from his position as Lord of the Bedchamber for voting against the malt tax. Duff also served alongside the Spanish in their war against Napoleon.
BM 14264.
[Ref: 34429] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn Etched by Richard Dighton 1821 April 25.
Pub.d. by T M.c.Lean Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching with very large margins. Plate: 180 x 310mm (7 x 12").
Full length portrait in profile, facing right, of James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife (1776-1857) who, while serving as MP for Banffshire, was dismissed from his position as Lord of the Bedchamber for voting against the malt tax. Duff also served alongside the Spanish in their war against Napoleon.
BM 14264.
[Ref: 34429] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
An East India Silk Sale; or, Mr. Sleek Hum-Bucking'em, i.e. the Trading Patriot turned.
London Pub. by H. Fores Panton St. Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼''). Trimmed, repaired tear, slight crease.
A satire showing traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham, dressed in a turban kneeling before an English merchant with a list of services he can provide.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 51106] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
London Pub. by H. Fores Panton St. Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼''). Trimmed, repaired tear, slight crease.
A satire showing traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham, dressed in a turban kneeling before an English merchant with a list of services he can provide.
BM Satire Undescribed.
[Ref: 51106] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Faro's Daughters, or the Kenyonian blow up to the Greeks!!!
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub May 16 1796 by SW Fores No.50 Piccadilly Folios of Caraicatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 270 x 400mm (10¾ x 15¾''). Small margins.
A political satire showing four women, Mrs Sturt, Mrs Concannon, Lady Sarah Archer and the Countess of Buckinghamshire in pillory, Charles James Fox sits between the legs of one of the women. Lord Kenyon, kneels in the foreground fanning a fire of games tables, dice and cards. Mrs Concannon ran a popular gaming house in Grafton Street.
BM Satire 8879.A.
[Ref: 51087] £480.00
[Isaac Cruikshank.]
London Pub May 16 1796 by SW Fores No.50 Piccadilly Folios of Caraicatures Lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 270 x 400mm (10¾ x 15¾''). Small margins.
A political satire showing four women, Mrs Sturt, Mrs Concannon, Lady Sarah Archer and the Countess of Buckinghamshire in pillory, Charles James Fox sits between the legs of one of the women. Lord Kenyon, kneels in the foreground fanning a fire of games tables, dice and cards. Mrs Concannon ran a popular gaming house in Grafton Street.
BM Satire 8879.A.
[Ref: 51087] £480.00
![A Peep at a City Feast [&] A Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day.](jpegs/45861.jpg)
A Peep at a City Feast [&] A Sketch of Lord Mayor's Day. Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine.
Etch.d by Barlow
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two satirical prints which, together, show a frenetic feast taking place at the Mansion House, with figures such as Charles Cornwallis visible. Published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', although possibly a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45861] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Etch.d by Barlow
[Published by W. & J. Stratford (?), c.1794]
Two engravings, each platemark approx. 180 x 115mm (6¾ x 4¼").
Two satirical prints which, together, show a frenetic feast taking place at the Mansion House, with figures such as Charles Cornwallis visible. Published in the 'Carlton House Magazine', although possibly a reissue of a plate first published a couple of years earlier, as was often the case with illustrations in the magazine.
[Ref: 45861] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
The Female Court Marshall.
[n.d., c.1757.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8''). Creasing, repaired tears, surface dirt and stains.
A burlesque on Admiral Byng's court martial in the form of a mock trial for adultery of a fashionably-dressed lady. Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was court martialled and executed for 'failing' to relieve the besieged British garrison at the Battle of Minorca. Fashionably dressed women, in wide skirts sit around a large, round table.
BM Satire 3568.
[Ref: 50732] £320.00
[n.d., c.1757.]
Etching, 18th century watermark. Plate: 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8''). Creasing, repaired tears, surface dirt and stains.
A burlesque on Admiral Byng's court martial in the form of a mock trial for adultery of a fashionably-dressed lady. Admiral John Byng (1704-1757) was court martialled and executed for 'failing' to relieve the besieged British garrison at the Battle of Minorca. Fashionably dressed women, in wide skirts sit around a large, round table.
BM Satire 3568.
[Ref: 50732] £320.00
The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or The Disapointed Dido still in Despair.
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Etching. Plate: 265 x 330mm (10½ x 13''). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 48406] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Etching. Plate: 265 x 330mm (10½ x 13''). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 48406] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or The Disapointed Dido still in Despair.
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman watermark. Sheet: 265 x 335mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged, a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 46621] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d May 9th 1802 by S.W. Fores 50 Picadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the evening.
Hand-coloured etching. J. Whatman watermark. Sheet: 265 x 335mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed to platemark.
A satirical scene in showing Lady Gordon and her daughter Lady Georgiana weeping by the coffin of the Duke of Bedford. Lady Gordon had sought to have her daughter marry the Duke of Bedford and following his death she claimed that the two had been engaged, a claim which was denied by the Duke's brother.
BM Satire 9929.
[Ref: 46621] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Whistling Dalmahoy and the Shads.
W.H Pyne del.t. Smart & Hunt sculp.t.
London, Published Nov.r 1, 1822, by S. & I. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in the life of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton KG (1663-90), the illegitimate son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine. Grafton, a keen boxer, apparently used to challenge hackney coachmen to a fight, offering a guinea for his fare or nothing depending on the outcome. Here he is shown with a Thames waterman, who, having agreed to fight the Duke on a coal lighter, is leaving him stranded. Published in Pyne's 'The World in Miniature', the portrait of the Duke seems unfair: the reddness and lines of his face mark him as considerably older than the 27 years he attained before his death at the Siege of Cork.
For another plate from the same series see ref. 18360
[Ref: 27139] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
W.H Pyne del.t. Smart & Hunt sculp.t.
London, Published Nov.r 1, 1822, by S. & I. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Coloured aquatint. 230 x 280mm (9 x 11"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in the life of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton KG (1663-90), the illegitimate son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine. Grafton, a keen boxer, apparently used to challenge hackney coachmen to a fight, offering a guinea for his fare or nothing depending on the outcome. Here he is shown with a Thames waterman, who, having agreed to fight the Duke on a coal lighter, is leaving him stranded. Published in Pyne's 'The World in Miniature', the portrait of the Duke seems unfair: the reddness and lines of his face mark him as considerably older than the 27 years he attained before his death at the Siege of Cork.
For another plate from the same series see ref. 18360
[Ref: 27139] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The trial of Mr. Cumberland for spreading the Distemper among the horned Cattle at St. Albans & other Parts
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾''), with large margins. Marking.
An satirical print representing the Court of King's Bench during the trial of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, for 'criminal conversation' (i.e. adultery) with Lady Grosvenor. The majority have animal heads.
BM Satire 4401.
[Ref: 48427] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾''), with large margins. Marking.
An satirical print representing the Court of King's Bench during the trial of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, for 'criminal conversation' (i.e. adultery) with Lady Grosvenor. The majority have animal heads.
BM Satire 4401.
[Ref: 48427] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
High Life at Noon. With Touch indelicate his Grace / Approaches that angelic Place...
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Creased, tear in margin taped.
A duke and duchess take tea with a clergyman, although both are distracted. The duke fondles a servant girl as a black page slips the duchess a letter from her lover. A valet keeps a tradesman with a bill away. A monkey sits on the floor reading 'A Dissertation on Winding up the Clock by Tristram Shandy'. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
Not in British Museum.
[Ref: 57776] £360.00
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament June 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Creased, tear in margin taped.
A duke and duchess take tea with a clergyman, although both are distracted. The duke fondles a servant girl as a black page slips the duchess a letter from her lover. A valet keeps a tradesman with a bill away. A monkey sits on the floor reading 'A Dissertation on Winding up the Clock by Tristram Shandy'. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
Not in British Museum.
[Ref: 57776] £360.00
High Life in the Evening. or Quality Dinner Hour. / The Great, in one eternal Round, / Of Folly and Excess are found...
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament July 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Tear in margin taped.
The great and the good gathering for dinner at 5.30. Among those represented are Prime Minister the Duke of Grafton and his mistress Nancy Parsons, and the Earl of Bute intimately touching the arm of Augusta, Princess of Wales. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
BM. 4334.
[Ref: 57774] £360.00
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament July 1st. 1769 Price 1s. but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany [but later, c.1800].
Etching with engraving. 220 x 340mm (8¾ x 13¼") on wove paper. Tear in margin taped.
The great and the good gathering for dinner at 5.30. Among those represented are Prime Minister the Duke of Grafton and his mistress Nancy Parsons, and the Earl of Bute intimately touching the arm of Augusta, Princess of Wales. From a set of four. The paper suggests a 19th century impression.
BM. 4334.
[Ref: 57774] £360.00
Indian Jugglers.
W H Ekoorb [William Henry Brooke] del.t et sculp.t.
Satirist 1st August 1813.
Coloured etching. 200 x 365mm (8 x 14¼"). Trimmed top and left, folds as normal.
A performance of three Indians: one juggles rings on his hands and feet; another swallows a sword; the third has cups and balls, perhaps a 'Find the Ball' trickster.
BM Satires 12134.
[Ref: 56723] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
W H Ekoorb [William Henry Brooke] del.t et sculp.t.
Satirist 1st August 1813.
Coloured etching. 200 x 365mm (8 x 14¼"). Trimmed top and left, folds as normal.
A performance of three Indians: one juggles rings on his hands and feet; another swallows a sword; the third has cups and balls, perhaps a 'Find the Ball' trickster.
BM Satires 12134.
[Ref: 56723] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
No. XXXIV. M.rs. B_les. No. XXXV. The juvenile Orator.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street. Jan.y. 1; 1784.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm, (7 x 4¼"). Small margins.
Two portrait busts in ovals. On the right a portrait of George Augustus North (1757-1802), British politician and son of Lord North and on the left a portrait of his mistress Mrs Bowles. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6676.
[Ref: 38573] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street. Jan.y. 1; 1784.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm, (7 x 4¼"). Small margins.
Two portrait busts in ovals. On the right a portrait of George Augustus North (1757-1802), British politician and son of Lord North and on the left a portrait of his mistress Mrs Bowles. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6676.
[Ref: 38573] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Duncombe's Miniature Caricature Magazine. No.5. A fine Refiner, or a Search for the Philosopher's Stone!!
[n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 115 x 152mm (4½ x 6"). Cut.
A satire on Alderman Cox's legal action against Edmund Kean for adultery with Charlotte Cox, at the King's Bench. The alderman stands at centre, wearing the cuckold's horns, feeding Kean's love letters to his wife (standing to the left) into a cooking pot as the devil stokes the fire with bellows. These letters were read out in court: one, addressed to 'Little Breeches' (as is one of the letters in the pot), continued 'My darling love/Little impudent bitch, Come immediately & apologise for your impudence yesterday'. Kean lost and was forced to pay £800 to Cox, although the public disapproval that forced him to leave the country cost him far more.
[Ref: 29062] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1825.]
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. 115 x 152mm (4½ x 6"). Cut.
A satire on Alderman Cox's legal action against Edmund Kean for adultery with Charlotte Cox, at the King's Bench. The alderman stands at centre, wearing the cuckold's horns, feeding Kean's love letters to his wife (standing to the left) into a cooking pot as the devil stokes the fire with bellows. These letters were read out in court: one, addressed to 'Little Breeches' (as is one of the letters in the pot), continued 'My darling love/Little impudent bitch, Come immediately & apologise for your impudence yesterday'. Kean lost and was forced to pay £800 to Cox, although the public disapproval that forced him to leave the country cost him far more.
[Ref: 29062] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Throwing up his Majesty's Fox Hounds.
Published as the Act directs April the 16th, 1782 by J.Langham, No 11. St Bride's Passage.
Engraving. 245 x 295mm.
Basil Feilding (1719-1800), Earl of Denbigh, vomiting up six foxhounds, and gesturing after a fox in the fields. Feilding was Master of the Royal Harriers and and Foxhounds from 1762 until the post was abolished in 1782 when Edmund Burke reformed the Royal finances. In 1777 Walpole called Feilding 'the lowest and most officious of the Court-Tools'.
BM: 5976.
[Ref: 6798] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Published as the Act directs April the 16th, 1782 by J.Langham, No 11. St Bride's Passage.
Engraving. 245 x 295mm.
Basil Feilding (1719-1800), Earl of Denbigh, vomiting up six foxhounds, and gesturing after a fox in the fields. Feilding was Master of the Royal Harriers and and Foxhounds from 1762 until the post was abolished in 1782 when Edmund Burke reformed the Royal finances. In 1777 Walpole called Feilding 'the lowest and most officious of the Court-Tools'.
BM: 5976.
[Ref: 6798] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Lecture on Heads Embellished by Jn.o Lockington. 'N° 1. This is one of those extraordinary personages termed Conquerors; and may be thought great like Alexander, he having been where ambition has destroyed numbers; as tho' mankind was only made to be cut to Pieces. Such we call a Hero, a Warrior, a General, or Mankiller. N° 2. This is the head of an Eastern Chief. The Chiefs of which place is under great Subjection of Lacks of Rupees and Berguders or else Deposed of their Crowns; Torn from their families or Starved by our Modern Conquerors: which has been the case lately, he is called Tulgagee Mahah Rajah. To be Continued.
London Published as the Act directs Mar.h 9 1786 by J.Lockington Engraver Saville Passage, Conduit Street, Hanover Square.
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 190mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
'No 1' is either the Duke of Richmond or Lord Amherst, the commander-in-chief in Canada. 'No.2' is Warren Hastings, who had been denounced by Edmund Burke the month before.
BM: 6922.
[Ref: 6877] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
London Published as the Act directs Mar.h 9 1786 by J.Lockington Engraver Saville Passage, Conduit Street, Hanover Square.
Engraving. Sheet 315 x 190mm. Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
'No 1' is either the Duke of Richmond or Lord Amherst, the commander-in-chief in Canada. 'No.2' is Warren Hastings, who had been denounced by Edmund Burke the month before.
BM: 6922.
[Ref: 6877] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
The Mathew-orama for 1824 or "Pretty Considerable d__d particular" Tit Bits from America - being all well at Natchitoches.
Augte. Hervieu delt. A. Ducote Lithoy.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 222 x 264mm. Vertical centrefold, mounted to album page.
The actor Charles Mathews (1776 - 1835) in 14 of his American characters as played at the Lyceum for his 1824 'monodrama' entertainment ‘The Trip To America’. Under each character is lettered a quotation. Copied from the 1824 etching of the same title by Thomas Howell Jones, with minor differences in the image. Mathews enjoyed great acclaim during his 1822 -3 trip to America, though his impersonations of types of Americans were not well received when performed in the US in 1831. By Thomas Howell Jones (1824 - 1848; fl.) from a series of 'Mathew-oramas'.
See stock number 7803 (BM Satires: 14714). Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7857] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Augte. Hervieu delt. A. Ducote Lithoy.
[n.d., c.1835.]
Lithograph, sheet 222 x 264mm. Vertical centrefold, mounted to album page.
The actor Charles Mathews (1776 - 1835) in 14 of his American characters as played at the Lyceum for his 1824 'monodrama' entertainment ‘The Trip To America’. Under each character is lettered a quotation. Copied from the 1824 etching of the same title by Thomas Howell Jones, with minor differences in the image. Mathews enjoyed great acclaim during his 1822 -3 trip to America, though his impersonations of types of Americans were not well received when performed in the US in 1831. By Thomas Howell Jones (1824 - 1848; fl.) from a series of 'Mathew-oramas'.
See stock number 7803 (BM Satires: 14714). Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7857] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Meek-aroni Hornpipe.
Pub according to Act by MDarly 39 Strand May 24th 1774.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7". Some staining and offsetting.
A caricature of Mr Meek, a portly man holding hat and stick standing full-face. Little is known about him; he was the subject of several social satires in 1774. Possibly he was from Harrowgate, Yorkshire. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '6' upper right.
BM Satires: 4708.
[Ref: 14520] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Pub according to Act by MDarly 39 Strand May 24th 1774.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7". Some staining and offsetting.
A caricature of Mr Meek, a portly man holding hat and stick standing full-face. Little is known about him; he was the subject of several social satires in 1774. Possibly he was from Harrowgate, Yorkshire. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '6' upper right.
BM Satires: 4708.
[Ref: 14520] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
![[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!](jpegs/58464.jpg)
[Harriot Mellon] A Bold stroke for a Wife no chicken Hazard!!!
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[William Heath.]
Pub April 21st 1822 by S W Fores Picadilly.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 295mm (9 x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper. Slight loss left bottom in title at corners. Very slight loss top left.
Harriot Mellon, the immensely rich widow of the banker Thomas Coutts, in widow’s dress, with two suitors on their knees. Both Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, and the Marquis of Worcester (identified by the paper in his pocket), were widowers with huge debts. Behind, the anxious face of a man in barrister's wig and bands peers through the curtain. This satire was first published with the same imprint but with Harriot in party dress, the speech arranged differently and no barrister.
BM Satires 14424a.
[Ref: 58464] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Hawking Ride unto St Alban's vide Shak. 'A Falc'ner William is, when Harriet hawks; With her of tarsels and of Lures he talks. vide Prior!
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry'] Esq.r Del et Sculp.t.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other Caricatures are daily Publishing. [n.d., c.1827]
Etching with very fine hand colour. Sheet 245 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A satire of the Duke of St Albans with his new duchess, Harriot Mellon, out hawking. The Duke sits on a bucking donkey while his much larger wife rides an impressive white horse, carrying two hawks to the duke's one. Harriot had been an actress who married Thomas Coutts and inherited his fortune before marrying William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans in 1827, who was 23 years her junior. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole; however his monogram (a man holding an umbrella) was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
[Ref: 51580] £320.00
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry'] Esq.r Del et Sculp.t.
Pub by T McLean 26 Haymarket where political & other Caricatures are daily Publishing. [n.d., c.1827]
Etching with very fine hand colour. Sheet 245 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
A satire of the Duke of St Albans with his new duchess, Harriot Mellon, out hawking. The Duke sits on a bucking donkey while his much larger wife rides an impressive white horse, carrying two hawks to the duke's one. Harriot had been an actress who married Thomas Coutts and inherited his fortune before marrying William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans in 1827, who was 23 years her junior. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole; however his monogram (a man holding an umbrella) was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
[Ref: 51580] £320.00
A Missionary Society Meeting. President, ''To conclude, we have preach'd the word in all the inhabited parts of the Earth & have Translated it into 500 unknown Languages & have not the least doubt but that we shall be enabled to render it equally Intelligible in as manu more, aided by the liberal subscriptions of this evening. Vide. The News of Sunday, April, 24, 1826_ Oriental Quarterly Magazine.
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet, tear in lower margin.
A scene in a missionary meeting, a large, ugly man leads the meeting, on the walls behind are images of exotic lands and a portrait of a large vicar. The British Museum states the print may be a satire of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
BM Satire 15362.
[Ref: 50725] £360.00
London, Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1826.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark. Sheet: 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼''). Trimmed and tipped into an album sheet, tear in lower margin.
A scene in a missionary meeting, a large, ugly man leads the meeting, on the walls behind are images of exotic lands and a portrait of a large vicar. The British Museum states the print may be a satire of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
BM Satire 15362.
[Ref: 50725] £360.00
![Morning. Nigth [sic].](jpegs/55953.jpg)
Morning. Nigth [sic]. Scene in the Island of Jersey. Scene in the Duchy of Lancaster.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published.
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), large margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unusually, the small character of Paul Pry in the left corner points to an address along the top edge of the print: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 55953] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath] Esq.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket. caricatures daily published.
Etching with fine hand colour. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), large margins.
Satire commenting on Wellington's relationships with cousins Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey and Harriet Arbuthnot. Lady Villiers was often ridiculed for 'affecting great intimacy with the Duke'. Harriet Arbuthnot and her husband Charles however, did have a close relationship with Wellington who promoted Charles Arbuthnot from the Department of Woods and Trees to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unusually, the small character of Paul Pry in the left corner points to an address along the top edge of the print: 'I'm sorry to intrude but some dirty Rogue has lately been copying my caricatures- robbing us of our ideas & just profit- may I ask of my Friends not to purchase unless they see the Publisher T. McLeans name at the bottom, all others are copies P. Pry'.
BM Satire: 15717.
[Ref: 55953] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Caroline Norton and Lord Melbourne] The Way They Teach the Catechism at Chipping Norton.](jpegs/61436.jpg)
[Caroline Norton and Lord Melbourne] The Way They Teach the Catechism at Chipping Norton.
[n.d., 1836.]
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 230mm (9½ x 9").
An elderly school mistress holding a switch, asks a boy standing before her 'Well my dear - what is your name?'; the boy replies 'N or M as the case may be'. A satire of George Norton's accusing Lord Melborne of adultery with his wife Caroline, suggesting the boy does not know who his father is. After the case, which George lost, he hid his children from Caroline for several years and prevented her getting a divorce. She spent much of her life campaigning for women's rights.
[Ref: 61436] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., 1836.]
Lithograph. Printed area 240 x 230mm (9½ x 9").
An elderly school mistress holding a switch, asks a boy standing before her 'Well my dear - what is your name?'; the boy replies 'N or M as the case may be'. A satire of George Norton's accusing Lord Melborne of adultery with his wife Caroline, suggesting the boy does not know who his father is. After the case, which George lost, he hid his children from Caroline for several years and prevented her getting a divorce. She spent much of her life campaigning for women's rights.
[Ref: 61436] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Odds & Ends for Feburary 1816. Mrs Wright Doing Wrong _ !!!!!! Buscuit & Gingerbread or the Rival Bakers. A. Kean Manoeuvre to ''Pay Old Debts'' -or- ''Drury is it's self again''!!!. A peep into the Punch room at the Pavilion, or the gouty adonis. Parson B_ & the Butchers, or a Probationary Sermon at the Christ Church Newgate St.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 1816 by M Jones Newgate St.
Coloured etching, watermark Turkey Mill; Sheet 220 x 510mm (8¾ x 20"). Folded, as issued, repair to fold.
Five satires on one sheet, published in the 'Scourge'. The largest scene shows Edmund Kean, dressed as Richard III, raising money for the Drury Lane Theatre by scaring the customers. Top left is a scene of John Braham (an actor) eloping with Mrs. Wright, deserting Nancy Storace (who had lived with him as his wife for many years). Top right is the Prince Regent, who was laid up at the Brighton Pavilion with gout.
See BM Satires 12714 for an extesnive description.
[Ref: 54410] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 1816 by M Jones Newgate St.
Coloured etching, watermark Turkey Mill; Sheet 220 x 510mm (8¾ x 20"). Folded, as issued, repair to fold.
Five satires on one sheet, published in the 'Scourge'. The largest scene shows Edmund Kean, dressed as Richard III, raising money for the Drury Lane Theatre by scaring the customers. Top left is a scene of John Braham (an actor) eloping with Mrs. Wright, deserting Nancy Storace (who had lived with him as his wife for many years). Top right is the Prince Regent, who was laid up at the Brighton Pavilion with gout.
See BM Satires 12714 for an extesnive description.
[Ref: 54410] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Old Copper the Waterman and the Duke of Grafton.
W.H. Pyne del.t Smart & Hunt sculp.t
London, Published Nov.r 1. 1822, by S.& J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching. Plate 222 x 278mm. 8¾ x 11". Repaired tear to right-hand side.
Scene on the Thames. A rather muscular sailor rowing a boat away from a pier at right upon which stands the Duke shaking his fist, his coat over his arm and hat flying off in the wind. A group of men and women in an adjacent vessel cheering. St Paul's Cathedral seen in the background. Henry Fitzroy (1760-1844), 4th Duke of Grafton was a politician, originally a tory by voting as a whig from c.1810 onwards.
[Ref: 18360] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
W.H. Pyne del.t Smart & Hunt sculp.t
London, Published Nov.r 1. 1822, by S.& J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching. Plate 222 x 278mm. 8¾ x 11". Repaired tear to right-hand side.
Scene on the Thames. A rather muscular sailor rowing a boat away from a pier at right upon which stands the Duke shaking his fist, his coat over his arm and hat flying off in the wind. A group of men and women in an adjacent vessel cheering. St Paul's Cathedral seen in the background. Henry Fitzroy (1760-1844), 4th Duke of Grafton was a politician, originally a tory by voting as a whig from c.1810 onwards.
[Ref: 18360] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Packing Up!!! "Had sly Ulysses at the Sack____Of Troy, brought thee his pedler's back_____Vide Cleaveland_
W. Heath.
Pub July 1st 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Cut to border.
In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham, in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of George IV famous giraffe which had died in 1829. A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor. Following George IV's death the Conynghams left Windsor immediately having been bequeathed the king's plate and jewels.
BM Satires: 16143.
[Ref: 43635] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)
W. Heath.
Pub July 1st 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 235 x 335mm (9¼ x 13¼"). Cut to border.
In a room filled with bales, chests, and plunder the Conyngham family prepare to depart. Lord Conyngham, in shirt-sleeves but elegant, tugs at the cord of an enormous bundle. Lady Conyngham struggles with the lock of a treasure-chest. Her daughter carries on her shoulder the skeleton of George IV famous giraffe which had died in 1829. A cupboard topped with the Royal Arms displays bare shelves; plate is heaped on the floor. Following George IV's death the Conynghams left Windsor immediately having been bequeathed the king's plate and jewels.
BM Satires: 16143.
[Ref: 43635] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)
![[Barbara Parmer] The Dutchess of Cleaveland.](jpegs/54650.jpg)
[Barbara Parmer] The Dutchess of Cleaveland.
P Lely pinx: E Lutterell fec:
I.Beckett ex: [n.d., c.1670.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, tipped onto album sheet at corners.
Seated portrait of Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) (1640-1709), mistress of Charles II during the 1660s. In 1670 Charles made her Duchess of Cleveland, giving her Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace. In 1683 she had the palace pulled down to sell the building materials to pay her gambling debts.
CS 5, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54650] £320.00
P Lely pinx: E Lutterell fec:
I.Beckett ex: [n.d., c.1670.]
Fine & rare mezzotint. 335 x 250mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate, tipped onto album sheet at corners.
Seated portrait of Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) (1640-1709), mistress of Charles II during the 1660s. In 1670 Charles made her Duchess of Cleveland, giving her Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace. In 1683 she had the palace pulled down to sell the building materials to pay her gambling debts.
CS 5, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 54650] £320.00
No. IV. Miss G_d_n. No. V. The juvenile Financier.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r Fleet Street March 1: 1783.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Small margins.
A pair of bust portraits set in ovals illustrating an account of William Pitt and a milliner Miss Goodwin, the account comments on Pitt's previous liason with his laundress before this affair. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6296.
[Ref: 45510] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r Fleet Street March 1: 1783.
Engraving. Plate: 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾"). Small margins.
A pair of bust portraits set in ovals illustrating an account of William Pitt and a milliner Miss Goodwin, the account comments on Pitt's previous liason with his laundress before this affair. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 6296.
[Ref: 45510] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
The Political Wedding..`
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Tears at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical print engraved for the Oxford Magazine commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 48421] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Tears at bottom. Large margins on 3 sides.
A satirical print engraved for the Oxford Magazine commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 48421] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
The Political Wedding..`
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Slight loss in title.
A satirical print commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 45476] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
[1769.]
Engraving. Plate: 120 x 170mm (4¾ x 6¾"). Slight loss in title.
A satirical print commenting on the marriage of Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton to Elizabeth Wrottesley. The bride and groom are shown holding hands before a clergyman. Grafton had divorced his previous wife on account of her adultery and he had taken a new mistress Nancy Parsons who appears in the scene crying.
BM Satire 4292.
[Ref: 45476] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
The Rival Majicians or Raising the Spirit.
Thomas Scrutiny Inv.t.
Published for the Satarist July 1. 1808 by S. Tipper Leadenhall Street.
Aquatint and etching. Sheet: 205 x 340mm (8 x 13¼''). Trimmed, two vertical creases as issued.
A satirical print commenting on a bill banning the distillation of alcohol using grain in favour for the use of sugar and molasses. A black magician is shown holding a wand made of sugar cane shocking Sir John Sinclair and Arthur Young. On the left is a large barrel and distilling equipment and in the centre grotesque figures representing vice and sickness dance in a container of liquid.
BM Satire 10993.
[Ref: 50976] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Scrutiny Inv.t.
Published for the Satarist July 1. 1808 by S. Tipper Leadenhall Street.
Aquatint and etching. Sheet: 205 x 340mm (8 x 13¼''). Trimmed, two vertical creases as issued.
A satirical print commenting on a bill banning the distillation of alcohol using grain in favour for the use of sugar and molasses. A black magician is shown holding a wand made of sugar cane shocking Sir John Sinclair and Arthur Young. On the left is a large barrel and distilling equipment and in the centre grotesque figures representing vice and sickness dance in a container of liquid.
BM Satire 10993.
[Ref: 50976] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Siamese Youths_after a few years residence in England.
William Heath
Pub Dec 19 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket- sole publisher of W Heath etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed to printed border, repaired damage in bottom right corner.
A scene showing the famous 'Siamese Twins' Eng and Chang Bunker (1811-1874) who travelled the world as a touring exhibit. In 1830 they arrived in England after a successful tour of the USA. One brother is shown making his way through several decanters of wine while the other is shown gorging on meat.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43632] £320.00
William Heath
Pub Dec 19 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket- sole publisher of W Heath etchings.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Trimmed to printed border, repaired damage in bottom right corner.
A scene showing the famous 'Siamese Twins' Eng and Chang Bunker (1811-1874) who travelled the world as a touring exhibit. In 1830 they arrived in England after a successful tour of the USA. One brother is shown making his way through several decanters of wine while the other is shown gorging on meat.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 43632] £320.00
A Sketch of Gee's Farm, the Seat of Blinking Bill_
[W. Heath.]
Pub June 9 1830 by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 374 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Cut to platemark left, with large margins elsewhere.
Satire on the elopement of Lord William Pitt Lennox's wife Mary Anne Paton with opera singer Joseph Wood. Lennox ('Blinking Billy') stands holding an empty bird-cage, lamenting 'my singing Bird escaped [Paton was also a singer], no doubt she has flown to the Wood'. The marriage was dissolved in the Scottish courts in 1831, and Paton married Wood that same year.
BM Satires: 16420.
[Ref: 30557] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[W. Heath.]
Pub June 9 1830 by T Mc Lean 26 Haymarket.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 374 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Cut to platemark left, with large margins elsewhere.
Satire on the elopement of Lord William Pitt Lennox's wife Mary Anne Paton with opera singer Joseph Wood. Lennox ('Blinking Billy') stands holding an empty bird-cage, lamenting 'my singing Bird escaped [Paton was also a singer], no doubt she has flown to the Wood'. The marriage was dissolved in the Scottish courts in 1831, and Paton married Wood that same year.
BM Satires: 16420.
[Ref: 30557] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
A Sketch at St Albans -or- Shaving the New Maid Dutchess!!!
R. C. [Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Peter Wilkins del.t.
Pubd June 1827 [by George Humphrey?].
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Publication line partly illegible (as BM example).
The Duke of St. Albans (left) stands over his moustachioed wife. holding her chin, with a razor in his right hand. Behind him on a stool are a jug of shaving-water and a bowl of lather with a brush. Mrs. Coutts looks up at him; in her right hand is a cheque for £50,000, in her left a Cheque Book. She says, 'My dear young Shaver, here's £50.000 for you but you must dress my Beard once a day at least, do whatever I desire you, and never dare to contradict me', to which he replies ' My dear Dutchess your chin wants mowing sadly, and you should be properly lather'd first, but I fear I have not strength to do it'. A satirical print on the marriage of actress Harriot Mellon (formerly the wife of Thomas Coutts, who left her his fortune and share in Coutts bank when he died in 1822) to the Duke of St Albans, 23 years her junior.
BM Satires 15455.
[Ref: 50721] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
R. C. [Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Peter Wilkins del.t.
Pubd June 1827 [by George Humphrey?].
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Publication line partly illegible (as BM example).
The Duke of St. Albans (left) stands over his moustachioed wife. holding her chin, with a razor in his right hand. Behind him on a stool are a jug of shaving-water and a bowl of lather with a brush. Mrs. Coutts looks up at him; in her right hand is a cheque for £50,000, in her left a Cheque Book. She says, 'My dear young Shaver, here's £50.000 for you but you must dress my Beard once a day at least, do whatever I desire you, and never dare to contradict me', to which he replies ' My dear Dutchess your chin wants mowing sadly, and you should be properly lather'd first, but I fear I have not strength to do it'. A satirical print on the marriage of actress Harriot Mellon (formerly the wife of Thomas Coutts, who left her his fortune and share in Coutts bank when he died in 1822) to the Duke of St Albans, 23 years her junior.
BM Satires 15455.
[Ref: 50721] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Murphy The Dick-tater, Alias the weather cock of the walk, A Statue to be erected near the change.
Standidge & Co. Litho, London [n.d., 1837].
Lithograph, sheet 361 x 251mm.
A potato-headed figure with a globe for a body evidently prepared for all weathers. A satire on Patrick Murphy (1782 - 1847), weather prophet. His name was very prominent in 1838 as the author of ‘The Weather Almanack (on Scientific Principles, showing the State of the Weather for every Day of the Year 1838). By P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S'. Under the date of 20 January he said ‘Fair, prob. lowest deg. of winter temp.’ By a happy chance this proved to be a remarkably cold day, the thermometer at sunrise standing at four degrees below zero. This circumstance raised his celebrity to a great height as a weather prophet, and the shop of his publishers, Messrs. Whittaker & Co., was besieged with customers, while the winter of 1837-8 became known as Murphy's winter. The 1838 almanac ran to forty-five editions, and the prophet made 3,000l., which he almost immediately lost in an unsuccessful speculation in corn. There was nothing very remarkable about the prediction, as the coldest day generally falls about 20 Jan. In the predictions throughout the year the forecasts were partly right on 168 days and decidedly wrong on 197 days. A popular song of the day, a parody on ‘Lesbia has a beaming eye,’ commenced ‘Murphy has a weather eye.’ The almanack was afterwards occasionally published, but its sale very much fell off after the ‘nine days' wonder’ was past, and ultimately it had a very limited circulation. Murphy, however, persevered in his pursuit, and was about bringing out an almanac for 1848, when he died at his lodgings, 108 Dorset Street, St. Bride's, London, in 1847, aged 65.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7559] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Standidge & Co. Litho, London [n.d., 1837].
Lithograph, sheet 361 x 251mm.
A potato-headed figure with a globe for a body evidently prepared for all weathers. A satire on Patrick Murphy (1782 - 1847), weather prophet. His name was very prominent in 1838 as the author of ‘The Weather Almanack (on Scientific Principles, showing the State of the Weather for every Day of the Year 1838). By P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S'. Under the date of 20 January he said ‘Fair, prob. lowest deg. of winter temp.’ By a happy chance this proved to be a remarkably cold day, the thermometer at sunrise standing at four degrees below zero. This circumstance raised his celebrity to a great height as a weather prophet, and the shop of his publishers, Messrs. Whittaker & Co., was besieged with customers, while the winter of 1837-8 became known as Murphy's winter. The 1838 almanac ran to forty-five editions, and the prophet made 3,000l., which he almost immediately lost in an unsuccessful speculation in corn. There was nothing very remarkable about the prediction, as the coldest day generally falls about 20 Jan. In the predictions throughout the year the forecasts were partly right on 168 days and decidedly wrong on 197 days. A popular song of the day, a parody on ‘Lesbia has a beaming eye,’ commenced ‘Murphy has a weather eye.’ The almanack was afterwards occasionally published, but its sale very much fell off after the ‘nine days' wonder’ was past, and ultimately it had a very limited circulation. Murphy, however, persevered in his pursuit, and was about bringing out an almanac for 1848, when he died at his lodgings, 108 Dorset Street, St. Bride's, London, in 1847, aged 65.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 7559] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Dean Swift and the Post Boy.
A.M. del et sc.
London Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 3 Feb. 1806.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate
A satirical print involving Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and a post boy. The boy having been charged with delivering a turbot to the Dean charms into giving him half a guinea for his trouble.
BM Satire 10657.
[Ref: 41369] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A.M. del et sc.
London Published by Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard, 3 Feb. 1806.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet: 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Trimmed within plate
A satirical print involving Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and author of 'Gulliver's Travels', and a post boy. The boy having been charged with delivering a turbot to the Dean charms into giving him half a guinea for his trouble.
BM Satire 10657.
[Ref: 41369] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)