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A Lady in Waiting.
A Lady in Waiting. 317.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard. Publish'd as the Act directs, 2 Sep.r 1780.
Mezzotint with hand colour. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with large margins. Slight mount burn.
A lady, dressed in a large hat and elbow-length gloves, waits on a grassy bank under trees, the dome of St. Paul's in the distance. She looks coyly expectant.
[Ref: 58389]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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The Liquorish Youth.
The Liquorish Youth.
[Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Publish'd 1 Jan.y 1771].
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 148 x 112mm (5¾ x 4½"). Trimmed to image.
A young man, wearing a scarf tied around his head, sitting at a table to right, holding up a glass and cradling a bottle. He is watched by a girl who stands behind his chair, with one finger to her lips.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32973]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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The Lovely Sacarissa dressing for the Pantheon.
The Lovely Sacarissa dressing for the Pantheon. She Blooms in the Winter of her Days, like the Glastonbury Thorn.
Published Feby. 24, 1772.
Mezzotint, 350 x 250mm. Repaired tears to left margin. Some scratching/scuffing to mezzotint.
A stout, ugly, and elderly woman holds in her left hand a barber's block, with a carved head in profile, on which is an elaborate pyramidal wig with ringlets. This she is covering with powder or flour from a dredger. Her back is turned to the casement window through which look two grinning old women, wearing frilled muslin caps. Behind on the wall, in deep shadow, is a picture of a dome inscribed 'The Pantheon'. Attributed to Philip Dawe (c. 1750 - 1791?).
BM Satires: 5533. Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Image appears to be based on BM Satires: 4647, Lady Drudger going to Ranelagh, 1772.
[Ref: 7888]   £650.00  
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Return from a Masquerade._ A morning scene.
Return from a Masquerade._ A morning scene.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [June 1792].
Mezzotint. Platemark: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Light creasing and damage to sheet.
Two grinning chairmen, walking diagonally right to left carry a sedan-chair, from the side window of which hangs the head and shoulders of a lady, asleep or drunk, with her left arm hanging down outside the chair. She is dressed as a shepherdess, with a garland of flowers in her hair. In her right hand is a crook which also projects through the window. Beside the chair walks a little grinning chimney-sweep with a soot-bag and brush, but with a striped turban or cloth on his head and holding up a smiling mask. The chair is crossing an open space or wide street, probably Covent Garden, with houses in the background.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33948]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sleepy Maid
The Sleepy Maid
P. Mercier pinx.t. C. Corbutt fecit.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins. Platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Faint crease lower left. Small stain in lower right margin.
Girl sits sleeping, a needle in her left hand and cloth held in her right. Plates and funnel on shelf behind. Engraved after Philip Mercier (1691-1761), who spent much of his career in London. 'While he found plentiful employment as a portrait painter, he [Mercier] also produced an increasing number of fancy pieces, reminiscent of Chardin. These addressed a popular market and included literary illustrations, domestic scenes, groups of children, and sets of, for example, the Seasons, the Times of Day, and the Senses' (DNB).
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; not in BM.
[Ref: 33812]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Miss Eyebright.
Miss Eyebright.
[after George C. William]
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"), with very large margins, mint.
A young woman, half-length almost in profile to right, turning her head to smile towards the viewer. Her hair is tied at the nape, and she is wearing a hat with ribbons hanging down the left side of her face, with a dark, hooded shawl trimmed with lace, and a bow at the bodice of her gown.
For coloured impression, see item ref: 32842.
[Ref: 55922]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Much-A-Do About Nothing. No 82
Much-A-Do About Nothing. No 82
[After Antoine Watteau].
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1780].
Hand coloured mezzotint with small margins. Platemark: 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼").
A cat claws a parson in a wig as a woman jumps back in fear. A jester laughs at the right of the scene.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32843]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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My Dear Girl!
My Dear Girl!
430 Dighton del.
London: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No 69 St Paul's Church Yard. Published 5th March 1800.
Coloured mezzotint with very large margins. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Pinhole in upper margin.
A doting father hugging his daughter.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32960]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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My Dear Girl! [&] My Charming Boy!
My Dear Girl! [&] My Charming Boy!
431 Dighton del.
London: Printed for Bowles & Carver, No 69 St Paul's Church Yard. Published 5th March 1795.
Pair of coloured mezzotints. Each sheet c.150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper together.
A doting father hugging his daughter and a besotted mother with her son.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32961]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Newsmongers.]
[The Newsmongers.]
J Donaldson delint. J Finlayson fect.
Publish'd May 1st. 1769.
Mezzotint, proof before title, 355 x 450mm. 14 x 17¾". Very scarce and fine.
Two smiths and a tailor gossiping, one leaning on his hammer, open-mouthed, the second pausing hammer in hand, agog to hear the news the tailor has rushed in to tell them. All three figures are caricatured. Illustrates Act 4 Scene 2 of The Life and Death of King John by William Shakespeare. After John Donaldson (1737 - 1801), a good impression with margins.
Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 10565]   £750.00  
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An Old Friend with a New Face.
An Old Friend with a New Face.
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver. No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1790.]
Mezzotint, 150 x 115mm.
A man with a monocle.
[Ref: 754]   £50.00   (£60.00 incl.VAT)
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The Owl Face.
The Owl Face. In dull Solemnity there winks the Owl [...]
J. Molin Pinx.t. W. Bockman Fecit
Printed for John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhil [c.1760]
Mezzotint, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; 'CL-B' collector's stamp verso.
Satire with a man mocking the owl he holds, while the woman next to him identifies him as 'the grinning fool' as the text below explains.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. In reverse of 36212.
[Ref: 36213]   £380.00  
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The Owl Face.
The Owl Face. In dull Solemnity there winks the Owl [...] 264
J. Molin Pinx.t
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No.53 in Fleet Street [c.1770]
Mezzotint, platemark 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge; 'CL-B' collector's stamp verso.
Satire with a man mocking the owl he holds, while the woman next to him identifies him as 'the grinning fool' as the text below explains. Copy in reverse of an earlier print by Gerhard Bockman.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. In reverse of 36213.
[Ref: 36212]   £380.00  
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Painting.
Painting.
Painted and Engraved by J.R. Smith.
Publish'd Mar.h 10.th 1783 by J. R. Smith N:83 Oxford Street.
A very fine mezzotint. Title plate 50 x 324mm. 2" x 12¾". Image plate 387 x 324mm. 15¼" x 12¾".
A young lady applying her make-up, watched by a servant girl.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9198]   £450.00  
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Paulo Purganti and his Wife: an Honest, but a Simple Pair.
Paulo Purganti and his Wife: an Honest, but a Simple Pair. She often set the Doctor's Band, / And strok'd his Beard, and squeez'd his Hand: / Kindly complain'd, that after Noon / He went to pore on Books too soon: / She held it wholesomer by much, / To rest a little on the Couch 399
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [date erased, c.1779.]
Rare mezzotint. 355 x 255mm. (14 x 10"), very large margins. Repaired hole in centre, tear in margins, creased.
A couple sit on a sofa together, the wife trying to persuade him to stop reading his book and rest instead. A scene from a poem by Matthew Prior.
BM Satires 4568; both BM examples also have the date erased.
[Ref: 48156]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Dancing peasants.]
[Dancing peasants.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint, proof before letters. 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"). Laid on album paper.
A drunken peasant couple dance, drinks in hand. Behind a man plays the cello.
[Ref: 62202]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The New Fashioned Phaeton.
The New Fashioned Phaeton. Sic Itur ad Astra.
London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 22d Feb.y 1776.
Mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Tear just entering plate at bottom repaired, mounted on album paper.
A phaeton and pair outside a town house, the body of the carriage raised on an expanding trellis-work to the level of the first-floor windows. A gentleman who holds the reins in his left hand leans forward to assist into the carriage a lady who is stepping through the window and over the low iron railing of the balcony. He wears a small hat, a looped macaroni club, laced coat, and top-boots. She is elaborately dressed in the height of the fashion with a vast pyramid of hair decorated with enormous ostrich feathers.
BM Satires 5394
[Ref: 58496]   £490.00  
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In Place. En Emploi. 539. [&] Out of Place. Hors d'Emplo. 540.
In Place. En Emploi. 539. [&] Out of Place. Hors d'Emplo. 540.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [*****] [1784]
Rare matching pair of mezzotints with fine hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Remains of album paper stuck in margins, publication date erased.
In Place: a lawyer and government minister toast to their success with the Devil, surrounded with money bags. Out of Place: two out-of-officepoliticians sit shivering in a squalid room, as their landlady presents a bill. Dighton's original watercolours sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978.
BM Satires 3772 & 3773.
[Ref: 51702]   £950.00   view all images for this item
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The Positive Argument.
The Positive Argument.
Sold by Ryland & Bryer, Engravers & Printsellers, at the Kings Arms Cornhill. [n.d. c.1775]
Mezzotint on pink-stained paper. 360 x 250mm.
Struggling twixt Virtue and Desire, / Accosted by a rev'rend Sire, / Behold this pretty Maid. / How young the Lass, How old the Man, / What then to win by Gold's his Plan / And so She's not afraid: / To Beauty Av'rice lends its Key / And Law dispenses with its Fee, / If Beauty but consent. / The cease, ye lovers, to despair, Since a Purse melts the stubborn Fair, / And gains the Argument.
[Ref: 5318]   £380.00  
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Pretty Miss a Sleep.
Pretty Miss a Sleep.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 3 Oct.r 1771.
Mezzotint with very large margins. 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼").
A smiling, sleeping young woman reclines in a chair, with her arms resting in her lap, in a well furnished interior. Behind to the right, a cat watches a bird on a tray below. Above is a framed landscape painting. For coloured version, see item ref: 32967.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32821]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Pretty Miss a Sleep.
Pretty Miss a Sleep.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs 3 Oct.r 1771.
Coloured mezzotint with large margins. 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼").
A smiling, sleeping young woman reclines in a chair, with her arms resting in her lap, in a well furnished interior. Behind to the right, a cat watches a bird on a tray below. Above is a framed landscape painting. For uncolored version, see item ref: 32821.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32967]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Pretty Miss Asleep.
Pretty Miss Asleep.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs **** [date scratched out, c.1770]
Coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image, laid on card.
A cat stalks a bird tethered by a string to the sleeping girl.
[Ref: 792]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Pretty Miss Asleep. 282.
Pretty Miss Asleep. 282.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 St.Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs **** [date scratched out, c.1770]
Coloured mezzotint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Tear just touching plate on right.
A cat stalks a bird tethered by a string to the sleeping girl.
[Ref: 37574]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Proverbs, Chap, VII.
Proverbs, Chap, VII.
London Publish'd Dece.r 17. 1780 by J. Birchall No.473 Strand & J.R. Smith No. 10 Batemans Buildings, Soho Square.
A rare mezzotint. Plate: 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Slight foxing, small margins.
An illustration of Proverbs Chapter VII in which a harlot kisses a man who is unaware of the danger as he is 'void of understanding'.
Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire
[Ref: 46734]   £420.00  
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Provision for the Convent.
Provision for the Convent. 248.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Creases not visible from front.
A monk walks through a doorway, carrying a basket of food and a sheaf of corn in which a person is hidden.
[Ref: 57331]   £420.00  
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The Prudent Mother.
The Prudent Mother.
[After Phillipe Mercier].
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church yard, London. [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 153 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed to image and around title.
A young woman sitting and pointing at a book open on her lap, for the benefit of a little boy who stands at her knee, supporting his head on his hands, looking toward the viewer. For hand coloured impression see item ref: 32833.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32834]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Prudent Mother.
The Prudent Mother.
[After Phillipe Mercier].
[Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.]
Rare mezzotint. Plate: 225 x 325mm (9 x 12¾''). Trimmed within plate on lower edge, paper tone. Publication line missing.
A young woman sitting and pointing at a book open on her lap, for the benefit of a little boy who stands at her knee, supporting his head on his hands, looking toward the viewer, while behind a young girl looks at some material.
[Ref: 49318]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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The Quarrelsome Boys tricked out of the Birds Best.
The Quarrelsome Boys tricked out of the Birds Best.
Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Hand coloured mezzotint with large margins on 3 sides. Platemark: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Trimmed to bottom platemark.
An exterior scene depicting two young boys fighting. To the left, a third boy stands watching with a birds nest under his left arm. Behind the figures are posts and rails, and trees.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32827]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Reynard's Last Shift.
Reynard's Last Shift. From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possession of the Proprietors.
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Pauls Ch. Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs [date excised but after 1779]
Mezzotint with etching. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with wide margins.
A fox, pursued by hounds and members of the hunt who run in from the left, takes refuge in the cottage of a farmer, where the wife and daughters wave brooms at the intruders. Reduced copy of an earlier engraving after the painting by John Collet (c.1725-1780), whose works were frequently engraved in the mezzotint 'droll' fashion, as here.
For a larger version of this image see ref. 1330.
[Ref: 38350]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Reynard's Last Shift.
Reynard's Last Shift. From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possession of the Proprietors.
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Pauls Ch. Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs [date excised but after 1779]
Mezzotint with etching. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with wide margins.
A fox, pursued by hounds and members of the hunt who run in from the left, takes refuge in the cottage of a farmer, where the wife and daughters wave brooms at the intruders. Reduced copy of an earlier engraving after the painting by John Collet (c.1725-1780), whose works were frequently engraved in the mezzotint 'droll' fashion, as here.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB iii/iii; for a larger version of this image see ref. 1330
[Ref: 32349]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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The Rival Favourites.
The Rival Favourites.
Published Feb.y 4th 1788 by Rob.t Sayer 53, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with large margins.
A young woman sitting on a striped sofa, holding a pet bird perched on her hand and pointing at it while looking at a kitten on the table in front of her.
[Ref: 58490]   £650.00  
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A Rogue in Grain
A Rogue in Grain
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint, platemark 150 x 110mm (6 x 4½"). Glued to backing sheet.
A caricatured man in rustic dress. One of many 'droll' mezzotints made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814), who after the death of John Collet in 1780 became the foremost designer of such images.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; for another droll after Dighton see ref. 32347
[Ref: 32354]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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A pleasing Method of rouzing the Doctor_or a Tythe Pig no bad fight.
A pleasing Method of rouzing the Doctor_or a Tythe Pig no bad fight.
[Anon.]
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 31 Aug. 1775.
Hand coloured mezzotint. Platemark: 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Light creasing. Paper toned. Small repaired tears to edges of sheet. One small hole above head of doctor.
An interior scene in which a maid-servant tickles the nose of a sleeping country parson with the tail of a suckling pig, that has just been delivered by a boy who watches from the door in the background to right. On the wall to the left hangs 'A Plan of the Doctor's Parish', and two portraits. There are also two open books, one on the floor, and one on the table, inscribed 'Poem on goodliving', and 'Tythe Laws fully Consider'd'.
[Ref: 35388]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Rural Happiness, Health, Felicity & Contentment.
Rural Happiness, Health, Felicity & Contentment.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard London. Publish'd 29 May 1773. 253
Mezzotint with hand-colouring, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Faint crease through centre.
Rural family with three children and dog.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB i/ii
[Ref: 32373]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sailor's Pleasure.
The Sailor's Pleasure.
[Anonymous]
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with wide margins.
A sailor returned to shore holds a glass aloft in one hand, and in the other a purse full of gold. Much money was to be earned during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars, when even ordinary seamen shared in the proceeds of the sale of enemy ships captured by the Royal Navy. On the table are a punch-bowl and pipe. This print is a reduced copy of an earlier print. In the larger print (BM Satires 4496) there are also three letters addressed to courtesans on the table, and the following lines of verse in title area: 'When Storms and Tempests all are o'er / And Jack receives his Cash on Shore, / Then for his Doxies all he'll send, / What's dearly earn'd he'll freely spend'.
BM Satires 4496 (copy); Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 33813]   £170.00   (£204.00 incl.VAT)
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Sigismunda.
Sigismunda. The original Picture in Oil by the late Mr. W.m Hogarth, and the Drawing from which this Print is made of the same size are both in the Collection of Mr. Sam.l Ireland, of Norfolk Street, who purchased them of Mrs. Hogarth in 1781. The Drawing wasmade by Mr. Edw.d Edwards, Assosiate of the Royal Academy & finsihed in April 1764 under the inspection of Mr. Hogarth, from whose pencil it received its last finishing touches about six months before his death. From this Drawing Mr. Basire the Engravr, began a Print but the death of Mr. Hogarth prevented its being finished.
Hogarth Pinx.t. Dunkarton Sculp.t.
London, Published Feb 1st 1793, by T.B. Freeman & Co. Strand, & Sold by Dickenson, New Bond Street, & Walker, Cornhill.
Mezzotint. Open letter proof impression. Platemark: 395 x 375mm (15½ x 14¾"). Thread margins.
An illustration of a dramatic scene from Giovanni Boccaccio’s celebrated medieval novel, 'The Decameron'. The heroine, Sigismunda, holds a goblet sent to her by her father, Prince Tancred. Inside, is the heart of her dead husband, Giuscardo, one of Tancred’s servants. He has murdered him, enraged by their unsuitable secret marriage. This was Hogarth’s most deliberate attempt to prove that modern English painters could handle heroic themes as convincingly as the revered Italian old masters. But the picture received such harsh criticism that he almost completely abandoned painting for the last years of his life.
Ex collection of Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36640]   £450.00  
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The Singing Bird.
The Singing Bird.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act Directs [date erased].
Mezzotint. 250 x 350mm.
No 442 in title. This number means it was part of a series probably issued by Bowles and Carver [c.1780].
Not in BM.
[Ref: 365]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Singing Bird.
The Singing Bird.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard London. Published as the Act Directs.
Mezzotint. 250 x 355mm. Framed Worm holes & staining.
No. 442 in lower left corner.
[Ref: 799]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sinner & Confessor.
The Sinner & Confessor.
[after Egbert van Heemskerck]
Printed for Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1780]
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Reduced and cropped copy of a 17th century print, 'Remissio Peccatorum' in which the context is explicitly that of a friar hearing the confesssion of a prisoner in his cell.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; For 'Remissio Peccatorum' see BM 1874,0808.1283
[Ref: 32350]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sleepy Eye that Spoke the Melting Soul.
The Sleepy Eye that Spoke the Melting Soul.
[after Richard Wilson]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint with large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Crease lower right
Young lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'. This print is one of at leasts four versions of the images. Earlier prints name Richard Wilson (best known for his landscapes) as the artist from whose painting the image derives.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32371]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sleepy Eye that Spoke the Melting Soul.
The Sleepy Eye that Spoke the Melting Soul.
[after Richard Wilson.]
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1770].
Coloured mezzotint with small margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Trimmed close to platemark.
Young lady in cap and shawl sitting with books on table. The title is a quotation from Alexander Pope's 'Imitations of Horace'. This print is one of at leasts four versions of the images. Earlier prints name Richard Wilson (best known for his landscapes) as the artist from whose painting the image derives.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 32372]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Smack the Coachman, Tipling within Doors; while his Fare are fretting without.
Smack the Coachman, Tipling within Doors; while his Fare are fretting without.
Riley [Thomas Ryley] del et fecit.
Published according to Act of Parliament, Feb.y 1, 1768. Printed for John Bowles, at No 13 in Cornhill, London.
Mezzotint. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Top margin cut to plate, elsewhere toned. Small margins.
A smiling coachman lifts a foaming tankard, his arm hooked over a chair, whip in hand and his pipe and tobacco on the table.
[Ref: 58392]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Soliciting a Vote.
Soliciting a Vote.
Painted by R.W. Buss. Engraved by [****]
London Published June 1834 by Ackermann & Co, [****] Strand.
Finely coloured mezzotint, proof before title. 400 x 500mm, 15¾ x 19¾". Trimmed to plate, some wear to edges, lettering faint.
A canvasser attempting to win over a voter, painted by Robert William Buss (1804-75), best known for illustrating Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers' and his painting, 'Dickens' Dream'. The Literary Gazette reviewed the painting: "In this performance, considered as a work of art, the talents of Mr Buss are seen to greater advantage than in any of his former productions. The satire is pungent; and the extremes of servility on the one hand, and insolence on the other… are admirably portrayed".
[Ref: 17025]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Spartan Boy.
The Spartan Boy. Having stolen a Cub Fox, conceald it under his Garment when being observed he sufferd it to bite him mortally rather than undergo the disgrace of a discovery.
Printed for Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard London. Publish'd as the Act directs [date excised] 271
Mezzotint, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½") large margins. Some creases top left.
The story of the Spartan boy who allowed a fox to tear out his bowels while being questioned, rather than admitting to stealing, was recounted in Plutarch's life of Lycurgus, to exemplify the seriousness with which stealing was punished.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 53534]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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We're All in the Suds.
We're All in the Suds.
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver / No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. / Publish'd as the Act directs 4 June 1800. 381
Mezzotint with hand-colouring and large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Two horizontal creases to top of image; holes from silverfish at top.
Man holding his shaving dish in his left hand and the 'Gazette Extraordinary' in his right. One of many 'droll' mezzotints in roundels made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814), who after the death of John Collet in 1780 became the foremost designer of such images.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB ii/ii.
[Ref: 32363]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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We're All in the Suds.
We're All in the Suds.
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver / No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. / [Publish'd as the Act directs 4 June 1800]
Mezzotint, sheet 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed inside platemark at bottom, losing publication line; border coloured yellow.
Man holding his shaving dish in his left hand and the 'Gazette Extraordinary' in his right. One of many 'droll' mezzotints in roundels made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814) who, after the death of John Collet in 1780, became the foremost designer of such images.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB ii/ii.
[Ref: 32364]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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We're All in the Suds.
We're All in the Suds.
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver. No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. [Publish'd as the Act directs 4 June 1800]
Mezzotint. Sheet: 145 x 110mm (5¾ x 4¼''). Trimmed inside platemark, laid on album sheet.
Man holding his shaving dish in his left hand and the 'Gazette Extraordinary' in his right. One of many 'droll' mezzotints in roundels made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814) who, after the death of John Collet in 1780, became the foremost designer of such images.
[Ref: 50399]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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What d'ye think of Me?
What d'ye think of Me?
[after Robert Dighton]
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver No. 69 St Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1796]
Mezzotint. Sheet 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), with large margins. Repaired small tear top right.
A buxom woman, probably a St. Giles's barmaid, standing hands on hips. Behind her is a chalked ale-house score and small tankard (indicating gin) and a glass. One of many 'droll' mezzotints in roundels made from the designs of Robert Dighton (1751-1814) who, after the death of John Collet in 1780, became the foremost designer of such images.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CLB ii/ii [series number excised]; BM Satires 9103; for another droll after Dighton see ref. 32347
[Ref: 32381]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Tippy Bob_The Natty Crop.
Tippy Bob_The Natty Crop.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No.69 St Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs 14. Feb 1792.
Rare mezzotint. Plate: 150 x 110mm (6 x 4¼"). Laid on album sheet. Bit rubbed. Small margins.
A portrait of Tippy Bob, a character from the pantomime 'Blue Beard or the Flight of Harlequin'. Perhaps a caricature of Joseph Shephed Munden.
[Ref: 47500]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Toilet.
The Toilet.
Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Printseller in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Woman sitting at her dressing table and putting a piece of jewellery in her hair whilst looking at herself in the mirror.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 32358]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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