Grosvenor Prints

Two of a Trade can never Agree. 22
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Feb.y 1st 1806 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 120 x 85mm (4¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed close to printed border, laid on album paper.
Two bewigged barristers argue. Legal interest. George suggests this print belongs to a series of reduced versions of satires etched by Williams after other artists, in this case Isaac Cruikshank (1799, BM 1948,0214.410).
BM Satires 10667.
[Ref: 61105] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Naturel Genius. Teggs Caricatures - No. 28.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d July 1818 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching, collector's mark. 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate at top. Slight mount stain.
An elegant schoolmistress in a neat parlour discusses needlework with two visitors, a fat and over-dressed farmer's wife with a daughter of about fifteen. When the schoolmistress suggests ''Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter'' as a subject, the mother hears ''Charlotte at the Tub of Water''. The daughter responds that she can ''make Water as natural as Life''.
BM Satires 11649.
[Ref: 60093] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

New Ministers Going On Duty. C.J. Fox, Secy. for Foreign Affairs. Thomas, Lord Erskine, Lord Chancellor.
Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening. [Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Feby. 14th, 1806 by SW Fores No, 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching. Image area 236 x 330mm (9¼ x 13"). Damaged to right corner; inlaid. Trimmed to image.
Fox and Erskine strut along the east pavement of St. James's Street, about to cross the road to the Palace gateway, part of which is on the extreme left. Before them runs a little ragged boy waving his hat and screaming "Clear the way for his M------'s Ministers". Fox, immensely fat, wears old-fashioned court dress, heavily laced, embroidered, and ruffled; he is chapeau-bras, left hand grasping his sword. Behind him walks Erskine, wearing a Chancellor's wig reaching to the knee, and a gown festooned over his arm, but still trailing behind him. Fox puffs, Erskine walks mincingly; both hold papers. From the corner house on the west side of St. James's a man wearing a cocked hat, and seated at a table on which is a coffee-pot, looks quizzically from a window.
BM Satires 10529.
[Ref: 52363] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

St. Stephen's statute.
[Charles Williams]
Pub.d Feb.y 6.th, 1806 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), on 1804 watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate. Pinholes. Paper stuck to parts.
The chief Minister (or steward) ( should be William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), but resembles Hawkesbury (Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729 –1808)) (to whom the King first applied on Pitt's death), in court dress, introduces the new ministry to George III. The King, wearing uniform inspects them through a telescope. Eight are characterized, besides two heads in shadow; Fox, Sidmouth, Lord Henry Petty, Moira, Sheridan, Lord Grenville, (?) Bedford and Tierney. Drawn before details of the new Ministry were known.
BM Satires 10523.
[Ref: 58790] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

Newgate Illustrated-or the Knight and the Squire. a Tale of the 19th Century.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d March 21st 1805 by S. Knight Lambeth.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 248 x 349mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Paper toning.
Sir William Rawlings and Robert Albion Cox, Sheriffs of Middlesex in 1802, in prison. They were imprisoned after the Committee on the Middlesex Election of 1802 claimed they 'wilfully, knowingly, and corruptly admitted upwards of 300 persons to vote as proprietors of a mill at Isleworth', despite being supported by Fox, Sheridan and others. They were released on 10 May, a little over two months after their imprisonment began. On the floor beside the younger man is a rolled paper: 'View of the Mill at Isleworth', with a book: 'Essay on Refineing'.
BM Satires: 10376.
[Ref: 30572] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

St. Vetus's Dance or the Panegyrist and the Patron or a Sley Push for Power. Who aspires, must down as low" As high as soar'd; obnoxious first or last", To basest things.
Veni Vidi fec.t [Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Feb.y 1813 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked. 248 x 387m38m (9¾ x 15¼"). Cut, crease; some spotting.
Satire combining two subjects: the letters of Vetus (later revealed as Edward Sterling) to 'The Times' in 1812 praising Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington in terms of hero-worship, and the controversy over the India Charter Bill. Vetus, on stilts, heads a procession trying to force its way into the Treasury. On the donkey sits Lord Wellesley in oriental dress, much be-jewelled, and carrying on his head a model of the India House. He has a shield inscribed in large letters 'Aut Cæsar aut Nullus'; on this is depicted a realistic hand about to grasp a small crown resting on clouds. His ass has one (superfluous) wooden leg, its own leg being bent back at the knee, and it tramples on two papers inscribed 'Fr[ee] Trade' and 'Free Port[s]'. Behind Wellesley is a second ass, with a thick sheaf of newspapers, 'The Times', bound to its back in place of a saddle and labelled 'Qui Veut'. Beside it walks Canning, who puts out a protesting arm.He is identified by a paper which he holds, inscribed 'To the Electors of Liverpool'. Vetus is dressed like the zanies who accompanied quack doctors for purposes of advertisement. He wears a conical hat in which a pen labelled 'Venial' [? Venal] is thrust. In his sash is a sheaf of papers inscribed 'Vetus Letters'. A gridiron (or 'save-all') decorates the front of his tunic and he wears wide trousers; he blows a trumpet. The other trumpet, held in his left hand and directed from his posterior towards Wellesley. He is followed by a subordinate trumpeter, plainly dressed, who blows through a small trumpet, he holds out a sheaf of 'Vetus's Letters'. Seven other well-dressed men follow Wellesley and Vetus; three of them hold out documents inscribed respectively 'Liverpool', 'Glasgow', and 'H[ull] Petition', showing that they represent the out-ports which were agitating for a share in the trade with India. John Bull stands on the pavement in front of the Treasury door, holding out a spear with which he prods Vetus on the papers in his sash; to the spear shaft is attached a banner inscribed 'Free Trade' in large letters. Castlereagh peeps through the partly open door; other faces are indicated behind him.
BM Satires: 12009.
[Ref: 30562] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

a Riddle Expounded or the Dignity of a Parsons Horse.
Woodward del.t.
London Pub.d [July 6th. 1807] by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside. Price 1sh Collored.
Hand coloured etching. Plate 241 x 344mm (9½ x 3½"), with large margins.
A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing addressing a fat elderly parson on horseback. He asks "Ha! Ha - the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, - Canst thee tell me - why - a Parsons Horse be like a King?" The parson answers with a grin: "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a Minister." Etched by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830; active) after George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
BM Satires: 11617.
[Ref: 52228] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pitt the Younger] The Giant Refresh'd. He is indeed a Giant refresh'd!! Vide Marq- of Sta-rds Speech on withdrawing his Motion.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d May 21st 1804 by S W Fores N° 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), paper watermarked 'J Ruse 1802'. Tear just entering image repaired, creasing in corners.
A drunken Pitt asks John Bull (who is half his size) to forgive him. Pitt had replaced Henry Addington as Prime Minister on the 10th May. The Marquis of Stafford, George Leveson-Gower (1758-1833) later 1st Duke of Sutherland, had been due to make a motion condemning his own party's government, but it was withdrawn when Addington declared his intention of joining the Whigs.
BM Satires 10245.
[Ref: 61037] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[William Pitt the younger] Col.l Cinque Port Drilling his Recruits or Forming a Battalion. NB The left hand Man is stiled Corporal because at present he has no Appointment but as the Scene Shifting [is nearly over it is expected] he soon will have one.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Decem.r 9th 1803 by S W Fores Nº 50 Piccadilly - Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching, watermark J. Ruse 1802. Sheet 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed to printed border, losing some of title at bottom, laid on album paper at corners. Faded. Bit messy.
A satire on the expected change of Ministry. William Pitt the younger as the colonel, facing two Fox and Sheridan as two volunteers, between the House of Commons and the Treasury. The Fugleman (perhaps Canning) is dressed half as a naval officer, half as a volunteer private.
BM 10127 with extensive description.
[Ref: 58376] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Pitt and Sheridan] The Ex-Minister and the Meteor. Sir, Amongst the many attack's which I have had this night to sustain, has been one from a flash of lightning_a Meteor, which wanders about, moveing sometimes on one side, and sometimes on the other___a Meteor which to the regret of us all, has not been lately seen amongst us, but which upon its return has turned its blazing resentment upon me_but in whose fiery face I can look without terror or dismay. __vide Mr Pitt's reply to Mr Sheridan on the State of the Navy.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d April 13th, 1804 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly_Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Trimmed.
Pitt stands as if declaiming in the Commons, looking towards the grotesque profile head of Sheridan, larger and fierier than life, and the centre of close-set rays which cover the background and are jagged like conventional lightning. The two heads face each other in profile; Sheridan's stare is both baleful and disconcerted. Pitt's right hand, holding a rolled document, 'Act fo [sic] War', rests on his hip. In the debate of 15 March 1804. Pitt's motion for an inquiry into the administration of the Navy (under St. Vincent) was opposed by Sheridan.
BM Satires 10235.
[Ref: 60967] £380.00

Political Balances_Unexpected Inspection_or A Good old Master takeing a peep into the state of things himself. 204.
[Charles Williams.]
by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside [n.d.]
Hand-coloured etching, watermark 1818. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Small margins.
A pair of scales hangs in a landscape, suspended from a hook in a block against the upper margin inscribed 'Constitution', the central pivot inscribed ('Equilibrium'). The left scale is weighted only by a document headed 'Acts for the more effectually Sarving' [sic], on the right scale, inscribed 'Prices of Provisions.', are a leg of mutton, a frothing tankard, and a loaf; it is much outweighed by the other, inscribed 'Old England', which descends below the level of the ground into a rocky pit or 'Abyss of Corruption'. On the ground below the right scale lies a starving and half-naked peasant who raises his arm to touch it. A well-dressed man, his hands on his knees, stoops in profile to the left over the descending scale. He is watched by George III who leans from a crenelated tower inscribed 'Windsor', on the extreme left, with his spy-glass to his eye. He wears a round hat topped by a small crown, and shouts: "Heigh! Heigh! Fellow! pull away those d—d heavy Corn Laws, and Butter and Cheese Laws; let the prices find the level & come within the reach of my distress'd people; I say pull them of directly Fellow, d'ont you see Old England is sunk almost out of sight, you thought I could not see did you Fellow Heigh! Heigh!" A face within a sun dipping behind the skyline sheds tears. A scale of (corn) prices explains the tilt of the scales by lines intersecting at the pivot, representing the tilt of the beam of the scales, downwards or upwards; the right end is inscribed with the price, the opposite end by a word expressing its result in social conditions.
BM Satires 13497 (addenda).
[Ref: 52294] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Humility or the Canvassing Candidate. Effrontery or the Candidate Returned.
[Charles Williams]
Pub.d Dec.r 1806 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly.
Hand coloured etching, 240 x 345mm (9½ x 13½"), on 1801 watermarked paper. Small margins.
Two designs side by side, comparing Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s (1751–1816) election addresses. On the left, Sheridan humbly canvassing for votes before the elections of 1806. On the right, in his victory address after the election, Sheridan showing an insolent approach.
[Ref: 58792] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Resignation.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d Feb.y 23.d 1798 by S.W. Fores 59 Piccadilly._Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark '1797'. Plate: 345 x 280mm (13½ x 11''). Trimmed on left and right edges to platemark.
A political satire showing Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk brandishing a stick labelled 'Hereditary' before George III while Prime Minister William Pitt cowers behind the king's chair.
BM Satire 9175.
[Ref: 50765] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Nap near Nab'd or a Retreating Jump Just in Time. 203.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d June 1813 by Tho.s Tegg No.11 Cheapside - Price one sh col.d
Hand-coloured etching; J. Whatman, Turkey Mills 1820 watermark. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Some damage.
Napoleon leaps in terror from a window, his large bicorne falling off; another French officer steps on to the sill, about to follow. They will inevitably drop into a wash-tub below. The house is a neat log cabin with casement windows. Two flowering plants in pots fall from the sill, pigs scamper off, a cock and hen fly away. A woman scouring a pot looks out in alarm from a lower window. A cat miaows on a pent-house roof. Behind a paling (left) a Cossack with his long spear has dismounted, and hastens towards the house with a satisfied grin; in the background Cossacks gallop across a snowy landscape.
BM Satires 12058.
[Ref: 52299] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Sailors in Westminster Abbey.
Folios of Caracatures lent our For the Evening. [Charles Williams.]
Pubd. Aug.t 27th 1804 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching on watermarked paper. Plate 349 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾").
Two burly, tough-looking sailors stand before Kent's monument to Shakespeare (r.). They read the inscription to which the figure of Shakespeare points: 'The Cloud Capt Towers, The Goreeous Palaces, . . . Leave not a Wreck [sic] behind' ['Tempest', IV. i]. One (l.), who wears his hat, in which is a tobacco-pipe, says: "Captain Towers!! who the Devil can this Capt Towers be? - Rot me if ever I heard of his Name or that of the Ship, did You Jack?" The other, who holds his hat, answers: "No, but I take it the Cloud must have belonged to the Mounseers, for you know that's what they call the place Boney lives at" [i.e. St. Cloud], Both hold heavy cudgels.
BM Satires: 10330.
[Ref: 52241] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

a Riddle expounded or the Dignity of a Parsons Horse.
Woodward del.t.
London Pub.d [July 6th. 1807] by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside. Price 1sh Collored.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 335mm
A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing addressing a fat elderly parson on horseback. He asks "Ha! Ha - the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, - Canst thee tell me - why - a Parsons Horse be like a King?" The parson answers with a grin: "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a Minister." Etched by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830; active) after George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809).
BM Satires: 11617.
[Ref: 52098] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Sensual love,- or A Sop in the Pan.
[Engraved by Charles Williams after Thomas Rowlandson.]
[London Published May. 31. 1807 by T Tegg Apollo Library in Cheapside.]
Songsheet, coloured etching. Sheet 225 x 215mm (9 x 8½"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, losing verse and publisher's inscription. Bit time stained.
An enormously fat cook sits by a kitchen fire, caressing a young man, to whom she has given 'a sop in the pan', a slice of bread placed under roasting meat to catch the juices. He eats the delicacy, but looks warily at the cook.
BM Satires 10928, 'One of several prints by Rowlandson published by Thomas Tegg in 1807'.
[Ref: 51904] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Skaiting Dandies, Shewing Off. 332.
Williams fecit.
Pub.d by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside, London [n.d. c.1815-1820.]
Hand-coloured etching; watermark Basted Mill. Plate 248 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Cut to plate.
Ladies stand on a snow-covered bank in the middle distance watching the skaters. In the foreground are four skaters in absurd positions. A dandy lies on his back, trying to ward off with one leg another who reels backward striking him on the chin with the point of his skate.
BM Satires 13074.
[Ref: 52288] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[St Martins-in-the-Fields] St Martins in an Uproar.
[by Charles Williams]
Pubd Octr 1 1801 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 240 x 370mm (9½ x 14½"). Hole upper centre (in church railing). Stamp of S.W. Fores lower right.
Scene outside the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, with clergymen chasing a parson out of the church, while couples on the right assail him. In 1801 Thomas Scott Smith introduced himself to the Curate of St Martins as the nephew of Lord Eldon, and acquired a position at the church. For a month he officiated at marriages, baptisms and burials, before he was discovered, found guilty of forgery and sentenced to death. Etched by Charles Williams (1797 - 1830, fl.), prolific etcher of satires from his own designs and those of other artists (especially Woodward). Almost all his plates are anonymous and little work has been done to establish for certain which prints he made. As a result Williams is little-known in comparison with contemporaries such as Rowlandson and Gillray in spite of the comparable quality of some of his work. This impression bears the 'S.W.F.' stamp of the publisher S.W. Fores, also found on impressions of Fores prints in the British Museum and the Hermitage, St Petersburg.
BM Satires 9779; L.2384.
[Ref: 46557] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

St Stephens Fair. O don't you think it a wonderfull Fair.'' Holcroft. 23.
Woodward, del.t _ Williams Sculp.t _
Pub,d Feby 8,th 1808 by Tho,s Tegg 111 Cheapside London.
Finely hand coloured etching on paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1805'. Sheet 260 x 400mm (10¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate at top. Taped tear at top, stops before iage.
A satire showing rival politicians as showmen with booths at St Stephen's Fair, with banners including 'Catholic Emancipation' and 'No Popery'. Recognisable faces include Canning, Castlereagh, Percival, Grenville and Sheridan.
BM Satires 10966. See also BM 10763.
[Ref: 61901] £380.00

Sublime and Beautifull. O'thou wert born to please me, my Rural Queen of Love, Through all the woods I'll praise thee my Sheperd of the Grove, Thus happy never Jealous Can any harm assail us My rural Queen of Love.
[Charles Williams.]
Pubd. April 1810 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾''). Small margins. Toned, creasing and tears.
A Thames waterman, with a badged sleeve, number 27, and a long boat-hook, takes the hand of a fat woman with ragged clothes holding a basket of lavender. Both are ugly and amorous. There is a rustic, though probably suburban, background. Text below from Burke's essay, 1756.
BM Satires 11648.
[Ref: 50960] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sublime and Beautifull. O'thou wert born to please me, my Rural Queen of Love, Through all the woods I'll praise thee my Sheperd of the Grove, Thus happy never Jealous Can any harm assail us My rural Queen of Love.
[Charles Williams.]
Pubd. April 1810 by Thos. Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Hand-coloured etching. 324 x 222mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Stained, very damaged; paper chip to lower right.
A Thames waterman, with a badged sleeve, number 27, and a long boat-hook, takes the hand of a fat woman with ragged clothes holding a basket of lavender. Both are ugly and amorous. There is a rustic, though probably suburban, background. Text below from Burke's essay, 1756.
BM Satires: 11648.
[Ref: 30575] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Tears of Sensibility - Sympathy a Poem - Let's all be Unhappy together -ie- The Wig Club in Distrees &c, &c
[Charles Williams.]
Pubd Jun 11th 1798 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Hand-coloured etching. 248 x 400mm (9¾ x 15¾"). Repaired hole in centre of image. Cut.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald (Fox's first cousin), a leader of the United Irishmen, remained in hiding after the arrest of the other members of the 'Directory' on 12 Mar. Lord Clare at least was anxious for his escape, but he remained in or near Dublin continuing preparations for a rising on 23 May. £1,000 reward was therefore offered and he was arrested on 19 May, after a desperate struggle, in which he was wounded, dying of wounds on 4 June. Fitzpatrick, 'Secret Service under Pitt'; Erskine, noted for his egotism, mourns that he shall not defend him in a treason trial. Fox and other members of the Opposition had given evidence at Maidstone on 22 May in favour of Arthur O'Connor. Foxites surround an oblong table, the left end of which is cut off by the margin of the design. Fox only is standing, the central figure on the farther side of the table. All weep copiously, tears splash to the table and stream from it to the ground, where empty bottles float. On the table are decanters of 'French Wine'. Fox, with Erskine on his right, Bedford on his left, gazes mournfully to the right, his hands clasped. Erskine, his hands also clasped; Bedford holds a handkerchief to his eye and looks up at Fox. Sheridan sits at the end of the table (right), on which his elbows rest, gazing up at Fox. On the extreme right Grey (?) stands in the water, stooping to bale it with a bucket. On the nearer side of the table (left) are Norfolk and Tierney. The former turns in profile to the right towards Tierney, both fists clenched; Tierney turns his back on the table on which his left arm rests; he clenches his right fist. From his pocket projects a newspaper: 'Courier Good News from Ir[eland] the Kings Forces defeated in three different Actions'. Behind and between them sits Lauderdale in profile to the right
BM Satires 9227.
[Ref: 52370] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Genius of Caricature, and his Friends, celebrating the completion of the Second Volume of the Caricature Magazine, in the Temple of Mirth
Woodward delt [in image lower left]
London Pubd July 2d 1808 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside
Fine etching with hand-colouring, sheet 285 x 380mm (11¼ x 15"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet
The 'Genius of Caricature' presides over a dinner table in the 'Temple of Mirth', which is adorned with caricatures from the 'Caricature Magazine' by Thomas Rowlandson and others on the walls, and folio volumes of the magazine. A toast-master holds a placard inscribed with verses in praise of the 'Caricature Magazine' and its artists (naming Rowlandson and the designer of this print, George Moutard Woodward). Woodward (1760?-1809) was a prolific artist who designed 525 prints between 1790 and his death in 1809. Of orthodox pro-government and anti-French political outlook, Woodward's forte was social satire- in this field his reputation between 1807 and 1809 exceeded that even of Rowlandson (see how his name is mentioned before Rowlandson's and underlined in the placard verses here). While his reputation has since been eclipsed, Henry Angelo, whose 'Reminisces' are the main source of biographical information on Woodward, claimed that if Woodward had learned to draw (he was self-taught) and had been more temperate in his habits (it is reported that he kept low company and drank immoderately), he might have rivalled Hogarth. However, he met an inglorious end, dying in the Brown Bear tavern (according to Angelo with a glass of brandy in his hand) and was buried at the expense of his landlord.
BM Satires 11133
[Ref: 61903] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

[Thomas Tegg] The Genius of Caricature, and his Friends, celebrating the completion of the Second Volume of the Caricature Magazine, in the Temple of Mirth.
Woodward del.t.
London Pubd July 2d 1808 by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside [but slightly later].
Etching with hand-colouring. 250 x 355mm (10 x 14"). Framed. Creasing. Unexamined out of frame.
The 'Genius of Caricature' (a gap-toothed Lilliputian in a harlequin costume, probably a caricature of Thomas Tegg) proposes a toast to the success of the second volume of the Caricature Magazine to other Lilliputians around a dinner table in the 'Temple of Mirth', Tegg's shop. The walls are adorned with caricatures from the 'Caricature Magazine' by Thomas Rowlandson and others on the walls, while folio volumes of the magazine sit on a shelf. A toast-master holds a placard praising Tegg.
BM Satires 11133.
[Ref: 51841] £320.00

Tom Tack's Ghost. I Courted Polly of Spithead, / And ax'd her to be married; / At first she was most cruel kind [...] 38
London, Pub. by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside, Feb. 7 1808
Etching with hand-colouring, platemark 270 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed to platemark on right.
Etching illustrating a popular song (the words to which printed below) in which a sailor recounts how he shot Tom Tack, a rival for his love Polly, only to be tormented by his ghost. As the illustration shows, the 'ghost' was Tom Tack, not dead but wearing a white sheet to disguise himself. Etching by Charles Williams, one of a number of prints in this format by Williams and his contemporary Thomas Rowlandson published by Thomas Tegg circa 1808-9.
[Ref: 43919] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Triumph of Independence over Majesterial Influence and Corruption.
Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening. [Charles Williams.]
Pub.d March 8th 1805 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured etching, watermark J. Whatman. Plate 241 x 348mm 9½ x 13¾").
A street scene. Sir Francis Burdett, tall, handsome, and distinguished but a poor portrait, stands (r.) turning his head in profile towards Mainwaring and extending his right. arm with a gesture of dismissal. In his left hand is a paper: 'Constitution of England'. Mainwaring, fashionably dressed, but mean and vulgar, stands with flexed knees and wrists crossed over his breast. He squints towards Burdett and clutches a paper: 'Mar . . List'. Burdett says: "Go Hireling! retire to thy original Nothingness, nor suffer Ministerial Influence to hold thee up to ridicule again, nor dare oppose the legitimate Choice of the Electors of Middlesex." Mainwaring soliloquizes (mis-quoting 'Paradise Lost', iv. 37-9): "Oh how I hate those Beams which bring to my remembrance from "What State I am Fallen.' A stout bailiff or constable (l.) addresses him: "I have got a Writ of Bastardy for Justice Juggle".
BM Satires 10372.
[Ref: 52296] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Two Journals. Joul. 1 [&] Journal 11.
[C. Williams.]
Pubd July 1814 by Thos Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Toning to first plate.
A pair of plates, each with eight scenes representing the course of a day, contrasting how Tsar Alexander I (1777 - 1825) spent his time compared with a ‘typical' day in the life of the Prince Regent. The Tsar spends time with his sister and son, walking in the parks, dining simply and enjoying the plaudits of the mob. The Prince wakes with a hangover, rises at noon to be primped by his staff, meets his tailor, avoids 'hissing mobs' and starts to dine at eight and finishes at four am.
BM Satires 12290 & 12291.
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The Wrymouth Candidates or the Strangers at Home. Plate 1 Dedicated to every Indepent Elector.
June 1808.
Hand-coloured etching; 1808 watermark. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom.
Three candidates for Weymouth are displayed on a table to the electors, whose heads and shoulders form the base of the design. One is a tiny figure standing on the hand of a man who stands on the table; a military officer stands beside the table (left), pointing to the tiny candidate; he bows to the electors. Cranborne bows, hat in hand. The second candidate stands hat in hand; under his arm is a book: 'Slavery vindicated'. None of the electors looks towards him. The third (right) stands hat in hand with both arms above his head; papers inscribed 'Contract' project from both pockets. Only the two electors on the extreme right look up at him. A man stands behind the table (left) addressing the electors. A poll-clerk sits behind the table, putting a finger knowingly to his eye. On the table is an open book (? Bible), each double-columned page headed 'Kings'. Ten electors constitute the audience; all but two gaze up at Cranborne.
BM Satires 12284.
[Ref: 52303] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Yorkshire Bumkins Mistake. 155.
Woodward del. [etched by Charles Williams]
[London Pubd Aug 6th 1812] by Thomas Tegg No.111 Cheapside.
Finely hand-coloured etching on paper watermarked '1819'. Plate 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Publication date rubbed off? Thread margins. Trimmed to plate at top right corner.
A comic scene in which a country footman is confused by the message given to him by the fashionably dressed footman. The country footman misunderstands the meaning of 'court' taking it mean going to woo rather than to a Royal court.
BM Satire 11979.
[Ref: 61905] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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