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Actualités. No.142. -Si j’allais être inquièté pour mon instrument? -Ne craignez rien, voisin, on ne désarme que les gens que des clarinettes de cinq pieds. -Tiens, ma femme, violà probablement un insurgé ….faut-il qu’il en ait tire de ces coups de fusil pour avoir la figuré noire comme ça!.....
Bouchat [facsimile in image.]
Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse. Imp. Aubert & Co. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph.
Two satirical scenes. One: An officer fears that his instrument is about to be taken away from him, but his is reassured that that isn't the case. Two: a couple looking astonished as a black man passes, but claims that he has been shooting so much to get a black figure like that.
[Ref: 15561] £85.00 (£99.88 incl.VAT)
Bouchat [facsimile in image.]
Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse. Imp. Aubert & Co. [n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph.
Two satirical scenes. One: An officer fears that his instrument is about to be taken away from him, but his is reassured that that isn't the case. Two: a couple looking astonished as a black man passes, but claims that he has been shooting so much to get a black figure like that.
[Ref: 15561] £85.00 (£99.88 incl.VAT)
The acquittal! Or the managers poisened with a beer of their own brewing.
Pubd, June 24th 1806 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 250 x 360mm. 9¾ x 14¼". Trimmed to plate; printing crease.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742 - 1811) stands by a pile of bricks, each marked with a coronet (except one with a mitre), and the words 'Not Guilty'. These he is hurling with great vigour at (some of) the managers of the impeachment who flee in disorder, to the right., putting up their arms to fend off the missiles. He wears Highland dress with a magnificently feathered bonnet; his plaid swirls out. His bricks are stacked on a fringed carpet on which is the motto 'Dieu et m[on] Droit'. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816), the hindmost, protects himself with his hat, and says: 'Why Charley! I am afraid we have drank too much of this cursed Entire.' Just in front of him is Samuel Whitbread (1756 - 1815), an 'Essay on Brewing' projecting from his coat-pocket. Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806) next, turns to protect himself; in front Howick (Whitbread's brother-in-law) grovels on the ground, grasping the edge of a large upright cask of 'Whitbread's Entire'. Into this Lord Temple, one of the Managers of the Impeachment, is plunging head first, displaying bulky breeches inscribed 'Temple of Hymen'. Behind stands a man in gown and bands, evidently Dr. Laurence. Beside Whitbread and Howick are overturned tankards of 'Whitbreads Entire' [a few letters only of the inscription being visible], spilling their contents. In the background, against the corner of Westminster Hall, whose doorway is behind Melville, is a rectangular tank: 'Brown Stout Cooler'; in this men are frantically splashing. The sun emerges from a gap in dark clouds irradiating Melville; in its disk is the profile head of George III.
Henry Dundas was of indespensable value to Pitt becoming his right-hand man as well as his friend and drinking companion. His influence extended far beyond his official duties, for after 1774 he acted as government manager of Scottish affairs. Dundas resigned with Pitt in 1801 but offered support to Addington. On Pitt's return in 1804 he became 1st lord of the Admiralty but was forced to resign when an inquiry into financial irregularities in the navy pay office implicated him. He was impeached in 1806 and although acquitted was censured for financial laxity . He was the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom.
By Charles Williams (1797 - 1830; active), prolific etcher of satires of his own or others' designs. Almost all plates are anonymous.
BM Satires: 10579.
[Ref: 13260] £230.00
Pubd, June 24th 1806 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand coloured etching, sheet 250 x 360mm. 9¾ x 14¼". Trimmed to plate; printing crease.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742 - 1811) stands by a pile of bricks, each marked with a coronet (except one with a mitre), and the words 'Not Guilty'. These he is hurling with great vigour at (some of) the managers of the impeachment who flee in disorder, to the right., putting up their arms to fend off the missiles. He wears Highland dress with a magnificently feathered bonnet; his plaid swirls out. His bricks are stacked on a fringed carpet on which is the motto 'Dieu et m[on] Droit'. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816), the hindmost, protects himself with his hat, and says: 'Why Charley! I am afraid we have drank too much of this cursed Entire.' Just in front of him is Samuel Whitbread (1756 - 1815), an 'Essay on Brewing' projecting from his coat-pocket. Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806) next, turns to protect himself; in front Howick (Whitbread's brother-in-law) grovels on the ground, grasping the edge of a large upright cask of 'Whitbread's Entire'. Into this Lord Temple, one of the Managers of the Impeachment, is plunging head first, displaying bulky breeches inscribed 'Temple of Hymen'. Behind stands a man in gown and bands, evidently Dr. Laurence. Beside Whitbread and Howick are overturned tankards of 'Whitbreads Entire' [a few letters only of the inscription being visible], spilling their contents. In the background, against the corner of Westminster Hall, whose doorway is behind Melville, is a rectangular tank: 'Brown Stout Cooler'; in this men are frantically splashing. The sun emerges from a gap in dark clouds irradiating Melville; in its disk is the profile head of George III.
Henry Dundas was of indespensable value to Pitt becoming his right-hand man as well as his friend and drinking companion. His influence extended far beyond his official duties, for after 1774 he acted as government manager of Scottish affairs. Dundas resigned with Pitt in 1801 but offered support to Addington. On Pitt's return in 1804 he became 1st lord of the Admiralty but was forced to resign when an inquiry into financial irregularities in the navy pay office implicated him. He was impeached in 1806 and although acquitted was censured for financial laxity . He was the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom.
By Charles Williams (1797 - 1830; active), prolific etcher of satires of his own or others' designs. Almost all plates are anonymous.
BM Satires: 10579.
[Ref: 13260] £230.00
All the World's a Stage & c.- Actor of all Work.
[Small figure of Paul Pry to bottom left.] Pub by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street Strand London. Sol publisher of P. Pry's Caricatures -
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 261 x 356mm. 10¼ x 14".
The Duke of Wellington and his acolytes. Copy of the original publication in the British Museum: satire no. 15805, which was published by McLean with the following "Pub June 15 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of P-Pry Caricatures - none are original without T. McLean name as publisher." This etching portrays all the many characterisations of the Duke of Wellington in the many "Paul Pry" etchings on his Prime Ministry.
BM Satires: 15805 (copy). From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 15199] £220.00
[Small figure of Paul Pry to bottom left.] Pub by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street Strand London. Sol publisher of P. Pry's Caricatures -
Hand-coloured etching. Plate 261 x 356mm. 10¼ x 14".
The Duke of Wellington and his acolytes. Copy of the original publication in the British Museum: satire no. 15805, which was published by McLean with the following "Pub June 15 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of P-Pry Caricatures - none are original without T. McLean name as publisher." This etching portrays all the many characterisations of the Duke of Wellington in the many "Paul Pry" etchings on his Prime Ministry.
BM Satires: 15805 (copy). From: Charborough House, residence to the Erle-Drax family.
[Ref: 15199] £220.00
Alarming Situation! In India from an Old Time Elephant Running Wild!!!
HB Sketches. No.760. HB [monogram in bottom left corner.]
Published by T. Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket, Feby. 1843. Printed at 70, St. Martin's Lane.
Lithograph. 304 x 444mm. 12 x 17½".
An Indian elephant with the the face of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), is running towards left. The elephant is driven by a man in a turban, the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852). Held in the trunk of the elephant is George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784-1849). Astride the elephant inside a type of cabin are Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) and Lord Stanley (1799-1869). A man in the foreground stands back in astonishment, whilst others chase, including Sir John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869) and Lord John Russell (1792-1878).
BM: 1868,0808.12091.
[Ref: 16110] £95.00 (£111.63 incl.VAT)
HB Sketches. No.760. HB [monogram in bottom left corner.]
Published by T. Mc.Lean, 26 Haymarket, Feby. 1843. Printed at 70, St. Martin's Lane.
Lithograph. 304 x 444mm. 12 x 17½".
An Indian elephant with the the face of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), is running towards left. The elephant is driven by a man in a turban, the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852). Held in the trunk of the elephant is George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784-1849). Astride the elephant inside a type of cabin are Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) and Lord Stanley (1799-1869). A man in the foreground stands back in astonishment, whilst others chase, including Sir John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869) and Lord John Russell (1792-1878).
BM: 1868,0808.12091.
[Ref: 16110] £95.00 (£111.63 incl.VAT)
The Finishing of an Aldermans Picture.
Pubd. Jany. 1. 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7".
A fashionable lady and gentleman arranged on a chaise longue in an interior. This seems to be a City of London alderman's wife being amused by her young lover, who adds cuckold's horns to her husband's (identifiable) portrait on the wall behind.
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 '8' upper right.
BM Satires: undescribed. Guildhall Library: 18371.
[Ref: 14515] £320.00
Pubd. Jany. 1. 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 245 x 175mm. 9¾ x 7".
A fashionable lady and gentleman arranged on a chaise longue in an interior. This seems to be a City of London alderman's wife being amused by her young lover, who adds cuckold's horns to her husband's (identifiable) portrait on the wall behind.
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 '8' upper right.
BM Satires: undescribed. Guildhall Library: 18371.
[Ref: 14515] £320.00
The Aldermen Turtle and Gruel.
Pub Accord.g to Act Aug.t 11 th 1773 by MDarly 39. Strand.
Etching, 250 x 175mm, 9¾ x 7".
Two aldermen, one short and grotesquely fat, the other tall, hook-nosed and thin. Possibly intended to personify liberality and frugality in the Mayoral Chair.
From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14570] £330.00
Pub Accord.g to Act Aug.t 11 th 1773 by MDarly 39. Strand.
Etching, 250 x 175mm, 9¾ x 7".
Two aldermen, one short and grotesquely fat, the other tall, hook-nosed and thin. Possibly intended to personify liberality and frugality in the Mayoral Chair.
From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14570] £330.00
Alliantie. Agent la Batavia.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 144mm. 8¼ x 5¾".
An agent from Batavia, Dutch East Indies in cahoots with an alliance, although he is either stealing a sock or planting a sock!
Not in BM.
[Ref: 14420] £75.00 (£88.13 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1800.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 144mm. 8¼ x 5¾".
An agent from Batavia, Dutch East Indies in cahoots with an alliance, although he is either stealing a sock or planting a sock!
Not in BM.
[Ref: 14420] £75.00 (£88.13 incl.VAT)
The Pitmens Ejectment, or the Battle of Friars Goose.
[Anon., 1832.]
Etching, 220 x 320mm. 8¾ x 12½". Crease into upper part of plate. Some soiling.
Constables and civilians armed with muskets forcibly remove furniture from the cottages on the right, while a crowd of miners in the background hurl missiles at the armed men. In the foreground (right) two well-dressed constables with truncheons seize a harmless-looking man who stands beside a pile of household goods: mattress, grandfather-clock, and two neat chairs. The miners' houses were the property of the colliery owners and they were needed for the new, non-union, workers. A force of armed constables, aggressively carrying out evictions at Friar's Goose at East Gateshead, Northumberland, was attacked by the miners, who seized and used their guns and assailed them with stones. Soldiers were sent for from Newcastle and mass arrests were made.
BM Satires: 17091.
[Ref: 13677] £180.00 (£211.50 incl.VAT)
[Anon., 1832.]
Etching, 220 x 320mm. 8¾ x 12½". Crease into upper part of plate. Some soiling.
Constables and civilians armed with muskets forcibly remove furniture from the cottages on the right, while a crowd of miners in the background hurl missiles at the armed men. In the foreground (right) two well-dressed constables with truncheons seize a harmless-looking man who stands beside a pile of household goods: mattress, grandfather-clock, and two neat chairs. The miners' houses were the property of the colliery owners and they were needed for the new, non-union, workers. A force of armed constables, aggressively carrying out evictions at Friar's Goose at East Gateshead, Northumberland, was attacked by the miners, who seized and used their guns and assailed them with stones. Soldiers were sent for from Newcastle and mass arrests were made.
BM Satires: 17091.
[Ref: 13677] £180.00 (£211.50 incl.VAT)
The Alnwick bell-man.
[Anon., c.1831.]
Etching, 300 x 255mm. 11¾ x 10". Upper right margin missing; minor stains.
Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland (1785 – 1847), walks in profile to the right, stooping and holding on his head, like a hat, a large bell, on which is the profile of Matthew Bell. He wears a star, tail-coat, and tight pantaloons with Hessian boots. He says: 'If I can support this Bell, it shall ring a Reform change or two yet, they shall have another Peal ['a' crossed out and replaced with an 'e'] in the House'. Behind (left) is John Bull holding up his hat and trudging along; he exclaims, frowning, 'D—me I'd walk a hundred Miles at my own expence for Howick & Beaumont, for the King & for the People'. In the middle distance (right) are a man and boy, both very thin, breaking stones. The boy says: 'I say Daddy! here's the show folk coming to the Election, yonder goes the Clown he seems dress'd for the Farce'. The man: 'No my Boy it's only the D—ke with his Cap & Bell, he cuts a poor figure I'm afraid we'll never be able to mend his Ways'. A signpost, 'To Rotten Borough Castle', points to Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, on the horizon.
An interesting piece of local political satire relating to the electioneering in Northumberland during the 1831 election, in the lead up to parliamentary reform. Local MP Matthew Bell of Woolsington, a Tory supported by the Duke, penned letter of withdrawal to save the county from "the disturbance of a contest" dated 1st May. Beaumont and Howick, the pro-Reform candidates (enemies in 1826) were returned unopposed, reversing the situation in the 1826 election. The Times on 4th May printed a paragraph dated 1 May, Newcastle: 'Poor gentleman! after enduring a thousand mortifications he politically expired in the committee room this afternoon . . . the boroughmongering faction [is] defeated in the person of Mr. Bell.' see ref: 13685
BM Satires: 16648.
[Ref: 13629] £140.00 (£164.50 incl.VAT)
[Anon., c.1831.]
Etching, 300 x 255mm. 11¾ x 10". Upper right margin missing; minor stains.
Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland (1785 – 1847), walks in profile to the right, stooping and holding on his head, like a hat, a large bell, on which is the profile of Matthew Bell. He wears a star, tail-coat, and tight pantaloons with Hessian boots. He says: 'If I can support this Bell, it shall ring a Reform change or two yet, they shall have another Peal ['a' crossed out and replaced with an 'e'] in the House'. Behind (left) is John Bull holding up his hat and trudging along; he exclaims, frowning, 'D—me I'd walk a hundred Miles at my own expence for Howick & Beaumont, for the King & for the People'. In the middle distance (right) are a man and boy, both very thin, breaking stones. The boy says: 'I say Daddy! here's the show folk coming to the Election, yonder goes the Clown he seems dress'd for the Farce'. The man: 'No my Boy it's only the D—ke with his Cap & Bell, he cuts a poor figure I'm afraid we'll never be able to mend his Ways'. A signpost, 'To Rotten Borough Castle', points to Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, on the horizon.
An interesting piece of local political satire relating to the electioneering in Northumberland during the 1831 election, in the lead up to parliamentary reform. Local MP Matthew Bell of Woolsington, a Tory supported by the Duke, penned letter of withdrawal to save the county from "the disturbance of a contest" dated 1st May. Beaumont and Howick, the pro-Reform candidates (enemies in 1826) were returned unopposed, reversing the situation in the 1826 election. The Times on 4th May printed a paragraph dated 1 May, Newcastle: 'Poor gentleman! after enduring a thousand mortifications he politically expired in the committee room this afternoon . . . the boroughmongering faction [is] defeated in the person of Mr. Bell.' see ref: 13685
BM Satires: 16648.
[Ref: 13629] £140.00 (£164.50 incl.VAT)
Iohn Bull and the Baronet of Belsay.
[Anon., c.1832.]
Etching, 215 x 300mm. 8½ x 11¾". Slightly soiled; two faint horizontal creases through plate.
Sir Charles Monck (1779 - 1867) of Belsay Castle, Whig M.P. for Northumberland, in riding dress, hat in hand, bowing to John Bull. He says: 'I really thought Mr Bull after you had read my Essay on Reform you would have chosen me your Representative in Parliament but I still find you are determin'd to have none but who are friends to the whole Bill I have therefore no alternative but with-drawing my Pretensions on this Occasion'. John Bull, stout and elderly, in old-fashioned dress, leans with both hands on his stick; he answers: 'A Fig for your Essay on Reform, it is something like the Reform you intended the Lobsters, when you took them out of their own Element to Thrive better in your own Fish Pond, never ask me another favour I'm done with you for ever.
Since 1820 Monck had drifted from the Whigs; at a County meeting at Morpeth on the eve of the Reform Act he opposed the freeholders' resolutions for the measure, publishing his reasons in a pamphlet, 'Address to the County of Northumberland on the Bills for the reform of the House of Commons'. After the passing of the Act he issued an election address, canvassing as "a genuine Reformer", but the Whigs refused to accept him (nominating Beaumont and Ord) and he withdrew, and thereafter he voted for Tories.
From a set of South Northumberland election prints.
BM Satires: 17308.
[Ref: 13682] £120.00 (£141.00 incl.VAT)
[Anon., c.1832.]
Etching, 215 x 300mm. 8½ x 11¾". Slightly soiled; two faint horizontal creases through plate.
Sir Charles Monck (1779 - 1867) of Belsay Castle, Whig M.P. for Northumberland, in riding dress, hat in hand, bowing to John Bull. He says: 'I really thought Mr Bull after you had read my Essay on Reform you would have chosen me your Representative in Parliament but I still find you are determin'd to have none but who are friends to the whole Bill I have therefore no alternative but with-drawing my Pretensions on this Occasion'. John Bull, stout and elderly, in old-fashioned dress, leans with both hands on his stick; he answers: 'A Fig for your Essay on Reform, it is something like the Reform you intended the Lobsters, when you took them out of their own Element to Thrive better in your own Fish Pond, never ask me another favour I'm done with you for ever.
Since 1820 Monck had drifted from the Whigs; at a County meeting at Morpeth on the eve of the Reform Act he opposed the freeholders' resolutions for the measure, publishing his reasons in a pamphlet, 'Address to the County of Northumberland on the Bills for the reform of the House of Commons'. After the passing of the Act he issued an election address, canvassing as "a genuine Reformer", but the Whigs refused to accept him (nominating Beaumont and Ord) and he withdrew, and thereafter he voted for Tories.
From a set of South Northumberland election prints.
BM Satires: 17308.
[Ref: 13682] £120.00 (£141.00 incl.VAT)