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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The French Artist.
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank sculp.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 10 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street London.
Fine & rare coloured etching. 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"), watermarked 'Turkey Mill J Whatman 1818'. Small margins. Very slight stain.
A ragged artist sits at an easel in a garret, painting a scene Danaë receiving the shower of gold. An emaciated dog snarls at the arm of a debt collector forcing papers through the door.
BM Satires 13436.
[Ref: 69598] £360.00
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank sculp.t.
Pub.d Jan.y 10 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 S.t James's Street London.
Fine & rare coloured etching. 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11"), watermarked 'Turkey Mill J Whatman 1818'. Small margins. Very slight stain.
A ragged artist sits at an easel in a garret, painting a scene Danaë receiving the shower of gold. An emaciated dog snarls at the arm of a debt collector forcing papers through the door.
BM Satires 13436.
[Ref: 69598] £360.00
The Head Ache.
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 23th. 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 295 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border. Crease right corner.
A bald man sits in an armchair by the fire, his eyes rolling up into his head, as six imps torment him by bawling in one ear and trumpeting in the other, and attacking his skull with a red-hot poker, drill, corkscrew and hammer.
BM Satires 13439.
[Ref: 60572] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
[Anchor monogram of Captain Frederick Marryat] G. Cruikshank fec.t.
Pub.d Feb.y 23th. 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.
Coloured etching, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. Sheet 295 x 240mm (7¾ x 9½"). Trimmed to printed border. Crease right corner.
A bald man sits in an armchair by the fire, his eyes rolling up into his head, as six imps torment him by bawling in one ear and trumpeting in the other, and attacking his skull with a red-hot poker, drill, corkscrew and hammer.
BM Satires 13439.
[Ref: 60572] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
A Part of Pleasure _ Dedicated to the Funny Club.
[Anchor monogram of Capt. Frederick Marryat] Etched by G. Cruik.k.
Pub.d June 25th 1822 by G. Humphrey, 27 S.t James's Street London.
Very fine coloured etching. 255 x 375mm (10 x 14¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill'. Chips and staining in margins.
A boat overloaded with cockneys capsizes in the Thames. A 'funny' was a narrow clinker-built pleasure boat for a pair of sculls, without a mast as here.
BM Satire 14447.
[Ref: 69233] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Anchor monogram of Capt. Frederick Marryat] Etched by G. Cruik.k.
Pub.d June 25th 1822 by G. Humphrey, 27 S.t James's Street London.
Very fine coloured etching. 255 x 375mm (10 x 14¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill'. Chips and staining in margins.
A boat overloaded with cockneys capsizes in the Thames. A 'funny' was a narrow clinker-built pleasure boat for a pair of sculls, without a mast as here.
BM Satire 14447.
[Ref: 69233] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates [lettered to the single sail of boat in foreground].](jpegs/20476.jpg)
The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead in seven plates [lettered to the single sail of boat in foreground].
[F. Marryat's anchor monogram.] G Cruikshank sculpt_.
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St. London 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, first state; 215 x 285mm, 8½ x 11¼". A fine impression, full margins and fresh colour. Stain on right.
The mast slants across the design backed by a sail bellying in the wind. Mr. B. sits miserably with closed eyes astride a spar, to which he has tied his right thigh. His right arm encircles the mast, and to his wrist is tied an open book inscribed 'Wilt thou upon ye high & giddy mast scale the ship (?) bays O yes & rock his brain.' Lettered below the design with 'dialogue' between our hero and a Lieutenant (on the deck below, and well out of vision). From a set of seven naval satires plus titlepage designed for George Cruikshank by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848). He served during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1825-26; his satirical prints are signed with an anchor. Marryat's design in water-colours and pen is in the B.M.; 'Mr. B' is without his book.
[Ref: 20476] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[F. Marryat's anchor monogram.] G Cruikshank sculpt_.
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St. London 1820.
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, first state; 215 x 285mm, 8½ x 11¼". A fine impression, full margins and fresh colour. Stain on right.
The mast slants across the design backed by a sail bellying in the wind. Mr. B. sits miserably with closed eyes astride a spar, to which he has tied his right thigh. His right arm encircles the mast, and to his wrist is tied an open book inscribed 'Wilt thou upon ye high & giddy mast scale the ship (?) bays O yes & rock his brain.' Lettered below the design with 'dialogue' between our hero and a Lieutenant (on the deck below, and well out of vision). From a set of seven naval satires plus titlepage designed for George Cruikshank by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848). He served during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1825-26; his satirical prints are signed with an anchor. Marryat's design in water-colours and pen is in the B.M.; 'Mr. B' is without his book.
[Ref: 20476] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[John Ross] Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!](jpegs/68507.jpg)
[John Ross] Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!
G. Cruikshank fec.t [after Frederick Marryat].
Pub.d Jan.y 18 1819 by G Humphrey 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 460mm (5 x 18"). Trimmed c. 10mm into image on left and c.50mm on right, split to fold taped, holes in corners of folds.
A satire on the return of Sir John Ross's expedition in search of North-West Passage, arriving at Whitehall Stairs in November 1818. Ross, wearing uniform and a large false nose, goose-steps at the head of a line of sailors who have all lost noses to frostbite. They carry artifacts from the expedition: a polar bear skin, a barrel of 'Red Snow', a bird on the end of a bayonet ('Larus Sabini', a newly discovered species), and other specimens 'for the British Museum'. Behind is the Greenlandic Inuit intrerpreter and artist Hans Zakæus, with spiky hair and a fur band around his waist. Among the onlookers are Joseph Banks (on a wall in the distance) and Billy Waters, the famous one-legged black busker.
BM Satires 13194, with extensive description.
[Ref: 68507] £690.00
G. Cruikshank fec.t [after Frederick Marryat].
Pub.d Jan.y 18 1819 by G Humphrey 27 St James's Street London.
Etching. Sheet 125 x 460mm (5 x 18"). Trimmed c. 10mm into image on left and c.50mm on right, split to fold taped, holes in corners of folds.
A satire on the return of Sir John Ross's expedition in search of North-West Passage, arriving at Whitehall Stairs in November 1818. Ross, wearing uniform and a large false nose, goose-steps at the head of a line of sailors who have all lost noses to frostbite. They carry artifacts from the expedition: a polar bear skin, a barrel of 'Red Snow', a bird on the end of a bayonet ('Larus Sabini', a newly discovered species), and other specimens 'for the British Museum'. Behind is the Greenlandic Inuit intrerpreter and artist Hans Zakæus, with spiky hair and a fur band around his waist. Among the onlookers are Joseph Banks (on a wall in the distance) and Billy Waters, the famous one-legged black busker.
BM Satires 13194, with extensive description.
[Ref: 68507] £690.00
The Tomb of Bonaparte. Who was Interr'd, at his own request, under some Willow Trees, near a Spring from which / he daily sent for the Water used at his Table _ taken by Capt. Marryat, R.N.,
Capt. Marryat, R.N. del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
[London, Published July 20, 1821, by S. & I. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.]
Coloured aquatint, rare, printed on J. Whatman paper. Sheet 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publisher's inscription.
The tomb of Napoleon I on Saint Helena, a plain stone slab within a fenced enclosure guarded by a soldier, with two on-lookers and a tent outside the perimeter. The artist, Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), joined the Navy in 1806 as a midshipman on board Lord Cochran's frigate HMS Imperieuse; in 1820 he visited St Helena, sketching Napoleon on his deathbed and bringing back dispatches announcing the death of Napoleon; and in 1824 he took part in the Anglo-Burmese war, publishing a book of scenes of the campaign. He left the Navy in 1830 to devote himself to writing: his most famous novel, Mr Midshipman Easy, was published in 1836, filmed in 1936 with Hughie Green as Easy.
[Ref: 30930] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Capt. Marryat, R.N. del.t. T. Sutherland sculp.t.
[London, Published July 20, 1821, by S. & I. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place.]
Coloured aquatint, rare, printed on J. Whatman paper. Sheet 300 x 395mm (11¾ x 15½"). Trimmed within plate, losing publisher's inscription.
The tomb of Napoleon I on Saint Helena, a plain stone slab within a fenced enclosure guarded by a soldier, with two on-lookers and a tent outside the perimeter. The artist, Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), joined the Navy in 1806 as a midshipman on board Lord Cochran's frigate HMS Imperieuse; in 1820 he visited St Helena, sketching Napoleon on his deathbed and bringing back dispatches announcing the death of Napoleon; and in 1824 he took part in the Anglo-Burmese war, publishing a book of scenes of the campaign. He left the Navy in 1830 to devote himself to writing: his most famous novel, Mr Midshipman Easy, was published in 1836, filmed in 1936 with Hughie Green as Easy.
[Ref: 30930] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)