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An Agreeable Group of Young Gentlemen, otherwise old batchelors turn'd asses.
R.d Newton delin.t.
[Published 22nd August 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.]
Etching. Sheet 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, some rubbing.
Five elderly men, mutton dressed as lamb. Richard Newton (1777-98) produced nearly 300 single sheet satires in his short career, starting at fourteen and ending with his premature death at twenty-one.
[Ref: 32958] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Giving up the Ghost or One Too Many.
R Newton del. Rowlandson Scul.
Tho.s Tegg. No. 111 Cheapside [n.d., c.1813].
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 250 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼"). Paper toned. Unexamined out of frame. Small margins.
A dying man, wearing a tattered shirt, his toes curled, lies on a miserable bed under a casement window, through which Death watches. A fat doctor sleeps, with a paper at is feet reading 'I purge I bleed I sweat em / Then if they Die I Lets em': this is an adaptation of a quote from John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), a Quaker Doctor, which originally had a last line, ''I, John Lettsome'. BM Satires 12153.
[Ref: 63530] £360.00
Lawyer's and Countryman. Two London Attorney's overtaking a Waggoner on the Road, and thinking to Quiz him, they ask'd why his fore Horse, was so fat, and the others so leab, the Waggoner happened to know them, and shrewdly answer'd, that his fore Horse was a Lawyer, and the rest were his Clients.
R. Newton delin.
Publish'd June 10.th 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Fine etching, 205 x 250mm (8 x 10"), with very large margins.
Two London lawyers quiz a clever countryman. Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 67408] £260.00
(£312.00 incl.VAT)
An Undertakers Visit.
R Newton.
T. Tegg 111 Cheapside [n.d. c.1807.]
Hand-coloured etching. Sheet 245 x 335mm (9¾ x 13¼") Trimmed within plate loosing title.
A satirical scene in which an undertaker, bearing coffin, presenting himself before rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in chair. Alexander: 309.
[Ref: 65659] £140.00
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