And Isaac said, Behold the Fire & the Wood: But where is the Lamb for a Burnt-offering?
WBaillie inv.t & sculp.t. 1765.
Etching. 175 x 125mm (6¾ x 8¾"), with margins. Chip in left margin.
Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac (Gen. XXII), standing, arms folded, in front of a log pyre, the knife lying on the ground beside him. Isaac holds a bundle of kindling and a torch.
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An Ancient & Modern Apostle.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 195 x 285mm (7¾ x 11¼") Trimmed, affecting text, tear bottom right corner.
A lord in dress uniform refuses to recognise the ragged vistor who claims to be his brother.
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Anglo-Gallic Salutations in London_or Practice makes perfect! "Gode a morning Sare, did it rain towmorrow? "yase it vas"
G.C.k sculp.
Pub.d June 6th 1822 by G. Humphrey- 27 S.t James's Stre.t London.
Fine hand-coloured etching. Sheet: 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; tear and holes..
A comic scene in which two French men staying in London greet each other in ungrammatical English. They are outside the White Bear, Piccadilly, ''The Original Paris Coach Office'', advertising coaches to France. Pair to 'Anglo-Parisian Salutations' (ref. 43642). BM Satire 14440.
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Arithmetic. The Multiplication Table. Addition _ Division _ Fractions.
[Drawn and engraved by William Heath.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 215 x 180mm (8½ x 11"). Trimmed and laid on album paper.
A large woman falls from a gallery onto a dining table, scattering the fare. One from a series of satires on educational subjects.
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Ax About.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick [n.d., c.1815].
Etching. Sheet 260 x 185mm (10¼ x 7½"). Cut to plate on right side.
A stout balding man holds a smoking pipe. His arms are folded over a table and looks over his shoulder. By William Davison (1780 - 1858), publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures, amusing if somewhat crudely executed plates often based on better known prints. Peter Isaac suggests that the majority date to about 1816.
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A Bad Fit. This is not my Hat? _ It must be yours, Sir, there's no other left.
[Engraved by George Hunt? after M. Egerton?]
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket. 1826.
Coloured aquatint. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), paper watermarked ''J Whatman Turkey Mill 1824''. With small margins. Mounted in album paper at edges.
The attributions are purely on stylistic grounds.
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Nelson's Victory; _ or _ Good-news operating upon Loyal-Feelings.
[after James Gillray.]
[n.d., c.1798.]
Etching. 175 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Trimmed into plate, folded as issued, some soiling.
The reactions of senior members of the Whig Opposition to the news of Nelson's victory at Abukir (the Battle of the Nile), 1798; Burdett, Jekyll, Lansdowne, Bedford, Erskine, Norfolk, Tierney, Sheridan & Fox, who is hanging himself, leaving a note 'Farewell to the Whig Club'. A copy of the Gillray satire published by Hannah Humphrey. BM Satires 9248a.
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Monument to be Erected to the Memory of the R.t Hon.ble W.m Beckford Esq.r.
For the Oxford Mag.
[1770.]
Etching. 165 x 110mm (6½ x 4¼"), with margins.
A monument to William Beckford with allegorical figures, including Britannia and Hercules, mourning him. BM Satires 4396.
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Whims of the Moment or the Bedford Level!!
Woodward del. [Etched by Isaac Cruikshank]
[London Pub No 20 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly NB Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening]
Coloured etching, E & P watermark. Sheet 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, losing publication line at top.
Two panels: on the left a well-dressed man staggers back in horror as he regards his queue of hair which has been roughly cropped from the back of the neck; on the right a farmer smiles as he shows off his neck, shaved at the back of his head. Francis Russell (1765-1802), 5th Duke of Bedford, protested against the imposition of a tax on hair powder in 1795 by cutting his hair short, a style that became known as the 'Bedford Level', after the area of the Fens reclaimed by his family. BM Satires 8763.
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[Duke of Portland] Iohn Bull contemplating a Statue of Portland Stone.
[by Charles Williams]
Pub.d April 1807 by Walker N.o7 Cornhill.
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14½'') very large margins. Ink marginalia, printer's crease.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, caricatured as a statue, with a sign saying 'Repaired and Whitewash'd in the Year 1807' around his neck. He became Prime Minister in 1807, despite being deaf, gouty and infirm, merely as an acceptable figurehead to his fractious ministers. BM Satire 10718.
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Dr Tom Bentley.
Cavr. Ghezzi. del. [Engraved by Arthur Pond.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching, 18th century watermark; 340 x 210mm (13¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, to image on right. Crease lower corner.
A caricature of Thomas Bentley LLD (1693 - 1742), classical scholar, probably on his grand tour 1725-6. After Pierleone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), caricaturist and etcher who worked in Rome. It was used by Hogarth for his plate 'Characters and Caricaturas' to exemplify the difference (as Hogarth saw it) between the caricature of Ghezzi, Leonardo et al, and his own delineation of character. BM: 1873,0712.643. See Martin Myrone & Tim Batchelor, 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art'; Bindman: Hogarth and his Times; Hake:80.
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Militia galantry - or The Soldiers cowardly retreat to save his Bacon; at the expence of his fair Inamorata.
[by Charles Williams.
Pub.d 1821 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly corner of Sackville Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins.
Between signs pointing to Cheltenham and Gloucester, a woman kneels at the feet of Col. Berkeley, a tall handsome man in regimentals, wearing a plumed cocked hat. He holds a flag inscribed Letters to Amuse the Public expose the Writer and save my Pocket; on this hangs a letter-file on which papers are spiked. She begs ''In Pity don't Expose me!''. He says ''They will save me thousands''. A coach of onlookers comment, including ''Where's the Honor of a Soldier and Faith there is none in this''. William Berkeley (1786-18570, 1st Earl FitzHardinge, was sued by coach proprietor John Waterhouse for ''Criminal conversation'' with Waterhouse's wife. Despite the attempts satirised here, Waterhouse was awarded £1000 damages at Gloucester Assizes. The scandal did not stop Berkeley becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1836. BM Satires 14274a, a second state with 'Militia' instead of 'Military'.
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A sketch from the Central Board of Health or The Real Ass-i-Antic Cholera!!
[by Henry Heath.] W. Clerk lith, 41 Dean St Soho.
[Published by S.W. Fores, 1832.]
Lithograph. Sheet 280 x 395mm (11 x 15½"). Trimmed top and bottom, losing publication line, laid on album paper.
A group of doctors parade a dummy with a skeleton's head representing cholera: a group of people run screaming from it. A doctor is shouting through a loud speaker: "Contagious to all but doctors!" A satire on the Board of Health set up when the second cholera pandemic (1826-37, also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic), reached England in 1831. It depicts the board (Sir William Pym, Sir William Burnett, Sir B. Martin, Sir James McGrigor) as scaremongers, profiterring from fees charged for quarantining patients. Wellcome 11405i.
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Bond Street Bucks & Keen Countryman. Two Bond Street loungers discoursing in Piccadilly, one of them said, he wish'd much to go into the Country, upon which the other made the following observation: / "In the Country, my Friend there is nought to be seen, / "But an Ass on a Common, or a Goose on a Green." / A countryman passing at the time, pronounced the following impromptu: / "There would be in the Country them things to be seen / "Were you on a Common your Friend on a Green''.
Published 20.th Aug.t 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple. 200 x 250 (8 x 9¾"), with wide margins.
A conversation outside a bookshop on the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly. BM Satires 10356.
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A Bond Street Lounger Recently Detected. Sir you've stole my Gown here it is under your Hat...
Publish'd Nov.r 18 1802 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. Sheet 200 x 235mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate.
Caught by his landlady with her gown under his hat, the lodger tries to laugh it off as a prank. However a painting on the rear wall, 'View of Port Jackson', reminds the viewer that penal transportation to Australia was a common penalty for such petty theft.
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Breakfast. Symptons of Drowsiness. [&] Dinner. Symptoms of Eating and Drinking.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Execudit.
Published April 21, 1803 by Jn.o Harris No.3 Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8 Old Broad Street, London.
Pair of stipples. 350 x 450mm (13¾ x 17¾") very wide margins left & right (marginal tears). 'Breakfast' trimmed to plate at top, 'Dinner' with loss of margin to plate at bottom.
The 'Breakfast' shows sportsmen in a bare breakfast parlour; the 'Dinner' shows five men and two ladies seated at a more opulent dinner-table. These plates would have been originally published by Dickinson in the 1780s. See BM Satires 8537 & 8538 for 1794 editions.
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A Broken Leg, or the Carpenter the Best Surgeon. Halloo! Young Glewgot - de ye see Jack Junk has shivered his Timbers _ and wee want a Splice here.
Published 24th Feb.y 11800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9½").
A group of sailors in a street. When one of their number falls a surgeon rushes to help, but is restrained, as they need a carpenter to fix the broken wooden peg leg. BM Satires 9110.
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Call Again Tomorrow. Written by Mr. C. Dibden; Composed by Mr. Reeve; and sung by Mr Smith, with unbounded Applause, in the ''Magic Minstrel,'' at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers' Wells. 499.
Publish'd Nov. 1. 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London.
Etching set in letterpress, sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 9"). Laid on album sheet, some red ruling.
A debtor telling his creditor through a window to come back tomorrow, while thinking of ways to raise money without working.
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Eques Cantab.
[after Henry Bunbury.]
[n.d., c.1769.]
Etching with drypoint. 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Album stains at corners. Small margins.
A Cambridge student with a macaroni queue holding out his driving whip as if it is a lance, riding a defecating horse. King's College Chapel can be seen in the distance. BM Satire 4724.
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A Camp Scene.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. G. White Sculp.t.
Publish.d June the 25th 1784 by C. White, Stafford Row Pimlico.
Stipple, printed in sepia. 315 x 400mm (12¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom. Small margins left & right. Foxing.
A scene in a military encampment. Three visitors (two men and a woman) watch with amusement as a soldier, dressed in full regimentals including a busby, shaves another despite having a spade and axe thrust through his belt. BM Satires 6727.
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[Caroline of Brunswick and Bergami] Chastity! Chaste as the Icecle, / That's Curded by the frost from purest snow / and hands on Dian's temple.
Sr Facto del. [Etched by George Cruikshank]
London Pub.d by G. Humphtrety 27 St James's St 1820.
Etching. 135 x 195mm (5¼ x 7¾") very large margins.
Caroline of Brunswick and Bartolomeo Bergami embracing on a couch, she in the Turkish peasant woman costume she wore at a ball given by her in Naples, Bergamo in the hussar costume that he wore as Chamberlain. Originally published as one of four related scenes as 'La Gloire des Honnetes Gens!!', for this issue the plate has been cut down. BM Satires 13731
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The Measure of Happiness, or a Royal visit to the Dey of Tunis or the Great Plenipo _
[by William Heath.]
Pub July 20 1820 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Scarce coloured etching, watermark 1820; 1820. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with margins. Tears and creasing. Borders messy.
Caroline of Brunswick in Turkish costume, with much of her vast bosom on display, smoking a hookah. An interpreter makes pleasantries, to which Caroline replies ''I am as Happy as the Dey [altered to Day] is Long!!!''. A disgruntled Bartolommeo Bergami stands behind. An anti-Caroline satire of her visit to Tunis in 1816, published as George IV tried to win a divorce by the Pains and Penalties Bill 1820. BM Satires 13767.
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This is the House for Cash Built!! A Pretty play for grown up gentlemen during the Parliamentary recess.
[by Isaac Cruikshank.]
Pub.d Dec.r 1st 1797 by S.W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly Corner of Sackville St, Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Rare coloured etching, watermark 1794; Sheet 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"). Trimmed to plate. Some stains, tear at centre, crease bottom.
A satire in ten numbered compartments, based on 'This is the House that Jack Built'. 1 is the Treasury ('The House') and 2 is a pile of moneybags ('cole'). 3 to 10 are caricatures of politicians: Pitt the Younger, Dundas, Wilkes, Fox, Sheridan, Burke, Loughborough and Thurlow. BM Satires 9044.
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Catch'd Napping.
[after Isaac Cruikshank?]
Published 1st Dec.r 1794. by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching with stipple, part 18th century watermark. 200 x 245mm (8 x 9¾") large margins.
Two country girls lie on a bank asleep, one with an errant breast. Two young sportsmen with guns creep up, as if they are stalking game. BM Satire 8588, suggesting the attribution to Cruikshank.
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The Cause of the War. Oczakoff. The Political Blind=Buff Man or the Minist-l Expediency.
London Pub.d April 1791 by W. Holland N° 50 Oxford St.t In Holland's Exhibition Rooms may be seen the largest Collection of Caricatures in Europe Admit.ce One Shil.g.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark; Sheet 280 x 420mm (11 x 16½"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom. Vertical crease on left.
King Frederick William of Prussia uses his foot to push forward a blindfolded Pitt, who sets fire to two cities marked Cronstadt and 'Rerel'. The resulting smoke covers Russian Riga, Poland, Germany and Austria. To Frederick's left is Henry Fox, Baron Holland, as a fat burgher, saying "What a blessed Alliance". In the far left is a citizen reading newspaper headlines about the loss of Baltic trade and new taxes on Malt and Porter. To the right is a boat with four men: the helmsman says, "I would rather be a Baltic trader"; oarsmen say, "Do not mind it, it will bring other wars" and "No prize money"; a man looking through a telescope says, "No Galeons - Storms, Sholas & Rocks." A man standing on the shore shouts to the boat "nothing good to be got by it". The satire suggests that Frederick was more interested in acquiring Danzig (Gdansk) while suggesting to Pitt that the Russian occupation of Oczakoff (renamed Odessa by Catherine II) was of more importance, so Britain would help fulfil his ambition. BM Satires 7847.
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[Cetshwayo & John Bright] Extremes Meet.
E.C. Mountford.
The Dart Sixth Year, No 302. Friday, August 4, 1882.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 290 x 220mm (11½ x 8¾"). Tears on left, one entering image. Creasing top left.
A caricature of John Bright (1811-1889, MP for Birmingham) wagging his finger at Zulu King Cetshwayo, who visited London in 1882 during a Zulu civil war. Bright, a quaker and critic of British imperialism, would not have approved of such violence. Ernest Chesmer Mountford (1844-1922).
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[Joseph Chamberlain] Will it carry him over the next fence?
Published by Reynolds & Co 32 St James' St S.W. [c.1885.]
Fine coloured lithograph, verso in ink "H.J. Robinson-Pease 1886". Sheet 445 x 570mm (17½ x 22½").
Joseph Chamberlain as a jockey, jumping a cow across a water jump towards the finish line, marked 'General Election'. A satire on the land reform proposals of Liberal MP Joseph Chamberlain, who fought the general election of November 1885 with the slogan ''Three Acres and a Cow''. The phrase was invented by Eli Hamshire, who suggested the ideal landholding for a citizen should be three acres.
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[Joseph Chamberlain] The 19th Cent.y Jack Cade. Jack Cade. ''Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation: "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall "have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: All the realm shall be in "common; and in Cheapside shall my palfry go to grass _ &c &c &c''. 2nd Part Henry VI Act IV Scene II.
Published by Reynolds & Co 32 St James' St S.W. [n.d., c.1884.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 445 x 570mm (17½ x 22½"). A little wear to edge bottom right.
A man seated on a barrel (Joseph Chamberlain) declaims to an audience of yokels, attended by a man with helmet and sword (William Gladstone). A satire on Chamberlain's speeches during the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which would have given the vote to country labourers. After saying that the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury was ''himself the spokesman of a class – a class to which he himself belongs, who toil not neither do they spin'', Stafford Northcote called Chamberlain ''Jack Cade'', after the leader of a popular revolt in 1450.
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[Chelsea Pensioners] Fresh Arrivals at Chelsea.
Giles Grinagain in et f.
Published Mar 15th 1802 by S. Howitt, Panton Street Haymarket.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. 205 x 240mm (8 x 9½") large margins. Some toning of paper at edge of plate.
Two veterans of the French Revolutionary Wars, both still in army uniform, compare notes about their loss of limbs with two older Chelsea Pensioners, also amputees. One of the Old Guard says 'a Rascal of a Frenchman shot my nose off', during his service with the Marquis of Grandby during the Seven Years' War. 'Giles Grinagain' was probably a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt, the publisher of the print.
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[Chinese Magician] Subaleechee kooloolookah jumjum jowrah jikeekah chumchum chulah chowchee phf.
[Edward (Ned) Hull]
[n.d., c.1820]
Rare & scarce etching. 160 x 120mm (6¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on right, a few spots, small tear in margin taped.
Early surrealist image of a Chinaman, with trailing moustache and pigtail and wearing a conical hat, cuts into a cake decorated with more Chinese figures, which fills a round table with serpentine legs. A miniscule figure of Harlequin stands on a cushion on the cake, reinforcing the theatrical theme. Etching from a fascinating series of 12 Columbinichee prints. The work of the artist printmaker and drawing teacher Edward Hull who lived at 1 Poplar Grove, Oval, South London.
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A Chip of the Old Block.
Published by W. Dudley, 20, Apollo buildings, Gloucester-st, Lambeth [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured woodcut. In ink at top "reform of nature & shiver my timbers carried by one its a brave one!" Sheet 205 x 250mm (8 x 9¾").
A midwife holds up the the new-born son of an old sailor, remarking on the child's resemblance to its father, which includes a hook hand, wooden leg and sailor's queue.
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Mother Carey's Chickens. BM these Birds have lately been seen hovering about the Horse Guards.
[by Charles Williams.]
[Watermarked 1803 but printed later.]
Coloured etching. 255 x 380mm (10 x 15"). Mounted in album paper at edges, some toning.
Mrs Cary or Carey releases a flock of fledgling officers with money bags from a sack marked 'Pin Money instead of Allowance', to the disgust of a group of full-size officers, one of whom says 'To waste ones health in unwholesome Climates an then fail of promotion because we cannot fee ****** or Army Agents Agents.!!'. Mrs Cary succeeded Mary Anne Clarke as mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, after Clarke admitted selling army commissions to support their lavish lifestyle in 1809. This satire suggests that the practice continued. BM Satires 11050, published by Tegg 1808.
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Columbus Breaking the Egg.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick [n.d., c.1815].
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼'').
A print after a scene by William Hogarth which shows Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known. Etching published by William Davison, publisher of popular prints and satires, and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived. In the period between 1812 and 1817, Davison produced a number of caricatures often based on better known prints. After BM Satire 3192.
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Come, Maria, do walk faster, for the young mean do stare so! Funny Characters No.3.
London W. Spooner 377 Strand. [n.d. c.1840.]
Fine coloured lithograph. 345 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼"). Stains in corners.
A woman with a parasol urges her companion to move along more hastily, for the looks of passing men is all too much for her, probably not for their beauty.
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The Comet A Return of the Comet which appeared in 1761² is expected this Year and - to be within our horizon from the Month of Oct. 1788 to Aug.t 1789 but is expected to be most visible (if it forces itself upon our notice) in the Winter months Febr.y & March...
18.th Feby 1789 Pub by Tho.s Cornell. Braton Street.
Etching with aquatint. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"), with wide margins. Slight creasing & staining.
A comet traverses the design diagonally downwards. At its head the Prince Wales is a star. Following in its tail are Fox and Portland. After them comes the wig in back view of Lord Loughborough. Then comes Stormont and North. They are followed by the Duke of Queensberry holding up a quizzing-glass and Powys. Behind them are Lord Lothian, Burkeand the Duke of Norfolk. Between Norfolk and Queensberry is the 'profil perdu' of Derby. They are followed by Lord Sandwich, Bishop Watson of Llandaff, and Sir Grey Cooper. Next are Wilson, Bishop of Bristol, and Warren, Bishop of Bangor, while in the upper left corner Sawbridge. BM 6796
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The Count de Peltzer mortally wounded by some Austrian Foragers on ye Eve of his Marriage. [&] Fred. Zemmerman having escaped from ye Abbey of La Trappe & recover'd his beloved Mistress is seiz'd & thrown into a Dungeon for Life. [ink mss titles.]
Mr Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f. [ink mss]
[n.d., c.1787.]
Pair of mixed method engravings, proofs before all letters with colour wash. Sheets 485 x 570mm (19 x 22½"), 1st on Whatman laid paper, 2nd with large 18th century watermark. Creasing and slight staining. Cut inside platemark.
Two well-executed sketches, with the titles and inscriptions of the smaller etchings published by James Bretherton in 1787. The first shows the Count lying on a bed, attended by his fiancée M.lle de Benskow, her mother and her brother, as a boy brings soup for the dying man. The second shows a young man being captured by soldiers as a pair of monks watch, a scene from Claudine Guérin de Tencin's tragedy ''Les Amants malheureux ou Le Comte de Comminges'', adapted for the stage by Baculard d’Arnaud.
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Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the Choir. mem: of the Comte de Comminge.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. W. Dickinson Excudit.
London, Publish'd Oct.r 20;th 1782, by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No. 158 New Bond Street.
Stipple and aquatint, 18th century watermark. 385 x 505mm (15¼ x 19¾"). Thread margins top and bottom.
A scene from Claudine Guérin de Tencin's tragedy ''Les Amants malheureux ou Le Comte de Comminges'', adapted for the stage by Baculard d’Arnaud. A girl, dressed in male clothing, is apprehended by two Trappist monks.
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Confidence. Plate 3. Drive about with a Protegé Tom Thumb as a Groom...
D.T. Egerton Esq.r Del.t [and etched].
London, Published by Thomas M.clean: Repository of Wit and Humour, 27 Haymarket, 1823.
Coloured aquatint. 190 x 240mm (7½ x 9½), with wide margins.
From Egerton's 12-plate series, 'Man of Fashion', with the man driving a cabriolet through a cobbled London square, pretending he is a soldier, rich enough for servants. Abbey Life 286.
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[John Cottington] Mulld . Sake. I Walke the Strand, and Westminster; and Scorne / to march t'th Cittie; though I beare the Horne, / My feather, and my yellow Band, accord / to prove me Courtier, My Boote, spur, and sword, / My smokinge Pipe, Scarfe, Garter, Rose on Shoe, / Showe my brave mind, t'affect what Gallants do. / I Singe, dance, drinke, and merrily passe the day, / and like a Chimney, sweep all care away.
Pub.d Aug.t 8th 1794 by Caulfield and Herbert.
Etching with engraving. Sheet 245 165mm (9½ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
Full length portrait of John Cottington (1610-1655), called 'Mul-Sack', a chimney sweep, carrying the tools of his trade. However, after a bad marriage (his bride turned out to be a cross-dresser), he turned to crime: becoming a pickpocket, he is said to have attempted to steal Oliver Cromwell's purse. After a failed attempt at highway robbery he fled to the contintent, where he was introduced at the court of exiled Charles II. Assuming he had enough intelligence to buy a pardon from Oliver Cromwell, he returned to England, but he was arrested and executed in Smithfield Rounds in April, 1655. From James Caulfield's 'Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward III to the Revolution'.
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The Country Club.
H Bunbury Esqr Dele. Lambeth.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate, tears in edges.
Caricatures of the members of a club. BM 1935,0522.8.105, a reversed copy of BM Satires 7452. See Ref: 53368, 24488.
[Ref: 54561] £160.00
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The Country Crier Oyes Oyes! This is to give notice. That Atice Grant has lost from out her Sty last night at 25 minutes past 10 O Clock two pigs the one a black un tother Caroty, whoe'er bring un to the said Alice Grant _ Or give inflamation where the stoln or strayed shall have her thanks and the first suckling pig from the Breed of Old Nanny at Lammas day next _ God save the King.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾).
The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell making announcement in the faces of three shocked locals. He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat, wig and holds a cane. On his left a complacent onlooker holds a pitchfork. A path leads to a farmhouse . William Davison of Alnwick (1780-1858), print publisher and pharmacist, usually referred to as Davison of Alnwick after the Northumberland town where he lived, produced a number of naive popular prints between 1812 and 1817, usually based on other prints.
[Ref: 54526] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
Scene in a Country Town at the Time of a Race.
Drawn by W. Mason Esq.r. Engrav'd by V Green.
Publish'd March 27th 1789 by F. Brydon, Printseller & Framemaker, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London.
A very large & rare etching, with hand colour. Sheet 445 x 600mm (17½ x 23¾"). Trimmed to plate; worm holes filled, mainly in title area.
A chaotic scene in a High Street, probably York as the artist William Mason was Canon Residentiary of York and Rector of Aston. A stagecoach and personal carriages crash into each other, much to the amusement of spectators looking from the windows of the Red Lion coaching inn. Adding to the noise are coach passengers beating a drum and blowing a trumpet, a fiddler and a ballad singer. Other figures include a gipsy woman sitting on the pavement, a Jewish pedlar clutching his box on the roof of the stagecoach and a man riding a racehorse through the melée. The BM's example is trimmed to the image, but has a 1908 report that gives the title and describes an earlier state, ''Publish'd July 26th 1783 by V. Green, N°29 Newman Street, Oxford Street & Sold by F Brydon, Printseller, N° 7, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London''. See Ref: 31344 for Frank Paton's Christmas Card design. BM Satires 8243; Siltzer p.360; Not in Whitman list of Green's non-mezzotints.
[Ref: 54616] £950.00
[Thomas Rowlandson's 'Cries of London'.] Cries of London No. 1. Buy a Trap, a Rat Trap, buy my Trap. [&] No. 2. Buy my Goose, my fat Goose. [&] No. 3. Last dying Speech & Confession [&] No. 4. Do you want any brick-dust. [&] No. 5. Water Cresses, come buy my Water Cresses. [&] No. 6. All a growing, heres Flowers for your Gardens. [&] No. 7. Old Cloaths any Old Cloaths. [&] No. 8. Hot cross Bunns, two a penny Bunns.
Rowlandson Delin. Merke sculp.
London. Pub: Jan. 1st [- May 4th] 1799, at Ackermann's 101 Strand.
Set of eight aquatints with hand colour, large margins. Each c.350 x 290mm (13¾ x 11½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Time stained.
A full set of Rowlandson's burlesque of Francis Wheatley's famous 'Cries' (1793-7), with the street traders both uptown and in less salubrious areas of London. BM Satire 9475-9480
[Ref: 51751] £2,000.00
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Cross Readings No 3.
London. W.H.J. Carter, Printseller, Bookseller, &c. 12 Regent St, Pall Mall. [n.d., c.1864.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 300 x 420mm (11¾ x 16½"). Narrow left margin with chip affecting printed border.
A fence covered with overlapping bills, positioned to be read for humourous effect. An example reads ''Cremorne Godard's Monstre Baloon will ascend carrying / Two Elephants a Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus and Two Giraffes just arrived from Dahomey''. London's first hot-air balloon ascent was by Eugène Godard in 1864, who flew 'L'Aigle' from Cremorne Gardens to Greenwich. He later piloted Jules Verne on the author's only balloon flight. For similar see Refs: 51582, 53283, 53284, 45764
[Ref: 54548] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Signature of Robert Cruikshank Sept 12, 1863 to "Richard Fisher Esq" in ink maybe a member of the publishing house "H. Fisher & Son"with ink mss. invitation illustration To "Mr. Woodwend's".] Mr G.H. Virtue, at Home... Tues May 26th "Ethereal Material"
Sep.t 12th 1865.
Two sheets: invitation 95 x 135 (3¾ x 5¼"), signature 150 x 180mm (6 x 7"), with boar's head blindstamp and Cruikshank's signature. Laid on album paper.
[Ref: 54490] £390.00
Cupboard Love. What shall I do to tell how much I Love thee?
[Edward (Ned) Hull]
[Charles Tilt, 10th April 1834]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"). Trimmed into image, title excised and stuck on album paper underneath.
A cat dressed as a musician, playing a lute, serenades a mouse on a wheel of cheese. The work of the artist printmaker and drawing teacher Edward Hull who lived at 1 Poplar Grove, Oval, South London.
[Ref: 54376] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Curate going on duty.
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching. Sheet 190 x 260mm (7½ x 10¼).
Three men grin in the doorway of an inn watching a curate riding off to work. William Davison of Alnwick (1780-1858), print publisher and pharmacist, produced a number of naive popular prints between 1812 and 1817, usually based on other prints.
[Ref: 54527] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
The Benefit of a Plaster, or, A Cure for a Scold!!! Now Ladies I Hope not to Offend, This Cure for a Scold I Recommend.
London Pub.d by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St.t Bishopsgate.
Coloured etching. Sheet 160 x 210mm (6¼ x 8¼"). Trimmed into printed border.
A husband attempting to silence his angry wife by putting a large plaster over her mouth.
[Ref: 54401] £160.00
La Danse aux Écus. Quand on est Vieux.
Peint par Desatouche. Lith par Thiéley. Lith. Becquet Frères, rue des Noyers, 57.
Paris, E. Morier, édit. rue St Andreé des Arts, 52.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 380 x 450mm (15 x 17¾"), with wide margins.
An elderly man dances amongst his money bags, playing the violin. Engraved by Claude Thieley after Paul Émile Destouche.
[Ref: 54294] £480.00
[A Dancing Bear.]
Mr Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.
Publish'd 1st April 1774.
Etching with drypoint part 18th century watermark; 215 x 270mm (8½ x 10½"). With small margins.
A showman pointing with a staff at the chained muzzle of a standing bear, while another man plays on a horn and a third watches.
[Ref: 54333] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)