Grosvenor Prints

Intellectual - Character. One of the Club at his studies! No.16.
H. Heath.
I. B. Brookes, 9. New Bond S.t. [n.d. c.1834].
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 215 x 155mm (8½ x 6¼"). Tiny bit of creasing. Some surface dirt.
A bespectacled man, almost looking like he is dressed as the ace of clubs, sits reading a book by lamp light.
[Ref: 58434] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Etymology of Alderman.
Pub.d Auhust 1809 by W. Holland, No 11 Cockspur Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), watermarked 1808 E & P, very large margins.
Two boys, holding chisel and hatchet, show their father their carving of a man made out of alder wood. Their carpenter father, who holds a plank and a saw, replies ''Aye Boys! I see you have made an alder man of it. a synonymous term for a Block-Head''.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 58301] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Major-General William John Arabin] (Sir Call. O'Brall:) _ ''only look at the General, Madam!'' _ See Love a la Mode.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d March 5th 1802, by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 250 x 200 (9¾ x 8"), very large margins. Creased at top. Slightly time stained.
A caricature portrait of General Arabin (1750-1828) in uniform with epaulettes, sword, and gorget and a spotted foulard or nightcap on his head. His head is turned, showing a Jewish profile and broad ogling grin. The BM records that Arabin was 'in Angelo's opinion the best amateur actor in the Pic Nics (see BMSat 9916, &c), and outstanding in anecdote, song, and imitation'.
BM Satires 9917.
[Ref: 58373] £380.00

Arithmetic Plate 1st. Addition.
Drawn and Etched by H.Heath.
Pub.d July 1827 by William Cole. 10 Newgate Street.
Hand coloured etching. Sheet 195 x 255mm (7¾ x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Small spots.
Two porters pile bundles of household items on the back of an already-overloaded third porter. From the satirical series 'Arithmetic' by Henry Heath (1822-1851; fl..).
[Ref: 58284] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

An Ass Race, for a Laced Hat. N.o 95
Sold Wholesale by James Lumsden Engraver Glasgow. [n.d., c.1790.]
A very rare engraving with hand colour, sheet 160 x 245mm (6¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Nicks to edges. Some creasing.
Three men ride on donkeys; one tries to buck off its rider; a crowd of onlookers watch from outside a building, perhaps a travellers inn. Accoring to 'Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected' a 'silver-laced hat' means to be hung in chains so possibly this is a race that will land the men in chains, they are chasing someone who broke the law or are being chased.
[Ref: 58420] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[John Atkins, Lord Mayor of London] Smoak Jack the Alarmist, Extinguishing the Second Great Fire of London (a la Gulliver)!!!
G C.k [George Cruikshank].
Pub.d Oct.r 12 1819 by T. Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Small hole in edge of plate top right. Time stained.
The Lord Mayor stands on a balcony of the Mansion House, wearing his robes and a fool's cap, as London burns, with St Paul's Cathedral, the Monument and Tower of London in flames. He holds a hose between his legs, directing a spray down on the heads of the Jacobins and their torches, with the reference to Gulliver suggesting he is urinating. John Atkins (c.1754-1838, Lord Mayor of London 1818-9) had made a speech in which he claimed the radicals wanted 'to fire the Metropolis and murder the inhabitants', after which he was heckled with cries of 'Fire Fire!' & 'Smoke Jack'
BM Satires 13272.
[Ref: 58372] £320.00

Mr Deputy Dumpling and Family enjoying a Summer Afternoon. 463.
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [n.d., c.1781].
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x10"). Thread margins on three sides, trimmed into plate at bottom, worm holes, mounted on card..
A fat citizen, his wig awry and dripping with perspiration, carries a little girl who holds a whip. Behind is his equally fat wife, his son, who pulls a cart, in which is a small girl and her doll. This scene, taking place outside Bagnigge Wells, one of the most popular 18th-century spas (on the King's Cross Road, London), is a burlesque of William Hogarth's 'Evening'.
BM Satires 5955.
[Ref: 58497] £550.00

Best Mode of Going to Bartholomew Fair.
Designed and Etched by T. Lane.
Pub. by G. Hunt Corner of York St & Bridges St.
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate, tear through title, laid on album paper.
A man smoking a pipe and carrying a cudgel, his body protected by a barrel with spikes, heavy boots protrunding from the bottom. Bartholomew Fair, held on the 24th August in Smithfield, was founded as a cloth fair in 1133. It expanded over the years to include sideshows, especially prize-fighters, musicians, wire-walkers, acrobats, puppets, freaks and wild animals, as illustrated in a famous view in the 'Microcosm of London'. However it also became increasing rowdy, with fights and muggings, as satirised here, and eventually the fair was suppressed in 1855.
Hickman p.86.
[Ref: 58465] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[William Bentinck] John Bull contemplating a Statue of Portland Stone.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub,d April 1807 by Walker No 7 Cornhill.
Etching with fine hand colour. 250 x 360mm (9¾ x 14¼"), large margins. Album paper pasted over edge of plate at bottom.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck as a statue sitting in a chair of Portland Stone blocks, a placard: 'Repaird and Whitewash'd in the Year 1807'. On seeing the statue John Bull exclaims 'I really thought this Statue was gone to decay a long time ago!!'. By the time of this caricature Portland, deaf, gouty, and infirm, was a mere figure-head. This example has Portland coloured as a man rather than the intended statue.
BM Satires 10718.
[Ref: 58345] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

My Bible, by William Jolly.
London, Published July 16th 1812 by William Darton Jun.r 58 Holborn Hill.
Coloured etching. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed to plate, split in centre fold, laid on album paper.
Six scenes illustrating 12 verses of Christian morality. Centre bottom shows image of an African.
[Ref: 58498] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Billiards.
H.Bunbury Esq.r Delin.t. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
[London, Publish'd Nov.r 15th 1780 by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street.]
Stipple. Sheet 280 x 430mm (11 x 17"), with an 18th century watermark. Trimmed into plate top and bottom, losing publication line.
The famous caricature of a billiards game by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811), probably inspired by the introduction of leather-tipped cues, as used here.
BM: 5803; see F.L. Wilder, 'English Sporting Prints', pp.190-1.
[Ref: 58476] £420.00

[Elizabeth Billington.] Clara _ a Bavura.
[Charles Williams.]
[Pub.d Jan.y 4th 1802 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. 355 x 240mm (14 x 9½"). Wax stains in top corners of margins. Bit messy.
A full-length caricature portrait of Elizabeth Billington (1768-1818) as Clara in Sheridan's opera 'The Duenna', her second leading part.
BM Satires 9914.
[Ref: 58380] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Bitter Draught.
[Illegible] Fecit.
Printed & Sold by W. Belch, 258, High Street, Borough [n.d., c.1830].
Fine coloured aquatint. Sheet 185 x 150mm (7¼ x 6"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A man sitting in a chair, holding a cup in one hand and a small bottle of medicine in the other; on a table to the right is a container labelled Pills and a large bottle of medicine.
National Library of Medicine: 101393485.
[Ref: 58360] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Black Brown & Fair. You tell me dear Girl, that I'm given to rove, That I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of Love...
Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury. Rowlandson sculp.
London Pub. May 6 -1807 by T.Tegg III Cheapside.
Hand coloured etching 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"). Some slight staining.
A satirical songsheet with a scene at Wapping docks. The men, a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, stand on the pavement gazing up at four smiling women, one of whom is black, leaning out a window. A black sailor walks inside, his arm round the waist of another girl. The BM states there was no ‘Sir E. Bunbury’, instead suggesting it was drawn by Henry Bunbury.
BM Satires 10925.
[Ref: 58480] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

N.o 50. It's most hinfamous to le these here Steamers out on a Sunday. If this is Chelsea Reach, I am afraid it will make me wery sick.
H. Heath.
Published by J. B. Brookes, 9 New Bond S.t Oct.r 21, 1834.
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Some staining at bottom.
Two men in a dingy are tossed by the waves created by a paddle steam boat.
[Ref: 58436] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

An English Bull Dog and a Corsican Blood Hound.
Pub by Roberts 28 Middle Row Holborn [n.d., c.1803].
Very scarce etching with hand colour. Framed, visible area 260 x 335mm (10½ x 13¼").
A sturdy bull dog, its padlocked collar inscribed 'Iohn Bull', mauls a lean dog with the head and collar of Napoleon Bonaparte. The latter lies with his head in profile to the left, mouth wide open, under the paws of John Bull, who savagely bites his back. A copy of
BM Satires 10080, but the BM example has Piercy Roberts's inscription scored through and replaced with Thomas Tegg's.
[Ref: 58384] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Description of a Boxing Match, June 9th 1812.
Rowlandson 1812.
Pub.d March 1st 1812 by Th. Rowlandson, N1 James Street, Adelphi.
Coloured etching. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Paper slightly toned. Cut without nine-line description of the fight.
A caricature of the brutal bare-knuckled match with Rowlandson giving as much attention to the braying spectators as to the boxers. Ward, the better boxer, was beaten by Quirk, the stronger man.
Not in the BM.
[Ref: 58502] £650.00

Bacon Faced Fellows of Brazen Nose, Broke Loose.
Rowlandson. Del.
Pub. d [erased]1811 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside. Price One Shilling
Coloured etching, visible area 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"). Date erased (as BM example). Laid down.
A crowd of burlesqued elderly Fellows in cap and gown stream from a doorway and walk through an archway towards a quadrangle. One enters the Principal's Lodge followed by a buxom girl with baskets of fruit, exciting the prurient interest of some of the Fellows. Others buy fruit from another pretty girl. At the time the Principal of Brazenose was Frodsham Hodson (1770-1822), Regius Professor of Divinity 1820. Although the architecture is realistically drawn it is not Brazenose.
BM Satires 11782.
[Ref: 58481] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Call Again Tomorrow. Sung by Mr. Smith, at Sadler's Wells. 16
[by George Cruikshank?]
Printed and published by R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap [n.d., c.1820).
Coloured etching, set in letterpress. Sheet 275 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"), very large margins. Some creasing.
A debtor telling his creditor through a window to come back tomorrow, while thinking of ways to raise money without working. A song from the ''Magic Minstrel'', libretto by C. Dibden, music by Mr. Reeve, and sung by Mr Smith at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadlers' Wells.
[Ref: 58395] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Heath's Court Beauties N.o3. Give you the Deal eh? No, we'll cut for it to be sure!
[Henry Heath]
[London W Spooner 25 Regent S.t] [n.d. c.1835-40]
Fine coloured lithograph, sheet 200 x 220mm (8 x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to album paper.
One from a set of twelve series of visual puns inspired by the four playing card suits, each one captioned below, it is rarely found complete. Two Jacks hold a plank of wood. The Jack of Clubs has sliced the Jack of Diamonds in half with his sword.
[Ref: 58440] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[The conclusion of the first volume of the Caricature Magazine.] Ladies and Gentlemen, having compleated the final volume of the Caricature Magazine, I am desired in the name of the Proprietors, Publisher Artists &c. as also from myself and large _ long, and small headed Bretheren to return to you our sincere thanks for the kind reception we have experienced...
Woodward Inv.t and Delin; [etched by Charles Williams.]
London, Published 1st Sept.r 1807, by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), large margins on 2 sides. Trimmed into plate at bottom, small tear entering plate but not image at top,
A group of 'Lilliputians' stand on a stage surrounded by a curtain festooned with satire prints.
BM Satires 10916, with extensive description of the prints illustrated.
[Ref: 58268] £380.00

The Choice. Well Malony! What will you have, Some Whisky_ or Rum_ or Brandy? Och Plaise y'ur honor_ and I'll take a little Whisky now_ and a little Rum while the Brandy's getting ready.
M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
Pub.d by G Hunt, 18, Tavistock St.t Covent Garden. [n.d. c.1827].
Etching hand coloured with aquatint. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman Torkey Mill 1824'. Plate 280 x 210mm (11 x 8¼"), with large margins. Holes in top left, right and bottom centre margins where previously pinned. A tiny bit of creasing.
A man in a chair offers a Scotsman who's just come back from a hunt a drink giving three choices. The Scottsman takes all three choices.
Hickman page 64: I of II.
[Ref: 58421] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Church Militant. See M.r Pennant's literary life. P.21.
[c.1793.]
Mezzotint with etching, with hand colour. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Folded as issued. Small margins.
A man dressed half as a soldier, half as a parson, the soldier saying 'Come Jolly Bacchus God of Wine!', the parson 'Hear Me O Lord for I am poor & needy. A paper on the left is a tailor's final demand. From Pennant's autobiography (first published 1793), satirising what he calls ''the unguarded admission of persons of the most discordant professions into the sacred pale, who, urged by no other call than that of poverty, do not prove either ornamental or useful in their new character''.
[Ref: 58311] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The City 'Prentice at his Masters door. [Engrav'd for Every Man's Magazine.]
[London, 1 January 1773.]
Etching. Sheet 170 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing sur-title, laid on album paper.
A young man dressed like a macaroni stands outside an arched doorway inscribed, "Young & Wife Mercers", through which can be seen a short elderly man behind a counter. Two woman, one carrying a basket of vegetables, turn to admire him. A little chimney-sweep also passes, with his brush and bag of soot.
BM Satire 5212.
[Ref: 58400] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Clerical Manoeuvre or the Way to Finish a Charity Sermon.
C.W. fecit. [Charles Williams]
by Tho.s Tegg 111 Cheapside. [Date of Nov.r 1.st 1815 removed from plate]
Hand-coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A clerk takes round the plate collecting donations with a sly smile. The congregation eagerly hasten to contribute handsomely, making various remarks. Despite the parson's insistence that anyone 'not in a state of solvency' should not make a donation, the congregation clearly feel under pressure to do so, borrowing from their neighbour where necessary.
BM Satires 16252.
[Ref: 58386] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Was "stirring with the lark," bent on fixing myself for a month's sponge on a friend who was going to Rusticate; way laid him and accepted a seat in his gig, or rather balance room on the edge of it; had not proceeded far before he spilt me, by accidentlly coming in contact with a post, & then drove on laughing, nothing daunted, however, rose, put a good face the matter, & exclaimed "Go on I'll follow thee".
London, Published by W. Egerton, 1824.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint. Plate 215 x 274mm (8½ x 10¾"). Some time staining in margins at top.
A satire on a man falling off the back of a cabriolet.
Abby 289 Plate 1 "Sponge". See also [Ref: 21565].
[Ref: 58443] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Cockney Sports No 2. Where can I get a Pull at something old fellow there's devilish few Birds on this Road? Why Zur I dun know, but if you like to take a Pull at theis ere Pig, you be Welcome, vor I be plaguy tired of un.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 285 x 220mm (11¼ x 8¾"). A few stains.
A cockney in conversation with a yokel.
[Ref: 58286] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Coming it! _
I. _ etched by G. C_k.
London Pubd by G Humphrey 24 St James's Street _ Nov.r 24th 1824.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Trimmed within plate.
Amateur whips, ostentatiously or ineptly negligent, drive outré vehicles with showy horses.
BM Satires 14721.
[Ref: 58274] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

A Composer. If You Doubt What I Say Take a Bumper and Try. Hodgson's Special Originals No. 2.
[London: Orlando Hodgson, n.d., c.1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 255 x 180mm (10 x 7"). Faint soiling.
A sour-looking and unkept man is carpet slippers lifts a large goblet to drink. Behind is a table with a large corked bottle with a label 'A Goblet full to be taken every ten minutes', and a pocket watch.
[Ref: 58367] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Crib Uncorking Blackstrap. 98.
W. E_s [William Elmes] Scu.t.
16 Octo.r 1811 Publ.d by Tho.s Tegg. 111 Cheapside London. Prince One Shillin Coloured.
Coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Colour slightly faded, laid on card.
Tom Cribb uncorking a bottle containing a negro's face, with admirers cheering him on. Tom Cribb (1781-1848) retained his title of boxing champion of England by beating American Thomas Molineux (1784-1818), a former slave, at Thissleton Gap, Leicester, on 28 September, 1811, breaking his jaw and knocking him out. Black Strap was a low-quality thick sweet port.
BM Satires 11755.
[Ref: 58504] £550.00

Storming the Curricle in Queens S.t No.140
J Jenkins Fecit 1805.
Rare etching, plate 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"), with large margins. Staining and some surface dirt.
A woman clings on to the reigns of a carriage and starts to hoist herself on board, the driver protests, "Let go the Reigns you shall not come into the Curricle this day as I have no servant with me." "No matter for that I am determined to be along side of you so up I come," the woman replies. A rare Edinburgh satire. J. Jenkin(s) 1794-1812.
See National Library of Scotland.
[Ref: 58431] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

An Affecting Scene in the Downs.
[William Heath]
[London - Printed and Published, August, 1809, by Johnston, Cheapside.]
Coloured etching. 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½), set in letterpress, watermarked 1802. Trimmed within plate on three sides, letterpress trimmed at bottom, losing publication line.
Sir William Curtis leans over the stern of his yacht towards Castlereagh who is being rowed ashore by a boatman. His yacht is covered with provisions, including a turtle. Underneath the verse is a parody of Gay's 'Black-eyed Susan'. Curtis had a contract making ship's biscuit and other dry provisions for the Royal Navy during the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign, of which Castlereagh was a proponent. This satire suggests that the £8 million cost of the campaign included fine foods for the officers.
BM Satires 11357.
[Ref: 58472] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

An Affecting Scene in the Downs.
[William Heath]
London - Printed and Published, August, 1809, by Johnston, Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 170 x 270mm (6¾ x 10½), set in letterpress. Album paper pasted over left edge of image, some damage to right edge. Persons identified in old ink mss.
Sir William Curtis leans over the stern of his yacht towards Castlereagh who is being rowed ashore by a boatman. His yacht is covered with provisions, including a turtle. Underneath the verse is a parody of Gay's 'Black-eyed Susan'. Curtis had a contract making ship's biscuit and other dry provisions for the Royal Navy during the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign, of which Castlereagh was a proponent. This satire suggests that the £8 million cost of the campaign included fine foods for the officers.
BM Satires 11357.
[Ref: 58471] £320.00

A desert - imitation of modern fashion!
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath]
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1825].
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 355 x 240mm (14 x 9½"). Trimmed into printed border.
An upturned wine glass represents a woman, with the rim the brim of a hat with grapes as decoration, the bowl her bustle.
BM Satires 15611.
[Ref: 58276] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A bucking donkey pulling a cart with three dandies on a beach.]
[n.d., c.1826].
Coloured aquatint. Printed border 190 x 280mm (7½ x 15"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1826'. Hole in sky patched on right.
[Ref: 58446] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Dry Souls.
Pub Dec 2. 1790 by S W Fores N° 3 Piccadilly Where may be seen the completest collection of Caricatures &c Admittance 1 shill.
Coloured etching. 190 x 250mm (7½ x 9¾"). Torn to plate top and right,
Four lean and elderly men in opulent surroundings meet at a bare table. One rises from his chair to pass a snuff-box(?).
BM Satires 7797, a pair to 'Wet Souls', which depicts stout men drinking in a garden (BM 7796).
[Ref: 58320] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville] Scotch Harry on his Fast Trotter on a Journey to the North.
Argus [Charles Williams] del.t.
Pub.d April 15th 1805 by C. Knight Lambeth.
Coloured etching. Sheet 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed within plate on three sides. Some paper toning.
Melvill rides a rough horse with the face of Alexander Trotter, laiden with bags of 'siller' (silver) towards a sign marked 'Castle' by the side of the Tweed, as John Bull blows a trumpet blast marked 'Tenth Report'. The Commissioners of Naval Inquiry had just released a report on a fraud perpetrated by Trotter when he was the navy's paymaster. He had transferred money into his out account at Coutts, investing and loaning the funds at interest, from which he benefited, before returning the money to the navy. This satire suggests that Dundas, who had been Treasurer of the Navy at the time, also benefited. However Melville was acquitted in the trial in the House of Lords.
BM Satires 10386.
[Ref: 58379] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Cockney Angler N.o1 I Suppose You Never Went Bobbing For Eels! Then I Pity You, Particularily Such A Day As This. Why I Shall Get A Tub Full, In No Time.
Dean & C.o Threadneedle St. [n.d. c.1830]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 280 x 220mm (11¼ x 8½"). Some light time staining and surface dirt.
A man fishes for eels in the pouring rain sat on a log under an umbrella. The eels escape from his bucket.
[Ref: 58433] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Manoeuvring. Waiter Waiter! ___ Coming Sir. Coming! What does y'r master charge for Dinner? Four Shillings Sir. And _ how much for Supper? Two & Six-pence Sir. Then d'y'e hear ___ Bring me Supper.
Drawn by M.E. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s M.cLean, 26, Haymarket 1827.
Hand coloured aquatint with etching. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet. Some time staining.
An interior scene within a dining roon. A gentleman, to the left, enquires as to the cost of dinner and of supper, deciding that the waitor should bring him supper, it being the cheaper choice. A dining table is set in front of a window, out of which a large carriage can be seen, inscribed 'Holyhead. London'.
Hickman page 68. II of II. Not in BM.
[Ref: 58422] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The English Coachman. 192.
[after George van der Mijn.]
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard [n.d., 1769].
Mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (5¾ x 4½"), with large margins. Margins toned.
A coachman sits in the kitchen of an inn, with a foaming tankard in one hand and a serving girl on his knee.
BM Satires 4501 (small version).
[Ref: 58394] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Graduation de la Famille Anglaise.
A Paris, chez Genty, Rue St. Jacques, No.14. Depose a la Direct.n de la Lib.ie [n.d., 1816].
Hand-coloured etching. 225 x 350mm (8¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
An English soldier with his wife and other family members arranged in descending order of height - right down to a puppet controlled by a young boy at the far left end. By Jean Baptiste Genty (1770 - 1820; fl). He is recorded as a miniaturist exhibiting from 1799 to 1808, pupil of Jacques-Louis David. From 1814 he became a publisher of caricatures, lithographs and costume plates.
[Ref: 58460] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Le Dames Anglaises après-Diné. Scènes Anglaises dessinées à Londres, par un français prisonnier de Guerre. No 1.
[Drawn and etched by Alphonse Roehn.]
A Paris, Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue du Coq S.t Honoré [n.d., c.1814].
Coloured etching. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 14"). Narrow margins. Two slight stains
A group of women sit in silent boredom, being served tea by a black servant. From a set of eight.
BM Satires 12350.
[Ref: 58458] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

My Mother. [&] My Father. by M. Belson.
London, Published July 22.d 1811 [& February 17th 1812] by William Darton Jun.r 58 Holborn Hill.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each sheet c. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed, splits in centre folds, laid on album paper as issued, 'Father' with repaired tears.
Two plates with six images illustrating two odes to perfect parents by women writers. 'My Mother', a poem written by Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782–1866, daughter of the engraver Isaac Taylor), earned a parody by Lord Byron. 'My Father' was written by Mary Belson, a prolific writer of children's books who wrote under her married name of Elliott after 1819.
[Ref: 58499] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Fishing for spouses] Le Bon Poisson. Il aime qu'on le Prenne. [&] Le Poisson des Dames. c'est à qui en attrapera.
A Paris, chez Noël, rue St Jacques No. 16.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each c.220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½") very large margins. A few spots.
Two satirical plates. In the first six men in a boat fish with rod and nets for fish with the heads of women, using different baits. In the second the roles are reversed. Extremely interesting images of dating in the early 19th century!
[Ref: 58457] £690.00 view all images for this item

The Four -- Prices. High Price. Low Price. Full Price. Half Price.
[William Heath?]
London Published Jan.y 26 1825 by S.W. Fores Piccadilly [but later].
Coloured etching. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), very large margins.
Four fashionably dressed women promenade, probably in Hyde Park. One is tall, the others short, fat and thin.
BM Satires 14902, in imitation of 14901. See Ref: 58270
[Ref: 58294] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The New Minister or _as it should be.
Argus del,t [Charles Williams].
Pub,d Feby. 1806 by Walker N° 7 Cornhill.
Hand coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 19¾") very large margins. Album paper pasted over left margin. Verso period newspaper cuttings.
Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville introduces Charles James Fox to George III, who peers at Fox through his looking glass. The three exchange pleasantries. After Pitt's death in 1806, Fox joined Grenville's "Ministry of All the Talents", although he died in June.
BM Satires: 10528.
[Ref: 58346] £320.00

[Charles James Fox] John Bull's first Visit to his Old Friend the New Secretary.
[Charles Williams.]
Pub.d March 3d 1806 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly. Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening.
Coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 235 x 350mm (9¼ x 13¾"). Trimmed inside printed border, small nicks in edges, creased.
John Bull, a stout shock-headed countryman in a smock, visits Fox, who stands warily, hiding behind his back a paper, 'Treaty for carrying on the War'. Fox had just become Foreign Secretary in Grenville's ''Ministry of All the Talents'' after years in the political wilderness. He was challenged on his attitude to the Union, which he had recently called 'one of the most disgraceful [acts] that ever happened to that country'. He answered that his opinion remained the same, 'But it did not follow, that, because a man had felt that a particular measure . . . had been exceptionable, he was therefore bound to undo it'.
BM Satires 10539.
[Ref: 58377] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles James Fox] Design for a Scene in the Intended new Melo Drama intitled the Forty Thieves.
[Isaac Cruikshank?]
Pub March 25 1805 [but 1806] by I Hays 25 Marylebone St Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. Sheet 230 x 350mm (9 x 13¾"). Trimmed into border.
Fox as an innkeeper, standing at the door of his tavern, as Grenville's ''Ministry of All the Talents'' celebrate inside. A ragged citizen approaches (showing features typical of caricatures of a Jewish men) Fox with his plan for reform, but Fox rebuffs him now he is 'establishment'. As this print satirises Fox as a cabinet member the date must be 1806.
BM Satire 10546.
[Ref: 58378] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

Voÿe ma belle mine bien en posture qui ne danseroit avec cette mesure.
L. Fruytiers.
[Antwerp, c.1750.]
Rare etching. 95 x 70mm (3¾ x 2¾") with large margins. Attached to Album sheet at corners.
A grotesque man dancing. A bouffon. Lodewijk Jozef Fruytiers (1713-82), dean of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1753-4.
[Ref: 58450] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Man dancing?]
L. Fruÿtiers.
[Antwerp, c.1750.]
Rare etching. 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½") very large margins.
A grotesque man wearing a comical cowl, hands behind his back, right left stretched forward, sword in his belt. A bouffon. Lodewijk Jozef Fruytiers (1713-82), dean of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1753-4.
[Ref: 58451] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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