Grosvenor Prints

The Butcher, taken from ye sign of a butcher in ye Butcher Row.
[attributed to George Bickham the Younger]
Decem.r 19 1746.
Etching, 335 x 200mm (13¼ x 8"), with large margins. Old folds
Caricature depicting Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65) as a butcher, symbolised by an ox dressed in butcher’s garb with axe, cleaver, and meat-tray armour, his Garter Star partly visible. He stands before a block bearing a heart, while in the background a house burns, guarded by grenadiers, with bodies on the ground and others hanging from a gallows. The scene is framed with ornate imagery: satyr heads, flaming torches, an inverted thistle, and a snake encircling a cartouche inscribed with verses. Prince William Augustus was nicknamed, 'butcher Cumberland' for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.
BM Satires 2843. Not in Sharp.
[Ref: 67300] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

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Angling - No Sport At All. Good gracious! M.r Cat'em will be drowned.
On Stone by R Seymour.
[n.d. c.1830]
Hand-coloured lithograph, sheet 210 x 280mm (8¼ x 11"). Staining. Edges nicked.
Anthropomorphic satire with cats fishing from a rowboat in incredibly rainy weather. One cat is actively fishing while others appeared bored, seasick or catnapping. One is about to fall into the water.
[Ref: 67722] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Carolus everso missus succurtere seclo. If they who flew the Monsters of the Age...
[n.d., engraved c.1684, but later.]
Engraving. Sheet: 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Damaged.
A satirical print showing Charles II standing upon a monster with the three heads of a Jesuit, Turk and Presbyterian while Victory hands a sword to the King. From Edward Petitt's 'Visions of the Government' 1684.
BM Satire 1130.
[Ref: 67592] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[An agreeable character in a post-chaise] Plate 36. Page 99.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster row Nov.r 1796.
Coloured etching, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate on three sides except top. Faint mount burn.
Design within a circle: A stout, half-length figure turned to the right, his drink-flushed face blotched with carbuncles. He sports a round hat with upcurved sides, a fashionable cravat, and an enormous high-collared, double-breasted waistcoat. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
BM Satires 8963.
[Ref: 67721] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Eight vignettes]
Marks fec.t
[n.d. c.1820]
Scarce hand-coloured etching, watermark 1822; 215 x 280mm (8½ x 11). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Thread margins. Paper toned. Creases.
Eight comedic vignettes, 'D.r Syntax sketching,' 'D.r Syntax Attack'd by a Bull,' 'DerFrieschutz. Scene Last,' 'Rolla,' 'Life of an Actor, Studying & Throwing a Light on the Subect,' 'The Life of an Actor; A Benefit,' 'York,' 'The Diligence.'
[Ref: 67730] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Profile of an Elderly Lady] Plate 32. Page 86.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row. Nov.r 5, 1796.
Coloured etching, sheet 265 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to plate on right. Small printer’s crease on right just going into image. And printers crease bottom right.
Design within a circle: a gaunt, hook-nosed woman, maybe a witch, shown three-quarter length in profile to the right, extending her right hand while pointing with her left. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
[Ref: 67720] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Four vignettes]
[n.d c.1800]
Hand-coloured etching, 200 x 275mm (8 x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate at top. Creasing. Surface dirt.
Four crude comedic vignettes. Top left: two yokels finding a man hanging in a barn. Top right: two vagabonds walk past a stone marker to London. Bottom left: a man trips and is about to fall while watching the horseraces. Bottom right: a prisoner on a ship holds a lady hostage, an officer seems to try and calm the situation.
[Ref: 67731] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Gambler Surprised.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Scarce etching. 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"). Trimmed to plate top right, creasing.
A satire in two scenes on one plate. On the left is a macaroni smiling, standing at a table leaning on a book ''on chance'', on a table with a pack of playing cards, dice box and two dice on the floor, a painting of a racehorse on the wall behind. On the right is a skeleton, leaning on a tomb, spade in its right hand. A reversed version of 'Macaronies Drawn after the Life', published by Matthias & Mary Darly, 1773.
Not in BM Satires but see 4645 for the Darly version.
[Ref: 67735] £490.00

[Warren Hastings] Court Cards the best to deal with. Plate 1.
[after John Baldrey.]
Pub.d Feb.y 8.th 1778 for 5 Doughty and C.o N.o 19 Holborn London
Very rare and scarce hand-coloured etching, sheet 250 x 290mm (10 x 11½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom. Creasing.
Three portraits as playing cards. In the centre is Warren Hastings, in oriental dress (a joker?), holding up diamond symbols; on the left is Chancellor Edward Thurlow as a knave; on the right George III as a king. The two court cards appear to be taking the diamonds from Hastings's hands. The design is taken from Boyne, the playing-card maker.
BM 1868,0808.5682. See BM Satires 7264 for an almost identical plate published by S Doughty & Company (at Joshua Baldrey's address).
[Ref: 67696] £450.00

The Effect of Imagination. The end of a Barn Transformed into a Hobgoblin. Plate 59. Page 137.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp
London Pubd by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row Feb: 11, 1797.
Coloured etching, sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to plate on three sides, faint mount burn.
A yokel with a lantern experiences pareidolia; as the barn forms a face in the darkness. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
BM Satires 9123. See also [Ref: 63411].
[Ref: 67716] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The Inside of a School - or the First meeting - after the Holidays;.!!! -
Cawse.
Publish.d Feb.ry 17.th 1800 by SW Fores Piccadilly.
Fine hand-coloured etching, SWF in ink, 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Thread margins top and bottom. Laid on backing sheet. Very small tear top right border.
Satire on the return of Fox (1749-1806), to Parliament for the debate of 3rd February, but without application to the debate itself. A schoolroom stands in for the House of Commons. Dundas (1742-1811) sits on the left with a cane; on the right, Pitt (1759-1806) suavely receives a new scholar. In the centre, Fox in a fool’s cap marked ‘Truant’, stands on a heap of papers and weeps, a birch-rod in his left hand. The papers include ‘Lists of Traitors, Reports of the Secret Committee, Reports, Quigly’s Life, Ld E. Fitzgerald, O Conners Confession, and Death & Caract[er].’ Pitt tells the boy in Court dress: "You are a New Scholar. I Perceive, be a Good Boy & you shall be rewarded. Say after me, P-E-N-Pen SI-si-Pensi-ON-on - Pension - thats a Good Boy!!!" The reply is: "P-E-N-Pen . . . [&c.]". Pitt holds a paper, 'Aye No Place Pension', and another on his desk, 'Plan for an Union'; from his pocket protrudes 'A List of Secret Traitors.' Beneath his stool are two bags: 'Old Wigs for Bad Boys' and, spilling guineas, 'Candle Ends Cheese Pareings & Sugar Plumbs for Good Boys.' Dundas, in tartan, turns threateningly toward desks labelled 'Forms for Sulky Boys', where Sheridan (1751-1816) and Burdett (1770-1844) look uneasy. He warns them: "Haud yere Tongues, Young Gentlemen - or Ye'll never Thrive i the World, Good Boys Should never Say any thing but Aye, or NO!"
BM Satires 9515.
[Ref: 67710] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox-Heath.
[after Robert Dighton.]
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, [4 June 1781.]
Mezzotint with fine hand colour. 150 x 115mm (6 x 4¼"), with very large margins. Light foxing in margins. Date erased.
An interior scene in which a lady, wearing a riding dress, officers coat, gorget and a large feathered hat, is seated on a settee to the right, with a cane in her left hand. She is looking towards, and addressing, three modestly dressed men who stand to the left. Through the window to the left, the tents of an army camp can be seen. Coxheath in Kent was often used as a military camp, with reviews and mock battles common there.
BM 5953
[Ref: 67703] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[John Lambton] A Row in the Play-Ground.
HB. [John Doyle.]
Published by T. Mc Lean 26 Haymarket 3rd Dec. 1838 A. Ducote's Lithog.y 70 St Martins.
Lithograph, printed area 270 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). Trimmed close to printed border.
A satire on John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792 - 1840) and his brief spell as governor-in-chief of British North America. He stands against a tree, a handkerchief held to his eye, injured by three rocks at his feet inscribed 'Act / of / Indemnity', thrown by Brougham, who lurks behind a tree on the far right. Durham's allies, including Sir William Molesworth and Lord Howick, attempt to console him, but Durham is upset at their failure to prevent the assault. Behind stands the Duke of Wellington, holding a cricket bat, saying 'It was a very hard blow, but he brought it on himself'. Lambton was appointed governor in 1837 to tackle unrest in Quebec but soon ran into problems, overstepping his powers by deporting imprisoned rebel leaders to Bermuda. When the matter was brought before the House of Lords by Brougham, Lambton resigned from his position after barely five months.
[Ref: 67737] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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 Officer in the Light Infantry, driven by his Lady to Cox-Heath. 391.
From the Original Picture by John Collet, in the possesion of Carington Bowles.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.o 69 S.t Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs, 9.th Nov.r 1778.
Extremely rare and fine mezzotint, 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"), large margins. Trimmed to plate at the bottom. paper toned. Mount burn. Light creasing.
A scene depicting the road 'To Cox Heath', as indicated on the sign post on the left, behind which is a wagon carrying three figures, with a sign inscribed, 'Maidstone Stage Wagon', on the side. In the foreground, a young woman in a quasi military costume is standing up in a small horse drawn cart, flourishing a whip in her right hand, driving two small ponies, both of which have head plumes. A stout officer sleeps at her side, with his hands locked in front of him, as a small dog sits beside him.
[Ref: 67695] £480.00

[The Earl of Sandwich standing for election as High Chancellor of Cambridge] The Candidate or Jemmy Twitcher against the Field.
[n.d., c.1764.]
Engraving. 175 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Framed. Original folds. Unexamined out of frame.
John Montague (1718-92), 4th Earl of Sandwich, stands before the members of the University of Cambridge in clerical dress, wearing a jockey cap and holds a cricket bat and ball.
See BM Satires 4098 for variant.
[Ref: 67530] £450.00

View at the Old Hats. Plate 6. Page 19.
Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp.
London Pub.d Aug 13, 1796 by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row.
Coloured etching, 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼"). Thread margins. Light foxing.
Design in an oval. Outside an inn, only the corner of its ground and first floor visible at right, two postilions lounge against a sign-post showing just the edge of the ‘Old Hats’ sign. The fat landlord brings a bowl of punch to two young cits in riding-dress. Nearby, two men smoke and drink at a table while other customers stand about. In the background wait a coach and a post-chaise. It was a half-way house on the road to Acton. A plate from 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country'.
BM Satires 8935.
[Ref: 67718] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

The rat hunt; or John Bull and his master turning out the vermin. Tune-"A hunting we will go."' The straw is being mov'd, my boys, The Rats begin to run...
J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill London. [n.d. 1831]
Hand-coloured etching, fine colour, 250 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"). Trimmed within plate and laid on backing sheet.
Satire on the 1831 dissolution of parliament to call a general election for the purpose of passing its Reform Bill. John Bull uses a pitchfork marked “Reform” to drive human-faced rats out of his barn. His dog, bearing Brougham’s (1778-1868) bewigged head, lunges at them, encouraged by William IV (1765-1837), who leans forward and commands, “Get out, you vermin.” The rats have been gnawing malt sacks; one reads “This is the Malt that lay in the house that Jack built.” Newcastle (1785-1851) still chews at it, with (London) Derry (1778- 1854) just below. Brougham moves toward a mitred rat-bishop (Robert Gray, Bishop of Bristol (1762-1834)) and Eldon (1751-1838) (“Old Bags”). John Bull’s fork has just knocked Wellington (1769-1852) and Peel (1788-1850), tagged “Water Rat” and “Orange Peel”, from the top of a sack. Other rats scatter toward their holes.
BM Satires 16689.
[Ref: 67693] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Récréations. Interieur d'un Atelier.
Henry Monnier. Lith de Bernard.
Publié par Giraldon-Bouvinet, Passage Vivienne 26 [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 130 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Crease through top of image.
'The interior of a workshop', with an artist working on a painting on an easle while his models take a break, smoking and sewing.
[Ref: 67668] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Scholars at a lecture] [Price Six Pence.]
Publish'd by W Hogarth March 3.d 1736.
Etching with engraving, plate 215 x 185mm (8¾ x 7½"), with large margins. Price erased. Thread margin at top.
Copy of scholars at a lecture. Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt caps and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed, with various squiggles, 'Datur Vacuum' which translates as, 'Leisure time is given for...' The reader is intended as a portrait of Henry Fisher, Registrar of Oxford University (fl. 1737–61), who had agreed to be drawn by Hogarth.
See BM Satires 2338 & Paulson 143.
[Ref: 67709] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Silver-Oar_versus_The White-wand_or_The Helmsmen.
[by Charles Williams]
Pubd. Aug.t 1828 by John Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill.
Hand-coloured etching, 245 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. Slight staining in margins.
Satire on the Duke of Clarence's unwarranted expenditure as Lord High Admiral, which led to a dispute between he and Wellington which was laid before George IV (who found Clarence 'in error from the beginning to the end'). Further defiance by Clarence led to his forced resignation in the same month this print was published. George IV listens to the dispute between Wellington (brandishing a long scroll of Clarence's expenditures) and the Duke of Clarence, whose waterman's outfit and silver oar refer to his position. He wears a cap-like ducal coronet, a star, on his sleeve: Clarence Yacht Club.
BM Satires: 15546.
[Ref: 67654] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Ten vignettes]
C J Grant Invent [illegible].
[n.d. c.1833]
Lithograph, sheet 245 x 275mm (9¾ x 10¾). Trimmed. Stain top right.
Ten satirical vignettes with puns about daily life, politics and royalty. This print looks like a trimmed version of one of Grant's Frontispieces.
See [Ref: 63983].
[Ref: 67729] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

This is Your Sort! - Here's to ye. 418.
[after Robert Dighton.]
London printed for Bowles & Carver N.o 69 S.t Paul's Church Yard. Published 4 June 1794.
Fine hand-coloured mezzotint, 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"), with large margins. 'J Bell,' collectors stamp. Margins folded behind. Paper toned. Light foxing.
A young man in rustic dress with a broad-brimmed hat grins broadly as he holds up a foaming tankard.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 67704] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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