A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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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![[American Revolution] Mal Lui Veut mal Lui Tourne dit le Bon Homme Richard.](jpegs/68120.jpg)
[American Revolution] Mal Lui Veut mal Lui Tourne dit le Bon Homme Richard. Sujet Mémorable des Révolutions de l'Univers. Le Commerce de la Grande Bretagne sous la forme d'une Vache.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving 225 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"), with large margins. Creasing and soiling.
A cow representing Britain's commerce is having its horns cut off by an American, as a Dutchman milks it, with a Spaniard and Frenchman wait with bowls. An Englishman wrings his hands. Bottom left a British lion lies asleep as a pug urinates on it. In the background brothers Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe sit at a table at Philadelphia, with Admiral Howe's flagship 'Eagle' in dry dock, the two bogged down in the occupation off the city (abandoned after 266 days on June 18th 1788). A reverse copy of a satire published in the 'Westminster Magazine, 1st March 1788 (BM 5472).
See BM Satires 5727.
[Ref: 68120] £950.00
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving 225 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"), with large margins. Creasing and soiling.
A cow representing Britain's commerce is having its horns cut off by an American, as a Dutchman milks it, with a Spaniard and Frenchman wait with bowls. An Englishman wrings his hands. Bottom left a British lion lies asleep as a pug urinates on it. In the background brothers Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe sit at a table at Philadelphia, with Admiral Howe's flagship 'Eagle' in dry dock, the two bogged down in the occupation off the city (abandoned after 266 days on June 18th 1788). A reverse copy of a satire published in the 'Westminster Magazine, 1st March 1788 (BM 5472).
See BM Satires 5727.
[Ref: 68120] £950.00
![[Native Americans]](jpegs/68100.jpg)
[Native Americans]
[n.d. c.1810]
Three watercolour and pencil drawings on laid paper. Sheets 230 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"). Each on paper with partial watermark of Strasbourg Lily with the letters 'LVG.' Light foxing.
Watercolour studies of the series, 'A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations.' 'Habit of a Mohawk one of the Six Nations,' a full-length seated man, turned left away from the viewer, shown in profile while smoking a pipe. 'Habit of a Mountain Indian near Hudson Bay,' a full-length seated man, turned to the right, smoking a long pipe and wearing fur garments. ' Habit of a Wiendot Woman,' a full-length woman in profile walking right, carrying a baby on her back supported by a forehead strap and holding an axe.
[Ref: 68100] £800.00
[n.d. c.1810]
Three watercolour and pencil drawings on laid paper. Sheets 230 x 160mm (9 x 6¼"). Each on paper with partial watermark of Strasbourg Lily with the letters 'LVG.' Light foxing.
Watercolour studies of the series, 'A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations.' 'Habit of a Mohawk one of the Six Nations,' a full-length seated man, turned left away from the viewer, shown in profile while smoking a pipe. 'Habit of a Mountain Indian near Hudson Bay,' a full-length seated man, turned to the right, smoking a long pipe and wearing fur garments. ' Habit of a Wiendot Woman,' a full-length woman in profile walking right, carrying a baby on her back supported by a forehead strap and holding an axe.
[Ref: 68100] £800.00
N.oX M.rs G_s. N.oXI Sir Timothy Tall Boy.
London, Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r near S.t John's Gate 1.st May 1774.
Engraving, 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of portrait busts set in ovals of Sir 'Long' Thomas Robinson (1703-77) and an unidentified mistress . From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility. Robinson was English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734 and was a Governor of Barbados (1742–47).
Bm Satires 5253.
[Ref: 67900] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
London, Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r near S.t John's Gate 1.st May 1774.
Engraving, 110 x 175mm (4¼ x 7"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of portrait busts set in ovals of Sir 'Long' Thomas Robinson (1703-77) and an unidentified mistress . From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility. Robinson was English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734 and was a Governor of Barbados (1742–47).
Bm Satires 5253.
[Ref: 67900] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Life and Adventures of John Jefferson Whitlaw or Scenes on the Mississippi] A Billiard Table at New Orleans.](jpegs/67867.jpg)
[The Life and Adventures of John Jefferson Whitlaw or Scenes on the Mississippi] A Billiard Table at New Orleans.
Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.
[London: Richard Bentley, 1836.]
Etching. Sheet 115 x 195mm (4½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, binding marks at bottom.
A group of men in a billiards room. An illustration from Frances Trollope's 'The Life and Adventures of John Jefferson Whitlaw or Scenes on the Mississippi', a novel based on her experiences travelling to New Orleans, up the Mississippi to Nashoba, Tennessee and Cincinatti, Ohio. The first anti-slavery novel, it was an influence on Harriet Beecher Stowe.
[Ref: 67867] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.
[London: Richard Bentley, 1836.]
Etching. Sheet 115 x 195mm (4½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate, binding marks at bottom.
A group of men in a billiards room. An illustration from Frances Trollope's 'The Life and Adventures of John Jefferson Whitlaw or Scenes on the Mississippi', a novel based on her experiences travelling to New Orleans, up the Mississippi to Nashoba, Tennessee and Cincinatti, Ohio. The first anti-slavery novel, it was an influence on Harriet Beecher Stowe.
[Ref: 67867] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)