Grosvenor Prints

A Barber's Shop.
H. Bunbury Esq.r Del.t. C. Knight Sculp.t.
Published April 21, 1803 by Jn.º Harris, N.º 3, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill, & 8, Old Broad Street, London.
Coloured stipple, sheet 390 x 490mm (15¼ x 19¼"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate.
A busy interior, with hair being dressed, shaving and dogs sparring over a wig.
[Ref: 69236] £320.00

[William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans, & Harriet Mellon] This is No Caricature.
[by John Doyle.]
Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket Oct.r 1st 1827.
Fine lithograph with hand colour. Printed area 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") Old ink mss. identification under print. Trimmed.
In 1827 William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (1801-49), married Harriet Mellon (1777-1837), widow of the banker Thomas Coutts. An extremely wealthy former actress, she was 23 years older than her husband, giving ammunition to the satirists. After her death Harriett's money passed to Angela Burdett-Coutts.
BM Satires 15461.
[Ref: 69103] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Henry Brougham] Buy a Broom?!!
John Birch del- Query - fecit. [George Cruikshank.]
London Pubd May 13th 1825 by G. Humphrey, 24 St James's St.
Hand-coloured etching. 300 x 215mm (11¾ x 8½"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825', large margins. Mint.
Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868); wearing barrister's wig and bands with the bodice, petticoat and spotted conical cap street-seller of brooms, implying venality. By George Cruikshank (1792-1878).
BM Satires 14769.
[Ref: 69100] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll.] A View of Argyll.
[after Richard Dighton.]
London Pub.d by S.W. Fores 41, Piccadilly, Jan.y 1.st 1823.
Coloured etching. 310 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"), paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1820'.
A full length caricatured portrait in profile of Scottish Whig politician and nobleman, George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll (1768-1839). A close copy of Dighton's original.
BM Satires 13351.A.
[Ref: 69126] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Queen Caroline] Bergami's Little Darling. Who is She that Winneth the Heart of Man, That Subdueth Him to Love, and Reeigneth in His Breast.
[Theodore Lane.]
London Published by G.Humphrey 27 St James's St Jany 25 1821.
Very fine coloured etching. Sheet 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
An unkind caricature portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, standing before Brandenburgh House. wearing the feathered hat of the 'trial' and a fur-bordered pelisse. She lifts her skirts to bow to the viewer. The title references her supposed affair with her servant, Bartolomeo Pergami. This satire was published in January 1821; she was denied entry to George IV's coronation in July and died a month later.
BM Satires 14112, an alternative state with the title 'John Bull's Little Darling'.
[Ref: 69132] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Catholic emancipation.] The Apparition. A Cabinet Picture from the Downing S.t Collection.
HB [John Doyle].
Published by T. McLean 26 Haymarket March 1829.
Coloured lithograph. Printed border 260 x 330mm (10¼ x 13"). Ink mss. in top margin, stain in centre.
The ghost of George Canning appears before Wellington and other members of the cabinet, causing them to recoil in shock. Canning was a supporter of Catholic emancipation, which was only achieved after his death.
BM Satires 15834.
[Ref: 69165] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Catholic Relief Act] John Bull in Perplexity or Ascendancy versus Union._ His progress they said depended on Ascendancy; and this, they told him was Ascendancy_and consequently the only thing that could do him good. Westminster Review No.19.
[Monogram of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath.] Esq.r.
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London [n.d., c.1828].
Etching with fine hand colour. Printed border 265 x 450mm (10½ x 17¾"). Trimmed to plate. Slight cockling. Crease in centre.
A very large satirical scene showing the various politicians involved with the debate regarding Catholic emancipation. On the far left, Wellington and Robert Peel stand on the outskirts of a group of figures including Brougham, with a broom in his pocket, Burdett, Scarlett and Eldon. On the right the Duke of Cumberland dances with the devil and in the distance a waggon labelled 'Common State Waggon John Bull & Co.' rushes towards the scene driven by George IV.
BM Satire 15658.
[Ref: 69141] £380.00

[William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.] Devonshire to Wit.
[after Richard Dighton.]
Pub.d Decem.r 2d, 1822 by S W Fores 41 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. 310 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"), with large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1822'. Mint.
A full length caricatured portrait in profile of peer, courtier and Whig politican, William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th Duke of Devonshire, nicknamed 'The Bachelor Duke'. The Cavendish banana is named after him. A close copy of Dighton's original.
BM Satires 14061.A.
[Ref: 69127] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[George Cholmondeley?] A Portrait dedicated to the Board of Green Cloth.
Pub.d by J. Sidebotham, N.º 1 S.t James's Street, Mar. 1817.
Scarce coloured etching. 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"), large margins.
A full length profile portrait of a man with white curling hair, holding a walking cane and a handkerchief. It is probably George James Cholmondeley (1749-1827), 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley who, as Lord Steward of the Household in 1817, presided at the Board of the Green Cloth, which audited the accounts and arranged the travel of the Royal Household until it was abolished in 2004.
Not in BM Satires. We have not traced another example.
[Ref: 69226] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Fry.
[Theodore Lane.]
London Published by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street, Jan 30th 1822.
Very fine hand coloured etching. 225 x 300mm (9 x 11¾"). Trimmed into plate. Very small stain just below publication line.
A scene in an impecunious household, with a man being assaulted by his five children while his wife holds a frying pan over the hearth. From a series of four satires with a cooking theme. Theodore Lane (1800-28) exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy from the age of 16 before becoming a satirist. He died at 28 falling through a skylight.
BM Satires 14453.
[Ref: 69101] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Roast.
[Theodore. Lane.]
London Published by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street, Jan 30th 1822.
Very fine hand coloured etching. 305 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Trimmed within plate.
A scene in a parlour or music room. A shrew angrily shakes her fist at a young man in riding-dress, knocking over a chair onto a piano stool and disturbing the animals; parrots squark, a cat hisses and a dog hides under the young man's chair. One of a set of four prints with punning culinary titles by Theodore Lane (1800-28).
BM Satires 14450.
[Ref: 69102] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Duke of Cumberland] The Prophecy.
XXX. [John Doyle.]
London, Published by T. McLean. 26, Haymarket April, 1829.
Coloured lithograph. Printed border 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"). Stains.
Satire on the intrigues of the Duke of Cumberland with the ultra-Tories, hoping to become king. Cumberland, as Macbeth, addresses the three witches who hold wands: Eldon, Lord Redesdale and Lord Manners. From Doyle's "Political Sketches".
BM Satires: 15742.
[Ref: 69166] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Voila les Anglais!
London, Pub.d March 14, 1817, by the Proprietor [George Humprey?].
Very fine coloured aquatint. 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Narrow margins.
A young and handsome English couple walk arm-in-arm on a Paris street, their understated clothing attracting the attention of four ugly, over-dressed Parisiennes, who point and jeer. This satire was first published by Hannah Humphrey in 1817 (two years after the death of James Gillray, her long-time partner and collaborator), at the end of the Napoleonic era, which allowed the English to tour abroad for the first time in a decade. It is likely the 'Proprietor' is her nephew George Humphrey, who took over the business at her death in 1818.
BM Satires 14891.
[Ref: 69134] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

I say, quel chemeng à la Pally Royal? / Voyez, Monsieur, prenez la troisième rue à main droite, et vous tomberez au Palais Royal.
London, Pub.d March 14, 1817, by the Proprietor [George Humprey?].
Coloured aquatint. 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8"). Narrow margins.
A clueless Englishman being given directions to the Palais Royal by a hairdresser standing outside his shop which is labelled 'Toupet, Perruquier'. This satire was first published by Hannah Humphrey in 1817 (two years after the death of James Gillray, her long-time partner and collaborator), at end of the Napoleonic era, which allowed the English to tour abroad for the first time in a decade. It is likely the 'Proprietor' is her nephew George Humphrey, who took over the business at her death in 1818.
Not in BM Satires, but see BM 1993,1107.19 for the original state.
[Ref: 69133] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

An Evening Party.
H.T.D.B. Esq.r del. - Etchd by G. Cruikshank.
London - Pub_d Feb.y 3.d 1826 by G Humphrey 24 St James's Street St James's-
Etching with very fine hand colour. 205 x 310mm (8 x 12¼"), with very large margins, on Whatman Turkey Mill paper. Tiny crease in plate mark on left.
The interior of a fashionable salon, with people mingling in conversation and a four playing cards. A gas chandelier hangs from the ceiling and a bust of Napoleon sits on a plinth.
BM Satires 15175.
[Ref: 69099] £320.00

A Fair-Lawn View - or the Portsmouth Journey. ''He that is robb'd not wanting / ''What is stolen, let him not know it, / ''And he's not robb'd at all.
[by Charles Williams.]
Pub,d Jan.y 1823 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"), on 18th century watermarked paper. Collectors stamp of Minto Wilson. Trimmed into plate.
A scene at Fairlawn house at Acton Green: a man (probably James Capy, Lord Portsmouth's valet) recoils at seeing Lady Portsmouth asleep in the arms of another man, while Lord Portsmouth sleeps on the farther side of the large bed. John Charles Wallop (1767-1853), 3rd Earl of Portsmouth, had an unsound mind from an early age. After the death of his first wife in 1813, John Hanson, his solicitor, quickly arranged the marriage of the earl and his own daughter, Mary Anne, intending to have the earl declared insane six months later. This failed (thanks to Lord Byron, who had given the bride away), so Mary Anne began an adulterous affair with William Alder, even having intercourse in the same bed with the Earl, fathering three children on her. Eventually it was discovered that the Earl was being badly mistreated by his new wife and her lover. He was adjudged to have been insane since 1809. In 1828 marriage was annulled, Mary Anne's children declared bastards and a judgment for the £40,000 cost of the trial was issued against her. She fled abroad.
BM Satires 14546. Collector's Mark Lugt L.1922a.
[Ref: 69228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland.] A Privy Seal.
[after Richard Dighton.]
London Pub.d Jan.y 1.st 1823 by S.W. Fores 41, Piccadilly.
Coloured etching. 305 x 180mm (12 x 7"), with large margins, paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1821'. Creasing in corners. Mint.
A full length caricatured portrait in profile of Tory politician, John Fane (1759-1841), 10th Earl of Westmorland, in riding dress but carrying an umbrella. A close copy of Dighton's 'A view of Westmoreland, or an impression of the Privy Seal'.
BM Satires 14265A.
[Ref: 69124] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[John Farquhar] A Sketch from the Ruins of Fonthill.
MD [? unidentified monogram]
London Pub.d Oct.r 1826 by G. Humphreys 24 St James's St.
Fine coloured etching. 205 x 160mm (8 x 6¼"). Loss in margin bottom left.
A full-length caricature portrait of John Farquhar (1751–1826), wearing rough, patched clothes. A Scottish millionaire who had made his money from gunpowder in India, Farquhar was rich enough to buy Fonthill and its contents from William Thomas Beckford, but had no regard for his appearance, with the result he was often mistaken for a beggar, even by his bankers, Hoare's. After his death, the Sotheby's sale of his library took five days.
Not in BM Satires but 1872,1012.4448.
[Ref: 69094] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Fitzherbert & Mary Seymour] The Guardian-Angel. the hint taken from the Red.d M.r Peter's sublime Idea of ''an Angel conducting the Soul of a Child to Heaven.''
J.S Gillray inv. & f.t.
Pub.d April 22.d 1805. by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street.
Etching with very fine hand colour. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Mrs. Fitzherbert as a stout angel, carrying Mary (Minney) Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, from Brighton towards a burlesqued altar, surrounded with cherub's heads with the faces of politicians, including Sheridan, Norfolk, Fox, Burdett, and Derby. A satire on a legal struggle (not decided till 14 June 1806) between Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Seymour family for the guardianship of Mary (Minney) Seymour, daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, who had died in 1801. It has been suggested that Mary, born in 1798, was the daughter of Mrs Fitzerbert and George IV. She was one of the two principal beneficiaries in Mrs Fitzherbert's will.
BM Satires 10389.
[Ref: 69239] £850.00

The times - or a view of the old house in little Brittain - with nobody going to Hannover.
[Thomas Rowlandson]
Pub:d Jan: 23. 1784 [the "8" perhaps written over a 7] by W. Humphrey N.o 227 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching, 230 x 325mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet.
This political satire represents Britain and its constitution as a dilapidated old inn, “The Old Building,” collapsing under mismanagement and corruption. On the left, the king (George III 1738-1820) appears to be leaving for Hanover while distressed subjects beg him to intervene. An all-seeing eye above urges him to “Turn out those Robbers and repair the House.” The inn is occupied by members of the Fox–North Coalition, portrayed as robbers. The building’s foundations, labelled “Public Credit” and “Funds,” are under strain, while a fox representing Charles James Fox (1749-1806) sits outside as the self-styled “Protector.” Lord North (1732-92) appears beside him, complacently declaring, “Give me my Ease And do as you Please.” The crown itself stands nearby on a block marked “To be Sold,” suggesting political corruption. Higher up, the constitutional supports of the building are being damaged. A beam labelled “Prerogative of the Crown” is nearly chopped through by government lawyers, while the sign “Magna Charta” hangs torn and falling. The balcony, supported by the unstable “Coalition,” is crowded with revellers including Edmund Burke (1729-97) and other coalition supporters, depicted as theatrical and disorderly figures. The upper structure symbolises the burdens imposed on the nation. An attic marked with references to the American War and a roof made entirely of stones labelled “Tax” suggest that years of political failure and excessive taxation threaten the stability of the whole constitutional edifice. The overall image presents the Coalition government as reckless occupants whose actions are bringing Britain to ruin.
BM Satires 6384.
[Ref: 69219] £580.00

[Simon Fraser] Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage. Disguis'd thro' Life, a Layman at ye Block...
S. Ireland sculp.t [said to be after William Hogarth].
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, June 15th 1747.
Mezzotint and etching, printed in brown. Sheet 215 x 320mm (8½ x 12½''). Trimmed, creasing as normal.
A satirical scene showing the headless ghost of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, carrying his own head around a crypt while wearing the dress of a Catholic priest. Lovat was executed in April 1747 because of his role in the 1745 Jacobite rising.
BM Satire 2847.
[Ref: 69026] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[George III] The Esplanade. Medfio Tutissimus Ibis.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d June 1st 1797. by H. Humphrey N. 27 S.t James's Street.
Very fine coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 315mm (10¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides, mounted in album paper at sides, old ink mss. in bottom of plate.
A gentle satire of George III (1738-1820) walking in Weymouth, greeted by two soldiers, Lord Cathcart (1755-1843) and General David Dundas (1735–1820).
BM Satires 9019.
[Ref: 69237] £420.00

[George III & The Prince Regent] The Reconciliation. And he arose and came to his Father, and his Father saw him, & had compassion, & ran, & fell on his Neck, & kissed him. - Read the Parable. Verse 16th to 24th.
J. Gillray des & fec.t.
London. Publishd Nov.r 20th 1804. by H. Humphrey 27, S.t James's Str.
Etching with fine colour, sheet 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). On paper with a Whatman watermarked. Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
George III (1738-1820) and a ragged Prince Regent (1762-1830) embrace, wated by the Queen (1744-1818), two princesses, Pitt (1759-1806) and Moira (1754-1826).
BM Satires 10283
[Ref: 69238] £680.00

The Nursery. Delightful task, to rear the lender thought to teach the young Idea &c.
[W. Heath?]
Pub.d June 28 1826 by S.W. Fores.
Fine hand-coloured etching, 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), with large margins. On paper watermarked 'J. Waterman Turkey Mill 1825.' Small hole in image.
A scene in a gamekeeper's room in which George IV and a large woman (probably Elizabeth Conyngham, his last mistress) sit cuddling spaniel puppies. A man (Henry Conyngham?) walks through the door. Three hunting guns and a fox's mask are attached to the wall, where there is a caption: 'All true Marlborough, none of the Charles I', suggesting the red and white spaniels are Blenheims.
BM Satire 15140.
[Ref: 69109] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Princely amusements or the humors of the family.
G. Cruikshank fect.
Published March 1st 1812 by M Jones 5 Newgate Street.
Fine hand coloured etching, sheet 195 x 505mm (7¾ x 20"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album paper at sides. Creases where folded.
Plate to the 'Scourge', iii. 173. Second state with 'Harford' removed from Lady Hertford's portrait. Satire on the Prince Regent and his brothers, the Dukes of Clarence, York, and Sussex, amusing themselves in a grand gallery while mocking their political and personal rivals. The Regent dances energetically, pointing at the departing Princess of Wales and remarking, “Off she goes.” Around him are caricatured courtiers, musicians, and political figures, including Lady Hertford, who displays a “Political Barometer” showing the fluctuating fortunes of Lords Grenville and Wellesley. On the right, the Duke of Sussex stands by a piano, smoking a long pipe and trampling a print of Lady Augusta Murray, while the Dukes of Clarence and York play cards with Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Carey. The card game alludes to contemporary scandals involving Mrs. Clarke and Colonel Wardle. The room is filled with symbolic portraits, paintings, and objects satirizing the royal family and government. Notable details include an upside-down portrait of Fox, a concealed picture, an empty frame representing the absent Princess of Wales, and a pole topped with a cock's head that mocks Wellesley-Pole. Throughout, the print uses exaggerated caricature and visual symbolism to ridicule the Regent's circle, political manoeuvring, and family relationships.
BM Satires 11856A.
[Ref: 69213] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[George, Prince of Wales] The Lover's Dream. ''A Thousand Virtues seem to lackey her, Driving far off each thing of Sin & Guilt.'' Milton.
J.s Gillray swa.n et fec.t
Pub.d Jan.y 24.th 1795, by H. Humphrey No 37, New Bond Street.
Etching with very fine hand colour. Sheet 315 x 415mm (12½ x 16¼"). Trimmed into plate, laid on album paper at sides, folded on right.
The Prince of Wales (1762-1830) lies asleep, hugging his pillow, surrounded by visions including Princess Caroline (1768-1821) as a radiant beauty and George III (1738-1820) with a generous allowance. A satire of the Prince's consent to marry on condition of the payment of his debts and an increased income.
BM Satires 8610.
[Ref: 69241] £680.00

[Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid] Will You Let Me A Loan?
Drawn Etch.d & Pub.d. by Richard Dighton as the Act directs Aug.t. 1824.
Very fine hand-coloured etching. 185 x 260mm (7¼ x 10½"). Narrow margins left and bottom.
full length portrait in profile facing right of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859), 1st Baronet (1841), a financier and philanthropist whose work on the Jewish Disabilities Bill made him a leading figure in Jewish emancipation in Britain.
BM 14682.
[Ref: 69123] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose] The Horse's Master!
Pub.d by J. Sidebotham, N.º 1 S.t James's Street, 1817.
Rare coloured etching. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"), large margins.
A full length profile portrait of a man with white curling hair, standing on a rug, holding up a chair. James Graham (1755-1836), 3rd Duke of Montrose, was Master of the Horse twice, 1790-5 & 1807-21.
Not in BM Satires, but 1991,0720.75, named as Graham in pencil.
[Ref: 69227] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Hoodwinked Taylor. Behold a Taylor, who could not for his Life, / With all his skill contrive to please his Wife...
Printed for Carington Bowles, at No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.
Scarce mezzotint with hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Worm holes and other damage, narrow margins, laid on board. Ink collector's stamp in inscription area. Damaged.
A woman embraces her husband to ensure he does not see her lover leaving.
BM Satires 4512. Ex collection of Sir W. A. FRASER (1826-1898), Lugt 2830.
[Ref: 69160] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Late-Right Rev.d D.r Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of St Asaph.
Drawn from Life & Pub.d by Dighton, Charing Cross Dec.r 1802.
Coloured etching. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8").
Several tears in edges, one entering plate on right.
Caricature portrait of Samuel Horsley (1733-1806), bishop of Rochester from 1793 to 1802 when he became bishop of St Asaph. First published in 1802 as 'A Trip from Rochester to St Asaph'.
BM Satires 11402.
[Ref: 69130] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

I saw a Smith stand with his Hammer Thus, / The Whilst his Iron did on his Anvil cool, / With open Mouth Swallowing a Taylors' News ___ King John act IV scene IV.
[Engraved by Richard Houston after Edward Penny.]
London, Printed for Robert Sayer; Map & Printseller, N.º 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs. 12 Oct. 1786.
Coloured mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), large margins.
A scene in blacksmith's workshop, reduced from 'The English Politicians', also engraved by Houston. The smith at his anvil raises his head to listen to a tailor's news.
CS 142. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state 3 of 3.
[Ref: 69175] £320.00

A Leaseholder.
Tregear Invt C.J. Grant sculp.
Pub. by G.Tregear Cheapside Sept 18th 1831.
Coloured etching. 245 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Tears in margins taped, bottom right corner outside platemark missing, stains.
A landlord confronts his leaseholder, who has allowed the house to fall apart. The leaseholder offers to leave if the landlord buys out his tenancy.
Not in BM Satires but 1998,1004.5.
[Ref: 69234] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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[Resignation of Shelburne.] The Loaves and Fishes. Whipt be such Honest Knaves. -shakes-
J.H. inv.t.
Pub by E. d'Achery March 14 1783 St James Street.
Scarce etching. Sheet 240 x 335mm (9½ x 13¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper at corners.
George III (1738-1820) heads a table at which sit past and prospective ministers (including Shelburne (1737-1805), Fox (1749-1806), North (1732-92), Burke (1729-97) and Petty(1737-1805)) grasping at the loaves and fishes (and a lobster) on it.
BM Satires 6195, with extensive description. Yale mentions the printmaker as Edward Topham could possibly be by Gillray.
[Ref: 69229] £690.00

[Maria II of Portugal] The Promenade or a Sketch for Windsor - plate 1st.
[Monogram of William Heath - 'Paul Pry'] Esq.r Del et Sculp.t.
Pub by T. McLean 26 Haymarket where political and other caricatures are published daily. [n.d. c.1829].
Etching with very fine hand colour. 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"). Narrow margins and tipped into album sheet at sides.
George IV escorting the young Donna Maria of Portugal, who has to walk on tiptoe to reach his arm. Wellington bows low. Maria II, de jure Queen of Portugal, regained her throne from her uncle Miguel in 1834. By William Heath (1794/5 - 1840), ex-Captain of Dragoons. From 1827-9 he used the pseudonym Paul Pry (from the name of a character in a comedy of 1825 by John Poole; however his monogram (a man holding an umbrella) was soon copied by other caricaturists (eg Sharpshooter), so Heath reverted to using his own name.
BM Satires: 15564.
[Ref: 69215] £320.00

On The Stool Of Repentence.
Published by G.S. Tregear, 123, Cheapside, May, 1832.
Rare lithograph, printed border 350 x 215mm (13¾ x 8½"). Abrasions in corners were previously laid down. Tipped into album paper at sides. 1 small hole in border on right. Time-staining.
A man sits on a stool wearing a dunce cap labelled, 'A Shocking Bad Boy,' he exclaims, 'Oh Lord,, Oh Lord,, I have been Played upon, Just as if I was a German Flute.' Likely a satire on the May 1832 Crisis ("The Days Of May"), when the Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), resigned after his Reform Bill was blocked. King William IV asked the tory leader, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), to form a new government to pass a modified version of the bill, even though he was vehemently against the bill, however couldn't do so as no one would serve under him. He had to stand down in humiliation after just a few days allowing the Whigs to return and pass the reform.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 69222] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton] A Family Portrait.
[after Richard Dighton.]
Pub.d Decr 1822 by S W Fores Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 310 x 185mm (12¼ x 7¼"), with large margins. On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1821'. Small repaired tear in margin. Slight cockling in corners where previously laid on album paper. Mint.
A full length caricatured portrait in profile of sportsman, gambler and peer, William Philip Molyneux (1772-1838), 2nd Earl of Sefton. A friend of the Prince Regent nicknamed 'Lord Dashalong', a founder of the Waterloo Cup and the 'Four-in-Hand Club'. A close copy of Dighton's original.
BM Satires 13025.A.
[Ref: 69128] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Sketch Of The New Postage Envelopes. (With the latest improvements).
Printed by W. Kohler 22 Denmark S.t Soho.
London: Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand. [n.d. c.1840].
Lithograph, printed border 170 x 350mm (10¾ x 13¾"). Tipped into album sheet at sides. Light foxing.
This satirical print parodies the illustrated postal envelopes designed by William Mulready (1786 – 1863) for the newly reformed Post Office. At the centre, Britannia (represented as Queen Victoria (1819-1901)) sits on a lion, dispatching letters across the world to eager recipients. The scene echoes Mulready’s original design, showing people receiving and reading letters: a woman reads aloud to a seated man on the left, while an elderly couple on the right examine a letter as a child reaches for it. The main comic element is a mock version of the Penny Black stamp in the address panel. Instead of Queen Victoria’s idealised profile, it features a supposedly “Positive Likeness” of a woman with her mouth open, poking fun at the official portrait and the new postal imagery. The print satirises both the Mulready envelope design and contemporary representations of the young queen.
[Ref: 69221] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mushroom Monstrosities.
G. Cruikshank fec.t.
London Pub.d Jan.y 24 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St James's St James Street.
Fine hand-coloured etching. 130 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Mint
A satire on the fashion for wide-brimmed hats.
BM Satire 15185.
[Ref: 69095] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

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[The resignation of Frederick North] Changing Places;- alias; Fox stinking the Badger out of his Nest.
[James Gillray]
Pub.d March 22.d 1782 by W. Humphrey, N.º 227, Strand.
Etching. 250 x 365mm (9¾ x 14¼"), 18th century watermark, large margins.
North (1732–92), depicted as a badger with a compass for a head, is driven from his cave by a stream of 'eloquence' excreted by Charles James Fox (1749–1806). Fox stands on a money bag marked 'Faro' bag, referring to his love of gambling.
BM Satires 5964.
[Ref: 69232] £360.00

A Part of Pleasure _ Dedicated to the Funny Club.
[Anchor monogram of Capt. Frederick Marryat] Etched by G. Cruik.k.
Pub.d June 25th 1822 by G. Humphrey, 27 S.t James's Street London.
Very fine coloured etching. 255 x 375mm (10 x 14¾"), on paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill'. Chips and staining in margins.
A boat overloaded with cockneys capsizes in the Thames. A 'funny' was a narrow clinker-built pleasure boat for a pair of sculls, without a mast as here.
BM Satire 14447.
[Ref: 69233] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough] A Member for one of our Best Boroughs.
Drawn and Etched by T. Jones.
London Pub Huky 1826 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly.
Coloured etching, 315 x 190mm (12½ x 7½"), large margins. Shallow printer's crease. Mint
A full length caricatured portrait in profile of Anglo-Irish peer and politician, Frederick Ponsonby (1758-1844), 3rd Earl of Bessborough. In the style of (and possibly copied from) Richard Dighton.
NM Satires 15152.
[Ref: 69129] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Young Poodle, but not one of the Sagacious Breed!!
H. Heath Fect.
Pubd by S.W. Fores Aug.st 12 1827, Piccadilly London.
Very fine coloured etching. 350 x 240mm (13¾ x 9½"). Small margins. Very slight cockling in corners where previously laid on album paper.
A satirical portrait of a young dandy, smoking a cheroot, carrying a crop and with a monocle on a cord around his neck. 'Poodle' was a Georgian pejorative term for a foolish, effeminate young fop overly obsessed with the latest Parisian fashions.
Not in BM
[Ref: 69107] £320.00

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Rural Happiness, Health, Felicity & Contentment. 284.
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.º 69 in St Pauls Church Yard London. Published as the Act directs [29 May 1773].
Fine mezzotint, platemark 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Date scratched off, tears in right edge, two entering plate.
An idealised family with three children and dog.
Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. his state I of III.
[Ref: 69171] £320.00

[John Scott, Earl of Eldon] The Lament of Lord Bags. Do I then dream in sooth? or can it be? Am I foreclos'd from mine own Chancerie? Oh senseless Woolpack! [...]
[by John Doyle]
London. Published by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Fine hand-coloured aquatint with etching. 345 x 255mm (13½ x 10"), with large margins, on paper watermarked '1825'. Small hole on bottom platemark
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, stands in deep dejection, hands thrust in his breeches pockets, head slightly tilted. He wears plain dark suit with knee-breeches and buckled shoes, legal bands, and small wig. He resigned as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1827 when George Canning became Prime Minister, being deeply opposed to the new prime minister's more liberal principles.
BM Satires 15419.
[Ref: 69096] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[John Scott, Earl of Eldon] The September Sittings. _ A Demurrer. Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur. Virgil.
Pub.d by E. King, 25, Chancery Lane, Nov.r 3, 1825.
Coloured etching, 295 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"), with large margins. Mint.
A full-length caricatured portrait of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), out shooting, using the Purse of the Great Seal as his game bag. In it are a cock and goose, the traditional bag of the cockney sportsman, and a piglet. The Latin quotation, 'Trojan and Tyrian shall be treated by me impartially', refers to his duties as Lord Chancellor. Eldon was an ardent sportsman at Encombe, his country estate.
BM 14805.
[Ref: 69097] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl of Eldon & Duke of Cumberland.] Old Bags and His New Friend.
[John Doyle]
Published by Edw.d McLean 14 St Martins Court, Leicester Sq.re [n.d., 1829].
Fine coloured lithograph. Sheet 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Narrow lateral margins.
full length caricature portraits of John Scott, Earl of Eldon (1751–1838), and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1771-1851), arm-in-arm, united by their opposition to Wellington's attempts at Catholic Emancipation.
BM Satires 15834.
[Ref: 69135] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Anticipated Effects of the Tailors ''Strike'' - or Gentlemens Fashions for - 1834.
Designed, Etched and Published by George Cruikshank No. 23 Myddleton Terrace Pentonville May 22nd 1834. Sold by Charles Tilt Fleet Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 260 x 345mm (10¼ x 13½"), paper watermarked 1833 or 1835. Trimmed within plate.
Gentlemen promenading before the statue of Achilles in Hyde Park, wearing either eccentric combinations or rags. One displays the card for his 'tailor', 'Levy Monmouth Street', a Jewish old clothes dealer. From Cruikshank's ''Scraps and Sketches''.
Reid 5133.
[Ref: 69230] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

A Small Tea Party of Superannuated Politicians.
H.B. [in image lower left]
London, Published by T. McLean, 26, Haymarket. Aug.t 13, 1829.
Fine coloured lithograph. Printed border 270 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed close to border at bottom, ink mss in top margain.
Satirical likenesses of elderly Tory stalwarts who opposed Catholic Relief: (l-r) Thomas Manners Sutton, 1st Baron Manners (1756–1842) (shown in by a servant); Sophia (d. 1836), sister of Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766-1851) (who stands second from right); a servant attending John Freeman Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1748-1830); John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751–1838); Bexley; and Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844). Reedsdale and Sidmouth both gave their last speeches earlier in 1829. Lithograph by John Doyle (1797-1868), cartoonist and painter who went by the pseudonym 'H.B.' Doyle began making political prints in 1827 and over a period of 22 years usually issued one a month during parliamentary seasons. While his prosperity enabled Doyle to move to a fashionable address overlooking Hyde Park which drew him into a circle of prestigious writers and artists including Wordsworth, Dickens and Coleridge, Doyle preserved his anonymity as 'H.B.' until 1843, when he revealed himself to Sir Robert Peel in a seventeen page letter justifying his motives and principles as a cartoonist.
BM Satires 15846.
[Ref: 69168] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville] The Fall of Icarus.
J.s Gillray fect.
Pub.d April 28 1807 by H. Humphrey 27. S.t James's Street.
Coloured etching. Framed, sight size 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"). Trimmed close to title at bottom, losing four quatrains of verse. Unexamined out of frame.
Lord Temple, naked and fat, wings strapped to his arms, attempts to fly after his father but falls towards a 'Stake out of Public-Hedge!', as his wings of quills and sealing wax fall apart because of the heat of the sun with a head of George III. Behind is the Paymaster's house in Whitehall, with a black servant in livery handing up a package to a man in a cart inscribed 'Stationary Office'. Temple had been Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Joint Paymaster-General but had lost these posts with the fall of William Grenville's 'Ministry of All the Talents', when he was jokingly accused of having carried off large quantities of stationery. In 1796, while competing to become MP for Buckingingham Temple boasted that he had a large stake in the country: Tierney retorted that it was 'a stake ' which it now appeared had been stolen from the public hedge', a barb that was remembered in this satire.
BM Satires 10721.
[Ref: 69091] £950.00

Madame Very Restaurateur. Palais Royal Paris. La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee de Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris.
Rowlandson Scul. J.N. [John Nixon]
[London, Thomas Tegg, 1814]
Very fine coloured etching. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to plate at bottom, narrow margins elsewhere. Mint colour.
Two scenes of Parisian high life on one plate: above is Madame Very, the foremost restaurateur of the period; below is Madame Romain (fl.1814), who presided over the Café des Mille Colonnes, renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors. Usually the two scenes are found separately. John Nixon visited Paris in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon.
BM Satires 12409 & 12410.
[Ref: 69119] £480.00

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