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[Sarah Sophia Banks?] An Old Maid on a Journey.
[Sarah Sophia Banks?] An Old Maid on a Journey.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 385mm (10¼ x 15¼"), with very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour slightly faded.
This is said to be an unkind caricature of Miss Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818), sister of Sir Joseph Banks the naturalist. If so she wears one of her three riding habits, which she called 'hitem, titem, and scrub', as she enters an inn with her entourage. Sir Joseph donated her collection of prints and coins to the British Museum.
BM Satires 10300.
[Ref: 56156]   £360.00  
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A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe.
A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe. Vednesday was a veek, my Vife & I vent to Vest-Vycombe, vhether it vas the Vind, or vhether it vas the Veather, - or Vat it vas! - ve vhip'd & vhip'd - & vhip'd! - & could not get off a Valk!
[James Gillray]
Published June 10th 1805 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching with aquatint. 260 x 370mm (10¼ x 14½"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1808 W Balston'. Colour slightly faded, stain in top margin.
A smartly dress couple in a gig drawn by a horse so emaciated and decrepit that it attracts carrion crows.
BM Satires 10471
[Ref: 56152]   £480.00  
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Cymon & Iphigenia.
Cymon & Iphigenia.
J.s G.y des. T. Adams sculp.t. [drawn and engraved by Gillray].
Pub,d May 2.d 1796 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), watermarked 'E & P 1806', very large margins. Slight stain near man's head.
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep, with a hideous yokel finding a fat black country-woman leaning back against a sandy bank. He drops his stick and gapes with delighted surprise.
BM Satires 8908.
[Ref: 56159]   £480.00  
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A broad hint of not meaning to Dance.
A broad hint of not meaning to Dance.
B. [compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r - del. [Etched by James Gillray.]
Publish'd November 20th 1804 by H.Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 250 x 385mm (9¾ x 15¼"), with wide margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour faded.
A pretty young woman walks walks away from a ugly fop, taking her chair with her but leaving a fragment of her dress under his foot.
BM Satires 10302.
[Ref: 56158]   £390.00  
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[John Bull's Progress] John Bull Going to War.
[John Bull's Progress] John Bull Going to War.
[by John Gillray.]
[Pub.d June 3.d 1793. by H. Humphrey N 18 Old Bond Street.
Coloured etching. Sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ z 7½"). Trimmed from a four-panel satire.
One panel of a four panel anti-war satire, showing John Bull proudly signing up as an infantryman, but his family in tears. The sequence of the four scenes is: a stout John Bull lazing by his hearth; Bull marching away; Bull's family approach the stone gateway of the Treasury, the three balls of a pawnbroker above it and the inscription 'Money Lent by Authority', carrying their possessions; and Bull's return, one-eyed and one-legged, to his emaciated family in a bare hovel.
BM Satires 8328.
[Ref: 56039]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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One of the advantage of a Low Carriage.
One of the advantage of a Low Carriage.
B. [Compass monogram of Brownlow North] Esq.r del. P.F.L.B. fec.t [James Gillray].
London. Publish'd June 1st 1801 by H. Humphrey, No 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 260 x 360mm (10¼ x 14¼") very large margins. Tear entering plate at bottom repaired; very small wormhole in sky. Slightly faded.
An earl's coach makes an emergency stop to avoid a fat country woman who has fallen into the road, having been chased by a dog. The footman flies over the roof of the coach as the passenger calls his name, to which he replies 'Coming Ma'm'.
BM Satires 9767.
[Ref: 56154]   £320.00  
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Palemon and Lavinia.
Palemon and Lavinia. ''He saw her charming; - but he saw not half / The Charms her downcast Modesty conceal'd.''
J. C. Esq.r del.t.
London Publishd Jan.y 23d 1805-by H. Humphrey No 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14"), very large margins; watermarked 'J Whatman 1807'. Colour faded.
A yokel, holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile. The verse is Thomson's 'Seasons, Autumn'.
BM Satires 10480.
[Ref: 56157]   £380.00  
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[Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl of Harrington] Inspecting a Volunteer Corps, in Hyde Park.
[Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl of Harrington] Inspecting a Volunteer Corps, in Hyde Park.
Js Gillray, del & ft.
Pub.d Dec.r 4th 1803. by H. Humphrey 27-St James's Street, London.
Coloured etching. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, edge worn; creased, a few stains.
General Charles Stanhope (1753-1829), 3rd Earl of Harrington, sits erect on horseback in profile to the left., his leg awkwardly thrust out. He wears a huge cocked hat, long and thick queue, and full-skirted coat.
BM: 10165
[Ref: 56048]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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