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L'Eclipse de 1832.
Lith. de Delaporte Sr. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat. [Paris, 1832.]
Lithograph with some hand colouring, sheet 255 x 330mm. 10 x 13".
A contemporary satire on reactions to the solar eclipse of July 1832; a military officer (centre) tries to rouse a man in theatrical costume from his slumber in a chair, gesturing towards the celestial phenomenon (coloured) upper right. Rows of sleeping men in armchairs to right, several figures looking through telescopes to left. The unrest of 1830 brought about the popular overthrow of the entrenched power within France and by summer 1832 the political scene was quite altered and the eclipse is used as an analogy. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature', numbered 'No.60' upper right.
[Ref: 17981] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Lith. de Delaporte Sr. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat. [Paris, 1832.]
Lithograph with some hand colouring, sheet 255 x 330mm. 10 x 13".
A contemporary satire on reactions to the solar eclipse of July 1832; a military officer (centre) tries to rouse a man in theatrical costume from his slumber in a chair, gesturing towards the celestial phenomenon (coloured) upper right. Rows of sleeping men in armchairs to right, several figures looking through telescopes to left. The unrest of 1830 brought about the popular overthrow of the entrenched power within France and by summer 1832 the political scene was quite altered and the eclipse is used as an analogy. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature', numbered 'No.60' upper right.
[Ref: 17981] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Hieroglyphic for the Eventful Year 1838.
Engraved by Mansell.
[n.d., 1837]
Aquatint, sheet 205 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed. Folds as normal, taped tears.
Nine vignette scenes of 'events' foretold for 1838. The centre image shows a woman (possibly Queen Victoria) being held by a centaur and grabbed by Death. Other scenes include; a woman greeting someone; someone trying to snatch the crown, a drier looking River Thames; a ship sinking; war; an allegorical scene; a natural disaster; and rural plague victims.
[Ref: 56980] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by Mansell.
[n.d., 1837]
Aquatint, sheet 205 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Trimmed. Folds as normal, taped tears.
Nine vignette scenes of 'events' foretold for 1838. The centre image shows a woman (possibly Queen Victoria) being held by a centaur and grabbed by Death. Other scenes include; a woman greeting someone; someone trying to snatch the crown, a drier looking River Thames; a ship sinking; war; an allegorical scene; a natural disaster; and rural plague victims.
[Ref: 56980] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Atom.
Corbould del. Walker sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. APril 15 1786.
Engraving. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on left, damp stains. Large margins on 3 sides.
A 'Japanese' man sits in his study holding up a piece of paper lettered with 'Hob Nob', surrounded by books, a globe and a pair of compasses. A frontispiece to 'The Novelist's Magazine' when it published Tobias Smollett's novel 'The History and Adventures of an Atom', a satire of British politics during the Seven Years' War.
[Ref: 56784] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Corbould del. Walker sculp.
Published as the Act directs by Harrison & Co. APril 15 1786.
Engraving. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"). Trimmed to plate on left, damp stains. Large margins on 3 sides.
A 'Japanese' man sits in his study holding up a piece of paper lettered with 'Hob Nob', surrounded by books, a globe and a pair of compasses. A frontispiece to 'The Novelist's Magazine' when it published Tobias Smollett's novel 'The History and Adventures of an Atom', a satire of British politics during the Seven Years' War.
[Ref: 56784] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
![[Five comic scenes]](jpegs/57072.jpg)
[Five comic scenes] Plate 15.
Designed and Drawn on Zine by A.I. Molinari. Printed by J. Grieve. Nicholas Lane London.
London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d.,c.1820].
Very rare zincograph, sheet 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾").
Five comic scenes with one line of text; A man being handed a piece of paper, 'Hope I don't Intrude?', two men dragging a hot air balloon out of the water, 'Cloud's Omnibus arrival at the bank,' dance partners with the woman's feather accessory attaching itself to the man's hair, 'Miss Huggins, M.r Huggins,' a man sliding down a ladder from a gas lamp post,'More speed than pleasure,' and two gentleman leaning, 'a pair of Cross-grained fellows'.
[Ref: 57072] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Designed and Drawn on Zine by A.I. Molinari. Printed by J. Grieve. Nicholas Lane London.
London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. [n.d.,c.1820].
Very rare zincograph, sheet 220 x 275mm (8¾ x 10¾").
Five comic scenes with one line of text; A man being handed a piece of paper, 'Hope I don't Intrude?', two men dragging a hot air balloon out of the water, 'Cloud's Omnibus arrival at the bank,' dance partners with the woman's feather accessory attaching itself to the man's hair, 'Miss Huggins, M.r Huggins,' a man sliding down a ladder from a gas lamp post,'More speed than pleasure,' and two gentleman leaning, 'a pair of Cross-grained fellows'.
[Ref: 57072] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Dr John Barclay] The Craft in Danger.](jpegs/56989.jpg)
[Dr John Barclay] The Craft in Danger. An uproar among the Craftsmen at Ephesus. opposing a new Species of Knowledge which they thought might interfere with the profits of their trade. Acts XIX Ver.23 &c.
[John Kay.]
[n.d., Edinburgh 1817.]
Etching. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with large margins. Slight creasing. Repaired tears in borders.
Caricature of Dr. Barclay riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion. By John Kay (1742 - 1826), Edinburgh etcher of portrait caricatures. Image lettered with speech bubbles.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 56989] £320.00
[John Kay.]
[n.d., Edinburgh 1817.]
Etching. 200 x 280mm (8 x 11"), with large margins. Slight creasing. Repaired tears in borders.
Caricature of Dr. Barclay riding on the skeleton of an elephant in Edinburgh University, engaged in an academic disputation with other professors about muscular motion. By John Kay (1742 - 1826), Edinburgh etcher of portrait caricatures. Image lettered with speech bubbles.
Not in BM Satires.
[Ref: 56989] £320.00
"Vanity Fair" Supplement Men of the Day No. 1303. "All British" (M.r S F. Cody)
Alick. P.F. Ritchie. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 1 Nov 1911]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins. Crease top right corner.
Full length portrait of Samuel Franklin Cowdery (1867 – 1913), known as Samuel Franklin Cody, USA born Wild West showman, early pioneer of manned flight and inventor of the Cody kite used by the British military. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane built in Britain. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognised as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain. He set various British flight distance and endurance records and won prizes in flight competitions such as the Michelin Cup in 1911.
[Ref: 56968] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Alick. P.F. Ritchie. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 1 Nov 1911]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins. Crease top right corner.
Full length portrait of Samuel Franklin Cowdery (1867 – 1913), known as Samuel Franklin Cody, USA born Wild West showman, early pioneer of manned flight and inventor of the Cody kite used by the British military. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane built in Britain. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognised as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain. He set various British flight distance and endurance records and won prizes in flight competitions such as the Michelin Cup in 1911.
[Ref: 56968] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)
Doctor Syntax Going to Richmond in the Steam Boat.
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Mount burn.
The cleric is sprayed in the face by a fellow passenger opening a bottle. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 56868] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
[Drawn & etched by Isaac Robert Cruikshank?.]
[London, J Johnston, 1820.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 145 x 235mm (5¾ x 9¼''). Mount burn.
The cleric is sprayed in the face by a fellow passenger opening a bottle. From 'The tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the pleasures and miseries of the metropolis', an imitation of the original work by William Combe. Both Thomas Rowlandson (artist of the original work) and Cruikshank have been credited with the illustrations; the BM thinks it is more likely Cruikshank.
[Ref: 56868] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Syntax Star-Gazing.
Drawn by Rowlandson.
Pub.d May 1.1821, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Coloured aquatint, sheet145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9½")
Dr Syntax with a young lady on a small balcony; she looks through a telescope to the sky. Two further couples, one on the bridge look up to the sky and the other do the same by the lake. To the right, a butler holding a tray of tea trips over a dog and falls down. From 'The Third Tour of Dr Syntax. In Search of a Wife'.
In the Science and Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 57063] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by Rowlandson.
Pub.d May 1.1821, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Coloured aquatint, sheet145 x 230mm (5¾ x 9½")
Dr Syntax with a young lady on a small balcony; she looks through a telescope to the sky. Two further couples, one on the bridge look up to the sky and the other do the same by the lake. To the right, a butler holding a tray of tea trips over a dog and falls down. From 'The Third Tour of Dr Syntax. In Search of a Wife'.
In the Science and Society Picture Library.
[Ref: 57063] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
L'Eclipse. Dediée aux Astronomes, et aux Philosophes du dixhuitieme Steele par VA.
Etch'd by J. Barlow.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb.y 20, 1787, by H. Humphrey No 51, New Bond Street.
Rare etching with fine hand colour. 300 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Mounted in album paper.
A woman's head, topped with a conical hat trimmed with a monstrous arrangement of feathers, peers over a huge fur muff. Eclipses were in the news in 1787 because there were seven full eclipses of the sun and moon, the maximum number possible, which usually happens once every 130 years. A note on the British Museum's example of this print (from the Banks Collection) ascribes it to a Miss V. Aynscombe.
BM Satires 7248. The three examples in the BM are all uncoloured.
[Ref: 43889] £480.00
Etch'd by J. Barlow.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb.y 20, 1787, by H. Humphrey No 51, New Bond Street.
Rare etching with fine hand colour. 300 x 215mm (12 x 8½"). Mounted in album paper.
A woman's head, topped with a conical hat trimmed with a monstrous arrangement of feathers, peers over a huge fur muff. Eclipses were in the news in 1787 because there were seven full eclipses of the sun and moon, the maximum number possible, which usually happens once every 130 years. A note on the British Museum's example of this print (from the Banks Collection) ascribes it to a Miss V. Aynscombe.
BM Satires 7248. The three examples in the BM are all uncoloured.
[Ref: 43889] £480.00
A Partial Eclipse.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Taped to album sheet.
A half-length portrait of a young woman, with some of her face obscured by a veil.
[Ref: 57095] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Taped to album sheet.
A half-length portrait of a young woman, with some of her face obscured by a veil.
[Ref: 57095] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
An Extraordinary Eclipse.
Rowlandson. sc. Quiz.fecit.
London published by T. Tegg. N.o 111. Cheapside. Nov. 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 135 x 230mm (5¼ x 9"). Some surface dirt. Repaired tears.
From the series 'The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? In Hindostan a Hudibranstic poem in eight cantos by quiz'. A group of officials, military and civilian, watch an eclipse across a piece of water. Satire phrophesising Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings', 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754 -1826), failure as Governor-General of India.
BM Satires 12725.
[Ref: 57064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Rowlandson. sc. Quiz.fecit.
London published by T. Tegg. N.o 111. Cheapside. Nov. 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint, sheet 135 x 230mm (5¼ x 9"). Some surface dirt. Repaired tears.
From the series 'The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? In Hindostan a Hudibranstic poem in eight cantos by quiz'. A group of officials, military and civilian, watch an eclipse across a piece of water. Satire phrophesising Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings', 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754 -1826), failure as Governor-General of India.
BM Satires 12725.
[Ref: 57064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Compensations N.o11 bis. Celui la voudrait zedescendre.
Ch. Philpon inv et del. Lith de Ducarme. Wattier, lith.
a Paris, chez Ostervald aine, Quai des Augustins, N.o 37 etched Hautecoeur Martinet rue du coq S.t Honore.
Very rare lithograph, sheet 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾").
A man in the basket of a hot air balloon crouches, mouth agape in terror looking down at the mountainous scenery. Text in French captures his sentiment 'He would like her to come down.'
[Ref: 57081] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Ch. Philpon inv et del. Lith de Ducarme. Wattier, lith.
a Paris, chez Ostervald aine, Quai des Augustins, N.o 37 etched Hautecoeur Martinet rue du coq S.t Honore.
Very rare lithograph, sheet 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾").
A man in the basket of a hot air balloon crouches, mouth agape in terror looking down at the mountainous scenery. Text in French captures his sentiment 'He would like her to come down.'
[Ref: 57081] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Paris L'Ete. N.o 12
Henry. Emy. Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie
Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse, 29.
Lithograph, sheet 340 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
Four comic scenes of Paris in the summer; A crowd gathering to depart on a coach,' D'epart pour une petite partie de campagne,' a woman with a huge hat carrying a parasol, 'Une dame qui veut se conserver le teint,' a woman in a hot air balloon, 'M.lle Garnerin repondant aux acclamations d'un public idolatre,' and a man in hunting gear stalking in an unsuitable enviroment, 'Etudes de chasse avant l'ouverture.' Elisa Garnerin (1791-1853) was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the niece of the pioneer parachutist André-Jacques Garnerin, and took advantage of his name and of the novelty of a woman performing what were at the time extremely daring feats.
[Ref: 57078] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Henry. Emy. Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie
Chez Aubert Pl. de la Bourse, 29.
Lithograph, sheet 340 x 260mm (13½ x 10¼").
Four comic scenes of Paris in the summer; A crowd gathering to depart on a coach,' D'epart pour une petite partie de campagne,' a woman with a huge hat carrying a parasol, 'Une dame qui veut se conserver le teint,' a woman in a hot air balloon, 'M.lle Garnerin repondant aux acclamations d'un public idolatre,' and a man in hunting gear stalking in an unsuitable enviroment, 'Etudes de chasse avant l'ouverture.' Elisa Garnerin (1791-1853) was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the niece of the pioneer parachutist André-Jacques Garnerin, and took advantage of his name and of the novelty of a woman performing what were at the time extremely daring feats.
[Ref: 57078] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
![Vanity Fair Supplement. [Men of the Day No. 2219.]](jpegs/56969.jpg)
Vanity Fair Supplement. [Men of the Day No. 2219.] "Claudie." (C. Graham. White.)
Tec. Hentschel- Colourtype London
[n.d., 10 May 1911.]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length portrait of Claude Grahame-White (1879 – 1959) English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. Grahame-White's interest in aviation was sparked by Louis Blériot's crossing of the English Channel in 1909. This prompted him to go to France, where he attended the Reims aviation meeting, at which he met Blériot and subsequently enrolled at his flying school. He was one of the first people to qualify as pilot in England. He reached celebrity status in April 1910 when he competed with the French pilot Louis Paulhan for the £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail newspaper for the first flight between London and Manchester in under 24 hours. Although Paulhan won the prize, Grahame White's achievement was widely praised.
[Ref: 56969] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Tec. Hentschel- Colourtype London
[n.d., 10 May 1911.]
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length portrait of Claude Grahame-White (1879 – 1959) English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. Grahame-White's interest in aviation was sparked by Louis Blériot's crossing of the English Channel in 1909. This prompted him to go to France, where he attended the Reims aviation meeting, at which he met Blériot and subsequently enrolled at his flying school. He was one of the first people to qualify as pilot in England. He reached celebrity status in April 1910 when he competed with the French pilot Louis Paulhan for the £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail newspaper for the first flight between London and Manchester in under 24 hours. Although Paulhan won the prize, Grahame White's achievement was widely praised.
[Ref: 56969] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Vanity Fair Supplement. Men of the Day No. 2284. "Flight" (M.r Gustave Hamel).
WH [Wallace Hester]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 31 Jul 1912].
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length portrait of the British aviator Gustav Wilhelm Hamel (1889 - 1914). He learned to fly at the Blériot school at Pau, France in 1910; after observing his first flight Louis Blériot commented that he had never seen a pilot with such natural ability. He paricipated in various competitions, flying displays and a pioneer in aviation; Hamel made the first cross-channel flight with a woman as passenger on 2nd April 1912, when he flew Eleanor Trehawke Davies from Hendon to Paris, he also enabled her to be the first woman to experience looping the loop on 2nd January 1914. Hamel disapeared over the English Channel on 23rd May 1914, it was speculated that this was sabotage but there was no trace of the aircraft and a fishing vessel on 6th July 1914 found a body that matched the description of Hamel.
[Ref: 56970] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
WH [Wallace Hester]. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lt.d lith.
[n.d., 31 Jul 1912].
Chromolithograph with supplementary text, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"), large margins.
Full length portrait of the British aviator Gustav Wilhelm Hamel (1889 - 1914). He learned to fly at the Blériot school at Pau, France in 1910; after observing his first flight Louis Blériot commented that he had never seen a pilot with such natural ability. He paricipated in various competitions, flying displays and a pioneer in aviation; Hamel made the first cross-channel flight with a woman as passenger on 2nd April 1912, when he flew Eleanor Trehawke Davies from Hendon to Paris, he also enabled her to be the first woman to experience looping the loop on 2nd January 1914. Hamel disapeared over the English Channel on 23rd May 1914, it was speculated that this was sabotage but there was no trace of the aircraft and a fishing vessel on 6th July 1914 found a body that matched the description of Hamel.
[Ref: 56970] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Levers. Book 13. 1. Six Droll Prints of the Mechanical Powers, Allegorically and Laughably Expressed.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1780].
Coloured engraving. Sheet 205 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to engraved border, glue stains in corners, slight creasing.
Two men on a make-shift see-saw of a plank and log, one falling off.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 56773] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St Paul's Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1780].
Coloured engraving. Sheet 205 x 155mm (8 x 6"). Trimmed to engraved border, glue stains in corners, slight creasing.
Two men on a make-shift see-saw of a plank and log, one falling off.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 56773] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
An Historical, Emblematical, Patriotical, and Political Print, representing the English Balloon, or National Debt in the year 1782, with a full View of the Stock Exchange, and its supporters the Financiers Bulls, Bears, Brokers, Lame Ducks, and others, and a proportionate Ball of Gold, the specific size of all the Money we have to pay it with supposing that to be Twenty Millions of Pounds sterling, the Gold, and Silver Trees entwined with Serpents, & upheld by Dragons, for the pleasure of Pluto & all his Bosom Friends.
E.H.P. Eliz.h Hen.ta Phelps, pinx.t. W.m. Phelps Inv.t. F. Jukes Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd as the Act Directs, by W.m Phelps, July 1, 1785.
Aquatint with etching & engraving. Sheet 540 x 410mm (21¼ x 16"). Trimmed into plate, some wear, with repairs. Extremely rare but damaged.
A satire of the National Debt, with the Stock Exchange (New Jonathan's Coffee House in Change Alley) with a balloon on the roof held in place by bulls and bears with human faces. In the street are investors, some with webbed feet indicating they are 'lame ducks'.
BM Satires 6803.
[Ref: 57123] £950.00
E.H.P. Eliz.h Hen.ta Phelps, pinx.t. W.m. Phelps Inv.t. F. Jukes Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd as the Act Directs, by W.m Phelps, July 1, 1785.
Aquatint with etching & engraving. Sheet 540 x 410mm (21¼ x 16"). Trimmed into plate, some wear, with repairs. Extremely rare but damaged.
A satire of the National Debt, with the Stock Exchange (New Jonathan's Coffee House in Change Alley) with a balloon on the roof held in place by bulls and bears with human faces. In the street are investors, some with webbed feet indicating they are 'lame ducks'.
BM Satires 6803.
[Ref: 57123] £950.00
The Origin of Species.
[after C.H. Bennett]
[n.d. 1863]
Scarce wood engraving. 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Three horizontal creases. Faint stain in lower left corner.
The evolution of a muzzled bear into a crook, holding a watch to lure passersby and a 'garotte stick', or club, heavily alluding to Darwin's theory of evolution, 'The Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life' (1860). A wood engraving after Charles Henry Bennett (1829-67). The lettering differs to the example in the Wellcome Collection, which is titled 'The origin of the garotte - (Drawn by Charles H. Bennett)'.
Wellcome 12108i
[Ref: 57219] £480.00
[after C.H. Bennett]
[n.d. 1863]
Scarce wood engraving. 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Three horizontal creases. Faint stain in lower left corner.
The evolution of a muzzled bear into a crook, holding a watch to lure passersby and a 'garotte stick', or club, heavily alluding to Darwin's theory of evolution, 'The Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life' (1860). A wood engraving after Charles Henry Bennett (1829-67). The lettering differs to the example in the Wellcome Collection, which is titled 'The origin of the garotte - (Drawn by Charles H. Bennett)'.
Wellcome 12108i
[Ref: 57219] £480.00
![[Six railway satires] Commencing a few Lines. [&] I send you An Elementary Line](jpegs/56966.jpg)
[Six railway satires] Commencing a few Lines. [&] I send you An Elementary Line [&] I send you A few Broken Lines. [&] A very important Line. [&] A long expected line. [&] May these lines reach their destination.
London. C. Clark, 6 Tudor Street, Blackfriars [n.d., c.1835].
Six aquatints on an album sheet. Various sizes, sheet size 270 x 230mm (10¾ x 9"). Aquatints trimmed and laid down on album sheet.
Extremely rare and interesting set of six satires punning on the word 'line' as in a line of a letter with: a surveyor's line; an open carriage of a train in bad weather; bankrupt railway companies; a railway bridge over a stormy strait with a ship floundering; a railway line from the Earth to the Sun, suspended from balloons; and a railway line running north-south over the Earth.
[Ref: 56966] £390.00
London. C. Clark, 6 Tudor Street, Blackfriars [n.d., c.1835].
Six aquatints on an album sheet. Various sizes, sheet size 270 x 230mm (10¾ x 9"). Aquatints trimmed and laid down on album sheet.
Extremely rare and interesting set of six satires punning on the word 'line' as in a line of a letter with: a surveyor's line; an open carriage of a train in bad weather; bankrupt railway companies; a railway bridge over a stormy strait with a ship floundering; a railway line from the Earth to the Sun, suspended from balloons; and a railway line running north-south over the Earth.
[Ref: 56966] £390.00
"the Deutsch Prize" Santos. Dumont. N.o 6.
Geo. Hum. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lt.d lith.
Vanity Fair Nov.r 14th 1901.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼").
Caricature of Alberto Santos Dumont (1873 - 1932), Brazillian aeronaut, sportsman and inventor, in a flying machine. The Deutsch de la Meurthe prize, simply known as the Deutsch prize, of 100,000 francs was offered by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe (born Salomon Henry Deutsch 1846–1919) to the first machine capable of flying a round trip from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and back in less than 30 minutes. On October 19, 1901, Santos-Dumont launched his Number 6 airship at 2:30 pm. After only nine minutes of flight, Santos-Dumont had rounded the Eiffel Tower, but then suffered an engine failure. To restart the engine, he had to climb back over the gondola rail without a safety harness. The attempt was successful, and he crossed the finish line in 29 minutes 30 seconds. However, a short delay arose before his mooring line was secured, and at first the adjudicating committee refused him the prize, despite de la Meurthe, who was present, declaring himself satisfied. This caused a public outcry from the crowds watching the flight, as well as comment in the press. However a face-saving compromise was reached, and Santos-Dumont was awarded the prize. In a charitable gesture, he gave half the prize to his crew and then donated the other half to the poor of Paris.
[Ref: 56945] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Geo. Hum. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lt.d lith.
Vanity Fair Nov.r 14th 1901.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼").
Caricature of Alberto Santos Dumont (1873 - 1932), Brazillian aeronaut, sportsman and inventor, in a flying machine. The Deutsch de la Meurthe prize, simply known as the Deutsch prize, of 100,000 francs was offered by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe (born Salomon Henry Deutsch 1846–1919) to the first machine capable of flying a round trip from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and back in less than 30 minutes. On October 19, 1901, Santos-Dumont launched his Number 6 airship at 2:30 pm. After only nine minutes of flight, Santos-Dumont had rounded the Eiffel Tower, but then suffered an engine failure. To restart the engine, he had to climb back over the gondola rail without a safety harness. The attempt was successful, and he crossed the finish line in 29 minutes 30 seconds. However, a short delay arose before his mooring line was secured, and at first the adjudicating committee refused him the prize, despite de la Meurthe, who was present, declaring himself satisfied. This caused a public outcry from the crowds watching the flight, as well as comment in the press. However a face-saving compromise was reached, and Santos-Dumont was awarded the prize. In a charitable gesture, he gave half the prize to his crew and then donated the other half to the poor of Paris.
[Ref: 56945] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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[A French crowd watching a comet.]
Bouchol [signed on stone.]
[Paris: n.d., c.1855.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 255 x 225mm. 10 x 9". With large margins a little grubby, else good.
A social satire showing a group of spectators, of all ages and both sexes, using telescopes and lenses to observe a comet in sky above. Little appears to be known about the artist/lithographer Bouchol; he illustrated some musical scores that are in the BNF collection.
[Ref: 27817] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Bouchol [signed on stone.]
[Paris: n.d., c.1855.]
Lithograph on india paper, india 255 x 225mm. 10 x 9". With large margins a little grubby, else good.
A social satire showing a group of spectators, of all ages and both sexes, using telescopes and lenses to observe a comet in sky above. Little appears to be known about the artist/lithographer Bouchol; he illustrated some musical scores that are in the BNF collection.
[Ref: 27817] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Sukey. Thaw.
Published Jan.y 10. 1825 by S. W. Fores Piccadilly London.
Hand coloured etching. 170 x 145mm (6¾ x 5¾"). Small loss and crease in bottom left corner. Trimmed.
A caricature of a woman with an umbrella, traipsing through a sodden street in the rain. She wears a purple dress and bonnet with a colourful green shawl.
[Ref: 57218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Published Jan.y 10. 1825 by S. W. Fores Piccadilly London.
Hand coloured etching. 170 x 145mm (6¾ x 5¾"). Small loss and crease in bottom left corner. Trimmed.
A caricature of a woman with an umbrella, traipsing through a sodden street in the rain. She wears a purple dress and bonnet with a colourful green shawl.
[Ref: 57218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)