Grosvenor Prints

[Three ballooning prints on sheet from the European Magazine] [An Air Balloon invented in the last Century] [The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon.] [The Descent of the Air Balloon]
[Jn.o Lodge sc.] [J. Lodge sc.]
[Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1st March 1789.] [Engraved for the European Magazine.] [Published Dec.r 1st 1783 by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.]
Engravings on sheet, sheet 200 x 400mm (8 x 15¾"). Light foxing.
The first print is of three men sitting in a boat with four balloons attached, one man holds an oar to steer. The second and third are satires on the Montgolfier brothers Le Réveillon balloon experiment were they put a a sheep, duck and cockerel in the basket to see if hot air ballooning is safe for mankind. The demonstration was held in front of Louis XVI and the royal family in the palace forecourt. The balloon left the ground and soared 600 metres into the air. Damaged by a rip in the fabric, it descended slowly eight minutes later after travelling 3.5 km and came back to land in the Wood of Vaucresson, at the Maréchal crossroads.
See Ref: 58170 & 58171
[Ref: 57270] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock] Miss Cameron. Miss Macdonald. How happy could I be with either / were t'other dear Charmer away. / Beg. Op.
[London Magazine, 1747.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 185mm (4 x 7¼"). A little staining, trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Three medallion portraits: an untitled one of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1709-1746), flanked by portraits of two women. He was captured at the Battle of Cullodon and executed. The lines from John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera' refer to his statement after his capture: ''for the two Kings and their rights, I cared not a farthing which prevailed; but I was starving''.
Sharpe 699, state i of ii, misidentified as Charles Edward Stuart; BM Satires 2853.
[Ref: 57243] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Shovel _ Versus _ Broom. (Brougham). ''Vere did you play yesterday Joey - you seems to strike the ball most gracefuller-!''. / ''Vy to be sure I does! - didn't I play Lord Broom at Fentons - whacked him out o' two bob _ pays me vun, and promerses me tother!''
Pub by A, Park, 47 Leonard St Finsbury, London [n.d., c.1840].
Very rare coloured lithograph. 235 x 300mm (9¼ x 11¾"). Some wear and toning, laid on album paper.
Two dusty sweeps standing at a billiards table, cues in hands, smoking. Their conversation suggests that Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), Barrister & MP, Lord High Chancellor (1830-4) had gambling debts.
[Ref: 57334] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Execution of Charles I] There is hope of a Tree if it be cut downe, that it will sprout again [...] Done from the Originall of Vaughan after ye Murder of King Charles the First. 84.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"). Unexamined out of frame.
An allegory of the execution of Charles I, with an oak cut down, the trunk dated ''Jan. 30. 1648/9''. Three shoots sprout, one with a crown, watered by a hand in a cloud. An angel, holding a scroll with a quotation from the Book of Ezekiel, blows a trumpet. The title is from Job.
[Ref: 57228] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Nine vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill, 1829). Tear through vignette top left.
Nine random satires, including 'Lithography', a pun showing a beggar drawing on a pavement. Plate 6 from the series 'Scraps and Sketches'
BM Satires 15982.
[Ref: 57286] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Preservation. An African Settlement. Spoon=bill. Botheration. A Vane Man.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tears in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls. 'Preservation' has hunters shooting each other rather than the pheasants; 'An African Settlement' shows a graveyard. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57283] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Some staining.
Seven vignette satiresm including 'Brobdignag Bonnet', showing a woman with a massive hat. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57290] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bellows] Scraps & Sketches Part 3.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14").
Eight vignette drolls featuring anthropomorphic bellows. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57285] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Seven vignette satires of bonnets on one sheet.]
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1829.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"). Spotting.
Seven satires on ladies' hats, including: 'Bonnet Building', featuring four milliners, two on tall step-ladders, trimming a hat far larger than themselves with giant bows of ribbon; and 'Section of the Bonnet Carriage', depicting a carriage shaped accomodate her hat and her bustle. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Christmas - Time.
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in top and bottom edge, some slight staining.
Six vignette drolls on the theme 'Christmas Time', including 'Pudding Time'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57278] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Comfortables.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1 1830.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14") on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1830. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Six vignette drolls on the theme of 'Comfort', including 'A Batchelor's Comforts', with a man smoking before a fire. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57284] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Comforts.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Feb.y 1831.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tear in bottom edge.
Nine vignette drolls on the theme 'Comforts', including 'Christmas Comforts' with anthropomorphic figures of food and crockery dancing. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57275] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Odd Fish.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
Sept.r 1st 1832.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"). Small tears in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Thirteen vignette drolls mostly with a fishy theme, including swordfish duelling with their bills. In the centre are two elephants, titled "Gentleman and Porters"smoking from a hookah. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57282] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Five vignette legal scenes on one sheet.] "Pleading at the Bar." or - Popular Education - a Farce. Performed every Sessions.
Drawn Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
May 20th 1828.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), on paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1829'. Tear in right edge, some spotting.
Four legal satires around a central realistic rendering of an Old Bailey trial, including: 'Chamber Practice', in which young lawyers carouse drunkenly; and 'Practising at the Bar', depicting a burglar using a crow-bar to jimmy open a shutter of a bar (pub) door. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57289] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Five scenes of 'Time'.]
(Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank
May 1st 1827).
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 265 x 355mm (10½ x 14"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
Five vignette drolls on the theme 'Time', including 'Time Badly Employed', with a fair including a hot-air balloon, and 'Time is ~', with a man in prison, with a game of real tennis being played against a high wall. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
[Ref: 57279] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The English Coachman. 157.
[after George van der Mijn.]
Carington Bowles excudit. London, Published as the Act directs. Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard [n.d., 1769].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250 (14 x 9¾"), with wide margins. Abrasion in title area, repair in margin.
A coachman sits in the kitchen of an inn, with a foaming tankard in one hand and a serving girl on his knee.
BM Satires 4501.
[Ref: 57330] £360.00

[Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley & Mrs Gibbon?] No. XXXIV. M.rs G_b_n. No. XXXV. Lord Balloon.
London, Publish'd by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street. Jan.y. 1; 1785.
Engraving. 110 x 160mm (4¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed to plate on right.
Bust portrait of a man and woman in ovals. The right portrait is Thomas Foley (1742-93), 2nd Baron Foley, known as Lord Balloon because of his girth. In 1773 he was reported to have lost £50,000 gambling at Newport, which his father paid off on the condition he never gambled again. In 1775 he lost £70,000 more. 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.
[Ref: 56802] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene from Don Giovanni as Performed at the Kings Theatre. Don Giovanni by His M_y, Donna Anna by a celebrated actress her first appearance on this Stage these 7 years. Leperello by derry Down Triangle the other caricters by the Corps de Ballet.
Pub July 23 1820 by H. Fores 16 Panton St.
Coloured etching, framed, image size 260 x 365mm, (10¼ x 14½"). Unexamined out of frame.
A satire on the royal divorce, wit George IV and Caroline of Brunswick in operatic pose. Mozart's opera premiered in 1787 and was such a success that the comparison of George and the obnoxious Giovanni could still be relevant over thirty years later.
Not in BM Satires, but in the BM, registration 1975,0118.28.
[Ref: 57416] £360.00

The Gin Shop.
Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank ~
November 1st 1829.
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 255 x 295mm (10 x 11½"), paper watermarked 'Whatman Turkey Mill 1829. Trimmed within plate. Small tear in bottom edge, some slight staining.
The satirised interior of a gin shop, with the products in coffin-shaped containers. The red-nosed customers stand in an enormous gin-trap, one feeding gin to her baby. A skeleton with an hourglass says 'I shall have them all dead presently'. From the series 'Scraps and Sketches'.
See reference 61960 for uncoloured version.
[Ref: 57280] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Satire of William Hogarth] The Painter's March from Finchly. Dedicated to the King of the Gypsies [hand symbol] as an Encourager of Art &c.
Captain T_ Inv.t et sculp. [Paul Sandby]
[London, 1753.]
Rare etching. 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"). Trimmed to plate, creases, tears and holes.
A satire on William Hogarth, drawn by Paul Sandby to ridicule Hogarth after the publication of 'An Analysis of Beauty'. Hogarth is shown with cuckhold's horns, being chased from a village, accompanied by a nagging woman. Hogarth's pug dog is tugging on the woman's skirts. Underneath is another image, with Hogarth in the stocks before a water pump.
BM Satires 3248.
[Ref: 57273] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Scene in Kensington Gardens - or - Fashions and Frights of 1829.
Designed Etched & Publis.d by G. Cruikshank Nov.r 1st 1829.
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 250 x 270mm (9¾ x 10½"), with Whatman Turkey Mill watermarked dated 1829. Tears in inscription area.
Promenaders in the latest outlandish fashions. From the series 'Scraps and sketches'.
BM Satires 15981.
[Ref: 57287] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

The Literary Dustman. / Ve Dines at Four, and arter that / I smokes a mild Awanna, / Or gives a lesson to the lad / Upon the grand pianna [...]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Wood engraving with fine original colour. Sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed to printed border at sides, bottom corners snipped, laid on album paper.
One dustman lounges on a chaise longue smoking as another plays the piano and sings, with sheet music titled 'Puritani' (Vincenzo Bellini's 'il puritani' of 1835). 'The Literary Dustman' by Francis Robert Glindon (c.1799-1866) was first published in 1832.
[Ref: 57262] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim.
by George Cruikshank.
London: Published by George Cruikshank, Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and Sold by J. Robins And Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. Knights, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24, St. James's Street. MDCCCXXVII [1827].
Oblong folio, disbound; etched title, 2pp text, six coloured etched plates, as called for. Title and text page foxed; two plates with single tears.
George Cruikshank's (1792 - 1878) satirical take on the theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Principal human faculties and emotions are illustrated by five humerous vignette images per plate. Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Spurzheim attended the lectures of Gall and became a disciple, accompanying him on a lecturing tour through Central Europe, and settling with him in 1807 in Paris; in 1813 he separated from Gall, and went to lecture in England with much acceptance. He wrote numerous works bearing on phrenology, education, etc. All plates inscribed 'Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank August 1st. 1826'.
[Ref: 57311] £480.00

Provision for the Convent. 248.
London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Creases not visible from front.
A monk walks through a doorway, carrying a basket of food and a sheaf of corn in which a person is hidden.
[Ref: 57331] £420.00

A satire on the different sexes.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 220 x 315mm (8¾ x 12½"). Trimmed to printed border, foxing.
Possibly Americana. A scene in a drawing room: on one side are the young women in their party dresses, with a flock of cherubs with bows above their heads, representing romantic thoughts; on the right the batchelors are fixated on a game of cards, with a demon with a bat's head and wings and coiled serpent's tail, skin marked with the suit symbols, breathing down on them.
[Ref: 57386] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Humours of Valentine's Day.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 90 x 110mm (3½" x 4¼). Trimmed.
A black pageboy gives a message to his mistress depicting a heart pierced by arrows and the word 'Snowball'.
[Ref: 57260] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

The good Woman's Heart.
April 15th 1837.
Ink sketch on album paper with a printed border. A little toning of paper.
A sketch of a love-heart, divided into areas with titles like 'Virtue and Youth', 'Religion and Piety' & 'Love, Constancy and Modesty', 'Obedience and good nature'.
[Ref: 57258] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

I am Tir'd of Reading! [&] So Am I of Working!
[A. Courcell Fecit.]
[Printed & Sold by W. Belch, 258 High St, Borough, London.]
Pair of coloured aquatints with fine hand colour. 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½"). Trimmed to printed borders and around title, losing other inscriptions.
A couple yawning and stretching.
[Ref: 57259] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

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