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Engraved for the European Magazine.
Engraved for the European Magazine. The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon.
Jn.o Lodge sc.
Published Nov.r 1.st 1783, by I. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.
Engraving, plate 190 x 125mm (7½" x 5"). No11 and some pencil text is written in the top margin. Creases in margins. Stain on right that creeps into the plate mark.
A satire 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: 57270. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58170]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Engraved for the European Magazine.
Engraved for the European Magazine. The Descent of the Air Balloon.
Jn.o Lodge sc.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1783, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.
Engraving, plate 190 x 125mm (7½" x 5"). No11 and some pencil text is written at the top entering the plate mark. Nicks to edge of the paper.
A satire 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: 57270. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58171]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Billiards.
Billiards.
Anibalo Scratchi I. & F. 1798. H.Bunbury.
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 270 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Narrow margins, hole in top left.
A copy of the famous caricature of a billiards game by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811).
[Ref: 58041]   £380.00  
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[Singerie: an alchemist and family] Docta etiam sanos Plantis haurite liquores, / Quesis ægro medicam sedula præstet opem. /
[Singerie: an alchemist and family] Docta etiam sanos Plantis haurite liquores, / Quesis ægro medicam sedula præstet opem. / Pour guarir maladie et tout mal qu'endommage, / Ils distilent ici diverse herb en breuuage.
[by Pieter van der Borcht.]
[Antwerp, c.1562.] But much later.
Scarce etching. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides.
The French title: ''To cure sickness and any damaging ailment, They distill here various herbs''. From Norske National Costume Chr. Tonsberg Christiania" 1852. The interior of an alchemist's rundown workshop, the monkeys dressed in rags. To highlight the theme that there was no money to be made in the profession, the family can be seen in the background entering the workhouse. Pieter van der Borcht (c.1535-1608) did much to popularise singerie with this series of 18 prints which were, according to the British Museum, first published by Vrints c.1562. The Rijksmuseum lists editions by Philips Galle (c. 1580 as 'La vie humaine imitée par les singes') and Claes Visscher.
BM 1866,0407.46, second state, with lettering. Wellcome Library no. 17512i. Rijksmuseum RP-P-1891-A-16318. From Cameron Album bought in Venice on a grand tour.
[Ref: 58125]   £380.00  
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[Singerie: a thin kitchen] Indulgent etiam Genio, tenuique polenta / Se recreant: fugiens pinguiour hospes abit.
[Singerie: a thin kitchen] Indulgent etiam Genio, tenuique polenta / Se recreant: fugiens pinguiour hospes abit. Pour guarir maladie et tout mal qu'endommage, / Ils distilent ici diverse herb en breuuage.
[by Pieter van der Borcht.]
[Antwerp, c.1562.] But much later.
Etching. Sheet 195 x 275mm (7¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides.
From Norske National Costume Chr. Tonsberg Christiania" 1852. A rundown room filled with thin monkeys, sitting around a table with a plate of mussels, carrots, turnips and cabbages strewn on the floor, all regarded as food for the poor. A better-fed monkey tries to leave, held back by a female monkey pulling at his coat. Pieter van der Borcht (c.1535-1608) did much to popularise singerie with this series of 18 prints which were, according to the British Museum, first published by Vrints c.1562. The Rijksmuseum lists editions by Philips Galle (c. 1580 as 'La vie humaine imitée par les singes') and Claes Visscher.
Metropolitan Museum 68.776.11; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1891-A-16318. From Cameron Album bought in Venice on a grand tour.
[Ref: 58126]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Caledonian Voyage to Money-Land.
The Caledonian Voyage to Money-Land.
[n.d., May, 1762.]
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. Sheet 200 x 325mm (8 x 8¾"). Trimmed into plate. Messy.
When George III ascended the throne in October 1760, Prime Minister William Pitt found himself out of favour and resigned in October 1761. He was replaced by the Scot Lord Bute, and the rush of his countrymen to benefit from his patronage is satirised here. They queue to board his ship, while the 'Pitt Frigate' is dismantled in the background.
BM Satires: 3856.
[Ref: 58044]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Georgiana Cavendish] The Westminster Election.
[Georgiana Cavendish] The Westminster Election.
[n.d., 1st June 1794.]
Etching. 175 x 105mm (7 x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate on right.
The Duchesses of Devonshire and Rutland fight in front of St Paul's, Covent Garden, tearing each other's hair. Behind each woman is a backer: one says, ''D------shire for ever!''; the other, a butcher, holds out a lemon, saying, ''R------t------d for ever!''. Although the two noted beauties were political opponents. the Duchess of Rutland could have taken no part in the election, being in Ireland at the time.
BM Satires 6612.
[Ref: 58049]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Light Guitar,
The Light Guitar,
Pub.d by S&J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Feb.y 28. 1828.
Coloured etching sheet 170 x 145mm (6¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate. Crease.
A small round women sits holding a large guitar, mouth agape singing. Samuel Williams Fuller (c.1777-1857) and Joseph Carr Fuller (c.1782-1863) were printsellers and publishers, stationers, artists' colourmen, playing-card makers; already active by 1809 at the 'Temple of Fancy' at 34 Rathbone Place. The partnership dissolved when they were in their seventies in 1854 (London Gazette 3 March 1854).
[Ref: 58232]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[The Humours of the Lilliputians: represented in above fifty comical figures engraved as big as life after the original drawings of Captain Lemuel Gulliver.]
[The Humours of the Lilliputians: represented in above fifty comical figures engraved as big as life after the original drawings of Captain Lemuel Gulliver.]
[London: Printed and sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill] [c.1780.]
12 engravings, each sheet c. 125 x 290mm (5 x 11½"). Trimmed, losing plate numbers, laid on three album sheets.
A collection of dwarfish caricature figures, some from John Gay's ''Beggar's Opera'', including MacHeath, Polly Peachum and Lucy Locket. but others from other sources including ''Mynheer Van Funk, a Dutch Skipper'', ''Peter Terrible Wingbeard, a Virginia Planter'' and ''Hogan-Mogan Long-pipe a Dutch Indian Governor''. The caricatures were printed six to a page, but these have been cut in half horizontally. The Harvard Library example has a title page and ten sheets of six caricatures.
Harvard Library Hollis Collection 990056978230203941. See Arents Collection New York.
[Ref: 58032]   £3,000.00   view all images for this item
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Copy of a Caricature of the Isle of Wight sailing club, when it first commenced. _ Published 1776.
Copy of a Caricature of the Isle of Wight sailing club, when it first commenced. _ Published 1776. For Lady Ashworth with kind love.
[c.1800.]
Ink and watercolour. Sheet 230 x 335mm (9 x 13¼").
Three women in low cut dresses with coloured ostrich feathers in their high hairstyles, ride buckets towards an arch built in the sea. Three male wind heads blow them on their way.
From the Cameron Album. Not in BM. We can find no record of this image.
[Ref: 58127]   £480.00  
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A Monument Dedicated to Posterity in commemoration of ye incredible Folly transacted in the Year 1720.
A Monument Dedicated to Posterity in commemoration of ye incredible Folly transacted in the Year 1720. [...] Just grav'd 4 prints upon the humours of Stock Jobbing, with a list of the bubbles & what each sold at when highest.
B. Picart inv.t. B. Baron sculp.t.
Printed for Carington Bowles, in St Pauls Church Yard, London [n.d., c.1765].
Rare engraving, 18th century watermark. 275 x 370mm (10¾ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate and mounted in album paper.
A reversed English version of a satire on the Mississippi Bubble by Bernard Picart, showing investors eager to buy 'Mississippi Company' shares from the cart of Fortune, led by Folly and drawn by allegorical figures of the various companies (South Sea, Mississippi, West India, East India) and the Bank of England. The spokes of the wheel visible are inscribed with the names of several popular schemes, referring to the York Buildings Company (designed to supply water in London), Mining, Silk Manufacture and others. The Devil is sat on a cloud, blowing bubbles. Next to him rays emanate from a cloud, naming the consequences of economic speculation: 'Extream Joy', 'Madness', 'Prison', 'Beggery' etc. In the background buildings are named: 'Jonathan's', the coffee house famous as a scene of early share trading (replacing John Law's home, Quinquenpoix, in Picart's original); Bethlehem, the mental hospital famed as Bedlam; and the 'Hos. of Beggers'. This English version was originally published in 1720; this example was published by his nephew Carington Bowles, who took over his business in 1762.
BM: 1629. For Picart image see 35858.
[Ref: 58016]   £480.00  
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The Montgolsier, a First Rate of the French Aerial Navy.
The Montgolsier, a First Rate of the French Aerial Navy. A_ F_t_ An Ass_ A Fool_ A Monkey_ A Nothing.
Observator del. Recordum Sculpt.
Pub.d by E. Darchery N.11 S.t James's Street. the 25.th of October 1783. [but probably printed slightly later]
Etching, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate. Some creasing. Nicks to edges of paper.
A satire on the Montgolfier brother's ballooning. Thought to be the first reaction of an English caricaturist to the possibilities of aerial navigation. Published by Elizabeth Darchery (1780-84, fl.), a publisher of satirical prints based on St James's Street, London, her name is often spelt differently on various plates and she is known for publishing some of James Gillray's early work.
From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58174]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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The Montgolsier, a First Rate of the French Aerial Navy.
The Montgolsier, a First Rate of the French Aerial Navy. A_ F_t_ An Ass_ A Fool_ A Monkey_ A Nothing.
Observator del. Recordum Sculpt.
Pub.d by E. Darchery N.11 S.t James's Street. the 25.th of October 1783. [but probably printed later]
Scarce hand coloured etching on wove paper with partial watermark dated '[?]1828'. Plate 355 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Creasing in margins; top left corner crease just goes through the plate mark. Tears on left and right entering the plate mark but not the image.
A wonderful satire on the Montgolfier brother's ballooning. Thought to be the first reaction of an English caricaturist to the possibilities of aerial navigation. Published by Elizabeth Darchery (1780-84, fl.), a publisher of satirical prints based on St James's Street, London, her name is often spelt differently on various plates and she is known for publishing some of James Gillray's early work.
From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58175]   £390.00  
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Montgolfier in the clouds.
Montgolfier in the clouds. Constructing of air balloons for the grand monarque. "O by gar!..."
Fourth Sketch Published as the act directs March 2 1784 by S. Fores N° 3 Piccadilly - a Companion to this in a few days.
Scarce etching on laid paper with 18th century watermark of Fleur-de-lis, plate 350 x 250mm (13 x 9¾") large margins. Handling creases, horizontal fold, minor surface dirt and light browning.
A satirical print relating to the unsuccessful launch of a 'grand aerostatic machine' on 19 Jan. at Lyons, in which Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745 – 1799) and others ascended.
BM Satires 6435. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58177]   £650.00  
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Stops.
Stops.
[Unidentified double LL monogram] Esq. del. etchd by G. Ck.
Pub.d May 18th 1824 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St London.
Very rare etching with hand colour. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾") very large margins. Faded.
A satire in six panels relating to punctuation. Human figures resemble a comma, semi-colon, full stop, exclamation mark, colon and question mark.
BM Satires 14717.
[Ref: 57869]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. et al.] A Tory Dinner Party. Presented with No.13 of The Fly.
[Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. et al.] A Tory Dinner Party. Presented with No.13 of The Fly. Duke of Wellington. Sir Rb.t Peel. Sir Ch.s Wetherhall. Sir Fr.s Burdett. L.d Lyndhurst.
W. Clerk, Lithog, 202 High Holborn.
Pub.d by F. Glover, No 1 Water Lane, Fleet St.
Rare lithograph. Sheet 210 x 250mm (8¼ x 9¾").
Caricature portraits of Conservative politicians standing for a toast.
[Ref: 58081]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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