Grosvenor Prints

The Anglo-Indian Juggernaut or the Triumph of Civilization. A True Picture of Our Real Advancement.
Morris & Newman, 34 Booksellers Row, Strand. W.C. [n.d., c.1876.]
Rare wood-engraved broadside. Sheet 440 x 570mm (17¼ x 22½"). Splits in folds.
A satire comparing 'Pagan Laws' & 'Hindoo Morals' with British 'Civilization', published around the time Queen Victoria assumed the title of 'Empress of India'. The Governor-General of India (probably Robert Bulwer-Lytton, in office 1876-80) sits in a Car of Juggernaut topped with the Lion & Unicorn, and decorated with the ills of British society, including 'Outrage & Robbery', 'Drunkenness', 'Plunder', 'Wife Kicking' and 'Murder & Mutilation - Wainwright' (a reference to Henry Wainwright who was hanged for murdering and dismembering his mistress in 1875). The studded wheels are marked 'Taxes'. On either side is an Indian figure: one carries a sheet 'Touch Not Wine'; the other 'Love Your Wife & Family. Respect Old Age'. Underneath are four quadrains explaining the print.
[Ref: 59206] £360.00

[Billiards.]
[Mr.Bunbury del. J.s Bretherton f.]
[Published 27th Jan. 1781.]
Engraving. Sheet 275 x 405mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed within plate top and bottom, losing title and inscriptions, laid on album paper with other scraps.
A caricatured game of billiards, with a player with a long pigtail queue, taking exaggerated care with his show.
BM: 5913.
[Ref: 59292] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The View and Humours of Billingsgate.
The Wonders of ye Deep, often attempted, and never perform'd but by Arnold Vanhaecken, 1762.
[1762.]
Engraving with 18th century watermark. Plate: 575 x 445mm (22½ x 17½"). Very small margins. Central staining on right centre margin.
A satire on the fish market at Billingsgate, showing a large variety of fishmongers selling their wares. In the centre a man with a basket is knocked down by a dog sprinting across the scene. A later re-print of the 1736 and is the first plate to a series of fish prints engraved by Giles King.
BM Satire 2284.
[Ref: 44414] £550.00

Traiano Bocchalini.
[Italian, c.1700.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
A bust of Trajano Bocchalini (1556-1613), Italian satirist, in an oval held up by a pair of satyrs. He is noted for his 'Ragguagli di Parnaso' (News-sheet from Parnassus).
[Ref: 59241] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

In presenting ''My Book of Curs,'' the Artist hopes to cur-ry favor with his friends [...]
[by Robert Richard Scanlan.]
[n.d., 1840.]
Large 4to, lithographic title and 45 caricatures printed on chine collé on 23 sheets. Front board detached, some staining, a few tears.
A rare collection of anthropomorphic satires of dogs with human attributes.
[Ref: 59205] £750.00 view all images for this item

[Francis Burdett] French Habits No. 12. Messager d'Etat.
[Drawn and etched by James Gillray.]
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins. Slight stain bottom right.
Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), 5th Baronet, in the dress of the French Republican state messenger, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He was a supporter of the Radicals and opponent of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9213.
[Ref: 59154] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[All Fours.]
[Design'd by W.H. Bunbury Esq.r.]
[Publish'd Mar.h 14th 1783 by J.R. Smith, No 83 Oxford Street, London.]
Rare coloured etching, 18th century watermark. Sheet 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Trimmed into image area, losing title and inscriptions, but keeping the important part of the image.
A satirical scene of a pair of card players, one with a long pig-tail queue, the other in a bob-wig.
D'Oench 214; BM Satire 6341.
[Ref: 59289] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Sports of a Country Fair. Teggs Caricatures No 40.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside. Price One Shilling Coloured.
Coloured etching, early state with very fine colour. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
Spectators flee from the upper storey of a burning theatre, landing in a heap at the bottom of some stairs. From a set of plates of similar disasters. Circus including tight rope walker in background.
BM Satires 11629. See Ref: 59288
[Ref: 59290] £350.00

Sports of a Country Fair. Part the First. Teggs Caricatures No 38.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d October 5th 1810 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside. Price One Shilling Coloured.
Very finely coloured etching, early state. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"). Laid on album paper with some cockling of paper.
The horse breaks free from a cart carrying people around the fair, tipping them onto the ground. From a set of plates of similar disasters. Showmen including tight rope walkers in background. Pasted on the back are two Bunbury caricatures of coach drivers.
BM Satires 11629.
[Ref: 59288] £350.00

[John Courtnay] French Habits No. 9. Juge du Tribunal Correctionel.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 21st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Courtnay (1736-1816), then MP for Appleby, in the dress of the French Republican Tribunal Correctionnel, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He opposed Pitt's suspension of habeas corpus. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9210.
[Ref: 59150] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles James Fox] Habits of New French Legislators, and other Public Functionaries, No 1. Le Ministre d'Etat, en Grand Costume.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins.
Charles James Fox in the costume of a Revolutionary Minister of State, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). He stands with hands on hips on a Royal Crest, legs astride, wearing a looped hat with large ostrich feathers, long loose coat with a lace collar and long revers over a tunic with a sash which defines his vast paunch. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9196.
[Ref: 59139] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Hints to bad Horsemen. No.1. Symptoms of Restiveness. [&] No.2. Symptoms of Starting. [&] No.3 Symptoms of Kicking. [&] No.4. Symptoms of Tumbling.
H. Bunbury Esq.r delin. Watson & Dickinson Excud.t.
London, Publish'd May 10:th 1781 by Watson & Dickinson No.158 New Bond Street.
A scarce set of four stipples. Each 196 x 235mm (7¾ x 9¼"). With two more Bunbury caricatures pasted on reverse. Laid on album paper, plate 1 toned.
1. A rider in a country road, looking to left, has stopped before a sign-post; his horse has its head turned to right with a church and tress seen on the right; 2. Rider to the left, his horse starting at a man crouching down in some bushes, with a windmill behind; 3. A man on horseback in a landscape looking to right, nearly falling off from the animal kicking up behind; 4. An man to left falling off his horse, which has stumbled to the consternation of a goose and three ducks, barn in background, fence and trees on left with bushes to the right.
Goodwin: 66 to 69 [inclusive].
[Ref: 59222] £420.00 view all images for this item

[John Horne Tooke] French Habits. No 5. Président d'Administration Municipale.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
John Horne Tooke wearing a black suit with a sash, his round hat with small tricolour scarf and tricolour feather on the table beside him. One of a set of twelve. Originally this was a satire of Richard Brinsley Sheridan but after being on sale for only two days, Gillray re-engraved the plate to show Horne Tooke after George Canning intervened.
BM Satires 9200.
[Ref: 59145] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk; William Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne; Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton] French Habits. No 2. Les Membres du Conseil des Anciens.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins.
Lansdowne, Norfolk and Grafton stand together wearing the dress of the Conseil des Anciens, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). They stand, wearing robes, caps and cloaks, talking conspiritorially. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9197.
[Ref: 59140] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

England's Difficulty is Ireland's Opportunity.
R.H.
Published by C. Westerton, Hyde Park Corner [n.d., c.1850].
Scarce tinted lithograph. Printed area 240 x 420mm (9½ x 16½"). Repaired tears and creases in margins.
A satirical scene: As John Bull knocks a brigand (possibly Italian) to the ground an Irishman picks his pocket. The phrase 'England's Difficulty is Ireland's Opportunity' was first used by Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847); in 1868 'The London Review of Politics' described it as ''the meaning of Fenianism''. The publisher, Charles Westerton (1813-72) operated from 20 St George's Place, Hyde Park Corner.
[Ref: 59129] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Logic
Engraved by Welby Sherman, from an Original Drawing by C.H. Esq,,r [Charles Heath?].
London, Republished Feb.y 15, 1853, by Thomas Boys, (of the Late Firm of Moon, Boys & Graves,) Printseller to the Royal Family, 467, Oxford Street. _ Paris, E. Gambart & Co. 15, Rue Charlot, Deposé. Originally Published Nov: 1836.
Fine and rare mezzotint on chine collé. 250 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), very large margins. Publication line printed over the edge of the chine collé.
Syllogistic disputants arguing over whether or not the Parisians are birds? It is a pun on Gallus a cock or a Frenchman? Two scholars in caps and gowns, leaning out dangerously from opposing lecturns, arguing angrily and gesturing to emphasise their points, their companions holding their collars to prevent them from falling out. Both companions hold bottles, one swigging from theirs. Welby Sherman (fl.1827-36) was one of the more obscure members of the Ancients, a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake. He was a cousin and pupil of Samuel Palmer, another Ancient, living with him in Shoreham; this did not stop him swindling Palmer's brother William out of £500 in wagers on games of billiards and fleeing abroad in 1836. London literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres etc. vol 20, page 811 advert.
BM 2010,7081.6989, suggesting Heath as the artist. Ex Collection of Hon C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 59132] £580.00

Damn Mambrino!
M.r Bunbury dek, J.s Bretherton f.
[n.d., c.1779.]
Etching. 250 x 185mm (9¾ x 7¼"). Trimmed to plate at sides, laid on album paper, foxing.
A seated fat man looks off to the right in disgust, having lost a wager, watched by his hunched dog. This satire was originally published in 1774 with the title ''Damn Bucephalus!'', probably inspired by the horse's close defeat by the famous Eclipse at Newmarket on 17 April 1770. Tim Clayton is quoted on the British Museum website: ''Lord Grosvenor's Mambrino had a highly successful career on the turf from 1773 to 1776 before being put out to stud; he attempted a comeback in 1779 which was unsuccessful. It appears likely, therefore, that Bretherton changed the title of the print from Damn Bucephalus! to Damn Mambrino! about 1779''.
BM 4731 & J,6.91.
[Ref: 59220] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

''Poculum elevatum.'' From an Original Picture in the Possession of Jos.h French Esq.r, Windsor. Proof.
Painted by E. Bristow Engraved by H.D. Dawe.
Pub.d Jan.y 1836 by H. Dawe 6 Bartholomew Place Kentish Town. Ackermann & Co. Strand & C. Tilt, Fleet Street.
Mezzotint. Sheet 200 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired tear.
A singerie print, with monkeys dressed as monks toasting each other with wine.
[Ref: 59168] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Muddy. a Sketch in Bond Street!
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank].
Pub April 3. 1800. by S W Fores. 50. Piccadilly. Folios of Caricatures Lent
Coloured etching. 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"), watermarked 'A Stace 1798'. Trimmed into plate top and bottom, creased.
Two male pedestrians talk to two women inside a low-riding coach with outriders spattered with mud.
[Ref: 59291] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Newmarket:: A Shot at a Pigeon.
Mr.Bunbury f. J.Bretherton.
Publish'd 1st March, 1777.
Etching. 250 x 270mm ( 9½ x 10½"). Trimmed plate at bottom, laid on album paper.
A group of locals point at an open-mouthed young gentleman holding a riding whip, who they see as a gullible gambler. He is accompanied by an Italian greyhound; a mongrel drags its bottom along the ground in front of him. 'Mambrino' is written on the wall. One of a pair with 'Newmarket: A Shot at a Hawk' (BM Satire 4717).
BM Satire 4719a.
[Ref: 59221] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[John Nicholls] French Habits No. 10. Juge de Paix.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.t.
Pub.d May 15st 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', date lost. Narrow margins.
John Nicholls (c.1745-1832), MP for Tregony, in the dress of the French Republican Juge de Paix., as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). Notoriously ugly, Nicholls is shown with his left eye closed, a projecting lower jaw and his upper lip drawn up in a permanent snarl. One of a set of twelve plates.
BM Satires 9211.
[Ref: 59153] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[George III sacks William Pitt the Younger] Géorge se Dépitte et Signe Enfin la Paix Générale.
[n.d., c.1801.]
Rare etching. Sheet 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear entering printed border at top.
George III hits Pitt on his shoulder with his sceptre and kicks him in the backside, causing the crown to topple from his head. The king sits at a table, on which is a paper he is signing, supposedly the Treaty of Amiens. A French satire making political capital by misrepresenting Pitt's leaving office as being sacked by George for opposing any peace negotiations with France, rather than him resigning for failing to achieve Catholic Emancipation. Pitt resigned on February 16th, 1801, during an episode of the king's madness; a preliminary agreement was signed in London on September 30th; the full Treaty of Amiens was signed at 3 a.m. on March 25th, 1802. George (BM Satire 9780) posits a publication date of May 1802; however the BM website states that 1801, during the negotiations, is more likely.
BM Satires 9870.
[Ref: 59166] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Miseries of Reading and Writing _ 8 Dialogue. As you are writing drowsily by the fire, on rousing and recollecting yourself, find your Guardian in possession of your secret thoughts, which he never ceases to upbraid you of.
Rowlandson del et sculp.
Pub. Jan.y 1. 1807 by R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 108 Strand.
Coloured etching. 110 x 170mm (4¼ x 6¾") very large margins.
A young woman sleeps in a chair in a library, her hand still holding a pen on a sheet of paper. An elderly man holding an eye-glass to his eye leans over the back of her chair to inspect a paper inscribed 'My dear'.
See Ref: 54618 for a complete copy of volume.
[Ref: 59200] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford] French Habits. No 4. Membre du Directoire Exécutif.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins.
Francis Russell wearing the uniform of a Director, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). His head has ostrich feathers and he wears a cloak over a tunic, with a sabre. Behind a curtain marked 'Egalite' half-covers the Bedfors arms and motto of 'Che sara sara'. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9199.
[Ref: 59144] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[George Shuckburgh-Evelyn] French Habits No. 8. Membre de la Haute Cour de Justice.
J.s. G.y [James Gillray.] d. & f.
Pub.d May 15th 1798 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"), watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill', date lost. Narrow margins.
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1751-1804), M.P. for Warwickshire, in the white cap and robe with tricolour border (not obvious in this uncoloured impression) of a Judge of the High Court. The cushioned bench behind indicates the setting as the House of Commons. He never took part in debates, but by voting in the minority against the 'Assessed Taxes Bill' of 1798 (introduced by Pitt to pay for the Napoleonic War) earned this caricature: he is shown in the costume of a High Court judge, for which he obviously does not have the stature.
BM Satires 9209.
[Ref: 59149] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[William Smyth] A Petty-Professor of Modern-History, brought to the light.
Cambridge del.t. London Sculp.t [James Gillray].
Publishd March 20th. 1810. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street London.
Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate.
A caricature of William Smyth (1765-1849), a poet and historian who became Regius Professor at Cambridge in 1807. He is shown lecturing to sleeping or yawning students.
BM Satires 11590.
[Ref: 59375] £750.00

Staffordshire Courtship!!.
Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank st-.
T Tegg 111 Cheapside - NB Folios of Caractures Lent.
Coloured etching. Sheet 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Trimmed within plate, damp stain on left.
A rustic couple in a cottage interior: a woman leans towards the man's dog and exclaims, ''Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got''; the man replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex".
[Ref: 59218] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope; Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale; Michael Angelo Taylor; and Charles Grey] French Habits. No 3. Les Membres du Conseil des des Cinq Cents.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Small margins, stain in background on right.
Stanhope, Derby, Lauderdale, Taylor and Grey wearing the dress of the Council of Five Hundred, as designed by David and regulated by a complementary law of the Constitution of the Year III (1794-5). One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9198.
[Ref: 59143] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[George Tierney] French Habits. No 6. Le Boureau.
J.S G.y [James Gillray] d. & f.t.
Pub.d April 18.th 1798. by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Etching 265 x 205mm (10½ x 8"). Narrow margins, slight stain.
George Tierney, Radical MP for Southwark and supporter of Fox, caricatured as an executioner, standing by a guillotine with blood dripping from the blade. One of a set of twelve.
BM Satires 9201.
[Ref: 59146] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A White Ghost in Ireland.
Woodward Del. Cruikshank Sc.
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg 11 Cheapside April 6, 1807.
Coloured etching. 240 x 340mm (9½ x 13½"). Narrow margins on three sides, laid on album paper with some cockling on right.
Two Irishmen are suprised by a white cat in a church graveyard. Pasted on the reverse is a satire by Bunbury.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 59219] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

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