Grosvenor Prints

[Lord Amherst.] 7.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 6 April 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), wearing his uniform and his ribbon of the Bath. Amherst was responsible for a series of sweeping victories against the French, 1758-60, during the Seven Years War, leading to the conquest of Canada.
BM Satires 6053.
[Ref: 60069] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Colonel Barré.] 18.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Isaac Barré (1726-1802), shown holding his hat in his right hand, his left thrust into his waistcoat. Barré was an Irish soldier and MP who earned distinction during the Seven Years War and supported William Pitt during his time in Parliament.
BM Satires 6066.
[Ref: 60064] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl Bathurst.] 19.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins, repaired tear going into image.
Caricature of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714 - 1794). His hands are thrust into his waistcoat; he wears a tie-wig and sword. He has an almost imbecile expression. Known as the Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, Bathurst was Lord Chancellor from 1771 to 1778.
BM Satires 6070. NPG D9622.
[Ref: 60081] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Colonel Boden.] 39.
JS [James Sayers.]
Published 4.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Colonel George Boden, wearing his tricorne hat and with his hand in the pocket of a long coat. He was renowned for his large size.
BM Satires 6064.
[Ref: 60078] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[General Burgoyne.] 23.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of John Burgoyne (1722-1792), holding out a paper in his right hand as if making a speech and wearing his general's uniform. Burgoyne was a politician and playwright, notable for his service in the Seven Years War and American Revolutionary War. The surrender of his army in 1777 at Saragota was a turning point in the war.
BM Satires 6068.
[Ref: 60072] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Beauchamp.] 31.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Small nick and tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Francis Seymour Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford (1743 - 1822), M.P. for Orford, eldest son of the Earl of Hertford. He stands looking slightly over his left shoulder, his head in profile to the left, holding a document in his right hand, his left hand in his hip pocket. He was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Beauchamp.
BM Satires 6643. NPG D9798.
[Ref: 60074] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Wolfran Cornwall] Order, Order, pray Order. 27.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature of Charles Wolfran Cornwall (1735 - 1789), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1780-89, in his Speaker's wig and robes. His chair and a raised dais are indicated behind him. He looks to the right, holding out his hat in his left hand. Beneath his feet are the words 'Order, Order, pray Order'.
BM Satires 6064. NPG D9691.
[Ref: 60071] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir James Erskine.] 36.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by James Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), resting both hands on the table of the House of Commons. Erskine was a Scottish soldier, politician, and Acting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, on behalf of King George IV.
BM Satires 7293
[Ref: 59982] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton.] 13.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811). Grafton became Prime Minister in 1768, leading an unstable Government for two years from 1768 to 1770. Later he was a prominent figure in the period of the American Revolutionary War.
BM Satires 6060.
[Ref: 60001] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Bamber Gascoyne.] 5.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 6.th April 1782 C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Bamber Gascoyne (1727-1791), depicted as a stout, plainly dressed man wearing a hat and a buttoned-up coat. Gascoyne was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons of between 1761 and 1786.
BM Satires 6056.
[Ref: 59980] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Howard] 10.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins. Crease top right.
Caricature portrait of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815), holding a stick in his right hand, with his hat under his left arm and his left hand in his breeches pocket. Active in Whig politics, Howard spent a considerable amount of his money rebuilding and refurbishing Arundel Castle after inheriting his title and lands.
BM Satires 6058.
[Ref: 60082] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Earl of Effingham.]
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, watermark 1808, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Nicks and tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham (1747-1791), holding a long slender staff in his right hand and a short staff in the left, the two staffs of office for which he was known as 'the Devil on two sticks'. He died while serving as Governor of Jamaica (1790-1).
BM Satires 6061.
[Ref: 60017] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[John Lee.] 28.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Attorney-General John Lee (1733-1793), standing with his arms folded. Known at the bar as "Honest Jack Lee", he was distinguished for his integrity.
BM Satires 6641.
[Ref: 59981] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond.] 26.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 3.d July 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1735-1806), standing in profile to the left holding his cockaded hat in his right hand. Lennox was a soldier, diplomat, politician and art patron. He was a leading Whig statesman who advocated parliamentary reform and supported the aspirations of the American colonists for greater independence. His motion in the House of Lords in 1778 for the withdrawal of British troops from America was opposed by Chatham who collapsed the ensuing debate.
BM Satires 6077.
[Ref: 60020] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Francis Molyneux and Mr. Quarme.] 20. 21.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (1738–1812), and Robert Quarme, Yeoman Usher (fl. 1782-1806), both officers of the House of Lords. Sir Francis Molyneux, tall and broad, stands full-face looking down at Robert Quarme, a very small man, standing in profile to the left. Both wear bag-wigs, ruffles, and swords.
BM Satires 6074.
[Ref: 60084] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Davis Murray, Viscount Stormont.] 33.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (1727 - 1796), diplomat and statesman; right hand on hip, left thrust into his waistcoat. He wears the ribbon of the Thistle and a Sword (Knight of the Thistle). Ambassador to Vienna and then to France in the early years of the American War of Independence.
BM Satires 6637.
[Ref: 60073] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Fletcher Norton, Lord Grantley.] 22.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley (1716-1789), standing in profile to the left. Norton was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782
BM Satires 6071.
[Ref: 60075] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl Nugent.] 11.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Robert Craggs Nugent (1702-1788), his right hand extended, his hat in his left hand as if speaking in the House of Commons, where he was noted for speeches in a rich brogue and for his support of every Ministry in turn. He was nicknamed 'Squire Gawkey' and was also called 'the old rat of the Constitution'.
BM Satires 6059.
[Ref: 60008] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[William Petty, Earl of Shelburne.] 9.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th May 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, watermark 1809, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), standing, facing three-quarters left, his right hand thrust under his Garter ribbon. He wears a bag-wig and ruffles, and has the sly, complacent smile and half-closed eyes which are conspicuous in satires of Shelburne at this time. He was prime minister (1782-1783) during the reign of George III.
BM Satires 6062.
[Ref: 60012] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Mr Thomas Powys.] 32.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published 14.th July 1784 by Ja.s Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"), with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
A caricature portrait of Thomas Powys (1743-1800), standing in profile to the left with both hands extended. Powys was MP for Northamptonshire from 1774 until 1797, when he became 1st Baron Lilford. In early 1784 he attempted to effect a coalition between Pitt and Fox, the first step being a meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern.
BM Satires 6642.
[Ref: 60068] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Rigby.] 6.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 6.th April 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Richard Rigby (1722-1788), holding out his hat in his right hand, as if speaking in the House of Commons. Rigby sat in the House of Commons for 43 years from 1745 to 1788.
BM Satires 6052.
[Ref: 60015] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Philip Rosenhagen.] In Te Domine Speravi. [ 28.
[James Sayers.]
[n.d. c.1788.]
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on margins.
Portrait of Philip Rosenhagen (1737-1798), fashionably dressed, holding his hat and cane. He gazes with a complacent smile at a bust portrait of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805).
BM Satires 7294.
[Ref: 60006] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[John Sawbridge.] 34.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Publ.d by Ja.s Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins. Very small hole top left.
Caricature portrait of John Sawbridge (1732-1795), holding out his hat in his left hand and a paper inscribed 'Motion for Reform in the Representation' in his right. Sawbridge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780.
BM Satires 7291.
[Ref: 60083] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Scholars at a lecture] Price Six Pence.
Publish'd by W Hogarth MArch 3.d 1736.
Etching with engraving, plate 215 x 185mm (8¾ x 7½"), with large margins.
Oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt caps and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed, with various squiggles, 'Datur Vacuum' which translates as, 'Leisure time is given for...' The reader is intended as a portrait of Henry Fisher, Registrar of Oxford University (fl. 1737–61), who had agreed to be drawn by Hogarth.
State II of II. BM Satires 2338.
[Ref: 60007] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Stanhope while Lord Mahon.] 19.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17 June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753 - 1816), politician and scientist, standing in profile to the right, body bent forward, right hand extended as if making an impassioned speech. He holds his hat and cane in his left hand. He is plainly dressed, his lank and scanty hair tied at the neck. Stanhope was a leading member of the reforming London Revolution Society 1788-91. He laid out the Society's principles, which asserted that all civil and political authority derived from the people, that the abuse of power justified resistance and that trial by jury, freedom of the press and freedom of elections should always be held sacred. He was satirised in popular prints as 'Citizen Stanhope' because of his democratic principles but the society, though short-lived, was influential in framing Britain's reaction to the French Revolution.
BM Satires 6072.
[Ref: 60079] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Lord Sydney.] 29.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Published by Ja.s Bretherton 14.th July 1784.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Thomas Townshend (1733 - 1800), 1st Viscount Sydney, standing with his hat held out in his right hand, his left on his sword. He served as Pitt's Secretary of State for the Home Department. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is named after him.
BM Satires 6640.
[Ref: 60067] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Charles Turner.] 15.
JS ff. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼") with large margins. Small nicks and tape stains on outer margins.
Caricature portrait of Sir Charles Turner (1726-1783), standing in profile to the left as if making a speech. He is excessively thin, a cane is under his left arm, and his left hand is in a muff. He was a British politician and Lord Mayor of York.
BM Satires 6073.
[Ref: 60076] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Brook Watson.] 35.
JS f. [James Sayers.]
Pub.d by Ja.s Bretherton 31.st March 1788.
Etching, 175 x 115mm (7 x 4½") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (1735 - 1807), bending forward, his wooden leg concealed behind a bench, and holding out a document with a pendent seal inscribed 'Pension for Services'. Watson was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London. At 14 years old, he was attacked by a shark resulting in the loss of his right leg below the knee.
BM Satires 7290.
[Ref: 59983] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham.] 1.
JS. [James Sayers.]
Published 17.th June 1782 by C. Bretherton.
Etching, 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼") with large margins. Tape stains on outer margins.
Portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (1730 - 1782), standing in profile to the left. Rockingham was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain, in 1765-6 and 1782.
BM Satires 6069.
[Ref: 59997] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

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