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The able Doctor or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught.
[London Magazine, n.d. c.1774]
Etching, plate 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"), good margins on three sides. Thread margin at bottom. Some time staining below title.
Satire on the The Boston Port Bill and the other Coercive Acts that were passed as a punishment for the 'Boston tea-party' (16 Dec. 1773). America restrained by Lord Mansfield (1705-93), dressed in judges robes and wig, is force fed tea by North (1732-92). From his pocket hangs a paper inscribed "Boston Port Bill". Behind Mansfield stands Bute (1713-92) in Scots cap and kilt, holding a drawn sword, its blade inscribed "Military Law", pistols are thrust through his belt.John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92) holds down America's legs and lifts up her dress to peek. Watching behind Sandwich are representations of France and Spain. In the foreground is a torn document inscribed "Boston petition". An allegorical figure of Britania averts her eyes as if shamed. In the background is the sea; on the horizon and on a minute scale are the spires of a town surrounded by ships, above is engraved, "Boston cannonaded".
BM 5226.
[Ref: 61284] £850.00
[London Magazine, n.d. c.1774]
Etching, plate 115 x 165mm (4½ x 6½"), good margins on three sides. Thread margin at bottom. Some time staining below title.
Satire on the The Boston Port Bill and the other Coercive Acts that were passed as a punishment for the 'Boston tea-party' (16 Dec. 1773). America restrained by Lord Mansfield (1705-93), dressed in judges robes and wig, is force fed tea by North (1732-92). From his pocket hangs a paper inscribed "Boston Port Bill". Behind Mansfield stands Bute (1713-92) in Scots cap and kilt, holding a drawn sword, its blade inscribed "Military Law", pistols are thrust through his belt.John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92) holds down America's legs and lifts up her dress to peek. Watching behind Sandwich are representations of France and Spain. In the foreground is a torn document inscribed "Boston petition". An allegorical figure of Britania averts her eyes as if shamed. In the background is the sea; on the horizon and on a minute scale are the spires of a town surrounded by ships, above is engraved, "Boston cannonaded".
BM 5226.
[Ref: 61284] £850.00
![[George Cartwright] Captain Cartwright visiting his Fox-traps.](jpegs/61081.jpg)
[George Cartwright] Captain Cartwright visiting his Fox-traps.
W. Hilton Pinx.t. T. Medland scul[p.]
[London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson & John Stockdale, 1792.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed, into image on right, title excised and pasted under image, losing publication line.
A full-length portrait of George Cartwright (c.1739-1819), wearing furs and snowshoes, leading a blinkered greyhound. In 1768, after serving in the army, Cartwright travelled to Newfoundland and Labrador, attempting to trade with the Inuit for furs. In 1772 he returned to London with five Inuit to exhibit, four of whom died of smallpox. The fifth, a woman called Qavvik, returned home in 1773 taking the disease with her: less than a year later Cartwright noted that ''The Inuit of southern Labrador were almost entirely wiped out by the disease". In 1786 Cartwright returned to England for good and published his diary, 'A Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador', to which this is an illustration.
[Ref: 61081] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
W. Hilton Pinx.t. T. Medland scul[p.]
[London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson & John Stockdale, 1792.]
Etching. Sheet 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Trimmed, into image on right, title excised and pasted under image, losing publication line.
A full-length portrait of George Cartwright (c.1739-1819), wearing furs and snowshoes, leading a blinkered greyhound. In 1768, after serving in the army, Cartwright travelled to Newfoundland and Labrador, attempting to trade with the Inuit for furs. In 1772 he returned to London with five Inuit to exhibit, four of whom died of smallpox. The fifth, a woman called Qavvik, returned home in 1773 taking the disease with her: less than a year later Cartwright noted that ''The Inuit of southern Labrador were almost entirely wiped out by the disease". In 1786 Cartwright returned to England for good and published his diary, 'A Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador', to which this is an illustration.
[Ref: 61081] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Mail-ready envelope - 706 Civilization of America.]](jpegs/61086.jpg)
[Mail-ready envelope - 706 Civilization of America.] [On flap] Designed & Engraved by J. Valentine Dundee. 30 Sent for 12, 50 for 16 100 for 24 or 250 for 48 Pennypost stamps.
Onwhyn Delt. F. Deraedemaeker fecit.
[Deraedemaeker, c.1890.]
Mail-ready envelope. Wood engraving. 80 x 130mm (3 x 5"), with rear flap. Unused.
A composite image of the history of America, showing native Americans in their natural state, Niagara Falls, a missionary proselytising, agriculture, a church, monumental buildings, steamships and railways. First published about thirty years earlier.
[Ref: 61086] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Onwhyn Delt. F. Deraedemaeker fecit.
[Deraedemaeker, c.1890.]
Mail-ready envelope. Wood engraving. 80 x 130mm (3 x 5"), with rear flap. Unused.
A composite image of the history of America, showing native Americans in their natural state, Niagara Falls, a missionary proselytising, agriculture, a church, monumental buildings, steamships and railways. First published about thirty years earlier.
[Ref: 61086] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Front Vol XIX
Gent Mag 1749.
Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed. Hole in right outside image.
Frontispiece to 'The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle Volume XIX for the Year M.DCC.XLIX.' A scene of a fishery inside a frame aurrounded by scientic and artistic instruments. Below on left a woman uses a a pair of compasses to draw on a piece of paper titled 'Noahs Ark'. In the centre is a stack of books labelled 'Phil Transact,' 'Shaw,' 'Essay on Redemption,' 'Codamines Journ,' 'Mem of French Ac,' 'Essay on Rope Making,' 'Middleton,' 'Voyage to America,' 'Ansons Voyage,' 'Flora Siberica,' 'Clarissa,' and 'Tom Jones.' A putti to the right points to glyphs on a piece of rubble, trying to get the attention of a man in a fur hat sitting and studying a coin.
[Ref: 61286] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Gent Mag 1749.
Sheet 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5"). Trimmed. Hole in right outside image.
Frontispiece to 'The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle Volume XIX for the Year M.DCC.XLIX.' A scene of a fishery inside a frame aurrounded by scientic and artistic instruments. Below on left a woman uses a a pair of compasses to draw on a piece of paper titled 'Noahs Ark'. In the centre is a stack of books labelled 'Phil Transact,' 'Shaw,' 'Essay on Redemption,' 'Codamines Journ,' 'Mem of French Ac,' 'Essay on Rope Making,' 'Middleton,' 'Voyage to America,' 'Ansons Voyage,' 'Flora Siberica,' 'Clarissa,' and 'Tom Jones.' A putti to the right points to glyphs on a piece of rubble, trying to get the attention of a man in a fur hat sitting and studying a coin.
[Ref: 61286] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A View of a Stage & also of ye manner of Fishing for, Curing & Drying Cad at New Found Land.
[London: Herman Moll, c.1715.
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
A view of the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, excised from Herman Moll's 'North America According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations'.
[Ref: 61076] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[London: Herman Moll, c.1715.
Engraving. Sheet 175 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed from a larger sheet.
A view of the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, excised from Herman Moll's 'North America According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations'.
[Ref: 61076] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
The Thistle Reel.
[London Magazine, 1st March 1777.]
Etching. Sheet 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed to plate on left.
Three government ministers (William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; & John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute) dance around a thistle, watched over by a bagpipe-playing Devil. Lord Mansfield in judge's wig and gown holds the Quebec Bill. American interest. An attack on the Government's policies in America (such as The Boston Port Bill and the other Coercive Acts) blaming Bute's Scottish influence.
BM Satires 5285.
[Ref: 61295] £360.00
[London Magazine, 1st March 1777.]
Etching. Sheet 210 x 120mm (8¼ x 4¾"). Trimmed to plate on left.
Three government ministers (William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; & John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute) dance around a thistle, watched over by a bagpipe-playing Devil. Lord Mansfield in judge's wig and gown holds the Quebec Bill. American interest. An attack on the Government's policies in America (such as The Boston Port Bill and the other Coercive Acts) blaming Bute's Scottish influence.
BM Satires 5285.
[Ref: 61295] £360.00
Yankee Courtship or a Hint to Jonathan. Nº IX. Let me alon can't yer Jonathan? / Let yer alone, why I aint a touching yer am I? / No! but aint you goint to?
S.L.M.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Album paper pasted over left edge, spotting.
A woman flirts with a long-haired man, his wide-brimmed hat upside-down on the floor. American connections.
[Ref: 61316] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
S.L.M.
[n.d., c. 1840.]
Coloured lithograph. 250 x 175mm (9¾ x 7"). Album paper pasted over left edge, spotting.
A woman flirts with a long-haired man, his wide-brimmed hat upside-down on the floor. American connections.
[Ref: 61316] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)