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![[Mary Anne Clarke] The Road to Preferment Through Clarkes Passage.](jpegs/62054.jpg)
[Mary Anne Clarke] The Road to Preferment Through Clarkes Passage.
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d March 5. 1809 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching, pt. watermark. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed within plate, small tear in title.
Mrs Clarke, dressed in a military jacket and hat, stands in a massive archway, addressing a mixture of young, old and infirm soldiers, parsons and civilians, one of whom holds up a money bag marked '500'. Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852), mistress of Frederick, Duke of York, was found out to be selling army commissions while he was Commander-in-Chief of the army. York was forced to resign from his position, though he was later exonerated and reinstated. Mrs Clarke was prosecuted for libel in 1813 and imprisoned. On her release, she went to live in France.
BM Satires 11239; Grego II 149.
[Ref: 62054] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Thomas Rowlandson.]
Pub.d March 5. 1809 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching, pt. watermark. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed within plate, small tear in title.
Mrs Clarke, dressed in a military jacket and hat, stands in a massive archway, addressing a mixture of young, old and infirm soldiers, parsons and civilians, one of whom holds up a money bag marked '500'. Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852), mistress of Frederick, Duke of York, was found out to be selling army commissions while he was Commander-in-Chief of the army. York was forced to resign from his position, though he was later exonerated and reinstated. Mrs Clarke was prosecuted for libel in 1813 and imprisoned. On her release, she went to live in France.
BM Satires 11239; Grego II 149.
[Ref: 62054] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Flannel Coats of Mail against the cold/French or the British Ladies Patriotic Presents to the Army.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pubd Novr 25 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly
Coloured etching, J. Whatman watermark; 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"), with large margins on 3 sides. Creased in centre.
Two pretty women stand on stools as they pull on the flannel breeches of a tall and handsome grenadier, who wears a bearskin cap. In the title 'French' is scored out and replaced with 'cold'.
BM Satires 8349.
[Ref: 61880] £350.00
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pubd Novr 25 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly
Coloured etching, J. Whatman watermark; 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"), with large margins on 3 sides. Creased in centre.
Two pretty women stand on stools as they pull on the flannel breeches of a tall and handsome grenadier, who wears a bearskin cap. In the title 'French' is scored out and replaced with 'cold'.
BM Satires 8349.
[Ref: 61880] £350.00
Flannel Coats of Mail against the cold/French or the British Ladies Patriotic Presents to the Army.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pubd Novr 25 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly
Scarce coloured etching. 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate, printer's crease through title. Stained.
Two pretty women stand on stools as they pull on the flannel breeches of a tall and handsome grenadier, who wears a bearskin cap. In the title 'French' is scored out and replaced with 'cold'.
BM Satires 8349.
[Ref: 61885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pubd Novr 25 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly
Scarce coloured etching. 270 x 370mm (10½ x 14½"). Trimmed to plate, printer's crease through title. Stained.
Two pretty women stand on stools as they pull on the flannel breeches of a tall and handsome grenadier, who wears a bearskin cap. In the title 'French' is scored out and replaced with 'cold'.
BM Satires 8349.
[Ref: 61885] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Rights of Man alias French Liberty alias Entering Volunteers for the Republic.
IC [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub May 7 1791 by W S Fores N.o 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Compleate Model of th Guilotine also the largest Collection of caracaturs in the Kingdm, also the Head & Hand of Count Streuenzee, &c. admit 1
Hand coloured etching on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed within plate. Some surface dirt. Very small loss within title.
The print was published shortly after war between Britain and France began in February 1793. The date of 1791 is an engraver's error. A satire on the unpopular recruiting law of 24 February 1793. Recruits, bound and humiliated, are led off by two grotesque French officers, a third drives them along with his sword, "Come along and share in the glory of France." Five famished-looking men have been thrown across the back of a horse, where they lie head downwards, screaming. Into the posteriors of the topmost man is thrust a vertical pole, striped like a barber's, and tricolour, which supports a cap of 'Liberté'; he says, "I wont be a Volunteer foutré". Another man says, "if this is Rights of Man & french Liberty Lord have mercy upon us". On the horse's neck sits one of the officers, pointing to his victim and saying, "Vive la Liberté". A similar soldier leads the horse by a halter, a sword in his hand; he looks back fiercely, saying, "Come along my brave Volunteers, one Sous per Day in Assignats & Plenty of Water." Other men are dragged along by ropes attached to the horse; a woman and two ragged children form a chain to pull back a ragged man who is so dragged; he says, "oh mon Dieu, my Wife & my pauvre Famille". Another ragged man has fallen to the ground. Four other men are being driven along behind the horse by the third soldier; a man on the extreme left says, cowering in terror, "O I do not wish to go to Glory so soon".
BM Satires 7853. Ex Collection of Lib Lindensiana Earl of Crawford.
[Ref: 61892] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
IC [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub May 7 1791 by W S Fores N.o 3 Piccadilly where may be seen the Compleate Model of th Guilotine also the largest Collection of caracaturs in the Kingdm, also the Head & Hand of Count Streuenzee, &c. admit 1
Hand coloured etching on 18th century watermarked paper. Sheet 260 x 380mm (10¼ x 15"). Trimmed within plate. Some surface dirt. Very small loss within title.
The print was published shortly after war between Britain and France began in February 1793. The date of 1791 is an engraver's error. A satire on the unpopular recruiting law of 24 February 1793. Recruits, bound and humiliated, are led off by two grotesque French officers, a third drives them along with his sword, "Come along and share in the glory of France." Five famished-looking men have been thrown across the back of a horse, where they lie head downwards, screaming. Into the posteriors of the topmost man is thrust a vertical pole, striped like a barber's, and tricolour, which supports a cap of 'Liberté'; he says, "I wont be a Volunteer foutré". Another man says, "if this is Rights of Man & french Liberty Lord have mercy upon us". On the horse's neck sits one of the officers, pointing to his victim and saying, "Vive la Liberté". A similar soldier leads the horse by a halter, a sword in his hand; he looks back fiercely, saying, "Come along my brave Volunteers, one Sous per Day in Assignats & Plenty of Water." Other men are dragged along by ropes attached to the horse; a woman and two ragged children form a chain to pull back a ragged man who is so dragged; he says, "oh mon Dieu, my Wife & my pauvre Famille". Another ragged man has fallen to the ground. Four other men are being driven along behind the horse by the third soldier; a man on the extreme left says, cowering in terror, "O I do not wish to go to Glory so soon".
BM Satires 7853. Ex Collection of Lib Lindensiana Earl of Crawford.
[Ref: 61892] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
![[Henry Hardinge and the Crimean War] The ''System'' or the British Juggernaut.](jpegs/61430.jpg)
[Henry Hardinge and the Crimean War] The ''System'' or the British Juggernaut. They manage these matters better in France. Sterne.
Touchstone del.t.
London, Published Nov.r 1855 by Lloyd Brothers & C.º 22 Ludgate Hill.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 410mm (12 x 16"). Repaired tear.
A satire on Henry Hardinge (1785-1856), Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War. A toothless old man, he sits in a chariot (marked 'Routine', 'Family Interest' and 'incompetence'), being pulled by Establishment figures, crushing soldiers marked 'Common Fellows' and 'Ill-Paid Sailors'. His six arms hold a cat o'nine tails, commissions for sale, a baton marked 'caprice', and money-bags for bribes, extravagence and speculation. John Bull stands in a window with a bulldog with 'Times' on its collar. The conduct of the Crimean War was being questioned, particularly by 'The Times', whose correspondent William Howard Russell was reporting on the appalling conditions suffered by the regular army. A commission was set up to investigate these failings: as Hardinge was delivering the report to Victoria and Albert, he collapsed with a stroke and had to retire soon after. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 61430] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Touchstone del.t.
London, Published Nov.r 1855 by Lloyd Brothers & C.º 22 Ludgate Hill.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 305 x 410mm (12 x 16"). Repaired tear.
A satire on Henry Hardinge (1785-1856), Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War. A toothless old man, he sits in a chariot (marked 'Routine', 'Family Interest' and 'incompetence'), being pulled by Establishment figures, crushing soldiers marked 'Common Fellows' and 'Ill-Paid Sailors'. His six arms hold a cat o'nine tails, commissions for sale, a baton marked 'caprice', and money-bags for bribes, extravagence and speculation. John Bull stands in a window with a bulldog with 'Times' on its collar. The conduct of the Crimean War was being questioned, particularly by 'The Times', whose correspondent William Howard Russell was reporting on the appalling conditions suffered by the regular army. A commission was set up to investigate these failings: as Hardinge was delivering the report to Victoria and Albert, he collapsed with a stroke and had to retire soon after. 'Touchstone' was a satirist whose work was published by Thomas McLean in the early 1850s. The 'T' of Touchstone is a monogram of a jester's head with belled cap.
[Ref: 61430] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Oh: Dear What Can The Matter Be.
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub.d Septr 21 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching, plate 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease on right going through plate mark. Small nick in right margin. Bit messy.
Attack on Charles Lennox (1735-1806), 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox blaming him for the coalition loss at siege of Dunkirk and the Battle of Hondschoote in 1793. The Duke stands between two posts, supporting himself by a hand on each. He looks down and to the right, with a dismayed expression, vomiting a cascade of munitions of war: weapons, cannon, drums, &c, a fortress, a baggage-wagon, a windmill. One post (right) is inscribed '4 Per Chaldron 20,000 pr Anm', the other, 'Heriditary Income D'Aubigne'. A scroll floats towards him from the upper left corner of the design inscribed: 'Thou hast done those things thou ought not to have done And hast left undone those things thou oughfi to have done.'
BM Satires 8341.
[Ref: 61862] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub.d Septr 21 1793 by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly.
Hand-coloured etching, plate 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins. Crease on right going through plate mark. Small nick in right margin. Bit messy.
Attack on Charles Lennox (1735-1806), 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox blaming him for the coalition loss at siege of Dunkirk and the Battle of Hondschoote in 1793. The Duke stands between two posts, supporting himself by a hand on each. He looks down and to the right, with a dismayed expression, vomiting a cascade of munitions of war: weapons, cannon, drums, &c, a fortress, a baggage-wagon, a windmill. One post (right) is inscribed '4 Per Chaldron 20,000 pr Anm', the other, 'Heriditary Income D'Aubigne'. A scroll floats towards him from the upper left corner of the design inscribed: 'Thou hast done those things thou ought not to have done And hast left undone those things thou oughfi to have done.'
BM Satires 8341.
[Ref: 61862] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Battle of Vittoria.
G. Cruikshank fc.t.
Pu.d July 7th 1813 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1822]. Trimmed into plate on three sides.
Wellington sits on his horse watching as his army charges the French, driving them off with bayonets. On the night Joseph Bonaparte flees on a galloping ass, his crown falling from his head. Satire on the allied victory at the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) in which 151 cannon were captured, but many soldiers broke rank to loot the abandoned French wagons.
BM: 12068.
[Ref: 61869] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
G. Cruikshank fc.t.
Pu.d July 7th 1813 by T.Tegg 111 Cheapside.
Coloured etching. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1822]. Trimmed into plate on three sides.
Wellington sits on his horse watching as his army charges the French, driving them off with bayonets. On the night Joseph Bonaparte flees on a galloping ass, his crown falling from his head. Satire on the allied victory at the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813) in which 151 cannon were captured, but many soldiers broke rank to loot the abandoned French wagons.
BM: 12068.
[Ref: 61869] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
The Memorable Battle of La Belle Alliance fought at Waterloo in the Netherlands June 18.th, 1815 between the French and Allied Forces, the French commanded by Buonaprte the British and Allies by the Duke of Wellington and Prince Blucher. the result of this hard fought Battlewas the total overthrow of the French Army who were compell'd to retreat into France with the loss of 210 Pieces of Cannon, Buonaparte's own Carriage, Breasures Baggage, &c. &c. the loss in this affair was dreadful. Buonaparte in his own account confesses to have lost near 60,000 Men. ths loss of the British & Allies was immense, yet trifling compared to that of the French.
Published by W. Bishop Rolls Buildings Fetter Lane London [n.d., c.1816].
Etching on two sheets conjoined, total 590 x 890mm (22¾ x 35"), with large margins. Edges of sheets chipped, splits on folds, some creasing and spotting.
A large popular print of the Battle of Waterloo, La Belle Alliance in the background, with a seven-point key marking Wellington, Blucher and 'Buonaparte escaping'. Extremely rare: we have been unable to trace another example.
[Ref: 61740] £1,500.00
Published by W. Bishop Rolls Buildings Fetter Lane London [n.d., c.1816].
Etching on two sheets conjoined, total 590 x 890mm (22¾ x 35"), with large margins. Edges of sheets chipped, splits on folds, some creasing and spotting.
A large popular print of the Battle of Waterloo, La Belle Alliance in the background, with a seven-point key marking Wellington, Blucher and 'Buonaparte escaping'. Extremely rare: we have been unable to trace another example.
[Ref: 61740] £1,500.00