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![[Battle of Camperdown] The Dutch in an Uproar or the Batavian Republic crying for Winter.](jpegs/61877.jpg)
[Battle of Camperdown] The Dutch in an Uproar or the Batavian Republic crying for Winter.
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub.d Octr 15 1797 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly. NB Folios of Caracatures Lent.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed into plate. Slight staining at top.
A post-boy holds out a scroll, 'Account of the Total Defeat of the Dutch Fleet' to a Dutch council. The president complains that the English have taken the Dutch colonies and now had destroyed their fleet. On the table is a map of France with Holland marked as 'Department 85', and the 'Plan of the Invasions of England Ireland Scotland the Cape of Good hope Gibralter East & West Indies China &c. &c. &c. &c.'. Admiral Jan Willem de Winter had been coerced by the French to go to sea to attack Edinburgh and Glasgow then land in the north of Ireland. British Admiral Adam Duncan put paid to the scheme with a superb victory at Camperdown on the 11th October. This satire was published only four days later.
[Ref: 61877] £360.00
[Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub.d Octr 15 1797 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly. NB Folios of Caracatures Lent.
Fine coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 380mm (10¾ x 15"). Trimmed into plate. Slight staining at top.
A post-boy holds out a scroll, 'Account of the Total Defeat of the Dutch Fleet' to a Dutch council. The president complains that the English have taken the Dutch colonies and now had destroyed their fleet. On the table is a map of France with Holland marked as 'Department 85', and the 'Plan of the Invasions of England Ireland Scotland the Cape of Good hope Gibralter East & West Indies China &c. &c. &c. &c.'. Admiral Jan Willem de Winter had been coerced by the French to go to sea to attack Edinburgh and Glasgow then land in the north of Ireland. British Admiral Adam Duncan put paid to the scheme with a superb victory at Camperdown on the 11th October. This satire was published only four days later.
[Ref: 61877] £360.00
![[The Glorious First of June] Lord Howe they lun [run] or the British tars giving the Carmignols a Dressing on Memorable 1st of June 1794.](jpegs/61878.jpg)
[The Glorious First of June] Lord Howe they lun [run] or the British tars giving the Carmignols a Dressing on Memorable 1st of June 1794.
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub: June 25 1794. by SW Fores No 3 Piccadilly, who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile admittance one shilling.
Coloured etching. 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with large margins. Laid on album paper.
Two British tars and a bulldog defeating five French sans-coulottes in a fist fight, a satire on the Glorious First of June [or Fourth Battle of Ushant], in which Admiral Lord Howe attempted to prevent the passage of a vital French grain convoy from the United States. A boxing image.
BM Satires 8471.
[Ref: 61878] £380.00
I.C. [Isaac Cruikshank]
London Pub: June 25 1794. by SW Fores No 3 Piccadilly, who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile admittance one shilling.
Coloured etching. 245 x 355mm (9¾ x 14"), with large margins. Laid on album paper.
Two British tars and a bulldog defeating five French sans-coulottes in a fist fight, a satire on the Glorious First of June [or Fourth Battle of Ushant], in which Admiral Lord Howe attempted to prevent the passage of a vital French grain convoy from the United States. A boxing image.
BM Satires 8471.
[Ref: 61878] £380.00
Nautical Experience.
Etc.d by Roberts.
London Pub by Roberts middle row Holborn [n.d. c.1807].
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 300mm x 355mm (11¾ x 14''). Trimmed to plate slightly on all sides except bottom.
A comic scene showing a sailor trying to carry a donkey on his back while another sailor helps, a third man with a stick and dog asks who has given them permission to free the animal. The sailor replies, ''Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance''.
BM Satire 10192.
[Ref: 61904] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Etc.d by Roberts.
London Pub by Roberts middle row Holborn [n.d. c.1807].
Etching with fine hand colour. Sheet 300mm x 355mm (11¾ x 14''). Trimmed to plate slightly on all sides except bottom.
A comic scene showing a sailor trying to carry a donkey on his back while another sailor helps, a third man with a stick and dog asks who has given them permission to free the animal. The sailor replies, ''Why look you master - the thing was this - we saw him aground without Victuals d'ye see and so my messmate and I agreed to Cut his Cable and set him at liberty because we have known before now what it is to be at short allowance''.
BM Satire 10192.
[Ref: 61904] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Naval Review. His Majesty George III Viewing His Fleet at Spithead. [with] Frontispiece. The Queen at her Needle Work Manufactury attended by M.rs Wright and the Young Ladies under her Instruction.
Ja.s Taylor sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Two engravings from the same plate, as the frontispiece and folding plate of a book. Verso faded ink dedication "....1775". Total sheet 120 x 245mm (4¾ x 9¾"). Split where stitched for binding, edges chipped, stains.
Two scenes: a view of the ships of the Royal Navy; and Queen Charlotte in a drawing room with Phoebe Wright (c.1710-78), an embroiderer who founded the "Royal School of embroidering females" in 1772, with the queen's patronage. Wright had a shop in Great Newport Street, which had supplied embroidered furnishings for the various royal residences. The school was to train indigent young daughters of professional men who had some association with the Court, but who had either died or had become impoverished. Queen Charlotte not only subscribed £500 a year but also regularly visited the school, giving commissions, including the fabrics and bed hangings for the queen’s new state bed at Windsor Castle (now at Hampton Court).
[Ref: 61976] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Ja.s Taylor sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Two engravings from the same plate, as the frontispiece and folding plate of a book. Verso faded ink dedication "....1775". Total sheet 120 x 245mm (4¾ x 9¾"). Split where stitched for binding, edges chipped, stains.
Two scenes: a view of the ships of the Royal Navy; and Queen Charlotte in a drawing room with Phoebe Wright (c.1710-78), an embroiderer who founded the "Royal School of embroidering females" in 1772, with the queen's patronage. Wright had a shop in Great Newport Street, which had supplied embroidered furnishings for the various royal residences. The school was to train indigent young daughters of professional men who had some association with the Court, but who had either died or had become impoverished. Queen Charlotte not only subscribed £500 a year but also regularly visited the school, giving commissions, including the fabrics and bed hangings for the queen’s new state bed at Windsor Castle (now at Hampton Court).
[Ref: 61976] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Making a Sailor an Odd Fellow.!! 109.
Woodward del. Cruikshank sp.
[London pubd by T. Tegg Cheapside Decr 1. 1812]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1822'. Foxing. Trimmed losing sections of platemark on all sides except right.
Ten Odd Fellows with grotesque faces watch a sailor who stands, arms akimbo, wary and pugnacious. The chairman sits in a raised armchair, smoking and drinking, behind a small table on which are two lighted candles. A man in a dressing-gown, introduces the sailor, doffing a night-cap: "Most worthy Chairman Mr Benjamin Block of Wapping Old Stairs - attends to be made a Member of the Ancient and honorable Society." The sailor with hands on hips says, "Avast my Hearties, - before I've proceeded any further on the voyage let me know what course you are steering - if you mean to frighten a British sailor with your goggle eyes, and queer faces you are d------dly mistaken - besides it appears to me that you have got masks on which is like fighting under false colours, and that wont do for an English Jack Tar!" Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London.
BM Satires 10899.
[Ref: 61838] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward del. Cruikshank sp.
[London pubd by T. Tegg Cheapside Decr 1. 1812]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 250 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"). On paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1822'. Foxing. Trimmed losing sections of platemark on all sides except right.
Ten Odd Fellows with grotesque faces watch a sailor who stands, arms akimbo, wary and pugnacious. The chairman sits in a raised armchair, smoking and drinking, behind a small table on which are two lighted candles. A man in a dressing-gown, introduces the sailor, doffing a night-cap: "Most worthy Chairman Mr Benjamin Block of Wapping Old Stairs - attends to be made a Member of the Ancient and honorable Society." The sailor with hands on hips says, "Avast my Hearties, - before I've proceeded any further on the voyage let me know what course you are steering - if you mean to frighten a British sailor with your goggle eyes, and queer faces you are d------dly mistaken - besides it appears to me that you have got masks on which is like fighting under false colours, and that wont do for an English Jack Tar!" Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London.
BM Satires 10899.
[Ref: 61838] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
A Sailor sitting for his Miniature.
Woodward delin. Etch'd by Roberts.
[London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle Row, Holborn.][n.d. c.1807]
Finely hand coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 380mm (10½ x 15"), on Whatman paper.
The artist wearing a floral dressing gown/artists smock, a self-portrait of Woodward, sits at a writing desk painting a miniature of the sailor that sits on a stool opposite arms akimbo. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge."
BM Satires 10894. See [Ref: 68511] for one with different colouring.
[Ref: 61900] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Woodward delin. Etch'd by Roberts.
[London Pub.d by P. Roberts 28 Middle Row, Holborn.][n.d. c.1807]
Finely hand coloured etching. Sheet 270 x 380mm (10½ x 15"), on Whatman paper.
The artist wearing a floral dressing gown/artists smock, a self-portrait of Woodward, sits at a writing desk painting a miniature of the sailor that sits on a stool opposite arms akimbo. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge."
BM Satires 10894. See [Ref: 68511] for one with different colouring.
[Ref: 61900] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Sailors on Horseback.
Rowlandson scul.
Pub.d March 16, 1811 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside Price One Shilling.]
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), paper watermarked 1819, with large margins on 3 sides. Slight soiling in margins.
Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore, all having trouble with their horses. One complains 'D—n me—how she heaves. Why this is worse than a Jolly Boat, in the Bay of Biscay'.
BM Satires 11801; Grego II 202.
[Ref: 61821] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Rowlandson scul.
Pub.d March 16, 1811 by Tho.s Tegg No 111 Cheapside Price One Shilling.]
Coloured etching. 250 x 350mm (9¾ x 13¾"), paper watermarked 1819, with large margins on 3 sides. Slight soiling in margins.
Three sailors ride away from the sea-shore, all having trouble with their horses. One complains 'D—n me—how she heaves. Why this is worse than a Jolly Boat, in the Bay of Biscay'.
BM Satires 11801; Grego II 202.
[Ref: 61821] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
A View from the Isle of Dogs.
W. Anderson Delin. F. Warburton Aquatinta.
Publish'd Oct.r 24 1799 by F. Warburton, N.º 4 Hanover Street, Long Acre, & at C. Roberts N.º 8 Upper Castle Str.t Leicester Square.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13") Trimmed within plate, tears in unprinted edges, stained on left.
A scarce view of merchant ships on the Thames, with windmills. The colour is particularly fine.
[Ref: 62020] £360.00
W. Anderson Delin. F. Warburton Aquatinta.
Publish'd Oct.r 24 1799 by F. Warburton, N.º 4 Hanover Street, Long Acre, & at C. Roberts N.º 8 Upper Castle Str.t Leicester Square.
Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 235 x 330mm (9¼ x 13") Trimmed within plate, tears in unprinted edges, stained on left.
A scarce view of merchant ships on the Thames, with windmills. The colour is particularly fine.
[Ref: 62020] £360.00