Grosvenor Prints

View of the Island of Airick, belonging to the Group of Kawen, in the Radack Chain.
I. Clark sc.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet size: 115 x 175mm (4½ x 6¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Nick in top left & right corner.
A plate from 'Voyage Of Discovery Into The South Sea And Beering's Straits, For the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818' by Otto von Kotzebue, 1821. An admirer of Captain Cook, Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846) was a leading navigator, in Russian service, circumnavigating the globe three times. His 1815 expedition set out to find a passage through the Arctic, study the coastlines of Kamchatka and Alaska, and explore the Pacific.
[Ref: 37333] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Le Brindisi Valse Brillante pour Le Piano. Dédiée a M.elle Alboni par Fréd. Burgmüller.
[Mayence anvers et Bruxelles, Chez les fils de B. Schott; c.1850.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf ribbed border, on album page. 260 x 197mm. 10¼ x 7¾". Some spotting.
Marietta Alboni raising a glass in a toast. Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
See Harvard: 20.
[Ref: 23673] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Marietta Alboni, Contralto.
[n.d. c.1855.]
Lithograph on album page. 342 x 260mm. 13½ x 10½". Foxed, some spotting.
Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
[Ref: 23669] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Marietta Albony [facsimile signature].
Auguste Hüssener sc.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Engraving and stipple on album page. 279 x 214mm. 11 x 8½". Some spotting, time stained.
Marietta Alboni (1823-1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century. Rossini was taken by her abilities that he taught her the contralto roles in his operas. Her debut at the Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as Neocle in the Italian version of 'Le Siege de Corinthe', which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti, Salvi and Pacini. Whilst in London, 1848, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page Urbain in 'Les Huguenots', from soprano to contralto and composed a new aria for her.
Harvard: 4.
[Ref: 23672] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Act the 2.d of the New Drury Lane Brewery or a Managers Spur to Progress.
Afrus Inv.t. [Walker f.]
Pub.d Jan.y 1812 by Walker & Knight No 7 Cornhill.
Engraving. 300 x 400mm. Creased.
When the Drury Lane Theatre burnt down in 1809 Sheridan was ruined. He turned to his friend Samuel Whitbread (the brewer) for help rebuilding it. However because Sheridan's creditors had to accept 25% of their due it was decided that Sheridan should be banned from management of the new theatre.
BM: 11936.
[Ref: 447] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Auld-Riekie Cross Well.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Etching. 108 x 122mm (4¼ x 4¾").
Outside a tavern in Edinburgh, a brawl begins between two drunkards; a third man sits on a barrel with the tankard in one hand and a spoon in the other. Edinburgh gets the name Auld-Riekie (old smoky) from the thick columns of smoke that would spew into the air from the chimneys where coal and wood fires were burnt.
Not in NMS.
[Ref: 16282] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Over-Groot Zee-geveght; tussen den Holl. Heer L. Adm. Tromp, en den Eng. Adm. Blaak; op den i. Martius A9. 1653.
[Engraved by Jodocus Hondius III after Jan Abrahamszoon Beerstraten.]
[n.d., c.1655.]
Etching, rare. 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7"). Trimmed to printed border, extra margin added.
A view of the Battle of Portland, a three-day naval battle (18-20 February 1653 or 28 February - 2 March 1653 in the Gregorian calendar used here), part of the First Anglo-Dutch War. The outline of the English coast is shown from the Isle of Wight east to Beachy Head (Bevesier), with Portsmouth, Arundel and Newhaven., with a key of the ships. The battle pitched Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp against Admiral Robert Blake in the English Channel. Despite Tromp withdrawing before Blake could commence a fourth day of action and Blake's capture of between 20-40 Dutch merchantmen and at least eight Dutch warships, both sides claimed victory. From a series of illustrations by Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten (1622 - 1666) of the war.
[Ref: 34396] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Bills from Beer House Farm, near Cawston, Norfolk.]
[1840s]
Over 100 hand-written bills, various sizes.
A fascinating insight into the running of the 300-acre Beer House Farm, when run by Catherine Ireland and her son Horace Soame Ireland.
[Ref: 49014] £500.00 view all images for this item

Between Friends.
From the Original Painting by O. Goldmann. Etched by J.S. King.
Copyrighted 1885. Gebbie & Co. Philadelphia, PA [USA].
Etching, 225 x 265mm (9 x 10½").
American social genre: two men and a woman share some gossip over refreshments at a table.
[Ref: 27685] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece before title added]
Printed for Jn Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill Publish'd according to Act of Parliam/t 4 Oct 1756
Rare engraving, platemark 330 x 215mm (13 x 8½").
Frontispiece with rococo frame adorned by putti (top) and landscape scene with labourers below. Wine making interest.
[Ref: 39409] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Four barrels; Trade Card or Billhead.]
Johnson, fc, Bristol.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etched vignette illustration to trade card or billhead, sheet 45 x 55mm. 1¾ x 2¼". Sheet trimmed.
Four barrels in a row, the first inscribed 'Oakhill Beer', the second 'Porter'. Pictured with their natural ingredients - wheat or barley to right and hop poles to left. Probably by George Johnson of 2 John Street, Bristol, who engraved banknotes issued by the Bristol Bullion Bank.
[Ref: 10828] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Two Brewers.] No. 12.
[Drawn & engraved by William Henry Pyne.]
Published by William Miller, Albermarle Street, Jan.y 1. 1805.
Hand-coloured etching, watermark J. Whatman. Sheet: 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾").
A portrait of two brewers carrying a large barrel. From 'The Costume of Great Britain', a book containing 60 plates of people at work and scenes of everyday life. William Henry Pyne (1769-1843), the son of a London weaver who became an artist and writer, was commissioned to write and illustrate the book by the publisher, William Miller of Albermarle Street, London. The illustrations are particularly notable as they portray British life on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Abbey Life 430.
[Ref: 44604] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Brewery scene]
W. Burke Sculp. 1797
Etching, scarce; sheet 130 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed around image and text.
[Ref: 47681] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Brewery.] Plate VII. Facing Brew-House.
Printed for J. Hinton in Newgate Street. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 310mm (7½ x 12½"). Large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed to plate on lower edge.
A view inside a brewery showing men stirring the contents of a large barrell with large poles.
[Ref: 53836] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Brewing] The Triumph of Quassia.
J.s Gillray, des.t. & f.t.
Pub.d June 10.th 1806, by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street.
Etching with fine hand colour. 250 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½").
A satire on the new tax on private brewers which was unpopular because it gave a monopoly to the larger public brewers, who were suspected of substituting hops for the cheap bark of quassia, a bitter-tasting tropical plant. In a parody of a Bacchic procession, the brewers carry a barrel on which rides a Bacchus-like black figure. In one hand he holds a scroll that reads "Kill-Devil forever" and in the other a tankard of beer, from which ailments radiate 'apoplexy, palsy, consumption, debility, colic, stupor, dropsy, scurvy, dysentery, haemorrhoid, hydrophobie, idiotism.' The depiction of Bacchus, the classical god of winemaking, fertility and religious ecstasy, as a black figure is based on pseudoscientific notions of the physical and moral inferiority of black Africans. In England at the time, it was widely believed that black people were subject to unbridled sensuality and impulses, and this belief was used to justify their slavery. The group is preceded on horseback by the three leading ministers of the time, pockets full of gold, who formed a coalition known as the Ministry of Talent. From left to right they are: Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister; and Charles Fox, then Foreign Secretary.
BM Satires 10574.
[Ref: 63378] £480.00

[Brewing] The Triumph of Quassia.
[after James Gillray]
[n.d. c.1806]
Hand coloured etching, sheet 170 x 220mm (6¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet. Folds as issued.
A satire on the new tax on private brewers which was unpopular because it gave a monopoly to the larger public brewers, who were suspected of substituting hops for the cheap bark of quassia, a bitter-tasting tropical plant. In a parody of a Bacchic procession, the brewers carry a barrel on which rides a Bacchus-like black figure. In one hand he holds a scroll that reads "Kill-Devil forever" and in the other a tankard of beer, from which ailments radiate 'apoplexy, palsy, consumption, debility, colic, stupor, dropsy, scurvy, dysentery, haemorrhoid, hydrophobie, idiotism.' The depiction of Bacchus, the classical god of winemaking, fertility and religious ecstasy, as a black figure is based on pseudoscientific notions of the physical and moral inferiority of black Africans. In England at the time, it was widely believed that black people were subject to unbridled sensuality and impulses, and this belief was used to justify their slavery. The group is preceded on horseback by the three leading ministers of the time, pockets full of gold, who formed a coalition known as the Ministry of Talent. From left to right they are: Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister; and Charles Fox, then Foreign Secretary. A reduced version of the print made by James Gillray and published by Hannah Humphrey.
See BM Satires 10574.
[Ref: 62891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Recitator Acerbus [ink mss.]
[Dated 1739 in pencil above.]
Etching, 280 x 190mm. 11 x 7½". Trimmed to plate right and left.
A rather grotesque figure walking in profile reading from a sheet of paper. In the background a winged horse or ass kicks over a barrel of beer, which spills its contents. The impression in the BM annotated in ink 'Mr. Bryan of Bury' and 'Kent pinxit'. By an unknown etcher.
BM Satires: 2349, see 1850,0810.138.
[Ref: 11531] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Burton Ale, A Song.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scrap, 150 x 110mm, 6 x 4¼", on page with two coloured etchings.
A song praising the joys of beer. At one time Burton-on-Trent produced a quarter of all British beer, made by such famous names as Worthington and Bass.
[Ref: 9991] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Cabinet=Maker. Enjoying his Tippling time.
E,, Martin pinx..t. J. Fried.k Martin Sculp.t.
Pub,,d as the Act der,ts Decem,,br 1779. Price 4s plain.
Etching, printed in brown, 18th century watermark. 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"), with very large margins. Slight surface soiling, stain in left margin.
A scarce & interesting image showing a cabinet-maker. He stops working on the inlay of an occasional table to chat to a woman at the window, who has brought him a tankard of beer.
[Ref: 64474] £360.00 (£432.00 incl.VAT)

The Honourable Sr. Laurence Carter K.t one of the Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequer.
J. Richardson pinx. G. Vertue Sculp. 1733.
Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street Drury Lane.
Engraving. 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed to plate, some spotting.
Sir Laurence Carter (1672-1745) was a judge at Lincoln's Inn, and recorder of Leicester from 1697 to 1729. He was Member of Parliament in 1698, 1701 and 1722; for Beeralston in 1710, 1714 and 1716. He was knighted in 1724 and was Puisne Baron of the Exchequer from 1726 until his death.
Alexander: 673.
[Ref: 63532] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Honourable Sr. Laurence Carter K.t one of the Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequer.
J. Richardson pinx. G. Vertue Sculp. 1733.
Sold by G. Vertue at his house in Brownlow Street Drury Lane.
Engraving. 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, top right corner rebuilt.
Sir Laurence Carter (1672-1745) was a judge at Lincoln's Inn, and recorder of Leicester from 1697 to 1729. He was Member of Parliament in 1698, 1701 and 1722; for Beeralston in 1710, 1714 and 1716. He was knighted in 1724 and Puisne Baron of the Exchequer from 1726 until his death.
Alexander: 673 [first state.]
[Ref: 24804] £150.00 (£180.00 incl.VAT)

Madame Castellan.
E Ratti del. Auguste Hussener sc.
Verlag v. Baumgärtner's BCCHH Leipzig.
Etching and stipple with gold-leaf border, on album page. 292 x 222mm. 11½ x 8¾".
Jeanne Anais Castellan (1819-c.1858) was a French soprano. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Giulio Bordogni, Adolphe Nourrit and Laure Cinti-Damoreau. She began her stage career in Italy, appearing at Varese in 1837, and later at Turin, Bergamo, Rome, Milan and Florence, where in 1840 she married the singer Enrico Giampetro. She made her London debut at a Philharmonic concert in 1844, and appeared and her first London role was Lucia, a year later. She chose the same role for her debuts at the Theatre-Italien, Paris (1847), and Covent Garden (1848). At the Paris Opera in 1849 she sang Berthe in the premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Le Prophete', and the following year she was particularly successful at Covent Garden in 'Mose' and 'Nabucco'.
Harvard: 1.
[Ref: 23668] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

M.me A Castellan.
St. Petersbourg chez M. Bernard. Moscow chez P. Lehnhold. [n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph on album page. 347 x 267mm. 13¾ x 10½". Foxed.
Jeanne Anais Castellan (1819-c.1858) was a French soprano. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Giulio Bordogni, Adolphe Nourrit and Laure Cinti-Damoreau. She began her stage career in Italy, appearing at Varese in 1837, and later at Turin, Bergamo, Rome, Milan and Florence, where in 1840 she married the singer Enrico Giampetro. She made her London debut at a Philharmonic concert in 1844, and appeared in her first London role of Lucia, a year later. She chose the same role for her debuts at the Theatre-Italien, Paris (1847), and Covent Garden (1848). At the Paris Opera in 1849 she sang Berthe in the premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Le Prophete', and the following year she was particularly successful at Covent Garden in 'Mose' and 'Nabucco'.
[Ref: 23667] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph Chamberlain] The 19th Cent.y Jack Cade. Jack Cade. ''Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation: "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall "have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: All the realm shall be in "common; and in Cheapside shall my palfry go to grass _ &c &c &c''. 2nd Part Henry VI Act IV Scene II.
Published by Reynolds & Co 32 St James' St S.W. [n.d., c.1884.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 445 x 570mm (17½ x 22½"). A little wear to edge bottom right.
A man seated on a barrel (Joseph Chamberlain) declaims to an audience of yokels, attended by a man with helmet and sword (William Gladstone). A satire on Chamberlain's speeches during the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which would have given the vote to country labourers. After saying that the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury was ''himself the spokesman of a class – a class to which he himself belongs, who toil not neither do they spin'', Stafford Northcote called Chamberlain ''Jack Cade'', after the leader of a popular revolt in 1450.
[Ref: 54542] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

View of Chelsea Hospital. [&] Chelsea Pensioner. Private Man.
[n.d. c.1775.] [&] Publish'd by T. Faulker Paradise Row Chelsea. [n.d. c.1800.]
Sheet with two images, engraving and etching. Sheet 489 x 330mm. 19¼ x 13".
A view of Chelsea Hospital from across the River Thames with vessels in the foreground; [&] a Chelsea Pensioner wearing bicorn and jacket, holding a cane and a cylindrical casket.
Longford [Images of Chelsea]: 16.
[Ref: 25919] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Coaxing Wife.
[Engrav'd from an Original Picture Painted by Mr,, John Collet.] Morris Sculp.
[London Printed for Rt. Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street and Jno. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1770.]
Engraving. 241 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾"). Cut inside the plate mark with some staining.
Sat at a table are a husband and wife; he drinks whilst she caresses his chin engaging his gaze so that she can pass a note to a younger gentleman caller stood to the right, who receives the note graciously and boldly kisses her hand. In the foreground are two dogs, one with the collar engraved 'Capt. Winwite.' and the other 'the Rev.d Mr Dupe'. A cat scrambles on the table knocking the jug of beer or cider. Another woman peers in through the door on the right. Two prints on the wall "Cuckolds Point" and a Map of Cape Horn.
BM Satires: 4596.
[Ref: 52234] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Harvey Combe] No. XVII. The Amiable Letitia Lutestring. No. XVIII. The Billing Brewer.
London Published by A. Hamilton Jun.r. Fleet Street 1 July 1790.
Engraving. Plate: 175 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Moustache added in ink. Small margins.
Two portrait busts set in ovals. On the right a portrait of Harvey Combe (1752-1818) who made his fortune in the brewing industry and elected Alderman of London in 1790, on his left is a portrait of an unknown courtesan. From the 'Histories of the Tête à Tête annexed...' series that appeared in 'Town and Country Magazine', a monthy magazine which featured articles on the scandals and romantic affairs of the nobility.
BM Satire 7703.
[Ref: 38577] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

"Hark! Music I' The Air." Ant. & Cleop. IV.3. Mansion House. The Right Honourable John Whittaker Ellis, Lord Mayor. Thursday, May 18th, 1882. [Inside:] Cavatina... "Nobil Signor" (Les Huguenots)... Meyerbeer...Song... "Waiting"... E.H. Flagg. Melodie... "Si Tu M'Aimais!"... L. Denza. At the Pianoforte-Mr. Alfred Gilbert. [On verso:] Programme of Music. To be performed during Dinner by the Coldstream Guards' Band. Conductor... Mr. C. Thomas. [list follows.]
F. Bartolozzi inv. Sherborn Sculp.
Etching and letterpress, printed in brown ink. 222 x 146mm. 8¾ x 5¾". Crease through centre.
Programme for a concert held in honour of Sir John Whittaker Ellis (1829-1912), a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Lord Mayor of London from 1881-2. The programme includes music by Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn and Berlioz.
[Ref: 21006] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Conservative Angel.
CJG [Charles Jameson Grant.]
Published by the Society of Surppression of Conservative Vice & Sold by E. Birchinall Churchgate St. Bury St Ed.ds Suffolk England Great Britain Europe 1837.
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 500 x 320mm (19¾ x 12½"). Tears, some repaired.
Satire against Conservative policies - the 'Conservative Angel' top centre brings 'all Ale to Spirits', dispensing beer from a tankard marked 'vote for Lush'. A 'Nunn at Devotions' prays for the defeat of radicals and two figures on a wheel are 'just caught in the Conservative rat trap'. Other figures include Jim Crow, two fish (brother Gudgeon and friend Haddock) jumping for bait, and 'Don Diego de Carle-os Lie-ing in State'.
See Ref: 39946
[Ref: 51770] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Coopers.]
G. Lewis pinx.t. F.C. Lewis sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Mezzotint. Sheet 115 x 140mm (4½ x 5½"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper.
The interior of a cooper's workshop, with men making a barrel. The chiarioscuro lighting of the scene is inspired by the works of Joseph Wright of Derby.
[Ref: 56478] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Olivier Cromwel. Der Königreiche Engel- Schott- u. Irrland/ Protector.
Cor: Nico: Schurtz sc.
[n.d., c.1690].
Engraving. Rare. Sheet size: 195 x 145mm. (7¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed inside platemark. Slight damage to bottom right corner.
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658), bust-length, turned to left, wearing armour with a burning ship in the left background. In an oval frame with Cromwell's arms attached at bottom. Illustration to Johann Christoph Beer's, 'Das Neu-Geharnische Groß-Britannien', a set of fourteen portrait illustrations, published in 1690. Until 1640, Cromwell played only a small role in local administration and no significant role in national politics. However, it was the civil wars of the 1640s which lifted him from obscurity to power. Cromwell was one of the signatories of King Charles I's death warrant in 1649, and, as a member of the Rump Parliament, he dominated the short-lived Commonwealth of England. Eventually, in December 1653, he became head of state as Lord Protector, serving for almost five years, until his death on 3 September 1658.
O' Donoghue BM. 87.
[Ref: 31702] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sofia Cruvelli.
Auguste Hüssuner sc.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf floral border, on album page. 286 x 222mm. 11¼ x 8¾". Time stained, some scuffing.
Sophie Crüwell, Viscountess Vigier, stage name Sophie Cruvelli (1826-1907) was a German opera singer. She was a dramatic soprano who had a brief but successful public career in London and Paris. She was known as a tragedienne and both Verdi and Meyerbeer created operatic roles with the intention that she should first perform them.
[Ref: 23674] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Sofia Cruvelli.]
E. Desmaisons - lith.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph with gold-leaf ribbed border, on album page. 166 x 108mm. 6½ x 4¼". Foxed.
Her right hand raised to her chin and supported at the elbow by her left hand. Sophie Crüwell, Viscountess Vigier, stage name Sophie Cruvelli (1826-1907) was a German opera singer. She was a dramatic soprano who had a brief but successful public career in London and Paris. She was known as a tragedienne and both Verdi and Meyerbeer created operatic roles with the intention that she should first perform them.
[Ref: 23676] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Caricatures, Derby Election; April, 1859. Price Two Shillings and Sixpence.
Published by Bemrose & Sons.
Eleven lithographs in original wrappers and binding, 280 x 390mm (11 x 15¼"). Creasing.
Rare portfolio of cartoons on the subject of the 1859 Derby election The successful candidate was Michael Thomas Bass (1799-1884) of the Bass Brewing family of Burton on Trent who was first returned as MP for Derby in the liberal interest in 1847 and held the seat until 1883.
[Ref: 43924] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Double Disaster or New Cure for Love. E3
Rowlandson Del et Sculp.t.
London Pub.d by T. Tegg N. 111 Cheapside July 10. 1807.
Coloured etching. Sheet 220 x 295mm (8¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, tear repaired on left border, paper toned.
A young man hiding in a brewing copper is forced out when an old maid lights the fire, and is drenched by a water pump as he emerges. To the left a woman leaves the beer tap open, causing her jug to overflow.
BM Satires 10932.
[Ref: 60505] £380.00

Rien au monde n'égale, ô divine eau-de-vie / Ton goût si délicieux et tes reflets brillants / Un peu de ce cognac à membres tremblants / Redonne la jeunesse, y ramène la vie. [&] Bière aux reflets dorés, à la mousse écumante, / Tu calmes de mon coeur la trop fougueuse ardeur, / Tu bannis de ma vie la passion émouvante / Et d'une douce paix, m'apportes le bonheur. [also in German.] No 36 & 37.
Comp. et lith. par A. Ginter. Lith. Ch. Helbig à Schlestadt.
Déposé. [Sélestat, n.d., c.1840.]
Pair of lithographs. Printed areas 380 x 260mm (15 x 10¼")
A pair of prints contrasting the alcoholic effects of spirits and beer. The first depicts a man in a peasant's smock drinking a glass of cognac (or schnaps in the German translation): 'Nothing in the world could equal, Oh divine water-of-life, Thy taste so delicious and thy glossy accents, A little of this cognac for trembling hands, restores youth and takes back life'. In the second a portly, affluently-dressed man holds up a frothing beer glass: 'Beer with golden glints, frothing with foam, thou calms the maverick ardour of my heart, thou banishes stirring passion from my life, and at a gentle pace brings me happiness'.
[Ref: 32830] £480.00 view all images for this item

A Free born Englishman Quod petis hic est. [Ink mss.]
[William Anderson.]
[n.d., c.1820s.]
Pen & ink sketch, sheet 225 x 185mm. 9 x 7¼". Soiled and stained. Glued to album page.
A rustic character, a shepherd with his crook, enjoying a glass. Apparently a satire on the English love of alcohol, with a quotation from Daniel Defoe (c.1659-1661 - 1731) below: 'Slaves to their liquor, drudges to their pots,/ The mob are statesman and the statesmen sots.'
From an album titled 'Scraps and Sketches of the Late William Anderson Esqr/ collected by his Schoolfellow & Friend William Naylor.'
[Ref: 12300] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Drinking Scene.]
[n.d. c.1840.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. 191 x 240mm. 7½ x 240". Trimmed to the image.
A scene inside a rustic tavern. To the right, and man leans sleeping against a column next to the fire with a pitcher of beer next to him; another man with a tankard in his hand talks to him. In the foreground, a man leans over a man who is seated eating a table. A man leaning on the table looks out holding up a measuring cylinder.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18515] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Two drunkards] A deux porton bien un tonneau de biere Un chargé d'un pot tombe en larduiere [parallel text in German and Dutch]
[Carolus Manderinus inventor] Nicolaus Brauius fecit hoc
[Honervogt exc]
Engraving, sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed, losing some text; glued to backing sheet.
The effects of too much wine! A drunken man, vomits while collapsed on the floor, while another tries to draw his attention to two men behind carrying a large barrel. Genre scene after Karel van Mander I (1548-1606). Van Mander is now chiefly remembered as an important writer on art, but there are also some 150 engravings after his designs, many of which have a Christian moral below the image provided either by van Mander or one of the Haarlem schoolmasters he was acquainted with.
[Ref: 39415] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Israelites passing through the Red Sea.
Eng.d. Publish'd May 15. 1806. by C Knight Lambeth.
Coloured etching. Sheet 340 x 235mm (13¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed to printed border.
Alexander Trotter carrys a kilted Lord Melville on his shoulders, menaced by curling waves, in which is a large foaming tankard of 'Whitbread Entire' and fish with the heads of judges. Although Trotter declares he will be safe, the inference is that Melville is in serious trouble. A satire on the impeachment of Henry Dundas, Lord Melville, for irregular financial dealings as Treasurer of the navy, begun by Samuel Whitbread. Alexander Trotter (1750-1830) was Paymaster to the Navy in 1805, and so involved with the corruption, but was given immunity in return for testifying.
BM Satires 10565.
[Ref: 51765] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Desmook is al myn lust, en’tbier is al myn leven: Noch sou’ ik om de kan de pyp wel overgeven. Ik ben een stinckend kreng, ik ben een dronkeslet. Ik mag te lydig smook, en’t lieve mout noch bet. 13.
[Dutch. n.d., c.1680]
Engraving with etching. Plate 172 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"), 17th century watermark.
A man standing holding a beer tankard in one hand and a long pipe in the other.
[Ref: 26636] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

A Dutch Songster. The Clownish Boor_ the Evening long, Cons o'er and o'er his fav'rite Song:- Meanwhile devoid of Care or fear, He quaffs his jug of Ale or Beer.
[n.d. 1790].
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint, 155 x 115mm. A fine impression.
[Ref: 13459] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

England, Roast Beef & Plumb Pudding. France, Toad Stools & Garlick.
T.Porter Inv. fec. Vinegar Inv. fec.
Pub. Jan.y 1. 1775 acc.g to Act by Mdarly 39. Strand.
Etching, 175 x 250mm, 7 x 9¾".
A bear representing England and a cat, full-dressed and armed with a sword, for France, with a table laden with beer, beef and garlic. On the wall behind are pictures of boxing and fencing, symbolising the relationship between the two countries. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14560] £330.00

A Caricature of England and Wales.
W. Snow, Publisher Theobald's Road. [n.d., c.1815.]
Coloured engraving. Sheet 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4¼") Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. Foxing.
An anthropomorphic caricature of England and Wales astride a seamonster, based on Dighton's 'Geography Bewitched'.
[Ref: 67636] £380.00

The English Coachman. 192.
[after George van der Mijn.]
Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard [n.d., 1769].
Mezzotint. 150 x 115mm (5¾ x 4½"), with large margins. Margins toned.
A coachman sits in the kitchen of an inn, with a foaming tankard in one hand and a serving girl on his knee.
BM Satires 4501 (small version).
[Ref: 58394] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The English Coachman. 157.
[after George van der Mijn.]
Carington Bowles excudit. London, Published as the Act directs. Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard [n.d., 1769].
Mezzotint. 355 x 250 (14 x 9¾"), with wide margins. Abrasion in title area, repair in margin.
A coachman sits in the kitchen of an inn, with a foaming tankard in one hand and a serving girl on his knee.
BM Satires 4501.
[Ref: 57330] £360.00

Exeter Election, 1868.
['GP' artist's monogram in most images.]
The Devon And Somerset Steam Printing Company (Limited), 3, Waterbeer St., Exeter [1868].
Seven lithographic broadsides with letterpress, some numbered, , sheets c.550 x 435mm. Extremities tatty, with some tears into image, foxing.
Satirical takes on the issues surrounding the 1868 general election for the City of Exeter, Devon. They are presented in the form of scenes from famous Shakespeare plays adapted to incorporate political figures and campaigning issues of the day. All are from a locally-published 'Shakspere Illustrated' series. The Liberals John Coleridge and Edgar Alfred Bowring were returned for Exeter that year, as part of the general success of the Liberal Party led by William Gladstone, which increased its large majority over Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives. The 1868 general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act of 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the size of the electorate. It was the first election held in the United Kingdom in which more than a million votes were cast; nearly triple the number of votes were cast compared to the previous election. The Illustrated London News for its November 28th 1868 edition carried 'The General Election: The Nomination at Exeter, For the City'. Some sheets from this series missing.
[Ref: 7754] £490.00

The Jolly Farmer. [&] The Farmer's Wife.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Pair of fine hand-coloured aquatint. Each sheet: 180 x 140mm (7 x 5½''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet. Slight loss on right.
Two portraits, the first of a ruddy faced farmer drinking beer. The second shows a farmer's wife churning butter.
[Ref: 49942] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The First Mug] La Première Chope.
Peint par Schloesser. Lithog par Durand. Imp. Lemercier, r. de Seine 57, Paris.
Publié par Goupil et C.e le 1.r Octobre 1864. Paris, Londres, La Haye, Bruxelles. Berlin _ Verlag von Goopil & Co. New York, Published by M. Knœdler.
Rare tinted lithograph. Printed area 335 x 390mm (13¼ x 15¼"), with large margins, publisher's blind stamp.
A small boy being given his first mug of beer, in a large rustic room. One side is a basket of vegetables, the other a gun and shooting bag. Engraved by André Durand (1837-67) after Carl Schloesser (1832-1914).
[Ref: 53900] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

"The Friend of the People," and his Petty New-Tax-Gatherer, paying John Bull a visit.
J.s Gillray inv & fec.t.
Pub.d May 28th 1806 by H.Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Coloured etching 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾ "). Frame measures 475 x 380mm (18¾ x 15"). Slightly time stained. Unexamined out of frame.
A satirical scene depicting Charles James Fox and Lord Henry Petty standing at the door of a ramshackle tenement house; a distressed family look down at them from an open casement window over the door. Petty's hand is on the knocker; he holds a large open book and shouts "Taxes! Taxes! Taxes!" Behind his ear a pen. The book, on which Fox puts both hands, is inscribed: 'New Taxes, Property Tax 10 per Cent, Small Beer Tax, Tax on Servant Maids, Iron tax, new Malt Tax, new Window Tax, new Stamp Tax, Hats, Salt, Tobacco, Shoes, Shirts, stock[..]'. The angry John, holds open the window to shout down: "Taxes? - Taxes? - Taxes? - why how am I to get Money to pay them all? - I shall very soon have neither a House, nor Hole to put my head in." In the upper windows of the prosperous shop are piles of moneybags inscribed 'Pension' and 'Sinecure'.
BM Satire 10571.
[Ref: 66029] £680.00

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